Liesl Barrell

Since both my loyal and fickle readers are now demanding a new post, and since my Vote for iStock Comedy post received the most hits of any page on my blog, I thought I’d give the people what they want and serialize iStock Comedy. At the end of every month, I will bring you three [...]

The fight for funding to superimpose the digital paradign onto print continues! Mitch Joel, of Montreal marketing agency Twist Image, unleashed this gem on his blog. This time the offenders are at Stanford, where they are mapping out communications between 18th century writers (presumably in a bid to convince Voltaire to join Twitter posthumously) using very pretty colours, delivering epic [...]

By now, even if you live alone on a small unnetworked island in the Caribbean, you’ve probably heard about yesterday’s breast cancer social marketing campaign that had women (and a few men, thanks lads!) posting the colour of their bra (or in some cases, the lack thereof). Millions whimsically played along, while a few detractors [...]

One of the only good things about being stuck in two airports and a plane this holiday season, was that I got to read the current issue of Wired cover to cover in one sitting (in addition to completing many crosswords, notes on my content plan for this blog, listening to music, and staring intently [...]