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eşref armağan painting volvo s60

Posted in advertising, social media by alastaircotterill on November 12, 2009

eşref armağan, a remarkable blind artist paints the all-new volvo S60, giving us a vision of a car which is due to launch next year and no one has seen yet.

see more of eşref on facebook

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An approach to ’social centric’ planning

Posted in advertising, internet, media, social media, thoughts and things by alastaircotterill on November 2, 2009

Following lots of presentations on the importance of social media, here are a few thoughts on putting ’social’ at the heart of marketing plans. Very much work in progress so any thoughts are welcomed.

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bus shelter roof advertising

Posted in advertising, media, technology by alastaircotterill on October 27, 2009

genius or annoying or only relevant to tourists on open top buses and youts playing loud music on their phones?

or all of the above?

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idon’t care, istill love my iphone

Posted in advertising, mobile by alastaircotterill on October 19, 2009

the verizon/moto/android ‘idon’t’ ad attacking iphone misses the mark for me.

you clearly don’t get why ilove my iphone – revolutionize a category through product and interface design and imight learn to love you too:

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died young, stayed pretty

Posted in advertising, art, design, inspiration by alastaircotterill on October 15, 2009

this looks good – died young, stayed pretty:

and this is good – beautiful losers:

featuring a fave ad by Mike Mills:

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It’s not what you say that matters

Posted in advertising, inspiration, internet, social media, thoughts and things by alastaircotterill on September 8, 2009

It’s what you do – another great deck from Paul Isakson:
View more documents from Paul Isakson.

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some recent work

Posted in advertising, internet, media, social media by alastaircotterill on September 7, 2009

It’s been a while since i posted about any campaign work so here’s some of the latest stuff:

Pepsi Maxcasta continuation of M&B’s branded music curation on myspace but this time from a blog platform and then out across twitter, tumblr, facebook and youtube. The boys at Pirata have done a great job on the new design work.

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Aero Thought Bubblesa simple little facebook application that let’s you add ‘thought bubbles’ to your pictures on facebook. 20,000 fans of the brand in less than a week show how people will actively get involved if it is around a passion, such as chocolate!

Aero Thought Bubbles

Nike – Show Your 5a bit old now but still a great campaign involving a video mashup tool on Youtube and some superuser outreach with our friend Smivadee.

Nike 5

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Future of mobile

Posted in advertising, internet, media, mobile, thoughts and things by alastaircotterill on September 6, 2009

i’m currently doing some research for a future media debate at Mindshare and coming across lots of interesting stuff, most of which I’ll post after. in the meantime one interesting film that doesn’t quite sit with our case and I don’t think will hurt our argument if i share, plots the recent growth of mobile and makes predictions on where it’s all going:

if the future is anywhere near this then it has huge implications for mobile brands and the following highlights the predicament that major manufactures currently find themselves in compared to apple:

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Student illustrations for Absolut

Posted in advertising, design, inspiration by alastaircotterill on September 6, 2009

Some lovely illustrations by Devdatt P Manjrekar:

absolutmumbai1

absolutmumbai2.preview

absolutmumbai3.preview

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Art & Copy

Posted in advertising, inspiration by alastaircotterill on August 25, 2009

one for the ad geeks – this looks good:

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