Literally talking around the water cooler this morning, the Carpe Diem team discussed the weather. Yes the weather. It’s only June so we shivered at the thought of the peak of winter. As we pondered pessimistically about the cold, our Danish resident here at Carpe Diem, reminded us all that winter has its perks as long as you know how to do winter like the Europeans. One such perk is mulled wine.
2UE, the Scandinavian Tourist Board, Scandinavian Airlines and MyPlanet, the Scandinavian travel experts are giving away a fantastic holiday for two people to experience the land famous for the midnight sun, Vikings, fjords, classic design culture and bustling modern city life.
As a lover of all things old school and a sucker for bright colours, Carpe Diem was more than excited to hear about Lego’s collaboration with Digital Blue to make Lego inspired MP3 players, cameras, alarm clocks, walkie talkies and boom boxes.
Interesting stimulus initiative from the French Government in support of the ailing newspaper industry.
The French government is to give all 18 to 24-year-olds a free newspaper once a week for a year as part of 600 million euro aid package for the press. The concept was originally outlined in January, when the government announced its plan [...]
After the famous movie festival in May, the 56th international advertising festival is underway in Cannes from 21-27 June, the largest gathering of worldwide advertising professionals and advertisers.
Thousands of ads are showcased and judged and winning companies receive a Lion trophy honouring the most creative campaigns in 11 categories - film, media, press, [...]
100% Norway 2009 media release
100% Norway 2009 will showcase the best new works of both established and up-and-coming designers from Norway, and feature a number of the country’s leading manufacturers during this year’s London Design Festival.
Now in its sixth year, the annual 100% Norway exhibition returns to the London Design Festival with a mission to [...]
A bag of “candy” all the way from Denmark floated around the office today and has split the Carpe Diem team into two camps: lovers and haters. The controversial candy, called salt lakrid, tastes as good as it sounds (clearly I’m in the latter camp).
Thank God it’s Friday! Right? Wrong. According to Friday’s Project, a Spanish fashion chain store, the Friday philosophy should be set free and extended to every day, “Until now, the good things started on Fridays, but enough of reserving positive energy. Good things start here and now.”
There is an air of silent longing in the Carpe Diem Office today as one of the team stumbles over the H&M summer collection. Firstly, because we’re basking in the sunshine of artificial heaters and secondly, because Australia seems to be sadly out of the loop of a not-so-secret, secret.
Aside from having the cutest marketing collateral ever, the 56th Sydney Film Festival opens tomorrow boasting three of its 12 competition films direct from the Cannes Film Festival, Europe’s premier film event.
Altiplano (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands), Face (France, Taiwan) and the opening night’s Looking for Eric (Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom) will all be in the [...]