This time lapse shows the White October team along with our friends from Hutchhouse and Nonsense as we conceive, design, build and launch a new business in 24 hours. You can read all about the day here : 24hour-startup.com and you can see the results here : drhue.com which (until 12:00 on Sunday) you can [...]
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24 hours to start a new business?
November 29, 2009 – 8:13 pm
At 12:00 on Thursday 26 November 09, an auction was posted on eBay listing a business for sale that hadn’t even been conceived yet. At the same time, the White October team along with our friends from Nonsense and Hutchhouse sat down together in a Soho basement and were told that they had 24 hours [...]
We’re all off on a secret adventure
November 26, 2009 – 8:49 am
The White October design and development team is converging in London for a top secret activity today.
What we know is this:
It starts at midday
It takes 24 hours
We’ll have food and drink, but no sleep
We need computers
The people involved are all on this twitter list
And, er, that’s it. Dave knows more but he’s keeping it under [...]
Rough Justice : The penalty for leaving your desk fan on overnight…
August 27, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Poor old Matt has been struggling to remember to turn off his desk fan at the end of each day, so Mary decided to take it (the fan) into her own hands, and mete out her own particularly sneaky form of justice.
She may try to tell you that this was an environmentally responsible act, coming [...]
Great work for charidee
May 19, 2009 – 2:23 pm
Several of us are involved in charities / community projects of one kind or another. I’m a member of Camel Community Supported Agriculture (CSA).
CSA is about building a mutual relationship between food growers and food consumers so that the risks and responsibilities of food production are shared. There’s loads more info on this on the [...]
Sour Australian grapes
April 23, 2009 – 10:23 am
London advertising agencies have been made the butt of the joke in a new viral created by an Australian digital marketing strategist.
The Melbourne-based strategist, known on YouTube as “Simontsmall” posted the clip in reaction to losing the account for the New Zealand vodka brand 42Below, to an unspecified London agency.
With all the gloom and doom [...]
Get down on it…
March 6, 2009 – 4:28 pm
If only their customer service was as good as their adverts.
t-mobile advert
Befriend a Geek tops 300,000 views
December 28, 2008 – 4:06 pm
Our ironic Christmas video, “Befriend a Geek” that parodied a charity ad campaign appealing to people around the World to “make a friend this Christmas” was featured on the Worldwide home page of YouTube on Christmas Eve.
At that point we had already clocked up over 20,000 views of the video and were incredibly pleased with [...]