The Elephant Parade is a fund-raising and public awareness campaign for the endangered Asian elephant centering on a public art exhibition of 250 life-size elephant statures created by up-and-coming artists and established designers such as Diane Von Furstenberg and Lulu Guinness. The exhibits will be auctioned to raise money to fund the purchase of a vital elephant corridor in Kerala, providing a safe migratory route fro around 5,000 wild elephants.
The Abercrombie & Kent elephant is constructed from scrap metal, created by Luka Boonkerd Kaewdee, an iron art designer from Chaing Mai. The elephant will be placed somewhere in the area of Hyde Park Corner. Exact details will be released soon.
Mission is launching Krug’s new concept for Summer 2010: Thank Krug It’s Friday!
Come and enjoy a glass of Krug Grande Cuvée with savory pie and mash at Battersea PIE Station in Covent Garden every Friday during the summer months.
If you’re in London’s Covent Garden today (March 26th) or tomorrow (March 27th) from 11am until 10pm, have a look out for a ‘special’ Mini Cooper parked at the Market Place. This Mini Cooper is special because there are light projection arrows coming out of the Mini. This visual spectacular will light up the area.
Nokia has launched this installation to show people that Sat Nav no longer needs to be chained to the dashboard, thanks to Ovi Maps, free for life across a range of Nokia devices.
In addition, Nokia has set up a demonstration area to help passers by downloading Ovi Maps on to their handsets. And if you are looking to find your way demonstrators can create printed Ovi maps for you. There will be a famous London tour guide giving people directions and telling tourists about London.
So if you’re looking for a certain back-street in London today or tomorrow, pop down to Covent Garden’s Market Place and OVI Maps will point you in the right direction
With British politics gearing up for a general election in the spring, it is no wonder that all three of the major parties are ramping up their campaigns accordingly. However, in the same week that AdWeek announced the COI as Britain’s biggest advertising spender, the Tories have been slammed [again] by the active online community in their latest attempt at slander-licious Labour bashing.
For anyone unaware of the #cashgordon car crash – the communications bruisers behind Cameron’s “I’m not quite as bad as him” campaign tried to expose Unite’s power over the Labour party after their £11m generosity by launching CashGordon.
CashGordon, a minisite with a live Twitter feed of aggregated posts featuring #csashgordon as the hashtag lasted a very short amount of time before the savvy techie out there realised that the site was utterly defenseless to attack – in their eagerness to cash in on the public’s disgruntled huffing and puffing about Unite’s actions over the weekend, the site had been built with absolutely no security in place.
Very quickly the tweets included mark up, allowing for big and bold messages about Cameron to be posted with all sorts of rude words in them. Then Javascript was included – allowing a pop up box to be enabled uttering nothing but the words, ‘Knickers’. Then redirects to old people porn, then old people gay porn and then – the site was taken down.
This graph by Meg Pickard gives you a pretty accurate timeline following the launch of #cashgordon
This isn’t a political bashing of one party or another, it is far more simple than that – once again a brand had forgotten that, like any conversation, if they want it to stay on track, they must moderate it in a fair and transparent manner. No one, especially political parties, should expect to be able to garner 100% positive contribution or support from their actions online or offline.
Looking at a lot of the #cashgordon tweets, so many of the attacks and undesirable messages were said/done in jest with no political affiliation to one party or another at all. Twitter users saw an opportunity to exploit a massive oversight in security and, as the community they are, chose to play with it until the opportunity shut down.
The big word for the day, Team Tory, is Consider.
Consider, consider, consider.
Before lifting a finger, imagine the worst possible outcome of a communication strategy and plan accordingly – that way you probably won’t be disappointed or exploited (but don’t count on it).
Renowned photographer Alison Jackson, who is known for finding and using lookalikes of celebrities to produce amazing satirical images, is on the search for a Gordon Brown lookalike.
With just two months to go before the General Election, Alison is gearing up for a nationwide search for ‘Gordon Brown’ this weekend in Scotland, where Gordon Brown is from, for a potential TV show.
So if you, or anybody you know has the Gordon Brown factor, come down to an open casting at one of the venues below.
Good luck!
Nokia are giving people the opportunity to talk to the first lady of football, Karen Brady, music artist Mr Hudson, and designer Savannah Miller on Twitter, to help you get the most out of using the Nokia E72.
Mr Hudson, Savannah Miller and Karen Brady will be on hand on Twitter to help you get the most out of your E72 mobile whether it’s using Instant Messenger, email or theInternet, and can tell you how they manage to juggle a successful business with their social calendar.
If you have any questions you’d like to ask them, please tweet them to @Nokia_UK and tag your tweet with #NokiaE72inaction.
The three celebrities will be on Twitter answering your questions in real-time on the dates and times below:
Karren Brady: Monday, 15th March from 2pm to 3pm
Savannah Miller: Wednesday, 17th March from 2pm to 3pm
Mr. Hudson: Thursday, 1st April from 12pm to 1pm
As part of the M·A·C cosmetics VIVA GLAM ‘From Our Lips’ campaign, Sharon Osbourne was joined by M·A·C AIDS FUND spokespersons and global superstars, Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper, for an intimate and exclusive ‘audience with’ in London to discuss HIV/AIDS.
Led by Sharon Osbourne, the lively and candid conversation saw Lady Gaga and Cyndi Lauper discuss HIV and AIDS, raising awareness around the subject to get people across the globe to think and act differently about the disease, which was streamed live via Ustream.
Mission Media recently worked on LOOK Magazine’s LFW show. The show which took place at the Saatchi Gallery has been the only fashion show that has been opened to consumers during fashion week and was the only high street fashion show to feature clothing that will be available in-store and online, straight after the show rather than next season.
High street brands that were included in the show were; Reiss, Zara, H&M, M&S, Next, Dorothy Perkins, New Look, Miss Selfridge, Asos.com, Warehouse, Oasis, Mango and River Island
Supermodel, Erin O’Connor, strutted her stuff on the runway opening the show wearing Reiss and later donned some clothing for River Island towards the end of the show.
Pop sensation Pixie Lott sang an acoustic version of her latest single, Cry Me Out, for the crowd halfway through the show – she looked and sounded amazing!
Designers have been offered the chance to collaborate with the creative team at House of Diehl and gain high profile exposure though Talenthouse.
Talenthouse is set to launch as worldwide search for designers to collaborate directly with MJ Diehl and Roman Milisic, the creative partnership and powerhouse behind fashion label, House of Diehl. Talenthouse will provide designers with a unique opportunity to join House of Diehl in their New York studio to collaborate on a one of a kind couture piece and on a second piece that will be independently designed by the Talenthouse winner.
To find out more about this fantastic opportunity and to enter, please click here
Talenthouse, the leading platform for creative collaboration, is set to launch a worldwide search for gifted producers and musicians to collaborate in studio with record-producer, singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, Ryan Leslie.
To be considered for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Talenthouse users are asked to go to Ryan’s official website http://www.ryanleslie.com/makingofaddiction and check out the video of Ryan working in the studio. Entrants will have five minutes to showcase themselves making an instrumental or full song. The winning track resulting from this challenge will be featured on www.ryanleslie.com and promoted throughout his network of social and media sites.
The winner of the competition will also be invited to New York to spend a day with Ryan working alongside him in a studio as he produces for major recording artist, and will also receive published credit for their participation in this creative process.
For more details and entry rules please click here
