“Making Future Magic” is an exploration of the future of media conducted by creative communications agency Dentsu London in collaboration with R&D experts Berg. This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world. The video was a created by using long exposures which captured the iPads movement through space [...]
Category Archives: Innovation
2010.08.01 – 2:17 pm
LIKEaBIKE: Product Innovation at its Finest
About a year ago, we posted a blog article called “Is it a bird? Is it a plane? … No, it’s a 2-year-old on a Kiddimoto”. The article covers the innovative approach that a small family business in Roetgen, Germany took to building children’s bikes with the introduction of LIKEaBIKE. Their theory was that by [...]
2010.06.28 – 2:14 pm
Lights, Camera, Freeze
How clever are we? Well we replaced the word action with the word freeze to get you to read this body copy in an effort to sell you on the benefits of our FREEZE THE MOMENT with Slurpee contest. So it’s safe to say that we’re super clever. But we don’t want all the spotlight. [...]
2009.10.26 – 1:52 pm
Some New Halloween Costume Ideas from Hot Tomali
Halloween is on its way, and we’ve been relentlessly searching the web for some great costume inspiration. So far, we’ve found stuff like transformers. TIE Fighters. Crayons, if you have a horse. iPhones! Glow in the dark stickpeople. Disabled superheroes. Birth. Controversial illegal aliens. And animal cruelty. But what about costumes designed for those in [...]
2009.10.02 – 6:19 pm
A Place to Call Headquarters
On June 15th Hot Tomali officially moved into our own building at 1441 E Pender St. This move was a big step for the little agency that I started in the living room of a one bedroom West End apartment in the summer of 1998. Since then, we’ve upgraded our work spaces a few times [...]
2009.09.28 – 3:17 pm
Patience is a virtue…
Every six months or so I come back to this video and watch it from start to finish two or three times in a row. Not only am I partial to the art form, but also I am fascinated by the amount of patience the artist was able to summon to complete this artistic feat. [...]
2009.09.13 – 12:37 am
William Mercer’s #1 rated city is an architectural blowout
Having recently returned from Barcelona, I found it felt somewhat like a time warp stepping off the plane back onto North American soil. That may sound strange out of context, given that Vancouver is of course a much younger city than Barcelona, but what I mean is that the Barcelona environment feels like 2009, while [...]
2009.09.09 – 6:01 pm
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? … No, it’s a 2-year-old on a Kiddimoto
Learning to ride a bike is one of the most valuable skills a child can learn, helping them master the art of balance, a skill crucial to so many other physical activities and sports. Not to mention there is just something plain magical about riding a bike, what with the wind in your hair, and [...]
2009.04.22 – 10:51 pm
How Hot Tomalians Recognize Earth Day
We are very socially-conscious bunch of people here at Hot Tomali. As a group, we make a concerted effort to reduce waste and recycle and here’s an example of one of our practices that we think more companies need to engage in on a consistent basis. RECYCLING THOSE DAMN STYROFOAM TAKEOUT CONTAINERS! Because we end [...]
2009.03.31 – 3:42 am
Action-Packed Street Team Press Release
Hey Everybody – we just released this press release in anticipation of a unique street team campaign we are executing tomorrow. Read below for the details! Hot Tomali’s Action-Packed Marketing Campaign for Resume Hut Recruits Super Job Candidates If you’re walking around Vancouver and notice some real-life packaged action figures, blame Hot Tomali Communications (www.hottomali.com), [...]
