See the nicely decorated venue below and spot the visual identity of two overlapping ripples, created by Pim Van Nunen at Publicis Mojo, proud  supporters of Advance.

Advance at Town Hall

It was indeed a humbling experience to see so many highly successful and at the same time giving and community-minded Australians up on stage. Many of the prize winners had foreign-born parents, some of which proudly accepted the prizes on behalf of their children working overseas. No surprise for such a young and immigration-oriented country, their backgrounds ranged from Holland, Denmark and Germany to Vietnam and Malaysia. See their new website and winners here.

Dr. Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Jeremy Heimans

The new Advance logo on an 'idea bulb'

Red Washington

with this work by Ogilvy Thailand for a ‘best exchange rate in town’ ad. I reckon one could easily mistake the second for a political ad as well.

Fat Lizzie

The cheat sheet is here by the way.

But it also signals the beginning of spring, and for us at Holler it meant a fresh idea for how to best transfer a horse race onto facebook.

Greatest Cup Never Run on facebook

Check out Boag’s Draught’s “Greatest Cup Never Run” and click on Photofinish. Here you can Like any of the 24 best horses of all time. Besides engaging with other horse experts on the walls of Longfacebook, you will see how their race for some facebook love pans out. Currently the top two, legendary horses Makybe Diva and Phar Lap, are separated by nothing more than a single Like.

Greatest Cup Never Run - Longfacebook

But this one really flattened me (in the wrong kind of way).

DM floss

Here is Mike dressed in Baggy Gold showing off to the rest of Holler, fine skill and posture indeed.

A few moments later quiet little Bellevue Street served as the real battleground. Mike’s batting and bowling started to shine. Firstly, knocking it for six onto a neighbour’s balcony and secondly, making Ian look very English by bowling him out straight away.

Photo by Squeaky Wheel

Have a read here (via valleywag) and if you are in the mood for switching jobs, why not take a leaf out of Stew’s book? If you are geekily inclined then why not write it in PHP as one commentator suggested:

$me = new Employee();
$me->setStatus(Employee::$resign);
throw EmployeeException(“f*** you, f*** you, you’re cool, f*** you… I’m outta here”);

And if you have recently joined, why not give a belated acceptance speech? To be performed in full costume near the watercooler/server room/game console. That should set your new colleague’s expectations right.