Life-Sized Pin Art Makes An Awesome Desk Toy Even Awesomer
By Andrew Liszewski
While they’re more commonly used as a way for prepubescent boys to leave an imprint of their middle finger behind in novelty stores, those pin art desk toys are occasionally an amusing way to kill a few minutes at work. And when blown up to full-scale, a clever way to advertise your fashion brand.
That’s what Lulu Guinness did with this giant pin art display which encouraged people to ‘Be a Pin Up!’ themselves. If you had a real-life wayback machine you could travel back to last month and experience it for yourself under the St. John’s Gate in Central London, where it was on display as part of Clerkenwell’s Design Week. But now we’re going to assume it’s sitting on top of Lulu Guinness’ equally gigantic desk, next to a monstrous version of Newton’s Cradle which could demolish a building.
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Microsoft ditches Family Guy special… for being Family Guy
Face? Meet palm. Microsoft’s decided to pull out of its co-sponsoring of “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” after execs attending the taping came to the sudden conclusion that Family Guy-caliber jokes were to be told, tackling such topics as “deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.” We’re not sure how 10 years and over 120 episodes of offensive precedence bypassed Redmond’s radars, but man, that’s gotta be some strong personal bubble. A Microsoft representative said of the taping, “it became clear that the content was not a fit with the Windows brand.” The show will still air November 8th, pre-recorded Microsoft references in tow, but with a new as-of-yet unnamed sponsor. All we have of the now-doomed partnership is this brief video from the Windows “741″ student site — it’s after the break.
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Microsoft ditches Family Guy special… for being Family Guy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 7:46pm by Ross Miller
Topics: Ads, Advertising, FamilyGuy, McFarlane, Microsoft, SethMcfarlane, Windows, Windows7, ad, advertisement, family guy, mc farlane, seth, seth mcfarlane, windows 7
HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!)
HTC’s definitely been a major name amonst the gadget cognoscenti for a while now, but it looks like the company’s gearing up to go mainstream — this is the first print ad from the new HTC You campaign that’s launching today. Considering HTC’s recent slew of high-profile handset launches like the Hero, HD2, and Tilt2 and equally-promising upcoming products like the Dragon and Droid Eris, we’d say this marketing push hasn’t come a moment too soon. As for the ad itself, while it’s not exactly a knockdown punch, it certainly suggests that HTC sees Sense UI as its ace in the hole — we’ll see how that plays out as Android 2.0 phones like the Motorola Droid come out and make stock Android sexy again.
Update: And the commercials have gone live on YouTube as well — we gotta say, we’re pretty into them. Check ‘em after the break.
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HTC You ad campaign unveiled (update: video!) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture reconstructed from 1000 cellphones, 2000 text alerts (video)
We’re suckers for a well done ad but this, this is simply amazing. Vodafone NZ’s Symphonia features 1000 cellphones syncing 53 different ringtone alerts from 2000 sent messages to reconstruct Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture. We dare you to not be impressed. See how they did it after the break.
[Thanks, Brent R.]
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Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture reconstructed from 1000 cellphones, 2000 text alerts (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009
at 6:33am by Thomas Ricker
Topics: 1812, 1812 overture, 1812Overture, Advertising, NewZealand, VodafoneNz, ad, advertisement, new zealand, symphonia, symphony, vodafone, vodafone nz
New Win 7 ads highlight the bright ideas of ‘regular people’ (video)
You know that Windows 7 is a big deal, we know that it’s a big deal, and now the commercial actors of America are letting their voices be heard. This new series of ads from Microsoft drives home the point that the improvement this OS represents over Vista is the product of the comments, concerns, and complaints of users all over the world — which is fine, as far as that goes, but either they never received our countless emails or someone thinks it’s bad form to ship computers with Dukes of Hazzard wallpaper as the default. Advertising after the break.
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New Win 7 ads highlight the bright ideas of ‘regular people’ (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 22nd, 2009
at 12:59pm by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: Advertising, BreakingNews, Microsoft, Windows7, breaking, breaking news, commercial, shipping, windows 7
