It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything substantial to the Atomic Blog. That’s mostly down to us just being too dam busy, recently launching 10 websites for Begbies Traynor and 3 site overhauls for Interior Plantscapes, Streetfighter Motorcycles and Lifestyle Blinds.

Not to mention we’ve been growing rapidly recently. In less than 2 months we’ve grown from 18 staff to 26 and more than doubled our studio space to cope with all the new bodies. If you’re interested in working for Atomic, make sure you’re registered on our recruitment mailing list. Watch this space!

Shown below is the Yulong River in Gulin, China – somewhere I’m particularly keen to visit!

Panoramas.dk have put together a collection of amazing QTVR panoramas of the seven wonders.

Hans Nyberg, A Danish commercial photographer comments, “My intention with this site is to make immersive panoramic images also called VR Photography more known among the general public.

Interactive panoramas is a young media and as such it has for many years been known among enthusiastic photographers and multimedia creators. An interactive VR panorama can not be seen in a book or on a printed image. If you print the panorama it gets a completely different expression.”

If you know of any other amazing travel photography sites like this, please share them with us in the comments.

Being a huge fan of LEGO myself – this is probably the most impressive work of art I’ve seen created entirely with LEGO!

Escher in LEGO

The original sketch by Escher
Built by Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu, read how they built it here.

The official M.C. Escher website.

Have you seen any other LEGO art? Post it here!

We’re recruiting again… Graphic Designer Required

Atomic Design Ltd have an immediate requirement for a print designer / art-worker! Please see our vacancies page for more info…

Closing date for applications is 28/09/07.

This ad made us chuckle while watching BigBrother on Friday night….

Cadbury’s have just launched a £6.2m campaign for Dairy Milk featuring a gorilla playing the drum solo of Phil Collins’ track ‘In the Air Tonight’. The ad was written and directed by Sony Bravia ‘balls’ creative director Juan Cabral of Fallon London. Rather than wet our appeite for gorgeous tasting chocolate, the ad simply aims to entertain.

Laurence Green, planning director of Fallon, “Cadbury traditionally did well-built ads for the interruption age when consumers had an implicit media deal with advertisers. In exchange for free TV they would allow us to interrupt their programmes with commercials,” says Green. “The nation has a massive soft spot for CDM and it is deeply embedded in the national psyche. For a brand that is so well known, it’s arguable whether the old style interruption advertising model is the best model for the future. So we are trying to engage more genuinely with our audience.”

“Chocolate is about joy and pleasure. For years Cadbury has told us that it was generous, through the glass and a half strap line. We thought, don’t tell us how generous you are; show us. Don’t tell us about joy; show us joy.”

See the ad again in full here: Glass and a Half Full Productions

Personally, I think the ad works. Some might say the ad’s a risk due to the lack of product or even mention of the C word. Something that makes you smile so effortlessly is contagious. What do you think?

http://www.skydeckcartoons.com

Here’s a novel idea for your next ad campaign – advertise on loo roll!

Justtoiletpaper.com offer custom printing for your paper – available in all colours including brown
The possibilities are endless!

[insert inappropriate pun here]

If you’re not using these techniques for your online marketing yet, you’re increasingly missing out on an advertising revolution.

© Pavel Losevsky – Fotolia.com

Here’s a collection of useful articles I’ve found while researching the subject:

Social Networking, Blogging and Web 2.0

Marketers Start to Use Social Networks for CRM Instead of Ads
Real Promise of MySpace, Facebook Lies in Potential to Help Nurture Consumer Relationships — but How?

Blog It and They May Come
Small businesses find blogging can be useful — but awfully time consuming

How To Run A Corporate Blog
…offers a few tips on how to blog for your company without spilling secrets, getting fired, or putting your readers to sleep.

Web 2.0′s Top 1,000 List!
Everything Web 2.0

The top 150 marketing and advertising blogs
A dynamic directory of sites scored via social bookmarking sites

Publishing 2.0
Daily Blog, the (r)evolution of media, driven by the migration of media to the Web and new digital technologies.

Social Media Marketing Tactics
How to Leverage Web 2.0 & Social Media Sites to Market Your Brand & Control Your Message

101 Link Building Tips to Market Your Website
Link Building… Time-intensive. Frustrating. Sometimes confusing. Yet Unavoidable. Because ultimately, it’s still the trump card for higher rankings.

How to Get 6,312 Subscribers to Your Business Blog in One Day
A short but good-practice case study

The Top 10 Things You Should Know Before You Blog
Best practice blogging

10 Articles All Bloggers Should Read (at least once)
A great source of inspiration

Branding

Last but certainly not least – don’t forget your Corporate Branding!

The importance of Branding
Why you should take your branding seriously

Your feedback
There must be some great links I’ve missed here – if you know of any unique resources for marketing via Social Networking, why not share them here!

Alternatively, if you’ve found this resource useful and have had success using some of these techniques, please do share your experience.

If you’ve ever had problems scaling or cropping images to multiple format and work spaces, this will amaze you!

“The basic idea is that if you want to stretch out an image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. The same goes for shrinking an image – it will eliminate the less important features of an image and leave the main subject areas intact and in the same relative location as they previously appeared in the image.”

More information about Dr. Ariel Shamir and his research.

I can’t see this anywhere online to buy yet but you can imagine it would make a great plug-in for Adobe Photoshop!

Well, for the next five minutes anyway. Who would have thought that a portable CD player could have looked so cool! This is a definite contender for the iPOD!

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