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Thursday, June 05, 2008
[ Links to Sip: 06.05.08 ]

+ Lacoste looks at the future with a funky microsite.

Business guys on business trips on scheduling and meetings. Brillo.

TED's dead baby, TED's dead. (posted mostly for being able to use that phrase - yeah)

Vanity Fair has a nice (and long) piece on How the Web was Won.

Leo Burnett’s “Wii Would Like to Play” for Nintendo’s Wii won the Grand Effie at the 40th Annual Effie Awards.The five Grand Effie finalists, who also received Gold Effies included:
- Anomaly Communications for the Keep A Child Alive campaign “KCA’s Media Ambush of the iPhone Launch” in the Media Idea category.
- BBDO New York for GE’s “Ecomagination Round 2” campaign in the Green category. Agency partners included OMD, AMV BBDO, Stinson Partners and Syrup.
- JWT for Kimberly-Clark’s Kleenex “Let it Out” campaign in the Household Supplies & Services category. Agency partners included Mindshare, GMR and Ketchum.
- Leo Burnett for Nintendo of America’s “Wii Would Like to Play” in the New Product or Service category. Agency partners included Starcom Worldwide and Golin Harris.
- Secret Weapon Marketing for the Jack in the Box “Sirloin vs. Angus” campaign in the Fast Food/Casual Dining/Restaurants category. Horizon Media was the media partner on the campaign.

Labels: ad award, adgruntie, campaign, fun, web

Wednesday, June 04, 2008
[ Ad Game Time ]

+ Check out creativebeef and their MMORPG ad characters.

I have an idea for a new mmorpg. It’s called World of Advertising and it lets people experience what it’s like to work in a modern agency. Players can choose from 7 different Character Classes.

Labels: adgruntie, agency, fun

[ Links to Sip: 06.04.08 ]

+ Barbarian Group releases Plainview.

Plainview – our full-screen web browser for the Mac, complete with presentation mode, so you can compile a list of a bunch of websites, and show them one by one, all full screen, all without ruining your flow.
The second product from Barbarian Software, it’s free. Because we know other web geeks out there have had this problem too. Because we wanted to futz around with Cocoa in advance of the iPhone. Because web shops shouldn’t have to learn Powerpoint.

AListApart has a nice piece on creativity and saving the spark.

Discover your color personality is a flash "game" for a paint company.

Labels: adgruntie, creative, web, work

[ Cup of Brown Joy ]

+ Hilarious.

Labels: fun, watch

Monday, June 02, 2008
[ Andys, Clios and more, oh my. ]

+ Award season is in full swing. Check out the International Andy Award Winners 2008, Clio 2008 Winners, and D&AD 2008 Winners.

Also fun, and not ad related...fun things to buy from Edward Monkton.

Labels: ad award, adgruntie, creative, fun