This week’s been a good one for strange and wonderful things. First up, a HUGE thankyou to everyone who attended the Iris and Contagious Under the Influence event in Borough Market yesterday, which was, as promised, both informative and messy in equal measure. Top marks to Hannah, Katie, Grant and Luke and the rest of the team at Iris for such a wonderful event. The Contagious logo was on a beer bottle! We’ve arrived…. www.irisnation.com/undertheinfluence
Last few tickets for our Wildfire conference happening April 24th-25th in London! The speakers are out of this world, so hurry hurry. www.wildfiretheconference.com
Cute online piece for KitKat Peanut Butter Chunky from JWT London, in which you’re allowed to ‘punish’ those nice people at KitKat if the Chunky’s not to your taste. You can also punish them even if you love it, which is fortunate. *Chows down on KitKat Peanut Butter Chunky* www.peanutchunky.co.uk
Great piece in the Washington Post about the rise and rise of widgets. Branded utility, people – we keep telling you, it’s where the world is headed. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/08/AR2007040800750.html
The McFly2015 trainer campaign continues! Sneaker activist Al Cabino steps up his online petition to get Marty McFly’s Nike trainers from the future into production: www.mcfly2015.com
Awesome art project that involves lots and lots of digital sheep drawn by workers on Amazon’s odd whatever-you-need service Mechanical Turk. Strangely hypnotic, and no doubt wonderful for insomniacs. www.thesheepmarket.com
Tip-off from the awesome Anne-Fay at www.bigshinything.com.
A weird but definitely wondeful branding site from Dentsu in Tokyo for Japanese telecoms company KDDI. The site collects user's videos and images, and then strings them all together into a series of longer movies. http://eye.kddi.com
Uberhip designer Alexander McQueen and Puma hook up in the latest in a series of high profile design collaborations. The result? The ManCat. Miaow. It's all terribly chic, underlining French luxury goods maker PPR SA's efforts to buy Puma out this week. www.trendhunter.com/trends/alexander-mcqueen-and-puma-2007-collection
