Nina Levett – Illustrator

Designs by Nina Levett

Check out the designs applied to tea-pots.

The Economist: Thinking Space

Opinion leaders from around the world share their ‘thinking space’. I love this idea and the website is brilliant, truly engaging and very interesting.
Where do you get your ideas?

Thinking Space website

Designer QR Codes

I came by this article via an email sent from a linkedin group called Mobilists. So far in Australia QR codes and the use of them by brands is quite rare. The opposite is true for Japan and luxury retailer Louis Vuitton however.

Louis Vuitton QR code

Tokyo based creative agency SET specializes in unique marketing solutions that combine design and technology. SET was asked by Louis Vuitton to provide them with a creative QR code in line with a new animation created for them by renowned artist, Takashi Murakami.

Quick response codes are graphics used to hyperlink physical objects to Web content or multimedia and are often found on posters, billboards and magazines. QR codes are useful to marketers because they are relatively inexpensive to set up and the date, location and time of day is recorded when the codes are accessed .

As you can see from the previous post on QR codes, they are not so visually attractive in black and white.
Greg McMaster, creative planner at the agency SET says “The technology is there and the consumers are ready. It’s up to the brands to make them interesting enough to warrant a click”.

Discovering Frankie…

I love this Magazine! It first caught my eye a couple of months ago mainly because it offered free wallpaper with the issue. From the outside Frankie would probably appeal to those that buy Oyster, Russh and Cream magazines. On the inside there are less ads and more involvement from the readers. Frankie has a strong focus on creativity exposing talent in areas such as photography, film, fashion design, art, poetry and music.
Frankie is a print magazine that extends to online with a website , a Facebook page and MySpace page to directly converse with their community.
I can easily see how mobile could be integrated to further engage with their “smart, funny, sarcastic, friendly, cute, rude, arty, and curious” demographic.

Isabella Rossellini makes green porn for mobiles…

26 excellent films have been shortlisted for MoFilm.
View all here www.mofilm.com

Boot B – the new Advertising Agency ?


Boot B stands for "Be out of the Box" and invites anyone in the world to respond to the creative briefs of major organizations and be paid professional fees for their ideas.

Mofilm…

MoFilm is the Worlds Biggest Global Mobile Short Film Festival.

Sometime around September 08 I found this site and at the time Australia was not listed in the drop down menu of countries that can enter. Fortunately that has now changed and Australians can enter.

January 24th 2009 is the cut off date for entries!

Man rapes blow up doll!

Something we would expect to hear from the US but no, this happened right here in Australia .
Sex shop sicko

Roger Dickson

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

© The Cairns Post

A PERVERT has twice broken into a Cairns adult shop and had sex with blow-up dolls before abandoning the vinyl vixens in a nearby lane.

La Volta White Christmas Party…

I love work Christmas parties. Last night I went to the La Volta White Party at Hugo’s in the Cross. It was a last minute decision as I also had something else on but decided on the White Party instead because I couldn’t get a cab out of the city at 6pm due to the rain. So , not being prepared and unlike everybody else that went to the effort of wearing all white , the best I could do was a white t-shirt. 
Anyway , it was a great night. La Volta and the sponsors were very generous and although I wasn’t actually forced to drink the free drinks this is the reason my head hurts today.