Dentsu London came up with these swappable AR toys called Suwappu. One shoots lasers. Another is a tuna. They’re nominated for Design Museum’s Design of the Year.
This Roku will plug into a TV’s MHL HDMI connection. Via Mashable.
On the (recent) evolution of the Solo cup. Attention all Flip Cup gladiators. By Seth Stevenson on Slate.
Burberry’s Tweetwalk rocked: looks premiered on Twitter before the runway, and it worked. Bigtime. More at Mashable.
CURB Media grows a bacterial/fungal billboard for the movie Contagion.
Holographic ticket takers! Via PSFK.
“Why is it that all advertising people I’ve ever known want to get out? They all want to build their own schooners, plank by plank, and sail to the Tasman Sea. I know a copywriter at Creighton Insko Dale. At lunch one day he started to cry.”
Or so says a character in a book by Don DeLillo, former copywriter.
The Awl profiles the before-and-after careers of DeLillo and five other authors who started in advertising.
Dentsu London paints with iPads.