Virtual Redcar

How do you sell a place to live when it looks like a dump? Simple. Pretend it's something else.

That's what the council in Redcar, Teesside, have done. They're hoping that by turning the real estate to 'unreal' estate they can attract desperately-needed business investment to an area devastated by the recession.

So now alongside genuine stores, there's a virtual restaurant, bookshop, gift shop and two fashion stores. This is part of an £80million regeneration plan, that's "attracted plenty of interest" and given people "a flavour of the kind of businesses which could be set up."

Here's all the pics I could find.

Casually throw a panda in there. 

And even a house. 

Raise The Flag

Having watched England vs Mexico on Monday night I saw a great idea at Wembley I wanted to find out about more about it.

So what was it? 90,000 t-shirts that looked like this

And the idea: A t-shirt on every one of Wembley's seats to create two huge St George Cross's, lasting not just the 90 seconds of 'God Save the Queen' but the entire 90 minutes of the game.

I absolutely loved the idea created by an initiative called 'Raise The Flag". Here's just a couple of pictures, but you can find the whole set here.

Incidentally, they did this back in 2006, at Old Trafford, at England's last home game before the World Cup, but just used plastic pieces. It's amazing what a difference a t-shirt makes.

Coca Cola sticky bus shelter

This is really cool. Simple but effective as hell. More more more... but don't just copy :)