#make day

No matter what you choose to do, the most important thing is to make this Valentine's Day special for you and your loved one. Whether you choose to explore haunted places, take a romantic getaway, or simply spend a quiet night at home, the important thing is to celebrate your love and make memories that will last a lifetime.

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Make This Valentine's Day Unforgettable

At Unsplash, we’re big believers in the idea that everyone is creative.

Given a chance, anyone can create something beautiful and meaningful.

On the first Friday of every month (starting this Friday, November 6th), we’re encouraging everyone to get out (or stay in!) and make something!

.@FringeFocus Gives Us An Anti-Spy Device That's Infinitely Better Than ANYTHING We Got From The Backs Of Comic Books When We Were Growing Up

Remember reading comics as a kid and then in the middle or back of the book there were adds where you could buy sea horses, x-ray specs, or even get a book by Charles Atlas that stated, “Let me PROVE I can make you a new man!”  Well all of those things were awesome on the printed page but when you actually got them….they were lack luster at best.

The glasses DIDN’T let you see through girls…

R/GA London is about to hold its second annual 'make day', when everyone downs tools on client projects and spends the day making stuff for fun.  

Last year's projects were hugely varied - from an app that works out whose turn it is to make tea, to a facial recognition system that checks you in and out of the building.

I worked on the Happiness Project.

Our aim? To build a machine that would make people happy. 

We did some research into happiness triggers.  And then we scavenged, bought, borrowed and stole things to create an immerse setting for our 'machine'.

So what did we build?

A white fabric cube containing a rocking chair, a cardboard box, a seashell, a small toy globe and a plastic windmill of the kind you get at the seaside. A big screen displayed a 3D world of bubbles and butterflies.

What should you do? Well, this is where we realised that our machine wasn't designed for a 2 minute demo.  We wanted people to take their time - to touch and squeeze and shake and blow the things we'd laid out for them.

Our volunteer demonstrator was delighted by the sound of Bobby McFerrin playing through a seashell when he held it to his ear.

And when prompted he loved the teddy bear in the box who turned the world from night to day when you cuddled him.

But he never got to try blowing the windmill to see bubbles scudding across the screen.  Or turning the globe to explore more of the beautiful 3D world we'd created on screen. 

Alas, we didn't win the trophy

But what we learnt, is that thinking about what will make people happy, makes you happy.  And that 36 hours of working out how to wire up teddy bears and globes and windmills is not time wasted.

R/GA London: Make Day

Really nice video from R/GA. I think most digital/interactive agencies try and encourage this behavior. But it's rare that they'll be able to make the time for their staff to have a crack at it.

Long live Make Day...