Flickr HP cube
Today it’s a grey november Sunday. One of those days when you wonder whether it’d be better to be drinking some hot chocolate in front of the fireplace rather than being in front of the PC with cold hands. When you realize that:
a) you’ve no chocolate
b) you’ve no fireplace
c) the will to work has taken a day off…
you start doing some gardening on your website (this morning I got around updating my portfolio page that had been waiting for it almost a year) and then you hit the blogs, msn and flickr just to “while away the time of day”
After this long (and boring) intro let’s move to the main course. On flickr, bored of looking at my own pictures (shameless plug), I go to the home page to see what my contact have posted lately. And there I discover this intelligent marketing tool that also provides half an hour of simple fun.

(hint: heavy paper and pay attention when bending the sides)
The intelligence of the marketing is, for me, in the fact that HP gives you something for free (at not cost for them except the creation and hosting of their app) and in return they expose you to their brand while also providing some fun. So the positive message is reinforced by the activity… while you are cutting the paper sheet to assemble the cube the HP logo is constantly in front of your eyes.
How does it work? As I said, it’s pretty simple: choose 5 pics from your Flickr account and the site app prepares a PDF printout of your cube, with assembly instructions. There are some tools to edit the images (rotate, scale and such). Once you have downloaded the PDF you just print, cut and assemble… voilà the photocube is ready


