The devil’s in the detail – or so they say.

This certainly holds true for design.

Something may look amazing, but if one small element is out of step with the overall mission, it will fail from a design point of view.

No matter how well designed an environment may appear – a living space, office, meeting room, exhibition environment – if your chair, for example, is uncomfortable, it will leave you with a negative feeling, undermining everything else.

Designing or choosing the right chair that fits not just visually, but also functionally is the essence of good design. With 140 sales staff holding hundreds of meetings over three days at global entertainment market MIPCOM in October, a key part of designing the BBC’s live experience at the event was testing furniture with the team on the ground for the comfort factor.

All in all, Super Bowl 50 was probably not the best year for creative, but one campaign stood out head and shoulders above the mass of mediocrity.

The annual sporting extravaganza yet again served up some of the highest budget campaigns of the year, with brands vying to compete for the attention of a worldwide audience. Overall, humour and celebrities were the core themes of the day, but despite brands forking out a record $5 million for a 30-second spot at the big game, the quality of creative left a lot to be desired.

While various companies had their own scoring systems – from social buzz to video virality and brand sentiment – there was one ad in particular that beat its rivals by capturing a key marketing quality that stands for something much bigger in the long-term – and it was the ad that most resonated with me.

It's hard to believe that Twitter's short form video sharing platform Vine has been around for three years now. It was one of the first platforms that paved the way for the new era of snackable video content giving brands new and creative ways to share content.  

To mark the occasion, Vine has selected 10 of the moment memorable six second clips from brands in the UK throughout 2015. Fancy a bit of inspiration? Then check them out below: 

Walkers - #BackToTheFuture 

On January 12th, 2016 Jacob Kangholz was found dead on one of the main streets in Denmark. Hundreds of people passed by without noticing. Jacob was homeless. And invisible.  

Homeless organisation 'Hus Forbi' is a monthly Danish newspaper about homelessness. It is sold on the streets of Denmark by homeless people, to help them earn money. 

In light of Jacob's discovery and in an effort to create awareness of the heart-breaking fact that people ignore the homeless, Hus Forbi partnered with Danish advertising agency Hjaltelin Stahl to create a fake movie trailer that aired at cinemas in the hope that people would stand up and take notice. 

The trailer is supported by a website that only becomes visible once the viewer shares the film. 

Watch the full trailer below:

Hus Forbi - The Invisible Man from THE WŒRKS on Vimeo.

Land Rover has partnered with Lumiere London, the UK capital’s largest ever light festival, to celebrate the Great British Outdoors as part of its annual Hibernot seasonal campaign.

Produced by arts charity Artichoke, the campaign sees a series of five handmade large-scale specially lit ‘Private View’ frames positioned in front of key London landmarks at locations including Leicester Square, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly and King’s Cross.

“Galleries are overwhelmingly visual. But people are not – the brain understands the world by combining what it receives from all five senses. So can taste, touch, smell and sound change the way we ‘see’ art?”

This was the question that prompted the creation and launch of the Tate Sensorium – an award-winning small but beautifully formed installation that has been receiving great reviews and proved so popular that it was extended until October this year.

It featured four famous paintings, but rather than simply letting visitors view them, it built a sensory experience around each one encompassing smell, taste and touch inspired by the art. The result was a far more immersive experience than you would get in any traditional gallery. This enabled people to make a deeper connection with the paintings and get a better understanding of each one.

Christmas ads have become a bit of an event in themselves. No longer do consumers wait for the Coca Cola Christmas truck to grace their screens to mark the official start of Christmas, but a host of other brands have earnt themselves a bit of a name in bringing in the festive season. And this year has served up quite a few Christmas crackers.

Check out our pick of the top 7 festive ad offerings of 2015 so far…

‘Man on the Moon’

Brand: John Lewis
Agency: Adam&Eve/DDB
No of video views: 13,391,765*

One of the most eagerly anticipated Christmas ads of the year, British retailer John Lewis tells the story of a young girl determined to bring Christmas to a lonely old man living on the moon.

As the saying goes: “If you spoke to people the way advertising does, they’d punch you in the face.” Today, it is necessary to communicate with people like they’re people, not treat them as if they’re machines made up of consumer data. Even more important is to understand that consumers are in control of your brand. Brand success today is about interacting with your customers to address joint needs. Finding out the challenges your audience faces and making sure your business answers those needs with the products and services it develops is key.

Therefore, it makes sense to build participation or ‘co-creation engagement’ into events so you can collect relevant customer information that can be used to drive innovation within your business that solves real customer problems.

A double win

Events offer the perfect co-creation engagement platform, where customers can personalise their experience through being able to give feedback about their needs and challenges. This can significantly increase the return you get from your live marketing.

It is a double win because not only does co-creation lead to the development of relevant products and services that your customers want, but it also delivers your field research, as you gain a deep understanding of the customer’s state of mind and their decision-making process for purchasing your goods.