New President, New Website

Some less enthusiastic viewers of our new president’s transition into office have pointed out that “Change” isn’t a very unique platform – that most candidates from the opposing party of an incumbent throughout history have run on a similar platform just because they figure the people are tired of the old. Time will tell how [...]

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The Return of Lost

Ok so this isn’t quite fair… it’s not exactly about advertising, and I’m posting it mainly because I am totally addicted to this show. But anyone who has kept up with Lost for the last few years knows that it’s returning at the end of this month. While my significant other is making it a [...]

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Creative use of banner ads

Ah, the old banner ad. Perhaps the most overlooked form of advertising, because it mostly gets… well… overlooked. We as internet surfers have developed a sophisticated filtering defense that causes all things that appear to be ads on a website to simply not register. This filtering mechanism can be quite a problem for website designers [...]

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Interactive community web toy

Uniqlo now offers an interactive web toy on their site. The thing that makes it unusual is that it’s constantly being modified by people all over the world, and everyone is changing the same grid so every move that is made is visible to everyone. After logging in to try it out, I randomly started [...]

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Expected results – unexpectedly

Hema has built a product page on their website that looks exactly like you’d expect a product page to appear. For a moment. Check it out and enjoy the show.
Hema describes itself as “an international retail organization.” So basically, it sells stuff. Cakes seem to be popular items. With this in mind, the fun [...]

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