Following on from their successful Fun Theory campaign, Volkswagen create more playful interventions in the name of viral advertising.
An idea that I’ve seen discussed many times before but not put into practice, VW put a slide into an underground train station in Berlin, giving people a fast way down, as this video shows…

As Carsten [...]

I have been asked a few times about doing interactive periscopes or telescopes with augmented graphics, and my response is “well, they’ve sort of been done many many times before”. So for research I decided to post up for everyone those that I am aware of.
If you know of any more, please post in [...]

I have just posted some documentation of my latest work, Hand from Above.
Hand From Above encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another. Inspired by Land of the Giants and Goliath, we are reminded of mythical stories by mischievously unleashing a giant hand from the [...]

Quite a few people have sent me The fun theory, a viral campaign from ad agency DDB Stockholm for Volkswagen.
“This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or something entirely different, the [...]

The Boom Bench by Michael Schoner of NL Architects…
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“As a part Urban Play 2, Droog Design and curator Scott Burnham have asked NL Architects to bring in ideas for interactive urban interventions. Urban Play is an exhibition and an interactive route along the IJ River. Urban Play believes that “street-level inventiveness, energy and innovation [...]

There is very little information on this, other than what is posted on Wooster Collective:
“We absolutely loved this street intervention project in which the artists the altered public lighting in Tel Aviv’s open underground tunnels. Artists Bar&Shay said their street art muse was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as they altered the tunnel…”

Really nice. [...]

I really love the idea behind First Breath, an artwork that Luke Jerram is creating for 2009…
“During our lifetime the majority of us experience the same mundane and life changing moments. Whether we’re cleaning our teeth, having our haircut or getting married, it’s these common experiences that help us to connect with one another. At [...]

If you go down to the South Bank in London this summer, outside the Royal Festival Hall is a wonderful installation titled PLAY.Orchestra.
56 plastic cubes and 3 Hotspots are laid out on a full size orchestra stage, each cube containing a light and speaker. Sit down on the cube or stand in the hotspot to [...]