“Press Pause Play” is a documentary that explores the ecosystem of the current and forever changing creative landscape, addressing “the change in production, distribution and consumption of creative works.

I certainly look forward to hearing more about this.

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MARKETING & ADVERTISING:

I always wondered why you had to print an e-ticket. Well perhaps JC Penny’s mobile coupons would solve this problem.

Weetabix tries build itself on top of another brand (Google) with http://www.insideyoursearch.com/. But does this really work? Surely it could apply to a lot of brands?

Citroen goes playful with their C3 advert, focusing on the playfulness and joy of driving.

Mobile trends and traffic report from the US.

Ikea creates the world’s biggest rack

DESIGN:

A lovely set of strong graphic design

Brian Andrews is a wood craftsman and has some incredible hand carved sculptures.

Esquire does augmented reality with The Barbarian Group and Psyop

Hofstede Design, based in Australia creates a beautiful type tablet

Autobahn playground has a great collection of playful type experiments

ART & PHOTOGRAPHY:

Digital photographers of the year, here’s the short list

Eva and Franco Mattes breaks all the rules on their “It’s always six o’clock project”, making better use of your childhood toys.

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Google, has now expanded its online prowess beyond its “Shopping Results”, just in time for the Christmas season. With Google Commerce Search, Google can now pull products from various retailers and e-commerce sites to reduce time spent hunting down specific items while enabling easy comparison.

Google Maps Navigation

Last week saw the introduction of a free turn by turn GPS navigation tool, a certain a game changer in the GPS turn by turn market seeing the stocks of Garmin and TomTom drop more than 20% since the announcement. Available on Google’s mobile OS Android and hopefully coming soon to the iPhone if Apple approves it. With Google’s wealth of information, would we be hearing “Turn left in 15 meters for a special offer on a McDonalds happy meal!”

Google Music Search

Google steps up to challenge iTunes with its new-found music searching capabilities, which will allow you to preview and purchase tracks right from the first page of search results.

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