Iran Pop Culture Fashion – Nimany (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nimany is a handmade fashion line launched by two friends who grew up in Tehran, Iran. Their brand, geared at men and women, is now gaining global recognition, including in New York City where the line…

Hey, it’s a commercial with bouncing balls!

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In a stroke of utter brilliance, Publicis Slovakia has created an ad for Orange that shows balls magically materializing out of nowhere and bouncing around a cityscape! How do they come up with this stuff? The next thing you know, they’ll get an animal to play the drums or something.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Rainbows on Demand – The LED Rainbow Projector

(TrendHunter.com) This motion activated projector can conjure up a rainbow on demand via an LED light. It is sure to delight all of us when we’re not lucky enough to see a real one. Children and those young at heart will…

Not Every Suicide Note Looks Like a Suicide Note. (Some Look Like Kate Moss)

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For the Looking Glass Foundation, which assists adolescents with eating disorders, DDB, Canada launched a PG-rated but poignant awareness campaign in British Columbia.

Designer Super Yachts – Philippe Starck’s “A” Destroyer (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Apparently super yacht “A”, named after billionaire owner Andrey Melnichenko’s wife Alexandra, has been delivered.

According to a Times Online article, it sneaked to Norway to take three Monet Paintings…

Hotel of Doom – ‘Worst Building in the History of Mankind’ to Resume Construction (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The ‘Hotel of Doom’ is an iconic, desolate ghost building nestled in the hear of North Korea. Actually called the Ryugyong Hotel, the building is affectionately known as the ‘Hotel of Doom’ because it…

Ad Men. Circus Characters. What’s The Diff?

We’re terribly late to this story, but it’s worth picking up on.

Did you know that Alex Bogusky looks to P.T. Barnum as an insipration?

Yep. In fact, CP+B calls their attention-getting antics Hooplanetics, a term that simultaneously pays homage to Barnum while laughing at Tom Cruise and crew.

Bogusky and friends even wrote a book about it.

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Sadly, the book was only made available for a short while. Amazon and all the other online vendors are plum out.

I didn’t check eBay. It might be had in that venue. If that doesn’t work, Josh Spear will sell you his copy.

10 Gas Price Trends + 126 Ways to AVOID Gas Prices

(TrendHunter.com) Gas prices are skyrocketing and that is having an impact on our pockets, our vehicle choices and our pop culture. However, even though gas prices are intimidating, they’re driving consumers to be more…

Braille Watches – The X-Watch (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The X- Watch by Damian Kozlik is a sexy X shaped L.E.D. timepiece that is designed for both sighted and blind people.

Blind people can use the X-Watch by moving their fingers along the graduated watch…

Unity to improve image of charity chuggers’

Friends of the Earth is using Unity to make its ‘chuggers’ more engaging to the public.

Choice FM strikes Paramount film deal

LONDON – GCap Media’s Choice FM is to promote the DVD release of Paramount dancing movie How She Move next month.

Canadians See Things Differently

For more on sexy Subes, see SexySubaru.ca.

[via Globe and Mail]

Transformer Shoes – ‘Goodie 2 Shoes’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You really get much more than two shoes with this “Goodie 2 Shoes” design by British Natalie Thorne.

First of all, the cool pair easily switch between a sexy 9cm high heels and a more comfortable 4cm.…

Vauxhall deploys refreshed Griffin logo

LONDON – Vauxhall is set to introduce its new Griffin logo to the automotive industry next week with the unveiling of the Insignia model.

Ross Noble appoints Cocktail Marketing to find tour sponsor

LONDON – Comedian Ross Noble has appointed brand partnership specialist Cocktail Marketing to find a headline sponsor for a proposed 2009 UK tour.

MPG lands bmi media account as part of £11m review

LONDON – Bmi, the UK airline, has appointed MPG to its media account and is expected to award its advertising account to M&C Saatchi as part of a £11m review called earlier this month.

The Hits to rebrand as 4Music

LONDON – Box TV, the Channel 4 and Bauer Consumer Media joint venture, has confirmed it is to re-brand its music TV channel The Hits as 4Music.

The Sun rising to 30p in south-east

LONDON – The Sun is to up its weekday cover price to 30p in London and the south-east from Monday as parent News International looks to increase the red-top’s newsstand revenues.

Jokerize Yourself – Free Dark Knight iPhone App (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Dark Night gets released this weekend, and to generate even more buzz, Warner Brothers combines the buzz of the the iPhone 3G and the hype of The Dark Knight with an addictive free application that…

Free Personalized Radio, Anytime, Anywhere

According to Adweek, Pandora is scoring big with the release of its iPhone App.

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Pandora has streamed 3.3 million songs to iPhone users since the launch of its new mobile application, making it the third most popular such app for the red-hot device.

As of July 14, the company had registered 180,000 new users, and more than 200,000 new stations had been created on the iPhone. Pandora executives claim that the company has attracted a new iPhone listener every two seconds since the launch, with most users listening for close to an hour per day.

Pandora, which has been restrained in its approach to advertising to date, is promising to roll out a new mobile marketing platform later this year.