Office slides are pretty great in real life, too

Those wacky Brits are at it again. This time, the designers of a new office complex in Sheffield have installed a giant slide to whisk employees from the third floor of the building to the first. We suspect they got the idea from that famous Barclaycard ad, posted above, or perhaps from the network of pedestrian vacuum tubes in Futurama's New New York. Regardless, they need a ball pit for the employees to land in at the bottom. And maybe a different model than the one featured in the Daily Telegraph story linked above. I can still see that woman's face when I shut my eyes.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

Published on February 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
Filed under Barclaycard, Europe, Kiefaber

Some waterslides are more fun than others

With a Barclaycard, you zip through life with ease. There you are at the library, picking up some DVDs—then suddenly you're at the supermarket, snagging a banana. At least, this is what BBH London spent a load of money trying to convey in the commercial above. (See the making-of video here.) But jetting around on a waterslide isn't that easy—you never know where you'll end up. This is the theme of the cheeky homage below for U.K. glasses retailer Specsavers. Viciously brandjacked in a month—that's what you get for sending a gawky British actor around Rio in a tube.

—Posted by Jeremy Greenfield

Published on November 18, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0)
Filed under Barclaycard, Europe, Greenfield, Parody