Walking through the Bullring and we have spotted Clinton's have started to roll out their new branding across the stores with what looks like "Big and Bold" being the design theme (see pics). 

The use of Helevtica Rounded bold in various large sizes throughout the store leaves me with mixed opinions on if this is just 'in your face, bad design' or 'a brave contemporary move'. I'll let you decide!

The BRUDA case is created to protect the iPad on all sides as well as to be a secure stand for your iPad.

It is designed to hold your iPad in the two most popular configurations; one for typing and the other for comfortable viewing or browsing.

 In the typing position, the case top provides a unique glare shield to help reduce reflections on the screen as well as provide a bit of additional privacy. This works great whether on your desk at work, the college library table, your favourite coffee house or relaxing on a park bench. Available in cherry and maple.

 Check out www.brudacase.com for more details.

 I better get saving at $175 they aren't cheap, but beautifully finished.

If you can make a  shopping mall out of shipping containers, why not a restaurant shaped like a plane cabin? British Airways will open just such an aerial anomaly in Shoreditch next month. We're tempted to call it a pilot study.

The pop-up venue, called BA2012, will debut on Shoreditch High Street in April. Visitors can try BA's new 'Olympics-inspired menu' created by Michelin-star chef Simon Hulstone, and likely to be a darn site better than the bland, processed crap most people would associate with in-flight dining.

As well as a three-course meal, visitors will also get to see the work of two talented artists commissioned by BA as part of the Great Britons initiative - a short film by Prasanna Purwanarajah (mentored by Richard E Grant), and artwork by Pascal Anson (with tips from Tracey Emin).

So, yes, it's basically one big PR exercise for the flag carrier airline, but done with some imagination.

Flight BA2012 will land at 3-10 Shoreditch High St, E1 6PG, serving on 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16 and 17 April. Tickets are £50 and booking information is hidden somewhere on BA's Facebook page.

German ad agency Jung von Matt has created this charming print campaign to advertise LEGO.
The ads feature minimalist interpretations of some of our best-loved cartoon characters,
all created with blocks of Lego: can you guess who's who?

Here's a Two-minute advert on Channel 4 features 21st-century twist on tale of three little pigs.

The Guardian has launched its first major brand positioning TV ad for more than 25 years with a commercial broadcast on Channel 4 as part of a campaign promoting the paper's concept of "open journalism"

The TV ad follows a developing story of three little pigs being arrested in a police raid, via the Guardian's coverage and interaction with readers and internet users through the newspaper, website, blogs, tweets and video.

The Guardian portrays a very particular perspective on todays current affairs & news - one that takes a step back into the shoes of the everyday consumer - through the concept of Facebook, twitter and blogging it relates to us in a digital mannerism of communication and the way we express our opinions so widely and forcefully through the multi-media digital platform. The Guardian is worlds apart from other news websites where consumer perspective lacks integrity with a weak approach to relate to its customers, through their blogs, videos and the wide interface of comments sections on their website, the Guardian easily achieve this.

It's also an interesting view on todays society and one that I would have to agree with - the big bad wolf representing some form of governmental body? The three little pigs, the common people, to put it so blunt, innocent and victimised in todays economy, interesting and very creative approach to promoting the paper's concept of "open journalism", yet why have The Guardian very cleverly fitted up the Three Little Pigs for crimes we know they didn't commit and set the Wolf up as the good guy?

Of maybe using the concept of a fairy tale with various morals for a serious subject is just a little bit too silly - Can't seem to draw a conclusion on this one - however - have a look and draw your on line on the advert!

View the video here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2012/feb/29/open-journalism-three-little-pigs-advert?CMP=twt_gu

They say don't take sweets from strangers, but when it comes to a Snickers bar I couldn't resist. 

Yes as part of the Snickers 'You're not you when you're hungry' campaign, commuters will be given free bars via a sampling campaign which takes place at Railway stations today (29 February).

There will be around 48,000 bars given out with each sample featuring the text 'in case of emergency'.

And I have one, great with a cuppa at 11, I think

Im not saying I have ever escaped a Nazi prison of war camp during WW2 on a Motorbike, rescued people from a towering inferno, befriended Dustin Hoffman nor had the longest Car chase on record, but this is where the differences end…I do have the king of cool's jacket!

Steve McQueen in the famous Le Mans Jacket

Gracing the shelves of Selfridges this Spring are some pretty nice bags by Anya Hindmarch, who started her fashion career in Florence, Italy and is renowned for designing the eco-friendly "I'm not a plastic bag" tote which became a worldwide must-have.

In the collection we have the Fruit and Veg bag, the Homework tote, one inspired by the Beach and a couple of newspaper covers. I have bag envy! The original Anya Hindmarch store can be found on Walton Street, London. However the brand now has over fifty four stores in seven countries... Take a peek at http://www.anyahindmarch.com/.

Artist Guy Laramee creates amazing miniature book landscapes out of old books, dictionaries and encyclopedias. His series entitled The Great Wall and Biblios represent the degradation of human culture and show glacial landscapes, deep valleys and plateaus.

"So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes,"  says the artist on his website. "Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. They erode a bit more and they become hills. Then they flatten and become fields where apparently nothing is happening. Piles of obsolete encyclopedias return to that which does not need to say anything, that which simply IS. Fogs and clouds erase everything we know, everything we think we are."

And what do you do with your old books?









Released on this day in January 19, 1983, the Apple Lisa an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture or "LISA". Since Steve Jobs' first daughter was named Lisa.

Several years prior to this, research had been going on to create a new way to organize everything on the screen, today known as the desktop.

A great deal of work was put into making the graphical interface into a mainstream commercial product by the Lisa team.

It was the computer that had the power to put a dent in the universe, but was destined to live a life of failure.

Worst of all, a Lisa system cost $9995, way too much for anybody that would want to buy one. A famous quote really says it all, "It was a great machine, we just couldn't sell any".

In 1989, Apple disposed of approximately 2,700 unsold Lisas in a guarded landfill in Logan, Utah, in order to receive a tax write-off on the unsold inventory.