Lamp posts are cool

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Those tip top Landscape architects Anouk Vogel and cooler than polar bears architect Johan Selbing have just won a high profile competition to design the new lighting and furniture for the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Their jaw dropping winning entry, called Vondel Verses, includes fabulous kiosks, funky park benches and some nice lamp posts. Each object …

And hell might freeze over

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

There are so many traditional advertising agencies out there in trouble and they’re all blaming the recession. However, yes times are difficult but this is a lame duck excuse. These mainly ‘traditional’ agencies totally missed the online video trend and social media  is still frightening them. They keep banging on about the fragmented media landscape, …

Dotty for Spoty

Friday, February 13th, 2009

We are loving Spotify here at Brighenup Towers. It’s all the craze down here in Brighton and I am convinced in other towns in Europe. It is a new music streaming service. You don’t download illegal music from it, you just choose what you want to listen to and then it streams a whole album …

Poster Boy

Friday, February 13th, 2009

New York has a history of reactive ‘ad-jacking’, from the legendry Ron English to the likes of Violator of the Regime. However there is a new kid on the block, simply calling himself as ‘Poster Boy’. His on the spot improvised mash-ups reminds me of the cut-and-paste aesthetic of the 70’s punk era.
Of course, defacing …

Insurance goes all Social Media

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Social media is all we seam to be hearing about at the moment. However, Brightenup are putting a different spin on it for one of the worlds largest insurance companies. Our current challenge, is to turn an internal communications intranet from being a place for corporate information into a fabulous space where employees will want …

That's a brilliant idea

Mistakes. Blunders. Faux pas. Booboos. Slip-ups and hiccups. Call them what you will, but it's all part of the process. We know that brilliant ideas come from those not so great ones. That's why we started our now famous brilliant ideas sessions. Read on_

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