Geeky Dropouts – Kid Drops Out of High School to Focus on Guitar Hero (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Like many other boys his age, 16-year old Blake Peebles loves to play Guitar Hero; unlike other boys his age, his parents let him quit school to focus on playing the popular video game competitively. After…

Olympian Swimsuits for Public Sale – Speedo LZR Swim Suit Available for Pre-Order (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Speedo plans to maximize the buzz from Michael Phelps’ historic run in Beijing by making its LZR Racer swim suits available for the general public to buy. The suits are $550 each–not bad for a design…

Vase Makers – Device Turns Any Cup Into Stylish Vase (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Vase Maker is a unique device designed by Ron Gilad for designfenzider.  In short, the Vase Maker lets you turn any cup or bottle into a vase for your flowers.

The vase is made of white porcelain…

Street Wall Magazines – ‘Not A Magazine’ on the Walls of Sydney (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bored at a bus stop? Just missed the train? ‘Not A Magazine’ is a magazine with a prime audience of public commuters and inquisitive pedestrians. Each issue appears as a 1.5m by 2m billboard poster around…

$1000 Bunch of Grapes – Japanese Ruby Roman Variety sold at auction

(TrendHunter.com) Japanese gourmands are willing to pay top dollar for good food including almost $1000 ($910) for just a bunch of grapes. This 700 gram (1.5 lb) bunch was recently sold at auction in Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture.…

Celebrity Shoe Auction – De-Feet Lung Cancer Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) If you have a secret shoe fetish and are a fan of celebrities such as Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Spice Girl, Melanie C., you can bid for a pair of their shoes soon. At the same time,…

$1.5 million Office Chair – Aresline Xten by Pininfarina

(TrendHunter.com) Pininfarina, the Italian car design firm, is best known for their luxury car projects – Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati. But they have recently created an innovative ergonomic chair and likely the world’s…

Roof Top Cinema – Films With a View

(TrendHunter.com) Being ushered into a dark, silent movie theatre may make for a dramatic screening. However, these dingy, popcorn encrusted cinemas tend to dampen any form of social interaction.

Introducing the Roof…

Public Ice Art – ‘Mini Ice Men’ are Really ‘Cool’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Melting Men, an ice sculpture by Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, is simply ‘cool’ (Sorry about the pun.)

This public art installation consisted of hundreds of sitting figures fashioned out of ice. When…

Aluminium Art – The Tin Foil Landscapes of Kimihiko Okada (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Kimihiko Okada, a Japanese architect sculpted a 6.5 metre high landscape made from aluminium foil. He constructed this outdoor artwork for an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo,Japan.…

Failed Chandelier – “Always Wanted to be a Chandelier” Hanged Floor Light

(TrendHunter.com) “Always wanted to be a chandelier” is a a quirky design which suggests that even inanimate objects may suffer from inferiority complexes and even become suicidal.

The Hanged Light is simply a regular…

Olympic Covers – Michael Phelps & Ryan Lochte in Men’s Journal (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Superswimmer Michael Phelps is featured alongside good friend and Beijing Olympic Games 2008 opponent Ryan Lochte on the August 2008 cover of Men’s Journal Magazine.

The two ‘fastest swimmers in American…

Headless Dolls – Histroical Dolls Show How They Died (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the catch phrase ‘Because History is Violent’, these headless dolls are both wrong and strange. There also can’t be too many doll websites that warn, “The graphic violence theme of this website may…

Ancient Rome Theme Parks – Disneyland of Italy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Disneyland is everywhere from California to Florida, to Disneyland-Paris in France and even in Tokyo, but now Disneyland has inspired a new, yet very old, type of theme park in Italy.

Ancient Rome has…

Disposable Campfires – ‘Kinderlite’ for 2050 Retrospective Exhibition

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine you’re enjoying a few days off from work in the summer of the year 2050. You’re feeling a little nostalgic for the ‘good old days’, back in say 2010, so you decide to do a little camping. You know,…

Art Jackpots – $20,000 Painting Actually a $200 Million Leonardo da Vinci

(TrendHunter.com) A painting bought by a Swiss art collector for £10,000 ($20,000) has now been confirmed to be a previously unknown Leonardo da Vinci artwork. This now pushes the painting’s value to an astronomical £100…

Changing Race – Robert Downey Jr. Becomes Black Man in Tropic Thunder (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Pushing the ‘Politically Correct’ envelope, Robert Downey Jr. has transformed himself into a black man in Ben Stiller’s Vietnam war epic parody ‘Tropic Thunder’.

Following up the huge success of Ironman,…

Gun Earrings – Add a Killer Look to Your Ear Lobes

(TrendHunter.com) Want to add some bad ass accessories to your shopping list? Milan designer Georgo Phillip Pecenikov created these edgy gun silver earrings inspired by the AK47, automatic rifles. 

Each piece is hand…

Linda: Pardon

Pardon

The taste that bring you right back home.

Advertising Agency: KRANEO, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creative Director: KRANEO
Copywriter: Maryanne Fernandez
Art Director / Illustrator: Eduardo Suárez, DCO
Photographer: Jaime Guerra
Other additional credits: Jesus Portela, Piedad Montes de Oca, Muriel Alfonseca
Published: September 2007

Linda: Chef

Chef

The taste that bring you right back home.

Advertising Agency: KRANEO, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creative Director: KRANEO
Copywriter: Maryanne Fernandez
Art Director / Illustrator: Eduardo Suárez, DCO
Photographer: Jaime Guerra
Other additional credits: Jesus Portela, Piedad Montes de Oca, Muriel Alfonseca
Published: September 2007