(TrendHunter.com) E-Donor is a joint campaign by MTV and HP that raises awareness about recycling old technology. The initiative aims to educate people, particularly teenagers, about the different ways they can reduce their…
(TrendHunter.com) Starting off as an adventure park ride, the Shweeb may soon become a popular mode of transportation.
Designed by Geoffrey Barnett, this high efficiency, no emission urban transport system combines recumbent…
Hey, hey, hey! Maybe being an intern at an ad agency isn’t such a bad thing.
(TrendHunter.com) Today, Iran hit the top of the buzz list, largely because Iran has ended cooperation with UN experts probing for nuclear weapons.
USA Today reported,”The announcement from Iranian Vice President Gholam…
(TrendHunter.com) These crazy capillary chairs are definitely meant for admiring and not actually sitting on. Just imagine the impression they would leave on you back and butt if you did sit for a bit.
Artist Lisa Jones…
(TrendHunter.com) The Long Now Foundation is a small group of folks who like to think… well, long term. The group “hopes to provide counterpoint to today’s “faster/cheaper” mind set and promote “slower/better” thinking.…
(TrendHunter.com) McDonald’s has very cool interior designers at work in Europe.
European readers may be surprised at my surprise at how cool this McDonald’s design is. It seems that McDonald’s has been very successful…
– The Social Path drew our attention to this perplexing Oasis ad where a girl gets knocked up by a cactus — not for its own sake, but to justify half-assed Myspace campaigns.
A lot can happen to you in a short time when you chew a piece of Trident gum. In a matter of 40 seconds, judging by this new commercial by JWT London, you can get drenched by rain in an elevator, flown like a kite (by a kite!), sprayed with water guns by a unit of hot female cops battling a pack of black-clad bank robbers, greeted in English by a human-faced dog hanging out of a car window, and finally dumped in a giant freezer, where a polar bear shakes ice all over you. Imagine what an insane time you’d have if you chewed Trident and talked on a Motorola Razr 2 at the same time.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
(TrendHunter.com) Lisa Jones an Australian designer created a collection of chairs called Symbiosis. Working with wood, steel and sometimes silicone, her chairs appear to be inspired by all things internal, that is, the…
(TrendHunter.com) Australians have probably seen Virgin Mobile’s “All you can eat” campaign in online, TV and print ads, plastered everywhere lately. Virgin has come up with a competition to coincide with their campaign,…
Revlon is churning through Hollywood stars and after the likes of Halle Berry, Jessica Alba, Elle McPherson, Susan Sarandon, Julianne Moore, Eva Mendes, Jaime King, the brand has signed a deal with Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly to appear in an upcoming ad campaign.
LONDON – John Farrell this afternoon announced he was resigning from his post as Publicis marketing services chief.
If you’re like me, one of the ways you fill your sports void during the summer is by watching baseball following the Tour de France. I think it’s an amazing race that has been getting way too much negative publicity as of late because the riders have made the incredibly poor decisions to use performance-enhancing drugs.
This year was supposed to be the year that they were going to "Take Back the Tour," but there has already been several riders banned because they were doping… again. Le sigh.
But now, for those of you that DO enjoy watching/following The Tour, you can now do so in the comfort of your own personal computer space with Pro Cycling Manager 2008.
I haven’t played it, but among the things I’d think you’d be able to do include:
Okay so maybe you won’t do the last one, but it would definitely be a possible plot angle — especially when there are games like Grand Theft Auto and Hitman out there. Something to ponder, no?
If this post’s headline seems awkward, it’s because I can’t quite find the right words to describe the service.
“What happens to the music bits today will happen to the chair bits tomorrow when you are able to download the arm-rests from Ikea and the upholstery from Crate & Barrel, mix them up and print them out.”
This sounded a bit too sci-fi even to me when I posted it a couple of years ago. Today, I found Ponoko.
Ponoko (about) is for physical things what Lulu is for books and what CafePress is for t-shirts. You create a design for, say, a chair, upload it to Ponoko’s site, and list the chair for sale. When someone likes your chair and pays for it, Ponoko laser-cuts the pieces out of a range of materials, packs them up and ships them to the buyer. Or to you, if you want to assemble the pieces first. You can buy product plans created by other people and, depending on the license, customize them to make and sell something new.
You can see, of course, how something like Ponoko is a great fit for the 3D interface of Second Life, which is all about people designing 3D models of stuff, or Google Lively (read AdLab’s first impressions).
To throw in somewhat similar services I discovered while looking at Ponoko: FigurePrints makes custom WoW models, ShapeWays does rapid prototyping on demand, and a few others mentioned in the previously posted stories here on AdLab.
“On The Bubble” is an animated newscast put on by group of fictional cash-strapped 20-something students in a dorm room at the equally fictional Middle Town Community College.
According to Ad Age, it’s also a content play from PepsiCo’s Sierra Mist, although there is no brand presence on the site or in the fake newscasts.
LONDON – A solid performance from Havas Group’s UK arm, in particular MPG, boosted its financial performance in the first half of the year, with global revenues up 3.6% year on year to Euro755m (£595).
LONDON – Scrabulous, one of Facebook’s most popular applications, may be shut down following reports that toy giant Hasbro, owner of the rights to Scrabble in North America, has filed suit against the game’s creators.
Unlike most accounts where a little bit of pre-concept research is always a good thing, working on a women’s lingerie or underwear account requires nothing more than a Neanderthal mentality and the libido of a 16 year old high school kid. It’s like the creative brief writes itself.
LONDON – Ford slashed its worldwide marketing spend by $200m to just $100m in the second quarter of 2008, in which it has reported a record global net loss of $8.7bn.
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