Awards / Devotion wins 2 AIMIA Awards

Devotion picked up two awards at the 13th Annual AIMIA Awards held on Friday 2nd March in Sydney.

Best Corporate or Business-to-Business
Australian Wool Innovation

Best Non-profit
Save Rapunzel - CanTeen

Icons / The icon archive

http://www.iconarchive.com/category/media/chums-icons-by-mcdo-design.html

Article / YouTubers star in Barenaked music video (SMH)

The Canadian pop-rock band Barenaked Ladies has enlisted a raft of YouTube's most famous names to star in their latest music video, Sound Of Your Voice > read the article

Website / Colour - Kuler (Adobe Labs)

Another awesome colour resource requiring a Flash update - http://kuler.adobe.com/

Blog / Colour-lovers

http://www.colourlovers.com/ - "fight for love in the colour revolution."

Nice blog site where people upload their own colour palettes, comment on others and share all-things-colour.

Website / Motion design

Nice examples of motion design for the web - http://roxik.com/toy1.html

Website / Frubalia - Uncle Tobys Roll-Ups

The guys over at Soap have launched Frubalia (working with Morph Marketing) to promote the rebranding of Uncle Tobys Roll-Ups.

Nice execution, engaging games (even for non-kids) and fast load-times. Cool stuff.

Website / Moo - Flickr Minicards

Site developed for people to print their photos straight out of Flickr onto minicards - similar to business cards.

The cards can all be different, can have customised logos as well as text.

http://www.moo.com/flickr/

Website / Reversa

Interesting site which uses video to great effect. Humorous stories promote the 'side effects' campaign angle.

http://www.seemoresideeffects.ca/

Website / RTA - Pimp Our Ads

The task: Create a road safety poster for young people in NSW, to persuade them to look after themselves and their mates on the road.

How: The RTA have developed a tool for users to select an image from an existing library, add type elements, graphics and colour and submit the piece to the competition. The winner takes home a Toyota Yaris and has their poster printer.

Pretty good little tool that loads fast and has a certain engagement factor. Will be interesting to see the uptake of this campaign given the subject matter - is it compelling for 18-30 year olds or not?

http://www.pimpourads.com/

Typography / To Helvetica and back (FontShop Feed)

The crew at FontShop themed their latest news feed around Helvetica and its alternatives - Worth a read

"Helvetica™ is everywhere. Still, we can’t deny its status as a classic. It truly deserves the title role in the first feature-length documentary about a typeface, and it’s no surprise that it took the #1 spot on FontShop Germany’s Best Fonts of All Time. But Helv isn’t always the right sans for the job..."

Photoshop / The Largest Photoshop Brush Resource Site on The Internet

If you need Photoshop Brushes, this site has tons of them, in addition they've add a great Stock Photos section so you can find lots of free stock photos.

http://www.psbrushes.net/

Awesome!!!

Product / Apple iPhone

The amazing new Apple iPhone has been previewed at MacWorld. The new Wi-Fi phone is a portable version of OS X with features that include music and video (iPod), Internet (Safari), impressive phone characteristics, widget integration, mail, calendering and so forth. Apple has also partnered with Yahoo! and Google to incorporate Maps, email and search functionality.

The interface (3.5 inch screen) has redefined usability on handheld devices using clever hand actions such as 'finger pinching' and 'flicking' to navigate through a visually rich menu system. iTunes users will be familiar with the music interface pulling largely from iTunes 7 (not suprisingly).

Unfortunately the phone will only be available in Australia from 2008 and at present is scheduled to come in 2 sizes, 4 and 8 gigabyte.

The interesting thing for us as advertisers will be the opportunity new rich-media devices will offer.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Website / Kink Kommunity

3 is trialing large-scale social networking on your mobile here in Australia and the UK. Most of the established communities are moving this way but it will be interesting to see the take-up of a network built in reverse - mobile first.

From the site: Kreate, konnect and share. Kink Kommunity brings the world of Social Networking right to your mobile, and guess what? You won’t be alone! Kink Kommunity Global allows you to chat, post your own video & photo’s, rate, search, build friend lists, tag, private message, and well what ever else you want in real time with real people from around the Globe, we call it Kink Kommunity Global. Get kinking today, luv, Kit (your Kinky hostess).

http://www.kinkkommunity.com/au/index.htm

Article / The dollars will follow (The Australian - IT)

Another interesting article on social networking. How to convert large numbers of users with small revenue into viable offerings - something beyond a phenomenon.

"IT is the sheer pace of growth that is astounding. Piczo will be an unfamiliar name to many readers, yet in just 13 months this networking website for teenagers has grown eightfold, increasing its number of users from 1.2 million to 10.5 million."

Read the article

Blog / Type for you

Interesting mix of links, articles, styles, showcases and reviews: http://typeforyou.blogspot.com/

Website / Thomas Tallis Speciality Art School

Visual social-commentary/blogging interface at the front-end of this site. Allows users to read comments, make comments and sort comments in a fun, colourful and easy to use interface.

http://www.thomastallis.co.uk/tallistalk/

Article / Games are going mobile (SMH)

The mobile games market must be booming if gaming giant Electronic Arts has come out to play...

http://www.smh.com.au/news/games/games-are-going-mobile/2006/12/10/1165685544813.html

Ideas / Series of clever/witty diagrams

http://indexed.blogspot.com/

Article / Free-to-air copping a download (News.com.au)

AUSTRALIA'S $3.5 billion free-to-air commercial television industry is being threatened by the internet more quickly than expected, with a new online study showing 53 per cent of respondents regularly download TV shows from the internet, most of them illegally.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,20922909-10229,00.html