Retro Digital

I’m loving these retro social media posters! Made by Brazilian agencies MaxiMídia and Moma Propaganda, they look cool and quirky. I imagine there’s also the message about how mind-bogglingly fast times change and the need to have a top notch agency to stay on top of things. There are 4 posters – about Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Skype – that are all downloadable via a dedicated campaign site.

This is a nice little agency viral that people can share online and possibly offline too, in Brazil, with real posters and postcards. It shows a bit of character and must be a good conversation starter at client meetings. I think it’s also not a bad link bait idea either, although in fact the micro site has only just over 100 backlinks. I still think it’s an excellent idea for all the above reasons, maybe it just needed a harder push at launch.

Google also had a couple of retro posters made to celebrate Google Chrome’s second birthday. It comes alongside themes for both the browser and Orkut, all done by designer Mike Lemanski. I like them too – I like work that is commissioned with no ROI in mind, just a bit of fun. Mike’s website is full of such project, do have a browse.

Chrome Experiments

If you’ve got a bit of time on your hands, then fire up your Google Chrome browser and head for the Chrome Experiments website. There’s a collection of highly impressive and deeply entertaining JavaScript games which show off the browser’s mighty capabilities. They are, to quote the Google geeks themselves, “awesome”, “the cat’s meow” and “not your mother’s JavaScript”. Curious? Then check out the website. Google Gravity experiment screenshot below.