Ged Carroll | renaissance chambara
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Reading Time: 1 minute Work & Co.’s clean looking website for Celine. Céline.com from Work and Co on Vimeo. I have deliberately ignored a lot of the brands trying to cling on to the proverbial vapour trail of the Apollo space programme; but this video caught my eye because it showed the amazing engineering chops of Sony. Just look … Read moreFive for Friday | 五日（星期五) | 금요일에 다섯 가지
Reading Time: 2 minutes Disney posted this beautiful trailer of the Mulan-live action adaption this weekend. I presume it was to try and take the sting out of a black mermaid earlier this week on Chinese social media. Kudos to my former work neighbours at Leo Burnett London for this lovely bit of craft in a McDonald’s UK ad … Read moreThings that made my day this week
Reading Time: 2 minutes Inside China’s booming streetwear scene – Inkstone – great video on China’s booming streetwear scene that’s morphing into someithing very different Tesco Is Said to Work With Israel’s Trigo on Cashierless Stores – Bloomberg – if Chinese cashier less stores experience is anything to go by, this might not be a good idea ‘Adapt or … Read moreICYMI | 万一你错过了| 당신이 그것을 놓친 경우에 대비해서
Reading Time: 3 minutes BMW NEXTGen event included a concept car the BMW Vision M Next. What I found most interesting about this is how BMW whilst looking forward with the i8 and the M Next; is still stuck with designs resembling the Giorgetto Giugiaro designed M1(E26) of the late 1970s. Don’t get me wrong, when I was a … Read moreFive for Friday | 五日（星期五) | 금요일에 다섯 가지
Reading Time: 6 minutes I had the honour of being part of a panel for the PRCA on the creativity in data run in association with The Work Crowd. Here was the synopsis of the panel discussion that the PRCA put out. Communications is frequently seen as all about ‘big ideas’. But increasingly, it’s being recognised that to develop … Read moreCreativity in data