We in the Manifest studio spend a lot of time browsing the web for inspiration. Here’s three of the best links from this week.
Seems like years have gone by since he’s updated. Now he has and his site’s still full of the amazing, mind blowing work we’ve become accustomed to.
Dear Pepsi & Pringles. This is how you get people psyched about a World Cup. Wieden + Kennedy blow everyone’s mind with a great 3 minute plus ad. Not even the inclusion of the brattish Ronaldo can take away from its genius. Nor the fact that Ronaldinho’s not in the Brazil squad. But Lucas is (hang on, that’s an entirely different blog post…)
As HTML 5 begins to pick up all kinds of pace (recent disputes aside), big news came this week in the form of WebM – an open video project launched by major browser vendors, such as Mozilla, Opera and Google – the technology already owned by the latter. Read the full story
Wenlock & Mandeville
It’s probably taken most of us a couple of years to get used to the London 2012 Olympic logo, which was kind of the point, i guess. Yesterday, on the BBC’s godawful The One Show, we were introduced to not one, but two Olympic mascots Wenlock & Mandeville.
Look at them, all shiny and new. THAT, is the future.
The great British election is a funny beast. Set in it’s battleship-grey suit and mismatched tie, it plods onwards with a familiar gait – boring everyone into submission through dire party election broadcasts utterly devoid of creativity (and usually, policy).
2010, however, was going to be different. 2010, it was said by many, ‘will be the first social media election’. ‘We’ll do an Obama’ was the battle-cry of the pallid campaign men.
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28th May 2010
