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If you’re currently growing up in New York City, you can get a big head start on a career in advertising.

In the mold of Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music and the Arts, starting next fall there will be a new public high school in Brooklyn for those interested in pursuing careers in advertising.

According to Ad Age:

The New York City Department of Education has approved the High School for Innovation in Advertising and Media. It will be located on the campus of Canarsie High School in Brooklyn and is expected to be up and running by September 2008.

Organizers hope the school will hook young minorities on a career in advertising, which has long been criticized for its lack of diversity.

I was 29 when I figured out I wanted a career in advertising. But if I was 15 and living in the future in Brooklyn, I’d want to go to this school. Then I could skip college, polish my book at Miami Ad School, get hired by a shop in Amsterdam (where Lions roam free) and eventually head to London for the money.

This is how you solve a problem artistically. Instead of banning chewing gum (hello Singapore, 1992-2004), Hubba Bubba collaborated with DDB advertising, Sydney to tackle the problem of chewing gum on the streets by putting up fun, interactive “chew by number” posters that use different flavours of …

(TrendHunter.com) It’s surprising the crowd surrounding this peculiar urban aquarium installation isn’t bigger. The fish tank, designed by Benedetto Bufalino, was installed inside a phone booth in Lyon, France.

It’s fascinating by day, but at night when darkness sets it, the obscurity it adds to the streets is surre…

(TrendHunter.com) If you live in a place with a high possibility of being submerged under water and frequent floods, it only make sense to move away from conventional architecture and design when it comes to home building. Rather you would need something that would be able to withstand this force or nature, so why n…

(TrendHunter.com) Due to the popularity of virtual clubbing sites like the hip party venues in Second Life or sites like Virtual Ibiza, MTV has launched their own version to allow party lovers to enjoy their favourite night activities at any time, from the comfort of their computer chairs.

The coolest part about Vi…

Urban Outfitters is making use of the Yahoo-owned photo sharing website, Flickr in an attempt to encourage brand interaction.

The Urban Outfitters Flickr Pool lets the public upload photos of anything related to Urban Outfitters, whether it’s people wearing their clothes, images of store fronts or…

(TrendHunter.com) What is flexible, sturdy, costs practically nothing, gets thrown around, and is taken for granted? If you think that cardboard is basically useless, think again.

When “Cartonist” Bertrande Durand-Jenny created her atelier Les Cartonnistes Associés in 2003 in Paris, everyone else was either re…

Farmer fashion just got a big boost from John Deere. Deere has made the pledge to be outstanding in their field. At the Magic fashion show in Vegas they announced they will challenge Levi and Diesel with a denim deal as well as jackets and shirts.

We all know how hot Harley gear is, perhaps the tr…

As the new Trend Hunter resident Arab, I am proud to announce that Dubailand, billed as the biggest tourism, leisure and entertainment complex in the world, just landed an important partner, DreamWorks.

Tatweer, a member of Dubai Holding, has announced an alliance with DreamWorks Animation SKG to…