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Volkswagen has come up with a cute new initiative for the away from ve-hicular design to support fun-ness in design and technology. Fun ways to make doing the mundaine things in life more plesurable. Such as climbing the stairs for instance, tiresome isn’t it. But how about if they were a giant piano?

Take a look at the other things on their site for inspiration.

http://www.rolighetsteorin.se/en/

There’s no denying humans have advanced incredibly over the last 10 years. Communications technology has meant we are only moments away from anyone on the planet. At first we were reaching out to others, and the first generation of social networking took off, the second genertation took it away from the tech crowd and brought it main stream. The third generation will be about closing that door again, elite cliques of those in the know.

Cliques will exist for everything, knowledge, style, careers, sport or whatever fetish they are into. The cliques will exist off line but they will collaborate on project organise events but comunication will be done online. The members may never meet or they may get together regularly.

A small world kicked off the trend for private social networking sites by restricting new members to those invited by its existing members and has been followed by numerous others.

but what will this mean in the future, perhaps none are better placed to answer that question than the people of The Space collective another private network of forward thinking terestrials breaking down the barriers of what the future holds.

3 months until we see them advertising insurance on TV.

Hurrah for Agent Provocateur! Finally a comic book with semi-naked woman running around in bondage, nipple tassels and lacy lingerie trying to save the world, it’s what we’ve all been waiting for right?

Some say yes, some say no.

Agent Provocateur, the sexually explicit lingerie designer label, has finally decided to appeal to the geeks of our world by creating a comic book called New World Order: Mission to Earth.

In true Provocateur style, a sexy, super-hero themed photo shoot features throughout the comic doubling it as a catalogue for their August lingerie range. Oh so smart.

Gone are the days when women were the damsels in distress waiting for a big, strong man – sporting steroid sized muscles and socks shoved in his crotch – to come save the day. The comic portrays females as strong and fearless superheros, depicting them as the dominant not the dominated.

Mission to Earth appeals to both the reader’s geeky and sexual side. However, it’s not only your classic male geek reading the comic for a quick thrill, but also strong, dominant women…or those who want to be.

Agent Provocateur comic

A groundbreaking experiment where someone gives a 4 year old kid a marshmallow and then leaves them alone in the room for 15 minutes. If they haven’t eaten the marshmallow by the end of the experiment then they will get another one. 

watch the video’s they’re classic.

In this short talk from TED U, Joachim de Posada shares a landmark experiment on delayed gratification — and how it can predict future success.

This first video was made by a  very tallented designer and ex colleague of mine Gavin Leisfield and its wicked.

the one reminds me of a film called Timecode by Mike Figis where 4 cameras film continuously in 1 taked with no edits with 4 storylines running in real time and all intertwining with one and other. it’s a serious masterpiece.

Timecode trailer

Soooo, i haven’t posted anything for a while. A lot has been going on, changed jobs, moved house, just finished the D&AD course. It’s been all go.

I’ve still been keeping my finger on the pulse and searching out all sorts of cool stuff but haven’t really had a chance to catalogue it in any sort of sensible order. I suppose probably the best ting to do is just to reel it out below.

Probably the best flash mob i’ve seen, damn you T-mobile for now owning the flash mob (so no-one else can) but truely terrific job.

Thinking about organising  hundreds of people, this is nuts.

I don’t know how I feel about this; 2 ads exactly the same.

I mean i do, I don’t like it, I think its weak, it shows a complete lack or originality as it completely plagiarises something else. But, at the same time I don’t know if I feel it is 100% wrong. I mean, the idea is nice and the execution is good. Who did theirs first? where did the idea come from in the first place, stop motion isn’t new, so I’m stumped.

Is there anything wrong in taking something that would only have been seen by a small proportion of people and showing it to the masses?

The Olympus one is more emotive than the Land Rover one and the sound track is a lot better. I feel like I’ve heard that Noah and the Whale track everywhere…. eugh!

So in this instance i’m siding with the camera, sorry Landy…

Olympus

Land Rover

What happens now that digital media is the norm, we can’t keep treating as a separate entity, this is just real life.

I found this great presentation by blindly following a tweet from my friend Racheal (thanks Rach) and it turned out to be very rewarding. A bit long but full of insight and beautifully presented.

well worth a look.