Cut-Out Mustaches – Nike Vintage Shows Love for Retro Facial Hair

Nike knows consumers think retro is hip, but the sports brand wants to be the one to bring the mustache back. They want to revive the age of sports in which the mustache played an integral role in the…

Google’s Instant Messaging for Mobiles – Google Talk on the iPhone

(TrendHunter.com) Google Talk is the latest feature on the new 3G iPhones, but will it live up to the hype the media built up anticipation for? What is this “Google Talk” business about, anyway? Traditionally, Google Talk…

Angular Storage – The Quad Book Shelf

(TrendHunter.com) The quad book shelf is both unique and functional. It has strong visual appeal and it has yet to be discovered by the masses.

As pictured here, the shelf cubicles come in variety of sizes, making it…

Exuberant Couture Stages – Chanel at the Grand Palais (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Karl Lagerfeld needed a dramatic space to show his Chanel collection for the fall, so he chose the Grand Palais. The huge space made the enormous gathering of the fashion elite seem insignificant when…

Diamond-Studded Bobble Bracelets – Rifesta Jewelry From Russia (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) DeBeers has a monopoly on diamonds and thus controls the size of diamonds that will be hot from year to year. If they pushed small diamonds last year, next year they will push large diamonds. A Russian…

Trompe-L’oeil Chimney Stacks – Striking Beauty in the Paris Suburbs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The chimney stacks of a heating building in Bagnolet, an eastern suburb of Paris, have been transformed into a stunning work of art,thanks to artist Frederic Gracia. Gracia beautified the twin chimneys…

Race Car Sponsorship for Beginners – Sponsor 1 Race at a Time

How the hell do you sponsor a race car? You visit QuarterPanelMedia.com, a motorsports sponsorship marketplace, that’s how. Quarter Panel Media is the first of its kind, offering potential sponsors the…

The Boogie Man is Just Some Guy — Until NIGHT Falls.

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For Sylvania Light Bulbs, JEH United/Bangkok created a spot that makes highlarious use of Thailand’s mythological monsters. And one transvestite.

Cut-Out Mustaches – Nike Vintage Shows Love for Retro Facial Hair (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Nike knows consumers think retro is hip, but the sports brand wants to be the one to bring the mustache back. They want to revive the age of sports in which the mustache played an integral role in the…

Innovative Makeshift Umbrellas – The Eco Brolly

(TrendHunter.com) Umbrellas are like 4×4 vehicles. They don’t get appreciated until they’re needed. The Eco Brolly is a quasi-umbrella design — quasi in the sense that there is only half of it, the skeleton. When it starts…

Custom Adult Tree Houses – Baumraum Architects

The Germany-based company, Baumraum, designs and builds treehouses. Not the cookie-cutter, kiddy ones, but the super expensive, custom-built ones. They boast being able to build a house in any tree. Should…

Heavy Gets Heavy With Heavy Ad Units

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OK. Here’s some Independence Day humor…if there is such a thing.

Pepsi North America CMO Nicholson Steps Down


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Cie Nicholson, Pepsi-Cola North America's senior VP-chief marketing officer, is leaving the company.

British Airways and Virgin Atlantic mount £100m compensation-fund campaign

LONDON – BA and Virgin Atlantic have been ordered by a US Federal Court to finance an ad campaign to alert consumers of their right to claim refunds following a price-fixing litigation bought against them earlier this year.

Live Nation Seeks to Reassure With Shakira 360 Deal


According to The New York Post and the LA Times, Live Nation has signed a $70 million to $100 million "360" deal with Latin superstar Shakira. Once the deal begins, Live Nation will receive revenue from her concerts, recordings, merchandising, digital and other aspects of her career for 10 years.

Packing Tape as a Beauty Accessory – The Body Tape (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This has got to be the mother of all multi-purpose tapes!

The Body Tape is 100% vinyl packing tape that can be worn as an accessory. The quaint tape is printed black on white and there are four different…

Black National Anthem Video – Singer Replaces Words of ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Jazz Artist Rene Marie shocked her audience when she sung the words to the ‘Black National Anthem’ to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. More

The singer was in front of the audience at Denver’s State…

McCann Erickson Loses Creative Duties on People-Ready


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Interpublic Group of Cos.' McCann Erickson has lost a chunk of Microsoft's business, with the software giant confirming that creative duties for one of its business-to-business segments would move to WPP Group's JWT.

Custom Adult Tree Houses – Baumraum Architects (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Germany-based company, Baumraum, designs and builds treehouses. Not the cookie-cutter, kiddy ones, but the super expensive, custom-built ones. They boast being able to build a house in any tree. Should…

Roger Federer plays comedian in Nike ad

LONDON – Five-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer is to star in a TV ad that reveals the secret of his success: ‘The Coach’.