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The Chip Shop Awards – the truly creative awards with a better class of judge
Award submissions can be tedious affairs. The prospect of preparing all those facts and figures to prove ROI and effectiveness. The pages and pages of do’s and don’ts. The sometimes nonsensical category choices. Well here’s some good news. If you’ve longed for some straightfoward awards that exist solely to reward a bloody good idea, you’ve [...]
Now Nirvana
Sigmund Freud argued that it’s our memories that make us unhappy – remove the past and we have no further reason for anxiety.
In Douglas Coupland’s new book Generation A, he describes a future where we have removed anxiety by removing the future. His new drug SOLON delivers users into a pure state of newness…no past, [...]
The Language of Computers
If you went back to 1973 and brought someone into the future they wouldn’t have a frickin’ clue what everyone was talking about. I like computers and I like language. So one of the things I like when you put computers and language together is the language of computers (or digital strictly speaking).
I’m not talking [...]
Is Paul Mallett a modern day Sherlock Holmes or more of an Inspector Lestrade?
I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes film over Christmas and, whilst reliving my boyhood memories, I was once again impressed with Sherlock’s extraordinary skills. He himself breaks these down into two categories: Observation and Reasoning. Whilst pondering these skills, I started to draw comparisons with marketing strategies and the strategists and agencies that [...]
