Activist organization Can You Solve This? has launched a QR code campaign to raise awareness for education inequality in Iran. The movement which was launched in Berlin last Saturday has put QR codes on stickers, t-shirts and posters to draw attention to the cause. Campaign organiser Esra’a Al Shafei from Bahrain explained their use of [...]

While crowdsourcing may be a dirty word in the design world, three interns at BBH Barn have employed the technique for social good. The interns were challenged to make something famous while changing public perception and The Social Tattoo Project was their solution. The project’s premise is to sponsor unique tattoos based around major world [...]

Whilst on the hunt for a “Friday Fun” blog post for everyone’s perusal…I came across this advert for Cycle Safety UK starring British Olympic medallist James Cracknell. It’s definitely one of the most thought provoking adverts of its kind that we’ve have seen in some time. On the 20th July 2010 James suffered a near [...]

Over the last while we’ve noticed the beginnings of a buzz surrounding Storify, a social media curation tool aimed at both professional journalists and those who are simply interested in social media and current news. The tool moved into the public beta testing phase on the 25th of April this year. Some have gone as [...]

The American Heart Association has launched a new web-based application to teach Americans how to help save a life with “Hands-Only” CPR. The application takes a light hearted approach to the serious subject by allowing users to pick the body they would like to ‘work on’ (titter titter) from a gallery of torso’s. You are [...]

The new “Summer Time Is Pepsi Time,” campaign from Pepsi takes a swipe at their long term rival Coca Cola with a little help from Santa Claus. The ad from LA Based agency TBWA\Chiat\Day…shows the bartender offering Santa a pair of Coca-Colas for himself and Mrs Claus. Santa declines the offer in favour of a [...]

This week’s Friday Fun post brings you a great campaign by American communications company AT&T. Their “Hands” advertising campaign, created by BBDO, shows human hands intricately painted and posed to depict iconic images of countries around the world that fall within AT&T’s “international footprint”. The result is stunning imagery that draws viewers into the artwork [...]

Google has announced the launch of a free mobile landing page tool called Google Mobilise, aimed at allowing SME’s to easily create a high-quality mobile site or landing page. The ‘Mobilise’ tool was introduced for the first time in the UK by Google’s Ian Carrington at a press conference ahead of the search engine giants [...]

Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for the weekend (and a spot of tennis perhaps?) Remember this advert from all the way back in 2005? (That long ago?!) The ad was for the arrival of the Sony BRAVIA LCD range, with a short film featuring coloured bouncing balls (in real time) [...]

Here’s a little something to get you in the mood for the weekend (as if we need it)! The hugely successful smart phone game Angry Birds in which players demolish castles and bomb pigs (who have stolen said birds eggs) is now available to play in real life. Yeah that’s right, real life! T-Mobile and [...]