Cupcakes & Couture

The very awesome Burberry Kisses campaign debuts today, 15 minutes ago to be exact! It is part of Google’s Art, Copy & Code initiative, which aims to humanise technology through emotive digital experiences… love thy technology today is more like it!

This particular initiative uses a new technology that allows users to capture and send a kiss to anyone in the world, using only their phone or web cam. What this nifty little piece of tech does is take the lip contact from your real life kiss and transfers it into a digital kiss print (think thumb-print, but for your lips!) This then gets sealed in a digital letter for you to send to anyone, anywhere in the world! A-MA-ZING!

“Burberry Kisses began with the idea of giving technology a bit of heart and soul, and using it to unite the Burberry family across the world - by telling a story that makes the digital personal,” explains Burberry chief creative officer Christopher Bailey. “We’re constantly thinking about how we translate the emotion of what we create and experience in the real world into the digital space, whether that’s capturing the energy and excitement of a live gig, the hum and buzz of anticipation before a runway show, or just the feeling you get when you pull on your trench coat on a rainy morning.”

Fret not pretties the process is not complicated at all, head on over to [kisses.burberry.com(kisses.burberry.com), plant a kiss on your phone screen and watch it transform into a digital kiss print. You then have the option to select the shade of lipstick for your lips (from Burberry’s latest beauty collection, obvsies) to someone you love. Once sent, watch as your kiss is transported from wherever you are in the world, to wherever in the world you recipient is, through 3D city skylines, using Google Earth technologies, eventually landing in your loves’ inbox. There is even a clever, interactive map which allows you to view and track all the Burberry Kisses being delivered across the world!

Have fun now see!

Empty Frame presents “Dirty land” by Gustavo Bockos aka Vokos, an art Director, Designer and illustrator based in São Paulo, Brazil. “Dirty Land” is an experimental contemporary pop culture exhibition.

Through mixed-media posters, adult content and known Disney characters. What was Walt Disney all about…? Vokos was curious about what happened in Walt Disney’s mind and this exhibition unpacks the whole journey!

After reading many lectures about Walt Disney’s secret messages in his classical movies, Vokos wanted to show what could be behind an adult mind.

You know him! We all love him! Marc Jacobs is now stamping his brand all over Diet Coke as their new Creative Director!! (Queue squeeling girls)

In the ad, you see a sex-ified Joacobs strip down for a photo booth camera and the girls go nuts… of course! You will see Jacobs’ signature prints splashed across the Broadway-themed cans. Having him back the sugary, carbonated drink, somehow seems to have brought the sexy back to the drink doesn’t it?

Well knock me over with a feather, just when I thought I’d seen it all - modelling grandpa came along!

A young Chinese girl had trouble finding a model for her online shop that targets mainly teenage girls. Stressed and needing a model urgently grandpa stepped up and became the model for her pictures (cause you know that’s what grandpa’s do). This good-deed of his has made him an internet celebrity in China. I fear this may start a new craze of seeing grandpa’s in teenage-girls’ clothes catalogues soon!