After a few text heavy posts here’s something less brain demanding. Thanks to the London Advertising & Design Group blog I found this site for the new VW Golf GTi. Take control of your own GTi and drive it round the track as fast as possible for your chance to win a golf for 3 months (Only three months? Then what?). It’s been very well put together and plays well, and if (when) you take a corner to fast your car goes flying off and you have to wait for an scientist to pick you up and place you back on the track. Good attention to detail there.
Go and have a play and take a look around the ladge blog, one worth keeping an eye on.
Today the evening standard relaunches after its “Sorry” campaign. Obviously, there’s quite a lot of talk about it, but not as much as I thought there might be.
To set the scene, the guardian has an interview with Veronica Wadley.
Saying ‘Sorry’ for the past smacks of a Soviet courtroom ‘confession’. ‘Sorry’ has all the hallmarks of a KGB-style smear campaign.
The paper is now out on the streets and the immediate opinions on from twitter aren’t great.
The new London Evening Standard… oh dear oh dear oh dear – justin_williams
Typography? Leading? My eyes hurt!http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/ Will the Evening Standard be apologising for this? tayler
Oh Dear London Evening Standard. Oh deary me. Dboy
Kept my free copy of the “new” Evening Standard for about as long as it took me to walk across the street & back in my office. Still trash! webcowgirl
And more here: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Evening%20Standard
For a team away day we’re all given the following task:
bring a screen shot of 3 sites that inspire you for a warm up discussion: 1 information giving site, 1 income generation site, 1 other
Which is something I thought would be worth sharing here. So here are my three:
Information giving
For infomration giving I’ve picked google reader. I refer to it many times a day, have a reader on my phone and use it as my main tool for keeping up to date with the web world and beyond. At last count I subscribe to over 200 feeds and I could never track all those sites without a robust feed reader
Income generation
I shop a lot online, as much as possible. One site I am happy to recommend for their online and offline service is photobox. Their service is quick. Very quick. Place an order in the morning and chances are they’ll be delivered the next day in a hard backed envelope. You can share photos with other people and let other people order copies of your photos, even changing the price so you can make a profit in what is sold. The site has a clean and clear design and is simple to use all that an online shop should be.
Other
For this I picked a section of the London 2012 website. I’ve covered this in an earlier post and my thoughts havn’t changed. It’s still a great example of location based media content. And the time slider gives a great historical view of information too. Winner.
Smashing Magazine have their usual monthly wallpaper showcase, and this month there’s 60 to choose from, with some really strong entries.
This month I’ve picked the “creative spark” design by Vinod Batus from India. “The entire concept of this art came out when i was playing around with various photoshop brushes. The effect came in so beautifully that i instantly named it Creative Spark.”. Many thanks Vinod andof course to Smashing Magazine! Maybe one day I’ll submit my own entry…
