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Jim spends his days as a digital guy at The Leith Agency, spare minutes spinning Leith Records and nights howling at the moon. All views expressed are mostly none of his own.
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Two years into their wonderfully-orchestrated Campaign of Mysterious Oddness, those iamamiwhoami videos keep on...
A very compact summary of design elements, in under 3mins: The Fundamental elements for design summarizes. - Erica Gorochow (via @Core77)
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something...

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Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and...
Earlier today major updates just went live for all six of the Style Hatch premium Tumblr themes. Now all of the themes...
Carl Sagan.
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Look again at that dot....
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve...
This Wednesday I’ve been kindly asked by Data Discoveries and Perspective Partners to come along to the Radisson in Edinburgh’s Royal...
10 posts tagged Advertising
Madison Valley: Silicon Valley meets Madison Avenue
Agencies don’t always get technology, and startups don’t always get branding. So why not get them working together. So obvious it’s genius.
By @RandomCulture (via @mikecoulter)
Thinking out of the record box. Ditching the old ABBA stereotypes and plugging into the best of Sweden’s music and startup growth. Well worth a listen..
Outstanding integration of social media bits and pieces into Modernista’s main destination. You could call it the Skittles effect..
via Ahmad @ Leith
Starting a new job tomorrow at Leith. Awesome.
(image via theawesomeworld)
Interesting look at how the likes of Facebook and Twitter only helped the later stages, and that email, online donations and TV ads really won the campaign.
Via @tweetminster
Another example of crowdsourcing innovation. Seems like everyone’s doing it now, even Starbucks ..
.. And in the true spirit of sharing the reward for creating good ideas, Starbucks says: “If we implement your idea, we may give you credit on the site, but we won’t be compensating customers if their ideas are chosen”. That’s nice.
via @jameselliot
VolksWagen Jumps on the Twitter BandWagen - http://caseyshultz.com/vw-ad.php - via @keithstoeckeler.
Not exactly sure whether there’s any clever stuff going on under the hood - for all we know they could just generate the car choice by random - but an interesting direction into Twadvertising.
CP + B’s Burger King ads may have cleared up at award ceremonies, but failed to do the one thing they were designed to do: sell more burgers. Looks like fellow adoring advertisers just ain’t market enough to out-sell McDs (via http://twitter.com/phil_adams)
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