Dot: 360º video capture for the iPhone 4

Tweet Dot lets your iPhone capture immersive, fully navigable, panoramic video in real-time - and share with friends on your phone, as well as on Facebook and Twitter, or streamed online using our awesome panoramic video web platform and player.

Cool, right?


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Nissan LEAF: Gas Powered Everything

Tweet This is the second ad this week for the new Nissan LEAF. The LEAF is a car with zero emission, in this ad a world was created where all our daily appliances are gas powered. Imagine a gas powered alarm clock or hair dryer.

Turkcell: Twitter Campaign

Tweet Turkcell was looking to promote their new smartphones bundled with mobile internet. The campaign featured the smartphone, which was packed in gift boxes and covered with post-its. Players had to tweet what was written on the post-its to unwrap the boxes.

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Planking Craze

Tweet "I believe the reason he did get arrested was because he attempted a plank that had already been done."


Thanks to @Supernormal for the tip.

Fox Crime: Scubs

Tweet Here’s a funny campaign for Fox. To promote their crime-channel, they’ve came up with this crazy idea. They built a few dummies and put it into a bag, tied it with chains, made it “wear” a pair of shoes made of cement, and threw it overboard from a small boat. Crime scenes were popular diving areas, so that reactions from the media and divers wouldn’t take very long to come along.

JetLev - Fly with water!

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Bud Light: Write-on Label

Tweet For a limited time, Bud Light is pimping a new label that lets you write on your bottle with a key, coin or any pointy thing. That way people will know which beer is theirs, but also write down the number of a hot chick.. Not a big campaign, but one of the best ideas lately from a beer brand!

‘Being Henry’: An Interactive Film By Range Rover

Tweet We’ve seen it before; interactive youtube-movies where the viewer could make choices himself of how the storyline would end. Examples are, Tippex, Sexual Health and Hell Pizza. But this mini-site from Range Rover is far better. With 9 different storylines and 32 ending scenes, the jeep-brand went a step further! Click here to try it out

Classic Reborn / Best iPad stand EVER

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Save your reputation on Facebook, wear the blurring t-shirt

Tweet New week, new cool student project to share. This time the idea comes from Holland and the creatives behind are Nanette Visser & Nik Sluijs. Again, social media is somehow involved in the project. It's not about Facebook but rather about Hyves, the most popular social network in The Netherlands. You know when you go out with your friends and you have fun? I mean you have a lot of fun… maybe you drink a few drinks and then a couple more and then someone takes a picture of you doing something crazy. And the day after that picture gets uploaded on Hyves and your family, your girlfriend and maybe even your coworkers see it. And your reputation is gone forever.

Well, the good news is that you can keep having fun, and your friends can keep taking photo of you. Only, when they'll upload the photo online, you face will not come out. Just a bunch of blurred pixels. You just need to wear the right t-shirt, the Beachmasters Blurshirt! And your reputation will be safe.


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Interbest Male Stripper

Tweet Dutch outdoor advertising company Interbest used a male stripper to build awareness of their billboard visibility in a campaign that has won Gold at the 2011 Clio Awards. The campaign involved a progression of billboards each showing the overweight man in fewer clothes. The text: “The sooner you advertise here, the better”. Finally, just in time, the billboard is taken up with an advertisement for Radio 2. The campaign is a development of an earlier series of billboards which won a Silver Outdoor Lion at Cannes in 2010.






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Five Design Demigods On Overcoming Failure

Tweet Students from Berghs School of Communication in Sweden have whipped up a series of must-see videos for any designer who’s ever felt a glimmer of self-doubt (which is to say, of course, all designers who aren't Philippe Starck).



If features some of the top creative minds of the day, including Stefan Sagmeister, Wally Olins, Michael Wolff, and graphic-design éminence grise Milton Glaser, on surmounting the fear of failure. “Fear of failure is the biggest mind fuck you’ll ever encounter in life,” the students, who assembled the project for their graduation exhibit, write online. “When you overcome it, you can overcome anything.”



There’s lots of good stuff in the films, and luckily, it extends beyond bromides on how to grow a spine, though there is plenty of that. Sagmeister: “It is very important to embrace failure.” Gasp! Revelation! No way!





Oh, we're just being jerks. Truth is, even obvious advice from incredibly talented people sounds somehow brilliant. So without further ado, we'll let the designers take it away. A final word: Make sure to watch all seven and a half minutes of the Glaser interview. His message isn’t terribly different from Sagmeister’s, but his delivery is effing gold -- like a guy patting you on the back and giving you a big kick in the pants at the same time.



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Fitting Room Prototype with Kinect

Tweet Fitting Room Prototype with Kinect + Processing + 16 HiPoly full 3D dress models.

3D Holographic Fashion Show

Tweet Created by Tim Jockel and Florian Sigl for the German designer Stefan Eckert, they delivered "one of the biggest holographic projections ever, which creates a complete optical illusion and breaks the rules of time and space on stage".

3D Holographic Fashion Show from Tim Jockel on Vimeo.

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Patrick's Bionic Hand

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Last year, a 24-year-old Austrian named Patrick was the first patient in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, again by Professor Aszmann, and a bionic replacement fitted. He lost the use of his left hand after being electrocuted at work.
He can now open a bottle quickly and tie his own shoelaces.

Friskies: The First Ever Movie Filmed by Cats

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Troller: Dirt Billboard

Tweet Troller is a manufacturer of off-road vehicles in Brazil and organizes throughout the year a championship called Copa Troller. Advertising agency JWT orchestrated communication around a stage of the Copa Troller with the ambition to show what these 4×4 are cample of. The result a nice piece of artwork made out of dirt.

HOVERING ART DIRECTORS

Tweet Jacqueline Law’s (@Waleikcaj) Tumblr blog Hovering Art Directors has been shared amongst designers on twitter and facebook recently. It made me smile; a great social observation of the design workplace. Familiar?


Thanks to @Hannes for the tip!

The Vendor Client relationship - In real world situations

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At last! Paparazzi shades

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Axe: Impressive relationship status

Tweet Brilliant facebook-campaign by Axe in Tunesia. They created a Facebook app that let guys change their Facebook relationship status to the one they’re all dreaming of…

OCD Foundation: Shortest Ad

Tweet Obsessive-compulsive disorder is an illness that causes people to have unwanted thoughts and to repeat certain behaviors (compulsions) over and over again. That makes simple actions very difficult for people with this ilness. McCann Erickson, Tel Aviv therefore made the shortest ad (1-second!) ever, to make people aware of this disease.

Electromagnetic Floating Ball-Pit Balls

Tweet This is a fake-ass video of a whole bunch of those Chuck E Cheese ball pit balls allegedly floating around in mid-air thanks to a giant electromagnetic and some iffy electronics stuffed inside each one. You can send it to your friends telling them it's real if you want, but it's not. It's really just an exercise in motion graphics for some film festival. Still, if you really want to believe they actually did it, you can, I'm just going to think less of you because of it.

Jechange.fr: Dad

Tweet All the parents will one day get the question how they met, but this mother isn’t telling the romantic story to her daughter. Instead she is telling her the plain truth. Accompanied with the slogan “it’s always worth shopping around” it appears to be an advert for a website to compare insurances.

Fight For Your Right - Revisited Trailer

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Thanks to Viktor @http://feedthebrain.tumblr.com/

Audi: Paper Car

Tweet Taras Lesko is an artist who’s extremely handy with paper. Audi asked him whether he could make an Audi A7 completely out of paper. It took him 285 sheets of paper (which are transformed into 750 different parts) and 245 hours. The result is amazing..

Heineken: Bluetooth bottle opener

Tweet Here’s a nice idea to start a party: A bottle opener that connects with your Facebook and invites all of your friends, from the moment you crack a bottle!

100 000 Books Chain of bookstores: Books-Fresheners

Tweet Till 1990’s Russia was the most reading country in the world. Now people read less. Chain of bookstores “100 000 books” decided to remind people about the necessity of reading. One of the places where all people still read is toilet. When there’s no book there, people read anything that is at hand and mostly air fresheners. We created fresheners with fragments of world best-sellers printed on them. Books-fresheners appeared in WC in malls, business centers, offices, restaurants and household stores. Books-fresheners gained popularity. Next month after promotion the attendance of “100 000 books” grew by 23%. Now they are going to sell the fresheners in the chain’s outlets.

Punktrap

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All you need to build a punktrap is a bottle bank, a beer and a steel rope. Made by Anton Steenbock.

Fiat: Traffic Sign App

Tweet Fiat street Evo is an app that turns your everyday traffic signs into an insiders way of learning about the new Fiat Evo and a gamers way of winning prizes. You simply use your handheld device to read traffic signs, in the same way it can read a QR code, and discover different information behind each sign. Stop sign = ABS breaking system, for example.

Hand stitched Vogue Covers

Tweet These hand stitched Vogue covers were made by Inge Jacobsen.



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Free the Innocents : Amnesty International

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Pop that Balloon! MTV Brazil: Stop motion balloons

Tweet This is an impressive stop motion video for MTV Brazil. Unlike many other stop-motion ideas, these are not drawings on papers nor pictures, but drawings on balloons. The balloons were set onto a 200 meter long rail and to achieve a moving picture effect, 10 balloons had to be popped per second, which are 600 balloons per minute.

Smirnoff: Fruit Bottle

Tweet To launch the new formula of the flavors of Smirnoff Caipiroska, the brand created bottles with a diagonal perforation and with the texture of the fruits (lemon, passion fruit and berries. When opening the bottles, consumers could feel the unique experience of peeling a drink made of fruit..

Noah: Chicken-vending machine

Tweet In the middle of Frankfurt, pedestrians could spectate a rather unusual vending machine. The machine was filled with 16 living chickens, who would lay fresh eggs for those who wanted. At least, that’s what they thought.. They were confronted with the following message: “68% of all the chickens in the world are treated like egg-laying machines”. At the same time, they were requested to only buy eggs from ethical egg farming.

Seat Belt Awareness: Osama Bin Laden

Tweet Even if he’s dead, Osama Bin Laden is still a hot topic amongst advertisers. We have no clue whether this video is official, but it’s hilarious. It always important to wear a seatbelt, no matter who you are, and in which condition you find yourself in..