dan burgess // all life is an experiment

big up for the nag

I'm absolutely loving The Nag. simple idea, very useful. as in its name, the organisation nags at you via email and the web to do something about climate change at a local level, in your world. every month you chose a task and then complete it. And there's this excellent map which shows you who's signed up for what tasks where. The best thing is it's fun to use, it recognises that we want to do stuff but doom and gloom mega serious isn't always that motivating. site works brilliantly and i'm looking forward to my toilet hippo as my first task. i hope this gets lots of uptake.

let there be light

these guys are awesome. Lichtfaktor, lightwriting, sort of virtual 'light' grafitti, created using slow exposure photography mashed with creative use of lights and this is something they've done for Sky. brilliant

Tee power

i love this Tshirt and had to buy it immediately. it provoked a flurry of marketing inspired T shirt slogan generation in the office on friday. here's a few...

I'm an attitude not a demographic

Jesus believes in media neutral planning

I'm maintaining awareness levels

Can we take this offline?

shit in shit out

my brand went to Naked and all I got was this stupid t-shirt

made by the smart folks at vintage vantage via the excellent Tcritic

ampelmann

i like signs. i like little cultural twists and variations in a sign. this is a pedestrian crossing man in berlin where i was last week. i like the fact he wears a hat and holds his head up in the air. my colleague anne thought he looked like a hamburglar/super mario man mash up. anyway thanks to wikipedia i now know he's called ampelmann, and was created in the 60's by a traffic psychologist called karl Peglau who theorised that people would respond better to traffic signals presented by a friendly character instead of meaningless coloured lights. I like Karl's thinking.