The Dot-cons campaign
Above is the video of the campaign from Microsoft modeled as a Nigerian-style scam.
The Dot-cons campaign recreated the notorious online scams in empty Manhattan storefronts and got street-smart New Yorkers to gladly hand over their most embarrassingly personal information. Brilliant! [via]
Digital storescapes - Twitter based murals
The Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC) has launched an innovative and interactive mural campaign using Twitter. These murals pull content from Twitter to display real-time updates from and about Canada. These are installed on different streets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
The murals feature touchscreen interfaces that centralize tourist buzz by displaying live tweets [...]
The Slide - Fast Lane
The Slide is an outdoor campaign by the German automaker, Volkswagen for their new car, Polo GTI. Check out the video above.
Fast Lane is dedicated to everyone who loves to go beyond the regular, who is curious for new stuff and who simply enjoys to speed it all up a little. FAST LANE – [...]
The Tourist Lane
The Tourist Lane is yet another “mission” from the Improv Everywhere team. Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. New York based Improv Everywhere has executed over 100 missions involving tens of thousands of undercover agents.
This time they created separate walking lanes for tourists and New Yorkers on a Fifth [...]
Apple Appstore “Hyperwall”
Check out a video (from Mashable) of the Hyperwall, that Apple has installed at the venue of WWDC 2010, San Francisco.
Hyperwall shows the real-time stream of app downloads from the App Store. Icons from 20,000 top selling apps are tiled and shakes when one is downloaded. Brilliant visualization!
This hyperwall is powered by 30 Mac [...]
Birthday Surprise
Mukhtar is a bus-driver from Copenhagen. On his birthday on May 5th, Arriva, the European bus company he works for organized a special event. Watch the video of the event below. They’ve done a number of these style events to make a better work environment for their bus drivers in Copenhagen. Really cool!
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Google Chrome – Speed tests
Checkout some brilliantly executed videos of Google Chrome browser speed tests. Amazing!
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Coca-Cola Happiness Machine
Happiness can strike anywhere, as demonstrated in this special vending machine that Coca-Cola and interactive marketing agency Definition 6 placed at a college campus. Unsuspecting co-eds got a lot more than just a can of soda.
This viral video is part of the global Open Happiness advertising campaign. Really an out of the box [...]
Evian Live Young
These tees are part of the part of a campaign for Evian bottled mineral water, showing a wide range of faces and skin tones matches with an image of the wearer as a baby.
Created by the French ad agency, BETC Euro RSCG for the billboards and print ads in Europe. Loved it. Brilliant!!
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