Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) Vanessa Hudgens is being sued by her former manager/producer, proving that even teenagers can’t stay out of lawsuits when it comes to celebrity status and money.

Johnny Viera, the man who allegedly…

(TrendHunter.com) I appear to have become the Trend Hunter tattoo queen, although I am not quite sure how. Never one to shy away from a challenge, I decided to up the ante and take on this role with gusto.

My main issue…

The Wall Street Journal reports that British agency, Leagas Delaney, is on the rise again after nearly going under in 2003.

In the past three years, Leagas Delaney has roughly doubled annual revenue to $30 million. Recent new clients include the Body Shop, Timberland and Dyson, a vacuum-cleaner manufacturer.

Tim Delaney, 62, says he can be tough to work with because he pushes his staff to be thorough, and to think like management consultants trying to make a company more profitable. “I am ferocious,” he says. “We don’t fudge communications.”

According to the article, Delaney brought some of his patented mental ruggedness to Timberland.

He told them Timberland’s chunky boots needed to shed their edgy image, created over years of being the footwear-of-choice for rappers, hip-hop artists and their fans, and said the company’s promotion of environmental causes was distracting from its products.

Here’s the independent shop’s new work for Timberland:

(TrendHunter.com) Star Wars geeks seem not to be too picky with what they add sci-fi qualities to. They’re even geeked up Mickey Mouse. To be honest, Disney does Star Wars should come as no surprise. And this comes from…

Modernista! takes its contrarian methodology to the streets with a gigantor WE SELL GUNS! billboard and interactive campaign for Stop Handgun Violence.

(TrendHunter.com) “Animatus” is the brilliant work of Korean artist Hyungkoo Lee. He produced a science style exhibition of his skeletons of cartoons, as if they were truly real animal species! His work has been described…

Babylon A.D. is an upcoming movie starring Vin Diesel. It is a post-apocalyptic film in which Vin escorts a woman who may be hosting a holy organism within her body. Sci-Fi stuff for sure. The following…

(TrendHunter.com) The Bedside Gun Lamp by Philippe Starck is the perfect arsenal decor accessory for mob bosses and weapon fanatics alike. If guns happen to be your thing, then the addition of the embossed quote “happiness…

The always very stern and glum Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin is currently running a retrospective dedicated to Ugo Mulas. The focus is on the photographer’s relationship with the art scene of his time. Portraits of key figures of pop art, from Leo Castelli to Roy Lichtenstein, coverage of the Venice Biennales from 1954 to 1972, art events, artists, curators and critics living in Italy and New York, etc. A selection:

Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1964

Roy Lichtenstein, New York 1964

Roy Lichtenstein with Leo Castelli in the Lichtenstein room. XXXIII Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, 1966

James Rosenquist, New York 1964

Signora Scull, New York 1964

and of course…

Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol. New York, 1964

He’s not part of the pop family but i couldn’t resist hanging a Marcel to the walls:

Marcel Duchamp. New York, 1964-1965

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All Images courtesy GAM di Torino. The exhibition is on view until October 5, 2008.

The 2008 Olympic Games continue through Sunday in Beijing, but London’s tourism officials are already elbowing in and reminding the world where the 2012 Games will be held. Visit London, the official tourism body, is launching a £4m global ad campaign this week from WPP agency RKCR to promote the city as a tourist destination in the lead-up to the 2012 Games. The main image from the campaign is a picture of London taking up the entire globe—an image perhaps inspired by British maps from the glory days of the empire. The tagline is, “See the world. Visit London.” James Bidwell, CEO of Visit London, is quoted as saying: “In the words of one of the finest English authors, Samuel Johnson, ‘There is in London all that life can afford,’ and as we prepare to host the greatest sporting event on earth our campaign shows there is no other place to be than here.” The London 2012 committee itself is remaining quiet this week, either out of respect for the Beijing Games or lingering embarrassment over its logo.

—Posted by Tim Nudd