So it’s Wimbledon time again, and as regular readers of the blog will know, as I live just down the road from the epicentre of the madness, so each year I take an extra interest in the promotional activities being undertaken.

No fancy tennis typography at the tube station this year, just a very pedestrian FedEx branding and contrived sentence (‘Live to deliver’ – Really?) accompanies the traditional grass carpet on the platform, but I did come across this from one of my favourite design companies, hat-trick. They’ve only gone and redone the Wimbledon identity…

…what I wouldn’t have given for that job! And as usual they’ve done something lovely with it.

Also Sony have reshot their famous Bravia balls ad in SW19 with, yes, you’ve guessed it – tennis balls. Apparently it’s to do with it all being filmed this year in fancy 3D-o-vision. Anyway, it’s nice, and somewhat weird to see the balls cascading down the streets in my neighbourhood.

So if you follow me on Twitter, prepare for a fortnight of cranky tourist-frustration tweets, and if you’re travelling to the tournament on the tube in rush hour, expect to encounter my tennis elbow.

I’d love one of these iPod cases. As usual, you can’t buy them, but it can’t be too hard to make one – first stop eBay. Shame to break such a lovely retro Walkman though…

Via ffffound, which came via ipodhacks, which came from apple-touch, which came from gearfuse, which came from dvice, which came from gadgetvenue, which seems to have come from sirljohn’s flickr stream. Thought I’d post all the links, I had to follow the trail to the end, kind of like finding one end of a piece of string…

I got this in a marketing email from Sony the other day, they can obviously smell my desire for a nice new Bravia TV, and also impressively, my obsessive love for the letter R. That must be a bigger demographic than I thought…

I do actually have a few letter Rs littered around my home as it happens…

I’d love to get hold of some really big ones which have fallen off old signs, maybe a BuRgeR King, or WoolwoRths…

OK, so I’ve cracked. I didn’t want to post this but I’m going to. Did you know that Sony Bravia make quite nice TV adverts?

They’re all over the web already, and I can’t imagine anyone out there has missed them, but I thought I’d pull them all together here in one place. Once. Until they do another one of course…

The first one was “Balls” (No, really)

Then came “Paint”

Now it’s “Play Doh”

Check out the Fallon website for more Play Doh info, and you can watch them all in a nifty interface at higher quality on the official site…

Oh, and I also found this one: “Pyramid”, which hasn’t made it over here and has gone under the radar a bit…