ANGUS WHINES

Analogies

There's far too many analogies in advertising for my liking but this is an excellent use of them.

Blackboard Pro

Smart thinking (again...) by Russell.  Blackboard paint on a laptop...

Mum

What a mum says in 24 hours, condensed into 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Awesome.

Via Mrs Tulip

Powerpoint

The future of agency presentation skills training, from this year's SXSW... fucking brilliant, I want to do this....

Green

I'm linking, but I won't mind if I don't get a free book.  I'm often too late with these things and it's a worthy cause anyway.  Even if I couldn't see Mr Grant at the launch, for all the tall people in the room.

Creativity

I adore this man.

Focus Groups

This is superb...

Thanks Scamp.

Mercury

Jesus Christ, a client just showed me a "needstate thermometer"....

Truth in Advertising

Yes, yes, I know most of us have seen this before, but I promised I'd show it to someone who hasn't...

The full 12 minute version can be found here.

Data Visualisation

Smashing Magazine has a fantastic article on data visualisation with some wonderful examples and their various sources, such as:

Munterbund

Trend Map

Newsmap

Time Magazine