(TrendHunter.com) You tell me a kitchen can’t be sensual. Look at those curves, that red, wowsa. The Domina kitchen by Aster Cucine is designed strictly to appeal to women. The fluid design controls the space in a feminine way. No more confining feeling from straight line boxes. It looks retro with the brilliant lacq…
(TrendHunter.com) Great news for us clumsy/ lazy people and for the environment as well. With the help of nanotechnology, self cleaning forms of wool and silk have been developed. The technology used is a nano particle coating, similar to the one already used to keep windows clear, that could lead to “self-cleaning” …
(TrendHunter.com) Funny comedian Will Ferrell teams up with Supermodel Heidi Klum for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. If you’re wondering why Ferrell is in the SI shoot; it is to promote his new film, ‘Semi-Pro’. Ferrell plays 1970’s basketball team owner/coach/player, Jackie Moon. The SI shoot has a naughty…
(TrendHunter.com) Appendix blows – nearest emergency room, no stopping, no shopping. Need an ugly mole removed. Need to shop around for best price because I’ll be footing the bill. Impossible task to compare medical procedures? There is a new website that is trying to make it easier to do just that. Carol.com is laun…
Graphic Design on the Radio was a series of one-hour radio shows broadcast in the summer of 2007. Luckily for you it’s now available online (gasp!).
Featuring: Jonathan Barnbrook, Neville Brody, Malcolm Garrett, Michael C Place, Fred Deakin, Vaughn Oliver, Rick Poynor and Angus Hyland.
Professional Enlightenment Here
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(TrendHunter.com) There’s just something about chocolate tiles that fascinates people. We’ve seen two computers with chocolate keys, and now Mary and Matt have created Chocolate Scrabble to let you have fun eating your own words!
The dark chocolate candy bar can be broken into the designated mini squares, each with…
(TrendHunter.com) You have to see the video to appreciate it. This is the dream of college students or anyone who moves frequently. Casulo has won the “Abraham & David Roentgen Award” and by right it should. The box contains a desk, bed, shelves, dresser, desk chair, boxes, hangers and other furniture pieces.
The C…
(TrendHunter.com) The mean green electric two seater charges from zero to 60 mph in 5.7 seconds, its two in-wheel motors produce 320 horsepower. It goes a top speed of 156 mph, and could be yours as soon as next year.
ZAP (Zero Air Pollution) is working with Lotus Engineering on the Alias, which is not only faster …
(TrendHunter.com) Liked the idea of biology lessons but just could not get to grips with the frog dissection part of it, well computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have come up with the world’s first virtual reality frog dissection software. Now you can avoid all the moral and ethical questions live dissec…
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Having watched rival Miller Brewing Co. take its fledgling, lime-and-salt flavored Miller Chill brand national last year, Anheuser-Busch is launching a lime-flavored version of flagship Bud Light.
What have you been doing this past decade? Pepsi has done nothing to add to their brand. Until now, the launch of Pepsi Raw that is. The “healthy” soda is made from all natural ingredients. (Aren’t sugar and water natural ingredients?)
Pepsi says using corn syrup is better. The drink, designed by …
(TrendHunter.com) What have you been doing this past decade? Pepsi has done nothing to add to their brand. Until now, the launch of Pepsi Raw that is. The “healthy” soda is made from all natural ingredients. (Aren’t sugar and water natural ingredients?)
Pepsi says using corn syrup is better. The drink, designed by …
Dallas-based Moroch Partners is breaking a new a print, broadcast and online campaign for The Travel Channel. Promoting “Bizarre Foods” with Andrew Zimmern, the print and broadcast campaigns showcase some of the bizarre cuisine that Zimmern samples on his show and inserts them into everyday situations. Which partially explains the “Baked Tarantula” ad above.
AP: A new study shows people’s spending judgment goes out the window when they’re down, especially if they’re a bit self-absorbed. Study participants who watched a sadness-inducing video clip offered to pay nearly four times as much money to buy a water bottle than a group that watched an emotionally neutral clip. (via Neuromarketing)
From the “Misery is not Miserly: Sad and Self-Focused Individuals Spend More” paper: The present findings do, however, allow more than one explanation for the link among sadness, self-focus, and spending. Our working model proposes that sad and self-focused individuals spend more on commodities because they seek self-enhancement. Another possible model is that sad and self-focused individuals experience reduced self-value or sense of entitlement, and therefore value other things more by contrast.” (site, pdf)
For those of us living out on the bleeding edge of social media, Facebook is so 2007. But that’s not true for millions of our less-hyperlinked peers.
Take Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times, for instance. She has a new Facebook profile, but she’s not happy about it.
That journalists have to put themselves in this virtual marketplace makes me a little sad. It just seems phony.
It feels like we are scuffling Baby Boomers trying to keep up with Generations X, Y and Z.
I’m still one of those people who looks a person in the eye when I’m talking. Really, it irks me to no end to have a conversation with someone who is fiddling with his or her BlackBerry.
The truth is, we should savor the moment we feel a connection with someone that leads to a genuine friendship.
Those moments don’t come around too often.
Frankly, what I’ve learned over the years is that a couple of true friends can help you get through anything.
It won’t be easy jumping into this new world of make-believe.
(TrendHunter.com) You know no one would swipe a walkman these days (unless they were hitting up an ’90s costume party and needed the prop), but iPod theft is incredibly high. That’s precisely why we love this great idea to use an old, portable cassette player as a case to hide your favourite MP3 player.
Just make su…
According to Adweek, Omnicom–the world’s largest advertising holding company, with BBDO, DDB, TBWA, OMD and PHD, among others on the roster–is making good money.
Omnicom’s fourth-quarter net income rose more than 13 percent to $314 million on a 12.7 percent increase in revenue to $3.62 billion, compared to the same period a year ago.
CEO John Wren during a conference call with analysts said clients were “a little bit nervous about the economy” but noted that no “major or serious cutbacks in spending” have been made thus far.
The posse at Trial DDB in Dallas did this ad for TRUTH, an anti tobacco group. “Remove one” it says. Your choice, which one? Hmm?
Creds go to ECD Brian Darby CD Jeff Bagley AD Steve Laing and copywriter Kim Frandsen.
The avalanche of response and debate last week in the wake of Tiffany Warren's post about the travails of black creative talent really struck an emotional chord with many. Adding some historical perspective on African Americans in the advertising industry is the release of a new book by Jason Chambers during Black History Month that seems like perfect timing.
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