How many ads can you spot? The best we got here at Ocean was 16.

And in another video from the ‘But they look so Tiiiiiny!’ range comes ‘The Sandpit’: http://vimeo.com/9679622
This video uses a tilt shift lens to give the impression that you’re looking in on this tiny world. Brilliant!

It features a number of different breeds of dogs in super slo-mo watching as a piece of chum flies through the air.

Just wait for the reaction of the bull dog at the one minute mark. Priceless.

> http://creativity-online.com/work/pedigree-catch/19004

The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.

Take a good look!

Nowhere is this more noticeable than with the events on the Caribbean country of Haiti, where hundreds and thousands of people have used social networking sites to relay news and messages of hope to worried loved ones.

One such story of hope involves U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley, who was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived, with the help of an iPhone first-aid app, that taught him to treat his wounds.

Wired.com have a brilliant article on a man buried in Haiti rubble and how he used his iPhone to treat his wounds.

Toshiba have pushed this novel idea a little further. Now you can sit and discover the world literally from the comfort of your own armchair.

Just remember to bring warm clothes, it does get a little chilly up there!

Design and technology company, Festo have created these robotic penguins, the swimming ones are amazing and the floating ones are just something else!

You have to see these! Just pray it doesn’t rain!

More pics: http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3wAH77ZWJU

I’ve given some of these moves a go myself but everytime I reach to press the button, I always lose my footing.

Don’t try this at Home – unless you have a fairly robust trampoline nearby!

Caption Competiton entries to the usual address…

More piccies: http://tinyurl.com/bgp6qw

For me channel five has never quite got their identity right but this new visually stimulating branding has put them a step closer to the likes of channel 4 and BBC 2.

http://www.dixonbaxi.com/rebrand/five.html

People are excited by news and interested in others, and this site is instant. You can tweet in the shower, having breakfast, on a flight(I think!) and so it’s attracted a lot of attention and become popular in this time, even superseding Facebook in the popularity stakes.

Twitter especially can be used for a variety of different and exciting reasons. Obama used this(amongst other online tools) to his advantage and his eventual election, by constantly interacting with his fans.

It’s also a great way to follow other designers/developers, see their interests and inspirations.
http://www.twitter.com/

I got the book “Sleeveface – be the vinyl” for Christmas and was amazed at some of the brilliant ideas people have in creating another world beyond the record sleeve. It’s something anyone can do and I
can’t wait to dig out my old vinyl collection to have a go myself.

You should too!

http://www.non-format.com/archive/nike-lebron-james/1/

http://www.silvercross.co.uk/Order_a_Catalogue.php

http://www.skysports.com/socceram/games/0,21647,,00.html

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RJBrW8vxN4E

http://www.oceanagency.co.uk/docs/identity-guidelines.pdf

GMTV Wed 5th Nov 2008

Mintel’s “customer service in retailing”

Checkouts queues are the most annoying aspect of shopping in British stores, a customer survey says.

Three in five people (61%) say unstaffed checkouts are a major factor in poor customer service.
More than half (56%) of shoppers get irritated by the lack of staff available to help, according to researchers Mintel.
Shop assistants’ poor attitude to customer service is a negative factor for 58% of nearly 2,000 adults questioned.
One fifth (22%) of respondents have stopped using a retailer because of poor customer service.
Mintel senior retail analyst Neil Mason said it was false economy for stores not to have enough staff on the shop floor at peak times.

“Not only is goodwill being risked, but sales will be lost as customers will simply abandon their purchases rather than wait in a long queue to pay,” said.

A friendly welcome from staff and good product knowledge are named the two aspects of customer service which shoppers find most important in Mintel’s “customer service in retailing” report.

Putting customers first is a well-used mantra by retailers seeking to remain closely connected to what customers want. But, how good are multi-channel retailers at listening and incorporating what they hear into their service offer?

This report assesses how retailers are delivering service through stores and online, and identifies which retailers are perceived by shoppers to be performing well on customer service delivery. It provides an assessment of the attributes of the shopping experience that consumers see as being important, and provides insight into how retailers can improve their service delivery on these attributes.

http://oxygen.mintel.com/sinatra/oxygen/display/id=221223

Meet the original Teds, who adopted the flamboyant Edwardian-style suits favoured by post-war Guards officers, while the original Mods show how they patched together influences from American jazz, French arthouse cinema and Italian cafe culture to create a sharper look. There’s a look at the hidden subtleties behind the 1970s skinhead style, with its militaristic, boots-meets-Ben Sherman look, and we see how the European sportswear-influenced 1980s street style took its inspiration from the tennis courts and sowed the seeds of a label obsession that still dominates the street look today.

BBC iplayer (click on the link to view the documentary)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fh77w/

Every aspect of design is covered print, web, exhibition, fashion, sculpture…you name its got it! A great inspirational website thats well worth a look!

http://www.formfiftyfive.com

Some of my favourite videos include:

• Metamorphosis
• A Short Love Story
• The North Wind Blew South

The members of the Orchestra get into the spirit of things by wearing some fancy dress too.

This month so far they’ve covered some beautiful examples of web design and useful tools for analysing your web host

www.SixRevisions.com