Eat the Art

Cheese brand Castello, teamed up with ad agency Duval Guillaume to give New Yorkers the opportunity to taste their cheese in a very original way. A pop-up museum was setup at Grand Central Station, where famous still life paintings that contained images of cheese were reproduced with great precision with existing Castello cheeses. The difference? You could really smell and eat the copied works of art.

Over the course of two days, more than 500,000 visitors enjoyed the unique exhibition and 40,000 people actually tasted the cheese.

Smart Apps

Here are two mobile apps that recently caught my eye…

Audi Start-Stop App

The Audi start-stop system turns off the engine when the car stops at a traffic light and turns it on again when the car starts. Using the same principle Audi along with DDB Spain created an Android app that detects which applications have been open longest without being used and sends an alert to the user to close them. Thus saving battery and making the phone a more efficient tool.

Reborn Apps

Many events create their own smartphone apps. But when the event is over, the apps lose their usefulness and are then hardly used. To give these apps a second life, Duval Guillaume got various Belgium organisations to push out an update which turned their event apps into a registration medium for organ donation.

Amazing mind reader reveals his ‘gift’

Febelfin, the Belgian federation for the financial sector, launched a campaign that urged people in Belgium to be vigilant about what they make available online. To drive home the message they recruited Dave, an extremely gifted clairvoyant who showcased his talent to a random sample of people. Just when the people started to believe in his talent, the magic behind the magic was revealed… 😎