New London listings service – This At There

It's Nice That, which publishes exciting, original and engaging work from both established names and talented newcomers, has produced a new listings service for London.

Called This At There, the listing service is a re-invention of their old 'whats-on' focused currently on Art and Design events in London. The listings are put in order of when they finish, so hopefully you won't miss the shows you really want to see.

They are looking to roll it out worldwide eventually with more cities being added later this year, but by keeping it London focused will allow them to keep on top of it for now and work out any teething problems.

You can find out more about the new service here.

New Grande Stade announced

The French Rugby Federation (FFR) has unveiled the winning design for the new French national rugby stadium. 

The ‘Grande Stade’ will be built using the designs of Populous and Ateliers 2/3/4/, and will be much more than just a rugby stadium; as well as hosting all the French rugby home matches, it will accommodate conventions, shows and a broad range of other sporting events thanks to its multi-purpose design. 

The design boasts a retractable pitch, to ensure the best possible playing surface for matches, and a retractable roof, which will help to create an intense atmosphere for sporting fixtures as well as creating the largest roofed entertainment venue in Europe, with a planned seating capacity of 82,000.

The new venue will be built South of Paris, with the architecture alluding to the hospitality and shelter of a town, with solid white stone masses on the exterior resembling the rock quarries of the region, contrasted by the variety of thriving public spaces and multi-level lounges within the structure.

World Design Guide launched

Dezeen has developeda guide to all the architectural and design events in the world. The World Design Guide is still in it's infancy and it will grow and develop more as time goes by, but the idea is a simple and fantastic one.

Quite simply, it's a map of the world with markers on it, not too different from the markers on Google maps, these markers represent an event. But it doesn't stop there, you can filter events by location (not just by zooming in) or date or even name. The events listed only currently cover 2013 but more will be added as time goes by.

Last September Dezeen published a map of events at the London Design Festival which was viewed by over 500,000 people in a week. It's now the highest ranking map of the festival on Google. Earlier last year it also mapped all the architecture and design studios in the east London borough of Hackney as part of its Designed in Hackney project. This map has been viewed over 2.5 million times. Dezeen is now working on more map-based apps and tools that it hopes to launch in the coming months.

Check out the guide for yourself here.

Kopparberg talks and workshops

Swedish cider brand Kopparberg are continuing their interactive events aimed at giving something back to the fans with a series of free talks and workshops next week.

Based in London and Manchester the pop up spaces will play host to groundbreaking and talented trend-setters who will be sharing their stories and knowledge with Kopparberg’s Facebook fans. The workshops include doodle bombing with Hattie Stewart, talks from artist Margot Bowman, street artist Pure Evil and a question and answer session with Resident Advisor and Seth Troxler.

There will also be a discussion about the future of publishing with underground music magazine, CRACK and showings of LCD Soundsystem’s last concert entitled Shut Up and Play the Hits. As part of the Kopparberg ün-established campaign, it is a celebration of people who are innovative, ‘reject the status quo and follow their passions.’

There will be live streaming for those who can’t attend the event. For more information visit the Kopparberg website.

BMW uses interactive experience to promote 1 Series

BMW has been running an experiential promotion across South Africa marketing its 1 Series.

The events ran in the evening across major cities with consumers invited to join in an interactive race game that was projected onto buildings and scaffolding in high traffic areas.

Using smart phones, iPhones and iPads gamers logged on to Facebook and competed against each other using their devices. The winners were immediately posted to the Facebook page and a league of the fastest gamers publicised.

There were 810 campaign Facebook posts, so with a Facebook user having an average of 130 friends, it is estimated that more than 105,000 users were exposed to the campaign through Facebook alone.

It looks like great fun was had by all, with consumers engaging with the brand and new technology. See a video of the event below:

Vintage Festival comes to the Southbank

The Vintage Festival ios coming to the Southbank, London in July celebrating vintage Britain - an event not to be missed!

This is what they have to say about the event,

'Whether your thing is swing, rockabilly, mod, soul, funk, disco, ska, electro, cabaret, film, art or design, or if you just want to dress up and get an authentic make-over for a day, Vintage at Southbank Centre is a sensual delight, a big dressing-up box, a collector’s dream and a joyous creative feast for all ages. For one glamorous weekend we celebrate the music, fashion, film, art , design, and dance from the 1920s to the 1980s (and maybe even a peek at the early ‘90s) that has made Britain the world’s creative and cultural hotbed....

The event takes place over the three days at the Royal Festival Hall which will be set dressed across the six levels. It will be transformed into a multi-venue playground where pass holders can ‘learn the dances’, enjoy a makeover take in the live performances, exclusive DJ sets, catwalk shows, wonderfully conceived food and cocktails, the cream of the crop vintage retailers and surprises galore. Vintage favourites The Soul Casino, Let it Rock, The Torch Club, The Leisure Lounge and The Warehouse are amongst the ten nightclubs contained within Royal Festival Hall.

To find out more visit their web site.

Dinosaurs Unleashed launch a great success

The launch of Dinosaurs Unleashed at The O2 on February 19th was a great success, with more than 400 press and their children attending the launch event and coverage across broadcast and national press.

The Think Tank has provided a completely integrated marketing service to the organisers, including strategic direction, media planning, outdoor advertising, media relations, direct marketing, event support and digital services, resulting in an amazing first week for this landmark attraction.

With coverage achieved on Day Break, This Morning, the Vanessa Show and many other radio, national and local media outlets the launch of Dinosaurs Unleashed has exceeded all expectations.

On throughout 2011 and into 2012, The Think Tank will be continuing to provide a range of marketing and PR services to help continue the success of Dinosaurs Unleashed.

For more information about Dinosaurs Unleased at The O2 click here or view the video below.