By Nick Salter, Junior Strategist

Our weekly round-up of the things that inspired us, challenged our thinking or left us with a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Branded for life
An interesting article detailing “skinvertising”, where BuzzFeed takes a ‘where are they now’ look at the human billboards of the dotcom boom era.

Ballmer discusses Surface pricing and Microsoft as a devices-and-services company
Steve Ballmer throws down the gauntlet and mentions coyly “you’ll probably think of us more as a devices-and-services company”. Microsoft looks set on moving into the future with some hardware manufacturing under their belt in a massive change from their software roots; it’s looking like Microsoft is set to step up to Apple’s game.

Plot-oon
A fantastically put together stop-motion video by Chris Butcher using toy soldiers and flower buds.