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Keith spotted this chap on the way to work.

Andre spotted this snow foetus from his window. It’s a sign. But of what?

It’s been a long time coming, but a refreshing Christmas break gave us the energy we needed to finish our new website.

It may not look wildly different, but it is. We’ve totally rebuilt it, with a new CMS we call the Flux Capacitor. It’s a highly modified version of WordPress that Sonny and Andy hacked together, and it gives us the perfect combination of editablity, stability and, frankly, cheapness, that we wanted.

The main benefit is that we can now display our work more proudly, with better categorization, bigger images, properly integrated Flash and video. This spurred us to finally write some decent case studies, so you can understand the brief, strategy and results, as well as the creative.

We briefly considered popping a ‘beta’ by our logotype – but betas are so last year. However if you do spot any bugs, please do let us know; we’d be ever so greateful.

In the meantime, please update your RSS feeds, and we look forward to seeing you again soon.

Kellie, one of our digital designers, emails us all links to her favourite digital marketing ’stuff’ of the week every Friday afternoon. Here’s what she rates this week:

Beacon – Installation
A kinetic light installation by Chris O’Shea and Cinimod Studio showing at Lightwave, Science Gallery, Dublin (23 Jan – 20 Feb). Watch the video to see it in action!

Idee – Mutlicolr Search Lab
Search for Flickr photos by colour. It serves no real purpose…but fun!

Barak Obama’s Social Media Toolkit
Lessons of social media from the Obama campaign. WARNING – it’s an 11 page pdf.

Kellie, one of our digital designers, emails us all links to her favourite digital marketing ’stuff’ of the week every Friday afternoon. Here’s what she rates this week:

The Gherkin – 4030 Experience site
View the fullscreen site to explore the restaurant at the top of 30 St. Mary’s Axe and see views you that would otherwise be reserved to members.

lastminute.com – nru phone app
nru is a new G1 Android app from lastminute.com. It uses the the GPS and compass to give you information such as nearby restaurants.

Magic socket – slot car racing
Magic socket is a flash agency in Italy, but the part I’m interested in is clicking on ‘race now’ and playing slot cars around their site!