The agency has ground to a standstill.
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Your own, personal Santa.
December 1, 2009 – 6:15 pm
I’m repping commercialism, AKA Santa, for our Christmas Tweets project.
So I thought I should at least download the little guy and carry him around with me.
Here’s my step by step guide to creating your own credit crunch gift idea for Christmas.
Step One
Go to http://www.christmastweets.co.uk/ and download your own Santa (or one of the other characters – I forget who they are now).
Step Two
Print that bad boy out.
Step Three
Cut Santa out whilst wearing your most festive hat. Mind your fingers kids!
Step Four
Fold up your little Santa. No tearing.
Step Five
Place on Martin “The Hit Man” Hearns’ head. Or any other inanimate object.
Enjoy!
November 30, 2009 – 6:16 pm
It’s the end of the year and coming up to Christmas. Here at twentysix, we’ve launched a new site, based on Twitter, which tracks and counts which seasonal subjects are garnering the most conversation – our Christmas Tweets site. Each subject is represented by a different character and they chase each other round and round the world based on the rate of tweets.
- Commercialism – Is Christmas about spending, commercialism and consumption?
- Credit Crunch – Has the recession taken its toll this Christmas? Will the credit crunch cast a shadow over Christmas festivities?
- Religion – Will this year revert back to the true meaning of Christmas and be focused around the religious festivals?
- Christmas Spirit – Can Christmas still be about celebrating the occasion and enjoying the season of goodwill? Is the fun and magical aspect of Christmas still alive?
By clicking through to each character, you can see a breakdown of what the key words at the moment. So with Christmas Spirit, all talk seems to be about buying the Christmas Tree. Other popular subjects are Christmas shopping and presents, but elsewhere people have no money
We love the characters we’ve created. You can use these images if you want for a blog post, or go to the site and download a pdf to make a desktop version of them!
Religion
Commercialism
Credit Crunch
Christmas Spirit
MOVEMBER: UPDATE
November 19, 2009 – 5:02 pm
We’re almost at the finish line and have managed to raise a fair few pounds for a very good cause. And, in the space of a couple of weeks, we’ve managed to cultivate the most manly, rugged and sophisticated looking digital agency in London.
Thanks again to Lex for the moustache categorisation (and Erik for the photos).
The First Eleven
The Clear and Present Danger
The Wife Taker
The Bounder
The Five to Ten Stretch
Squadron Leader
The Musician’s Apprentice
The 10110010110110
Don’t forget, there’s still plenty of time to sponsor us. Just click here.
Magic Spoons
November 18, 2009 – 11:45 am
This morning I saw something that made me laugh so I thought I’d share it.
We have a problem with people tidying up after themselves in the kitchen. So much so that it gave rise to this post-it note.
Not only do I find the note funny because I like the idea of ‘Magic Spoons’ but, by the time whoever wrote the note – in the style of Gordon Brown – they could have put the spoons in the dishwasher themselves.
Brilliant!
Why I keep falling in love with “digital”
November 16, 2009 – 3:31 pm
I always tell myself that one of the joys of working in the online space is that you constantly get exposed to human ingenuity in all its glory. To prove the theory, I experienced two innovations this morning and read about another.
The iPhone is the new Star Trek Communicator
I’ve had my iPhone for over a year. It drops calls, heats up like a stick of uranium and sometimes crashes, but it is a thing of beauty. I read about RedLaser – the hottest barcode scanner app – and installed it this morning. It is a work of genius. You can scan any barcode and within seconds it will tell you where you can buy the product online and for how much. Retail will never be the same again. People are already innovating – one bright spark used it to catalogue his book collection before packing them all away. You can also get a dieting version.
Another amazing app I witnessed today was Layar, which uses augmented to show web data overlaid on the iPhone’s camera display. In fact this is more Terminator than Star Trek.
The Ethical Web
Tim Berners-Lee is at it again. Not content with making the web ubiquitous in the developed world, TBL launched The World Wide Web Foundation; its aim is to “ensure a free and open Web that empowers people to bring about social and economic change.” The first two initiatives have been launched – one to help inhabitants in the Southern Sahara use the web to access knowledge that will help them to combat climate change.
The other is the launch of 800 computer community centres across Latin America and the Middle East.
For the full story read the Fast Company article: http://tinyurl.com/yfw2hmj
MOVEMBER: Update!!!
November 10, 2009 – 12:28 pm
It’s day ten of Movember. Some of us definitely look better than others.
Don’t forget you can sponsor team 26 Tash here. It’s for a great cause – read about Movember here.
Lex was on naming duties for the moustaches to date.
The Gable Guy
The Full Chaplin
The Fiddler
The Trampenstein
The Santana
The Flounder
The Low Rent
Our trip to Okehampton for a photoshoot
November 3, 2009 – 10:13 am
Our Creative Director, Pete, Art Director, Sarah and Photographer, Andrew headed down to Devon a few weeks back to do a photoshoot for one of our clients. Man alive it was soooo windy Pete needed to hold the photographer down while trying to get the money shot.
Here we are again, but this time with some proper safety ropes. Notice how Pete wasn’t tied in….
And there goes the CD…..always get yourself strapped in boyo.
AND FOR THE EVENING ENTERTAINMENT…..
If only I was 10 years younger and from the village…..xx
de Wynter in de news
October 29, 2009 – 1:10 pm
Revolution Article (image - copy from magazine)
Our Strategy Director, Lex de Wynter, was invited by Revolution Magazine to take part in their recent round table debate about globalisation. That’s him in the middle, next to the interactive manager for Coca-Cola.
The article isn’t online yet, so you’ll just have to go out and buy a copy of the mag if you want to find out what was said. Or you could give Lex a call and invite him over for some biscuits and a chat – he’d love that.
James in NMA
October 29, 2009 – 11:23 am
NMA Article (image - copy from magazine)
Lovely to see the NMA picking up on our guys’ recent challenge (although it has been commented on how the words in bold aren’t always spelt correctly)