Leith Dock: Archive

Banners on flies = genius

A German book company, Eichborn, decided to think beyond the booth at the 2009 Frankfurt Book for the ‘smallest commercial gimmick in the world’.

Oct 30th

The blob

It just so happens that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month in the UK and New Zealand. So in staying true to Kiwi ingenuity, the Breast Cancer Foundation in NZ have joined forces with Clenso BBDO and unleashed bulbous blobs on the streets of NZ. The blobs were used to make people think about cancer (and early detection) and more aware (albeit, in a somewhat unconventional way), blobs...

Oct 28th

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Oct 28th

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Oct 26th

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The 1000 Phone Symphony

An epic and magnificent production for Vodafone. Best watched in the order below to get a feel for how much creativity, thinking and clever science was involved to make it happen. —- —- He’s gonna have a pretty hefty phone bill come the end of the month.

Oct 26th

Slap Nick Griffin Game →

Oct 26th

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TED Talk: Life lessons from an ad man

Great 15 mins from Ogilvy’s Rory Sutherland on how much of value is perceived, and how we can do great things by looking at things differently instead of trying to build better, faster and more. Via tobyd

Oct 23rd

Naked | Takeaway Edinburgh | Good food delivered →

This place looks awesome. Real food delivered to your door, healthy salads, steak and chips, meatballs. A nice alternative to standard takeaways when you’re having a lazy evening. http://www.ieatnaked.com/index.html

Oct 23rd

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Oct 22nd

Psst I'm busy...not →

Oct 21st

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Leith Talent - Cagoule TV

In the first of what we hope will be a long, long series of celebrating local Leith talent, here’s Cagoule TV’s showreel. And here’s some background: Formed in 2001 after a chance meeting in an edit suite, Cagoule Productions merges live action, movement and motion graphics to create fresh and imaginative film for creative and corporate clients. Cagoule’s directors...

Oct 21st

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Sub Towed Out of Leith Dock

It’s not every day you see a sub getting towed out of Leith Dock. This happened this morning, was spotted by @EdinSpotlight, and shared on Twitpic.

Oct 20th

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Equity For Punks - Brew Dog Offer Beer Shares

In a clever move to market their product and raise capital, Fraserburgh-based Brew Dog have launched Equity for Punks, a call for cash for a slice of brewery action. Apart from some dodgy scripting (“This is a cool gig, let’s rock it out together”), this is potentially a model for the future of marketing and business. Small homegrown talent, clever (and cheap) online...

Oct 20th

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The Bottomless Bin - More VW fun theory antics

Following our recent post about VW’s Piano Stairs, here’s more evidence that fun changes behaviour. As well as being a lot of… well… fun, it’s a great example of clever advertising that’s so good it doesn’t even look like advertising. VW - we salute you. See more at http://thefuntheory.com

Oct 19th

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When To Use Comic Sans

Following our suggestion to kill Comic Sans, here’s a diagram of when to use it if you really have to. Via the nice folks at @thenextweb

Oct 19th

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Watch

YrWall.com - Interactive Digital Grafitti Wall : Spray canning without the mess. Banksy will be turning in his gold-plated Merc.

Oct 19th

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Oct 16th

Oct 15th

Twitter Stock Market →

Oct 15th

Latest iPhone App

Well worth the £2.99 price tag in my opinion!

Oct 14th

I love getting it in the can

Sadly getting it in the can is now banned.

Oct 14th

Incredible use of stop motion

VIDEOGIOCO by Donato Sansone from Enrico Ascoli - Sound Design

Oct 13th

Augmented Reality Cookies

Even food is getting in on the act with augmented reality. Scary stuff.

Oct 13th

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Tell Politicians What You Really Think

Whoever thought of putting a robot in the Houses of Parliament that tells politicians what people really think deserves a knighthood. Check out Voicebox’s Robot and have your say too. And while you’re at it, you can visualize the results of what 16-25 year olds think about stuff. Just don’t mention #trafigura UPDATE: Seems like we spoke too soon. #trafigura is now a...

Oct 13th

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Oct 13th

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Dyson fan

A bladeless fan, 15 times more efficient than a regular fan, a more regulated stream of air and pretty too. All of this for a mere £199, or Argos have a regular fan that does nearly the same thing for £12.99, and you could go on holiday with the rest of the money instead.

Oct 13th

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Oct 12th

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Wonderwall Inc. →

Website of the day: Wonderwall the interior design firm creates ‘distinctly unique’ design spaces that are attentive to function. Their site does exactly the same.

Oct 12th

Oct 9th

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Oct 9th

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New Anti-Smoking Ad

Not sure the NHS would never let this see the light of day.

Oct 9th

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Barclaycard App Slides Into Top Spot

Not content with great bank ad in the time of bank bashing and global economic melt-down, they take campaign through digitally to overwhelming success. Read the full Campaign article.

Oct 8th

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