Archive for May, 2007

Defy Microsoft

Armando Alves @ May 7th, 2007

Despite the latest flaming between Apollo and Silverlight, Microsoft is still very much in love with Flash, or so it seems with the Halo-esque website for VisualStudio.

Defy All Challenges

It’s all bells and whistles, zigs and zags, and lots of flash video. If you don’t mind watching a bunch of MS engineers with the usual evangelizing BS,  go check it out. I only enjoyed the Halo videos - some of them are actually fun.

Hondamentalism

Armando Alves @ May 7th, 2007

New website by WK London and Midas Collective where you get to challenge a friend to find out if you might be a “Hondamentalist”.

Hondamentalism

With some games and trivia, the interesting section is the competition, where you have the chance to win a day with one of Honda’s racing team. What kept me wondering though is how they achieved the wind effect in the commercial (watch below)…

Oh, here’s a quote from Soichiro Honda, explaining what this Hondamentalism might be all about:

‘Without racing, there is no Honda.’ Whether it’s on the bike track, the race circuit, down a mountain, on a lake – it’s what they do. Excellence in racing is achieved by going that extra mile – squeezing every last drop of effort in order to be the absolute best. That’s what Hondamentalism is, and that’s what the Red H badge embodies.

Advertising at Second Life

Armando Alves @ May 4th, 2007

DraftFCB at Second Life

Ok, 2 posts in a row about DraftFCB is getting a bit self promotional. But this a funny take on the real Second Life, by the Paris offices.

I actually thought about building our own offices (with a little help from friend Nuno), but as we didn’t had the time and people to engage in actual conversations (too busy doing real work), the idea was abandoned. Maybe next time.

Don’t drink and drive.

Armando Alves @ May 4th, 2007

Recently we did a campaign for Antral (Portuguese taxi association), to increase the usage of their call line.

Through some guerrilla marketing, they’ve managed to get more 50% incoming calls, and the campaign is now set to expand to other cities. See for yourself.