The Third & The Seventh

Just about the best CG you could hope to see. Highly recommend viewing this in HD over on Vimeo.

383 Christmas Album..the winners are…

As you’ll hopefully know, throughout December we ran a little 383 Project Christmas competition. The challenge was for people to submit quirky photos of ‘383s’ that they’d either found or created. There were some great entries which can all be seen in the Flickr gallery below. But, as promised, winners had to be picked and so here they are:

1st Prize is a Flip Mino HD Camera. This is going to James Griffin for his submission below. We liked the carefully considered collection of Muji Pens (+1) Classic design portfolio angled photography cutting mat (+1) and surreptitious Apple product placement (+1). Well done James!

2nd Prize is the Holga 35mm kit. This is going to Topaz23 on Flickr (real name tbc!) for her photo taken on Hove seafront. Clearly the best beach hut to choose!

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition – click play below to see all the shots. You made our December really fun!

Happy New Year – there goes 10 years

Happy New Year from everyone at 383 Project. We hope all our clients, friends and followers had a great Christmas. We’re looking forward to another busy year during 2010 with lots of new work and fun things in the pipeline over the coming months. To kick the year off here’s a great infographic which has been working its way round the web of what happened in the last decade. Click to view it at its full size for maximum enjoyment!

One Mile of Style TV Campaign

Further to our last post on making the Style Birmingham Christmas TV commercial we wanted to post the final version up here on the blog and give a little more information about the campaign as a whole. Hopefully, you may by now have seen the spot which airs on ITV and Channel 4 throughout December. If not, there’s still a few days to catch it (or of course you can just click play on the video above!).

The campaign as a whole this year was developed to try and encourage shoppers to explore more of what Birmingham has to offer at Christmas. We recognised that many shoppers miss some of the highlights in the city, either due to time constraints, or not knowing where to look. As such, the ‘One Mile of Style’ campaign was developed to encourage visitors not only to ’shop’, but also to explore and experience other Christmas highlights in the city.

The concept behind the ad was developed in conjunction with the lovely guys at Fullrange and aimed to promote the mile and drive people through to stylebirmingham.com (which it’s been doing very well!). On the site, potential visitors can then explore an interactive ‘One Mile’ map and print off a synopsis of information about travel, independent retail, in-store promotions and festive fun, to take with them when they visit.

In addition, a number of users have been using the new dayplanner feature to generate personalised shopping routes and recommendations based on their age, brand habits and wish lists.

If you’re watching Dick Tracy, The Bill, Big Bang Theory or Deal or no Deal today then you may just catch it!

383 Christmas Album – win a Flip!

It’s that time of year when everything gets a bit Christmasssy at 383 Project and as such we wanted to share a new competition – the 383 Christmas album.

The premise is simple- find or create an interesting photo of a ‘383′, add a message and send it through to us. There’s more details of how to enter on the site.

In the new year we’ll pick a winner and runner up to receive a Flip Mino HD camera and Holga 35mm camera respectively.

There have already been some great submissions, so get going…