Drowsy driving causes more than 100,000 car crashes each year. To help curb the numbers and help travellers get to their destination safely, Thai coffee shop chain Café Amazon—with the help of creative agency BBDO Proximity Thailand—has created an app that helps wake up sleepy drivers. With the use of eye- and face-tracking technology, the […]
Popular mobile game Angry Birds has received a “magical” update that includes some new gameplay mechanics involving magic portals. As part of this new release, Angry Birds makers Rovio have teamed up with Simon Pierro, better known as the ‘iPad Magician’, to create a ‘magic’ video. The video features some ingenuity from Pierro, who performs […]
With the awards ceremony just around the corner, The International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards have served up a print campaign to wet our appetite. The ads feature jurors and personalities of the Advertising and Design world, duking it out over a food fight. with the copy reading: “Its worth the fight.” “‘It’s worth […]
Photo sharing website Flickr has launched a new site design which aims to ‘make Flickr awesome again’. The redesign comes just hours after Flickr owner Yahoo announced the acquisition of blogging site Tumblr, which Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer promised not to ‘screw up’. Unveiling the new Flickr design, Mayer described the new look as […]
BNP Paribas is celebrating 40 years of partnership with the French Open with a social media-controlled robot that launches tennis balls at Jo-Wilfred Tsonga live on a tennis court. The ‘Tweet and Shoot’ event on 23 May, created by We Are Social, will see social media users able to drag-and-drop a tennis ball on a […]
Consultancy Huge has created the new online home for American weekly news magazine Newsweek, which ceased its print publication at the end of last year and merged with online publication The Daily Beast. Huge was appointed to the work last November and, according to associate creative director Megan Man, was asked to define ‘what should […]
Gü’s is celebrating 10 years in the puddings business with a campaign from Publicis Chemistry. The digital campaign has seen Gü ask its fans to design their own Gü pudding with a chance to see their creation brought to life by Gü’s head chef, and sold as a limited edition in 2014. The campaign has […]
To celebrate the launch of its Weetabix On The Go breakfast biscuits, the Weetabix factory in Kettering created a giant biscuit to form the basis of its Twitter feed. The ‘Tweetabix On The Go’ biscuits, which are 15 times larger than the real thing and took the team of expert Weetabix bakers a day to […]
The International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards are delighted to announce that McDonald’shas been named the 2013 Brand of The Year, bagging a phenomenal 13 nominations across the various categories. This is the only Award that is publicized in advance and is based on the number of nominations that McDonald’s has achieved this year. […]
Google and Amazon have been voted by consumers as the first and second most influential brands in the UK respectively, according to Ipsos Mori’s Top 100 Most Influential brands report revealed in London today. The report, which surveyed 1,000 UK consumers, revealed a mix of pureplay and traditional legacy brands in the top ten, with […]