Last ad agency on Earth

This video neatly sums of the state of play in the agency world at the moment. Here in Ireland a lot of the traditional agencies are ‘talking’ digital but have not really grasped it yet. Maybe their clients believe them, because they know even less about digital than their agencies do.

Augmented (hyper) Reality

The latter half of the 20th century saw the built environment merged with media space, and architecture taking on new roles related to branding, image and consumerism. Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it. (quoted from the site)