Leith Dock

The State on the Interweb

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:00:00 +0000

JESS3 / The State of The Internet from Jesse Thomas on Vimeo.

Leith Records Launch Party

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:31:00 +0000

Friday (26th Feb ‘10) saw the official launch night for Leith Records. Held on the spectacular floating arena that is the Mary of Guise, Leith’s barge, it was packed to the rafters with journalists, staff members and three great acts. A great effort by the Leith Records team - Claire, Kenny, Chris, Jim, Kirsty and Mikey (not pictured).

DJ Monterey Jack got the music flowing down the Water of Leith with a great soundtrack to the night.

While, Over The Wall kicked the live music off with a great set. Gav Pretice and Ben Hillman best describe their work as euphoric pop. And it was anything but watery.

And Epic 26 headlined the event with their fast paced indie dance beats, which really got the boat rocking.

It was a great night had by all, a great start for our side project. Hopefully there will be many more nights like this to enjoy.

Kudos goes to Chris Scott for the party pics on Facebook

You can find Leith Records here

And you can become a fan here

It’s only missing Comic Sans after Papyrus and it’s...

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:21:42 +0000

It’s only missing Comic Sans after Papyrus and it’s the perfect timeline.

Piano lessons on youtube

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:03:03 +0000

Great idea

The Naked Truth

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:17:00 +0000

Nice link on The Drum website this morning.

In 1993 the whole creative department went on a training weekend. The idea was to re-learn The Lost Art Of The Press Ad and learn to fly fish.

I thought the picture was worth sharing.

Who’s Who & Where Are They Now

1. Dougal Wilson - director, Blink Productions, London

2. Pete Armstrong - creative director, Iris, Manchester

3. Gareth Howells - co-founder and joint creative director, Newhaven, Edinburgh

4. Graham Doran - founder, Graham Doran Ltd, Leeds

5. Chris Landy - freelance creative, Amsterdam (ex 180 and Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam)

6. Paul Moran - freelance creative, London

7. Lee Hempstock - freelance creative, Amsterdam (ex 180 and Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam)

8. Pete Mill - co-founder, 60 Watt, Edinburgh

9. Gerry Farrell - creative director, The Leith

10. Alex Flint - creative, Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco

Piste View In the running for the best job in earth,...

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:29:59 +0000

Piste View

In the running for the best job in earth, here’s Google’s latest step in mapping every inch of the universe.

Check out the results here: http://bit.ly/bUZNTR

Parisian Love Google goes TV. And well too. Might have to find...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:28:15 +0000

Parisian Love

Google goes TV. And well too.

Might have to find ourselves some Parisian love too - it all looks sooo easy.

Spot The Difference

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:18:58 +0000

Our latest work for Diet IRN-BRU. Can you spot the difference?

See more of our print work filed in our Flickr sets.

Want John Terry To Captain Your Brand?

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:24:55 +0000

In pitch perfect timing to coincide with recent questions over John Terry’s captaincy, his publicity team’s search for brand ambassador opportunities washed up at the Dock this morning.

To “KICK around any thoughts” on why this particular Dad of the Year would be ideal for your campaign, feel free to contact Riviera Entertainment.

More scary web stats

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:22:25 +0000

EConsultancy recently published following mind-boggling statistics on their blog – Here is a peek at the numbers:

Social Media Statistics Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours.

Twitter now has 75m user accounts, but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis.

LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide..Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis.Six months ago, this was 250m…This means over 40% growth in less than 6 months.

Flickr now hosts more than 4 billion images.

More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day.

Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.

Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month.

Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.

Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices. In six months, this is over 100% increase.

There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.

There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.

Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million. The average number of tweets per hour was around 1.3m.

15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging, according to Technorati’s new State of the Blogosphere.

At the current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in a single year. About 70% of Facebook users are outside the USA.

India is currently the fastest-growing country to use LinkedIn, with around 3m total users.

More than 250 Facebook applications have over a million combined users each month.

70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog. 38% of bloggers post brand or product reviews.

More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60m Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month.

Wow…

The State Of The Internet

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:34:13 +0000

Focus have cobbled together a nice-looking infographic on the current state of the intertubes. Not sure if it’s just for the US, but it looks nice anyway.

And in case anyone was wondering, we’d describe our blogging style as “journalistic” (ahem).

The World’s Biggest Signpost Nifty mapping work for Nokia...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:22:41 +0000

The World’s Biggest Signpost

Nifty mapping work for Nokia by Sweden’s Farfar.

Farfar better than Google Maps’ campaign (or lack of it thereof).

Hitler doesn't like the iPad

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:04:52 +0000

Cocaine - Know The Score

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:06:00 +0000

Not wanting to blow trumpets, but we’re particularly proud of the artwork for a recent anti-cocaine campaign. The creative team behind it was Chris Scott and David Grenfell.

Slideshow above if you haven’t noticed.

Blip Together Creating a mass online movement is far easily said...

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:29:08 +0000

Blip Together

Creating a mass online movement is far easily said than done. But not for local Leith start-up and recent Scottish Bafta award winners Blipfoto, whose simple photo-a-day blog has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. And even more so with a recent mass photo campaign driven by its members.

A single post from a member (inspired by another member Twigs) proposed that for the next few days people post pictures of their arms outstretched, to join into a giant chain of fellow blippers. The response was overwhelming, with over 1000 submissions in a few days, an app to display them, a local event in Edinburgh at InSpace and global streaming across the web.

A simple idea, a bit of creativity, some easy-to-use tech and an inspired community - blipping awesome. And a great example of how customers / clients / members / users / real people are often the greatest sources of innovation inspiration.

Check out their recent Unstaged Competition too.

“Hey Jude” Flowchart One of several brilliant...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:30:37 +0000

“Hey Jude” Flowchart

One of several brilliant infographics from the Charting the Beatles Flickr Group.

Bushes - Markus Nikolai

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0000

A video in 1999, left undiscovered for far too long. Very simple idea, baring in mind the name of the song. Brilliantly done.

Bushes - Markus Nikolai

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0000

A video in 1999, left undiscovered for far too long. Very simple idea, baring in mind the name of the song. Brilliantly done.

QR Code Building Brilliant connection between the built up...

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:14:08 +0000

QR Code Building

Brilliant connection between the built up environment, technology and people. Only in Japan.

More over at N Building on Vimeo

Where the hell is Matt?

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0000

Okay, so I know this is quite old, and it’s very popular, he’s got 23 videos and over 50 million hits between them, no joke. Matt Harding is a very popular man.

And how did he become famous?

Well he travelled the world dancing badly. It’s not just that. He made the world feel good about itself. Not bad for a 3:42 video.

He was so popular he even managed to get fans to come and dance with him.

Unfortunately the camera woman is his wife, the poor woman gets very little credit, other than a nice spoof. But he couldn’t have done it without her.