Reebok creates largest 3D street art

by Tim Reebok wanted to create a backdrop of truly epic proportions for their range Cross Fit. Hopping on the 3D street art craze, they commissioned artists 3D Joe and Max to break the Guinness World Record for the largest ever 3D street art piece. The painting was created in a week amidst fog and rain at London’s […]

QR Gift Tags Add Voicemail Messages To Holiday Gifts

This is not only a cool use for QR codes, but a multi-channel marketing concept with LEGS.  Shopping at JC Penney becomes part of the added value. It’s just smart. Give a Little Magic with Santa Tags Santa Tags will be available at your local jcp 11/15. In the spirit of gift giving, jcpenney is […]

The New York Times runs a cross-platform interactive ad campaign in HTML5

 Interesting in the scheme of trend-setting…  by Megan Garber  Today, for the first time, The New York Times is featuring a single HTML5 interactive ad campaign across its digital platforms. Coca-Cola is running the ads — an extension of its Arctic Home campaign and its long use of polar bears this time of year — […]

Video: Augmented Reality App Lets You See Through Clothes

This certainly one way to increase the shelf life of catalogs!   By Yi Chen  The latest Moosejaw winter catalog allows users to see the models without clothes using a special augmented reality app. The interactive Moosejaw X-ray app is available to download on iPhone, iPad and Android devices. When the user opens the app and […]

Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel

The thing that gets me every time is the look of wonder on the faces of the crowd. The virtual experience becomes tangible in the sense that collectively it was real and shared by the audience. I could totally see a family going home to find the NatGeo Channel (on my cable its 109 – […]

Starbucks Cup Magic

This year let’s bring the season to life with the Starbucks Cup Magic app. Use the app to find and scan all five Starbucks Holiday Characters – on Red Cups, Christmas Blend bags, in-store and more – and watch as they magically come to life through augmented reality on your mobile device. Who knows what […]

World's First Augmented Reality National Newspaper

Taiwanese media group United Daily News has partnered with visual browser Aurasma to create an augmented national daily newspaper in which the images, ads and editorial are interactive. As with other such augmented reality experiences, users need to point their camera phones towards the newspaper and view the content come to life on the phone’s […]

Visit Hawaii using Augmented Reality and Print!

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this is priceless. Using Augmented Reality,  Hawaii is hoping that this campaign will entice the citizens of Seattle and Chicago to book vacations and avoid at least some of the harsh winter weather soon to be showing up. I have worked on many tourism and travel accounts […]

Microsoft Office Unveils the Future

Notice a few things? Not one piece of paper (that I caught), the future still has Polar Bears (yay! – well that is an assumption buy why tease a kid), signage is the “key maker” (if you dont know your Matrix references by now you should look into that), and more poignantly, when reflecting upon […]

New VW Beetle Ads: OOH Print + Augmented Reality

This is just very cool…    The New VW Beetle Gets Extreme, Augmented By Bob Marshall It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 13 years since we were introduced to VW’s “New Beetle,” aka the vehicle that saved Volkswagen from years of declining sales. Boosted by a worldwide ad blitz that featured work from, among […]

Kids Interact With Yogurt Brand Through Fun-Filled AR Challenges

  Looks like we are nearing the end of the “toy in the box” strategy to get kids to get their Mom’s to buy products and entering the digital prize era.  In this case, the AR tag is located under the top of the yogurt – and kids can get an AR experience and play […]