Made in Leith – Dock

Hats off to Scotland.org and BAFTA Award-winning local online photo community Blipfoto for their film ‘Scotland The World Over’.

It’s a collaboration of more than 1,500 people from 32 countries – including photos from an Inuit village, Times Square, Bondi Beach, Copenhagen and China – and has been generating lots of interest, not least from the First Minister himself who recorded a thank-you message for all those who took part.

There’s even a special red carpet screening at Edinburgh’s Festival Square this Sunday 5th Feb at 2pm with special guests Clanadonia, who soundtrack the film.

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This is one of a series of guest posts from our current Hotdeskers Kenny & Malcolm. We asked them to share their views on the state of street ads around Leith. Here’s what they said…

“A woman looking away, perhaps catching the eye of a passer-by, smiling. She seems honest, friendly; it’s an open invitation for people to inspect her flawless skin.

Nivea are promoting their wide product range with this bus stop ad and it’s a good location for it. People on the street are getting exposed to the wild weather and are thinking about skincare. The female face risks alienating prospective male customers but the copy is bold, appealing to male sensibilities.

You can do things your way; there are one or more Nivea products for you, a perfect match to battle the elements. Kind of like Pokémon, catch them all.”

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THE HOTDESK

It’s a desk, but more importantly, it’s a foot in the door. Well, more of a toe to be honest. And it’s a toe that’ll be blistered and bashed by the end of your two weeks at the Hotdesk. Because what you’ll be doing is sitting bang in the middle of our creative department, working on some of the best briefs in the country. So why are we doing this? Well, it’s to try and find the next generation of creatives to work in Scotland’s busiest creative dept. So, if you’re up for it, check out leith.co.uk/hotdesk.

Last week was National Poetry Week.

(Verily,  it was).

This seemed like as good a reason as any to have another look at the beautiful poetry that is the Irn Bru “If…” ad.

All the recent political party conferences got me thinking of this ad we did for Bailie Nicol Jarvie a few years back.

Some things never change.

Some very clever use of Twitter by a couple of Dutch ad creatives to land a job.

Needless to say, they got one.

Via Techcrunch.

Tesco gets creative with subway advertising in Korea, installing an entire shop on flat walls.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the future (so long as you live in Korea).

Pure dead brilliance from physaliastudio as part of the RE:Play festival in NYC. Gifted.

Well folks, the wait is officially over. The second installment of the soon-to-be-infamous Planning Pinboard is here. Brace yourselves.

This month we’re unleashing a plethora of tantalising topics including how to create other-worldly-etchings using GPS, the one stop question which will ascertain whether you’re middle class and the difference between brand collaboration and brand sponsorship (and whether there should really be one).

There’s a new sneaky survey in this edition as well on whether you think it’s acceptable to snap unknowing tube passengers and upload their photo onto the world-wide-web. Let the debate begin (by clicking inside the white box beside the ‘Tube Crush’ article).

Intrigued? Well I do hope so.

Don’t forget to view in full screen to witness the pinboard in all its glory.

We’re mighty excited about today’s Culture Hack Scotland, where Scotland’s arts and developer communities are coming together to mash up their respective talents into digital innovation brilliance.

The 24-hr marathon’s a brainchild of Edinburgh Festivals’ pioneering Festivalslab, who’ve been instrumental in making datasets available for creative tinkering, with the ultimate aim of improving people’s experience of the the festivals and other cultural events.

Starting this evening, the format involves sharing project ideas, an intense coding session building on data available, and a final revealing of the ideas brought to life in all their glory.

It follows a similar  model to the Social Innovation Camp, (pssst: it’s coming to Edinburgh 17-19th June), which brings a combination of talents together to solve social problems. The previous SICamp in Glasgow, fostered MyPolice, now trialling in the Tayside as a “new way to talk to the police”.

Results coming to a festival near you.

May 4th is celebrated around the world as Star Wars day.  The original film premiered on may 25th 1977, but the pun value of May the 4th (“May the 4th be with you” – geddit?) has proved irresistible to legions of fans over the decades.

In celebration of this great day, we bring you 8 of the classiest design interpretations of the Star Wars films, all courtesy of the wonderful art print website society6.com Let us know your favourite…

1. Star Wars (Jerod Gibson)

2. Dark Lord (Liam Brazier)

3. Star Wars Epidode V (Jerod Gibson)

4. Empire (Scott Erickson)

5. Rocking At At (Yanmos)

6. I fell in love in Tattooine (David)

7. Death Star Karaoke (Matt Humphrey)

And my personal favourite…

8. Vader Got Tired of Black (Bianca Green)