A video to show how you can use Google’s Real-Time Insights Finder to support the planning process. An insights tools can be a window into the attitudes, perceptions and needs of punters to make you be cleverer.

Pretty helpful.

Here.

Today The Design Museum announced it’s Design Awards, or ‘the Oscars of the design world’ as they say on their pipe. The awards showcase the most innovative and progressive designs from around the world, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics and Transport and Product. This years the nominations includes little things like the 787 Dreamliner by Boeing, The Duchess of Cambridge’s Wedding Dress, Xbox Kinect and the Olympic 2012 Velodrome. Oh, and this – from us:

Wow.

Um.

Wow.

A high profile judging panel will decide the best entries in each of the seven categories. Category award winners and the overall winner of the Design of the Year Award 2012 will be announced at an Awards event in April 2012. The winners will be announced at an Awards Night held at the Design Museum on 24 April.

Link.

Nice work Alfred Keith, Kevin, Teagan + Unit9.

Sweet.

Link.

We (Anomaly) are looking for a Wingperson to come work closely with me and the rest of the team across all of our clients and business. As that Digital Wingperson you will help generate and realize ideas to the standard expected by Anomaly and her clients. You must be a smart thinker with exceptional design sense, a fantastic working knowledge of all things digital and an eye for simply expressing interaction, ideas and experiences – with some capability in motion preferred. Two/three years experience a must (doesn’t have to be agency).

If that sounds like something you could do?

Then give us a shout.

What I’m most proud of is that this project clearly demonstrates one of the things I love about Anomaly. Not only did we did we deliver an innovative fan based music video but, when faced with the fact that we didn’t have enough money to bring our idea to life, we worked with one of our other clients to secure a Vaccines gig at their new club – the fee for which enabled the project to happen.

Enjoy.

Website.

Fall/Winter collection infinite catwalk with product characteristics brought to life via icons and minimal animations.

Nice and simple.

Here.

See the other two here.

Bench here.

Here.

This time we wanted to take it one step further and literally connect the audience to the music. And so was born Desire, a connected live action music video featuring Paloma Faith, Graham Coxon and Bill Ryder-Jones along side you and two of your mates.

Three musicians, three friends, one connected video.

Go star yourself.

y00t!

‘A Japanese tradition tells that a wish may be granted in response to someone with the devotion to fold one thousand origami cranes. This project seeks to draw on that ancient healing and show that the emotional blow received can be responded to through the strength of solidarity and human compassion.’

I don’t ask much of you lot, but can I please ask that you all visit our site, donate, fold and share with all (and I mean all) your contacts and friends. Please think of any way you can to help get this site out there.

Thank you.

Go here. NOW.

Massive thank you Unit 9 for taking on the project and building it in such a short space of time. Plus huge big shout to Alfred, Tegan, Harry, Kevin, Keith, Breed, Blinkart, Dutch Uncle, Jelly, Ben Kay, Acco Ozawa, Rebecca Gaon, Picasso Pictures, Tess Birch, Actop, Tom Uglow, Laura Quick, Matt Lyon, Todd Selby, Tokyo Plastic, Zeitguised and the constantly incoming illustrators + help! On top of that I’d also like to thank all the Creative Socials that offered to help but were not needed – you know who you are.

We just moved in.

Rocks.

A few more pictures here.

SpineTV here.

That makes it a gift to market. A brand that is so ingrained in culture doesn’t really need campaign ‘advertising’ – it simply needs to continue deepening it’s connection to that culture. If you create culture – you don’t have to interrupt it*. Our job (as Anomaly) is simply to connect the brand to it’s audience via that cultural passion point and to not let unnecessary messaging get in the way.

And what better way to do that than by borrowing a few heavyweight music icons (established/current/upcoming) and creating a ‘pop-up’ band/record/video. And then, simply add a healthy sprinkling of music style marketing on top of that collaboration. So that’s what we did. We married Bernard Sumner (New Order/Joy Division), Alexis Taylor & Joe Goddard (Hot Chip) and (Hot City) to create this (free-to-download) track and video (the latter of which was launched this morning):

Sort of like becoming a record label.

And as a sort-of record label we employed a collective of graffiti artists to create huge big murals in key cities (their cities) across the country that feature the musicians involved.

We also took over key locations with the bands imagery.

Plus, just to be sure, we invited upcoming acts including Chew Lips and Hudson Mohawke to remix the track. And we activated student unions and created bespoke collateral for retailers.

I’d be surprised if you haven’t encountered the work.

Watch this space as we have a second track, featuring Graham Coxon, Paloma Faith and Bill Rider Jones, formerly of the Coral, that’ll be released in January.

Download track here.

Converse UK here.

Converse Blog here.

*Paul Graham November 2010.

Our footy club is getting a bit of coverage.

YouTube Channel here.

Twitter/Facebook.

The league starts August 28th…

Anomaly are working with Viney St Swithins FC to develop and promote their following worldwide. The club plays in the Northern Gloucestershire Senior League 2 and were placed 12th of 17 last season – obviously we’re aiming for a promotion this season. We’ve designed a club crest, kitted the team out in Umbro and got them a new sponsor – in the form of Sony. The idea is to see if we can help Viney St Swithins improve and grow as a club and to follow the story of how that develops. Manager Simon James: “Anomaly’s interest in us is certainly not financial, they just want to see how they can influence a small football club. It’s exciting for us, but we don’t really know how things are going to pan out.”

This Saturday, Viney’s first-team will play their opening friendly at home to a Forest Green Rovers XI (3pm). The Forest Green side is expected to include mostly reserves and under-18s.

Follow their progress on Facebook and Twitter.

More to follow…

I ♥ Anomaly.

As from August I will be setting aside the last Friday of the month to meet and greet anyone who’d like to talk to us (Anomaly) about the possibility of working in our non-creative department. Of course when I say non-creative department I don’t mean that we aren’t creative – I mean that it is not technically a department.

The application process is pretty simple, you (the contender) send us an email to uktalent at anomaly dot com with some details about yourself/selves, some examples of your work and a preferred time slot which will be a 30 minute period between 930 – 1230 and 1 – 1700 (obviously starting on the hour of the half hour). To make the cut for the August you’ll need to email us by the last day of July and so on. Following a simple vetting process to determine the validity and relevance of your claim we’ll nominate you a specific time and email you back (with at least 2 weeks notice) before the day. If you can’t get to us than I am happy to Skype, just let us know when you send us your details. Obviously, we’ll do our best to give everyone their preferred time, but this may not always be possible.

The reality is that we probably won’t be able to see everyone (that may be a little much based on the current interest levels), however we will get back to you and keep your details for the future.

The first session will be on 27th of August at a yet to be disclosed location. The slots will be issued on a first come first served basis will overspill being pushed to the following month.

Over to you.

‘It’s a summer season packed with football so we’ve created this football chants app to make sure your voice will be heard for club and country.’

iPhone app here.

From Anomaly obviously.

Today has been a pretty special day for rubbishcorp®. Not only did I discover that Nokia viNe scooped 2 Webbys at this years (prestigious) ceremony, but I’ve also accepted an offer from a company I hugely admire and have been talking to for several years. Obviously it’s too early to divulge any further details – other than to say I am pretty frakkin’ happy.

As John ‘Hannibal’ Smith would say: I love it when a plan comes together.

viNe Wins: Experimental & Innovation and Best Use Of GPS/Location Technology.

Video here.

The London Marathon version of the adidas Marathon Google Streetview. This time mapping the London course with added landmarks and hints from miCoach, Haile Gebrselassie and a bloke called Keith (who’s an adidas Marathon coach). In this iteration there’s an added treasure hunt for 5 miCoach Pacers that have been secreted in random places around the course (Boston has been updated also).

Clues for the hunt are being published on the adidas running Facebook wall with the best/most lucky snoops being rewarded with a free unit.

Here (if you don’t see the app switch region to UK).

Deeply saddened by the news that one of the finest agencies of the last decade had passed, I wanted to pay my respects and enable others to do the same. farfaRIP is just that, an online eulogy formed from the following #tags: #farfar #RIPfarfar #farfaRIP – thank you Kevin Yaun (InternetFancy) and Tomas Vorobjov (SciBuff) for the awesome graf ‘n’ tech.

farfar – rubbishcorp® salutes you.

Be sure to switch on your audio.

Press here & here.

New adidas work from RIOT. This time mapping the entire Boston Marathon course onto Google Streetview and adding an overlay with landmarks and some handy hints from miCoach, Greg McMillan and last years winner Salina Kosgei. This is the first iteration, look out for some updates and additional functionality over the coming weeks as well as the launch of a London Marathon version which will include some competition/treasure hunt style activity.

More to follow.

Go play here (if you don’t see the app switch region to US).

Sweet piece about Anorak magazine that Emma and I write and produce stories for (4th picture down). Now also available in WHSmith and Australia…

Here

New work (and a YouTube first) from RIOT/adidas that rewards BasketBall fans for sharing and interacting with content on YouTube/adidasBasketball. It works by locking sections of a video until that video receives a certain amount of views (see below) at which point a new scene is revealed – and so on. The more views the more interesting the content.

As well as that the team have created a game type item that delivers content based on the skill of the user with a power meter (below)

and a cunning device that enables the viewer to direct the action (via 4 cameras) within a clip by simply using arrow keys.

Here (look for this bit):

PR here.

Password protected.

Here.

New work for adidas Womens Training from RIOT – created in collaboration with the mighty Fools.

Creativity Interactive Spot of the Day.

Here.

Match Tracker is a learning tool and discussion resource that is valuable to non-professional players and coaches when teaching, learning and playing football. The app visualizes match data from recent Premiership, Champions League or tournament fixtures. The data is collected from the same source as that used by the managers of those clubs and delivered to the audience via this utility. Users can view data based on passes, goals, cards, tackles, shots from individuals or multiple players. The app can map an individuals movement, a linked move or a teams overall performance using a line tracking or a heat-map system.  A slider controls the timeline and pop-up menus deliver background infomation and contextual content.

The application will be updated with additional functionality, like a white-board function as well as tools that enable information to be exported and embedded on external sites.

More here.

On FWA here.

Site here.

‘Ommwriter is a humble attempt to recapture what technology has snatched away from us today: our capacity to concentrate. Ommwriter is a simple text processor that firmly believes in making writing a pleasure once again, reinvindicating the close relationship between writer and paper. The more intimate the relation, the smoother the flow of inspiration.‘

‘If you are a scriptwriter, blogger, journalist, copy writer, poet or just someone who enjoys writing, welcome back to concentrating.‘

Here.

Via@fefaromano

rubbishcorp® is at Creative Social in San Francisco for the next few days. It’s gonna be ‘AWESOME!’ as they say here in the USofA. I’ll obviously keep you informed, and there’s gonna be a  shit load happening – including (and for me the most exciting bit) a the tour of PIXAR we’re all doing in the morning.

Yey!!!

Blog here.

Site here (Blog better).

We (RIOT) are starting to launch our adidas sports performance overhaul. We’ll be rolling out more as the months go on (across category), but the first real biggie is Football. This is obviously an on-going process with a goal of a unified more-easy-to-manage site and experience. The majority of the work has been on the backend, which is where the benefit will be noticed most – for RIOT, adidas and ultimately the punters. There’s obviously a lot of  changes but most notably  the relocation of the nav to the top of the page enables us to better leverage the header  – for example it can now expand to deliver richer flash experiences. Plus we’ve adopted a much more modular grid system, making it easier to  manage and  switch in and out content units – local vs global.

It’s been a huge amount of work from a massively dedicated and talented team.

Check it out here.

This plugin for Microsoft Powerpoint enables you to insert  live twitter feed apps into your Powerpoint presentation. It can be used as a twitter ticker bar right through to a live crowd meter, voting tool and feedback slide.

Download here.

Via.