Don't Eat At

Don't Eat At sends you a text when you check into a restaurant in NYC that is at risk of being closed for health code violations. The app uses Foursquare's API.

Wonderfully simple idea.

Possibilities, possibilities...

RFID in shoes from Hampus Lemhag on Vimeo.

Digital Inspiration

In advertising we use film as inspiration for TV ads and graphic design and art as inspiration for print. It's at the fringes of any creative industry that we find the ground-breaking work, the stuff that's really pushing the boundries, not just re-hashing someone else's facebook campaign.

Digital art is where technology and creativity is being pushed to it's limits, and it's here that we should be looking for inspiration, collaboration and a glimpse of things to come.

Below are links to some amazing people and work in this field.

Irvine Brown has an inspiring collection of work. In one project he uses a remote control car to teach people how to breathe correctly when singing. If your breath is controlled enough the car will perform a perfect three point turn.


Tinker are a London based multi-disciplinary team of creative technologists. The indoor sundial above is one of an amazing group of projects on their site.




Niklas Roy's"My Little Bit of Privacy" above is a brilliant example of how technology can be used with everyday items to create something special.

I suck...

I cracked. I’m weak and I’m useless.

In fairness though, who could argue with something that created advertisements as beautiful as these.

Not that failing to quit is any sort of achievement but I have cut down from about 15 a week to 5.

See ya later cigarettes

I updated my Facebook with the status non smoker the other day. It was a spur of the Monday morning decision caused by my usual beginning of the week fatigue, the heaviness in my lungs and the creeping lines slowly making their way down my face. My relationship with cigarettes began at age 11, the film Pulp Fiction had just come out and a large poster of Uma Thurman smoking a cigarette adorned my brother’s wall. Highly suggestible child that I was, I stole a cigarette from my brother’s pack and ventured outside to smoke it. I lit it, inhaled deeply and the world turned black, after almost coughing up a couple a entrails I swore I’d never touch another one again. Fast forward three years and I’m standing in bush behind a football pitch and a guy is asking me if I smoke, a blue packet opened hospitably in my direction. I take one; I inhale, not so deeply this time and decide it’s not so bad after all. So here I am 10 years later. 10 years of poisoning myself with toxic fumes under the guise of it being a social habit. So as well as trying to brainwash myself with the wise words of Allen Carr, I also had a look at some of the recent amazing anti smoking campaigns in the hope that it would shock me into giving up this vile habit once and for all.