A world without textiles - Ouch!

Just imagine a world without texttiles - this is what this ad for IKEA from the States does - tin foil knickers and all!

Makes you thankful for a nice soft towel and comfy pillows.


By McCann New York

A smiley ad to brighten your day

Here's a really sweet ad for Nest, a thermostatic control company in the US.

It made us smile in a very rainy London.

Enjoy!

B2B Marketing Magazine's editor speaks at BMA Conference

B2B Marketing Magazine's Director of Editorial and Content, Joel Harrison, recently spoke about current trends and challenges in European business to business marketing at the International Business Marketing Association Conference.

He spoke about the impact of the European economic crisis on B2B marketing activity, the explosion of East London's tech city and digital entrepreneurship, how European attitudes towards social media have changed and much more.

See his presentation below:

A tent in the sky

This is one for those of you that like camping but hate the bugs.

Dubbed Tentsile, this modern tree house looks very much like an airborne tent but the designers insist that it is a treehouse.

It has been designed to be set up in just half an hour and is made out of waterproof polyester which makes it ideal for use in almost all climates.

It can be hung from its self-supportive base or anchored from trees, is offered in 2-person, 5-person and 8-person versions and provides the same comfort of cohabitation as a tent with the same level of functionality as a tree house or a hammock.

It weighs between 11-18 lbs with the two-person Tentsile model retails for $3,000 and the 8-person model costs just over $12,000.

Find out more here.

A quiet cup of tea

This ad for Tetley tea from Australia takes having a quiet cup of team to the extreme with a very clingy husband and a wife looking for escape.

Ahhhhhhh!




Ad by Clemenger BBDO

Individuals in the crowd

The » one « is a project by Nicolas Ritter that focuses upon individuals within a crowd.

The artist say, 'It particularly imitates the way in which the human eye observes: not viewing a crowd as a crowd, but observing little micro-scenes inside of it.

All images are taken in London and feature static photography with one individual moving in the crowd.

Very interesting - some moving individuals are more easy to spot than others.

See all of the project here.

Interactive Gallery of Lost Art

'The Gallery of Lost Art' is a year-long online exhibition curated by the Tate and developed by UK creative studio ISO.

It displays artworks that have disappeared for reasons of theft, arson, rejection or just having been discarded.

'Art history tends to be the history of what has survived,' reflects the gallery's curator Jennifer Mundy, 'but loss has shaped our sense of art’s history in ways that we are often not aware of.

'The website is visually structured as an open warehouse floor, viewed from above, with different chalk headers on the ground delineating the subject of that area of the gallery: destroyed, stolen, discarded, rejected, erased, or ephemeral. users can zoom into particular areas, and by clicking on specific projects they can access essays, photos, film footage or interviews, and other material about the artwork.'

Why the the piece of art was lost is also documented and the site will add one new work each week for six months and six months after this the website will disappear itself.

Click here to go to the site.

For the jigsaw fanatic

If you're a fan of jigsaws then this is the website for you.

With hundreds of images to choose from you simply click on the one you want and it separates into jigsaw pieces for you to put back together.

Hours of fun if that's what rocks you boat.

Click here to get puzzling.

It's not too easy to stop with bubblewrap

In an interesting stunt for Goodyear in Brazil, Y&R has been inserting sheets of bubble wrap into newspapers and handing them out to drivers in São Paolo as they wait in traffic.

This was part of a campaign with the the message, "Sometimes it's not easy to stop."

It's a curious one, connecting the addictive pleasure of popping bubble wrap with the potential tragedy of braking hard with poor tires instead of Goodyear's ultra-grips but quite fun anyway.

See the video below:

CAMAC's Student Wallpaper Design Competition

To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of AWN Pugin, a master in the use of colour, pattern and ornament and who was an ardent campaigner for the Gothic style, CAMAC Design partnered with the Fashion & Textile Museum to organise a competition to design a wallpaper for the Palace of Westminster.

Best known for his interior designs of this iconic building, Pugin was one of the first to promote the idea of 'honesty' and 'propriety' in ornament and design, enlisting ornament as a moral influence in society.

CAMAC Design has partnered with the Fashion & Textile Museum in London's Bermondsey Village, which was founded by iconic British designer Zandra Rhodes. The museum showcases a selection of designs from entries to the 4th Annual Student Wallpaper Design Competition during its current exhibition Pop! Design, Culture, Fashion.

A second display of students' work is also on show at Ramsgate Library in Kent until 20th August. Ramsgate is where Pugin designed and built The Grange, his family home, and also nearby St Augustine's church.

The full exhibition will be held in London from 14th - 20th September, forming part of the 10th London Design Festival. Set up to build links between new designers entering the creative industries and the professionals already in it, CAMAC Design is a new company founded by Caroline McNamara, an experienced event and exhibition organiser, and Vice Chair of TEXERE, Textile Education and Research in Europe.

For more information please click here.