Marks & Spencer has launched an online version of its discount outlet stores, as part of its multiplatform strategy.
&S Outlet will offer up to 40% off M&S clothing ranges including menswear, womenswear, lingerie and children’s wear and will feature items from recent M&S collections from its brands including Per Una, Autograph and Collezione.
M&S currently operates 50 Outlet stores in the UK, but has never been available online.
The M&S Outlet site stands alone from the core M&S website and is operated by http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifAmazon, meaning customers can use Amazon accounts on the site, but they cannot return items to M&S Outlet or high street stores.
http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
A spokesperson for M&S says that while the online Outlet store is not fully integrated with the rest of the business, it has been designed “to cater for the way customers are shopping now” and is likely to be integrated with the new M&S ecommerce platform due to launch in 2013.
CEO Marc Bolland set out his long-term plans for building a multiplatform business last year, including ending its partnership with Amazon, which currently provides M&S’s main ecommerce website, to develop a bespoke and fully integrated online platform due to launch in 2013.
Source: Marketing Week
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
M&S launches online outlet shopping
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
A look back in time: "thefacebook" homepage when the site first launched in February 4, 2004
A look back in time: "thefacebook" homepage when the site first launched in February 4, 2004, only available at the time for students and alumni from Harvard University.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Poster for Shillington School of Graphic Design
Here's a nice little campaign for a graphic design school. I love hand drawn type - particularly depictions of familiar typefaces - and the Comic Sans repetition is worth a small chuckle to get your day going.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Gadeget must-have: a USB Typewriter
Whether you want to get all nostalgic about those manual typing days, or want to recreate the opening credits of Murder She Wrote, this digitally upscaled typewriter should do the trick. It connects via USB which means you can connect it to your Mac, PC or your Apple iPad. Buy it here.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Pantone Rubik’s Cube
Argentinian designer Ignacio Pilotto created a concept Rubik’s Cube mashup with Pantone color swatches.
The ‘Rubitone’ has different intensities of a colors on each side of the cube — which makes things more difficult to solve—with each row of the same shade.
The Rubik’s Cube has a selection of 18 Pantone colors and would make a lovely gift. It should be quite easy to recreate by printing on adhesive and applying.
Source: Design Taxi
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Apple welcomes you to Grand Central
To promote the opening of its new shop in Grand Central station, Apple has installed a giant digital version of the traditional split-flap train schedule board using 58 computer display monitors.
Each letter appears to flip into place to reveal a series of headlines, including "Only one bar in Grand Central has Geniuses." ,"Drop off your Mac at 8:42. Pick it up at 6:29." "Grab an iPod touch. You'll wish your commute was longer." and "Soon, missing your train won't be so bad."
Source: Creative Review
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
What google looked like in 1998...
The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997 and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
A Harvey Nichols Christmas 2011 - Ever faced the Walk of Shame?
Forget the saccharine-sweet John Lewis Xmas ad, I think a fair few of us might have much more in common with this Walk of Shame ad from Harvey Nichols.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Google gives YouTube a new look
Google has given YouTube a seasonal makeover with the introduction of a new homepage, Channel design and a fresh coat of digital paint. Here are three ways these updates will improve your YouTube life.
1. A new homepage
YouTube says the changes to the homepage are designed to make it easier to find and follow Channels when you arrive. On the left side of the homepage you can create your own, personal, customisable YouTube Channel line-up.
Sign in, or create a YouTube account. Then you can browse recommended Channels, customise your homepage’s feed, link your YouTube account to Google+ and Facebook and see what your friends are sharing.
The new homepage feed it launched earlier this year is now front and centre on the homepage and you can switch between feeds by clicking on different Channels on the left.
2. Simpler, customisable Channels
Given the homepage’s new focus on helping you find and organise your favorite Channels, Google has also updated the look and feel of the Channels themselves.
Today it is launching an improved Channel design focused on what matters most: helping users find great videos. As different uploaders have different goals, it has created new a channel templates to meet their needs whether they produce one video a week or have thousands of videos for a fan to browse.
Some partners have even uploaded videos talking about the features, or giving tiphttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifs on how they’re taking advantage of the new design. To learn how to opt-in to and test this new Channel design, check out its help center.
3. A new overall design
To bring the new homepage and Channels designs together Google has also applied a fresh coat of digital paint across the whole site. In July, it unveiled an experimental design called Cosmic Panda and it has used user feedback to improve its overall design, and today, it offers a cleaner and simpler YouTube, with a consistent gray background, bigger video thumbnails and a more streamlined watch page.
Source: The Wall
Great Ad campaign: SwissLife : Life’s Turns In A Sentence
I love this campaign for SwissLife life Insurance's Flexible financial plans. They've cleverly used reversed sentences that reflect lifes twists & turns…
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Samsung takes a swipe at pretentious iPhone owners in its new viral ad
New ad for Samsung Galaxy S II shows urban scene kids with delusions of creative greatness (who are actually baristas, apparently) queuing for the latest iPhone. It goes on to show people outside the queue who already have a great phone with 4G and a big, bright screen.
It's a great ad, even though I’ve been pretty loyal to iPhones, it digs right to the centre of what I think about a lot, which is, if I actually did a little research…
Source: The Wall
Monday, November 21, 2011
World’s largest, longest 3D painting has been created in Canary Wharf, London
Reebok has collaborated with CrossFit to set two new Guinness World Records with the world’s largest and longest 3D artwork.
Street artist ‘3D Joe & Max’ turned part of London’s Canary Wharf quayside into the longest and largest 3D artwork, which covers an area of 12,490.441 square-feet and measures approximately 349.4 feet.
The painting, unveiled on 17 November 2011 (Global Guinness World Records Day), features a waterfall in a deep canyon image, as a ‘fun and thrilling’ outdoor workout experience.
Source: Design Taxi
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
World Leader Porn: Benetton wants the world to UNHATE
US President Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
A new campaign from Benetton recalls the brand's controversial heyday. A series of posters features world leaders with lips locked to launch the UNHATE project
Benetton, says the accompanying press material, is inviting "the leaders and citizens of the world to combat the 'culture of hatred'". The UNHATE campaign is the first initiative from a new Benetton foundation of the same name, launched by Alessandro Benetton, executive deputy chairman of the Benetton Group.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
A series of posters, created by Benetton's 'research communication centre' Fabrica, features political and spiritual leaders kissing (shown above, The Pope and Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. Below, US President Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
According to Benetton "These are symbolic images of reconciliation - with a touch of ironic hope and constructive provocation - to stimulate reflection on how politics, faith and ideas, even when they are divergent and mutually opposed, must still lead to dialogue and mediation."
The Pope and Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo
Hu Jintao, president of China and U.S. President Barack Obama
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
Additional social media activity includes the Kiss Wall where users can upload images of themselves kissing.
Source: Creative Review
What does an Art Director do?
This is very funny. As Jacques Séguéla said, "Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency. She thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
BA's latest ad: "To Fly. To Serve"
An industry email has just lead me to BA's latest ad, and my G-d they've pumped the pounds into this one. They're riding high with this "To fly. To serve" line and in my mind a bit too soon after the strikes for this type of ad campaign. 'To Fly, To Strike' is ringing through my head.
Additionally I dislike the gender stereotyping of male pilots and the way they've erased early female aviators from history. I do like flying BA but it's embarrassing that a major airline can still be so sexist.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Special Tone of Voice award to Apple’s Siri on the new iPhone 4S
They’ve *really* thought this through.
Find all the gems at shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Own a colour, save a life
Dulux has launched a website initiative with Unicef in which users are asked to buy one of the 16.7 million colours that a smartphone screen can display in order to help the charity.
Through the website ownacolour.com, the public, for a donation of at least £1, can put their name to their favourite colour and see themselves featured up alongside famous donors.
I bought 'Heartbeat Red':
Source: Creative Review
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Facebook finally launches iPad app
Facebook has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited app for the iPad, extending its presence in mobile devices.
The app features a new layout for the site, with games, apps, groups and lists in a left-hand menu, and messages and notifications at the top of every screen.
It is available in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Facebook's iPhone app is the most downloaded iPhone app to date and with mobile usage of the social network rising, its move to tablet devices has been hotly anticipated.
Source: MediaWeek
