(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a low tech way to tell if you are getting too much sun. It’s the called the UV Intensity Bikini. See those little purple beads? They are actually UV level indicators that tell you when you have…
(TrendHunter.com) Reddot award winner, Anthony’s Mini Garage Winery is a brilliantly ingenious gourmet food and drink brand. The German design studio ‘Korefe’ has developed this ‘mechanically’ themed line of specialty food…
(TrendHunter.com) Bedwyr Williams’ humorous art installation “Door to the Management Department” does appeal as most of us would see the irony of a hung door on a wall going nowhere – like most complaints.
The North Wales…
(TrendHunter.com) Want custom fabric? I mean one-of-a-kind, design it yourself custom fabric? Check out Spoonflower.com.
You send them your specific design and lots of details as to what you want, and they will make…
“These come from trees” is a part viral, part DIY campaign to jog people’s conscience just as they reach for yet another paper towel or napkin.
The project features stickers on paper towel dispensers…
This year at the Olympics, performance-enhancing athletic gear were all the rage. Four years from now, will it be highly-advanced hips and knees?
(TrendHunter.com) Admittedly, pizza is one of the most popular foods in the world. Whether you make it at home, order it in, or even get in from a vending machine, pizza fits the bill for fast, filling, comfort food.
Behold,…
Renny Gleeson, W+K’s Global Digital Strategies Director, kicks things off at 8:40 am tomorrow morning at the Armory in NW Portland as part of Inverge 2008.
This is his topic:
CONNECTION: NEVER CLOSER TOGETHER, NEVER FARTHER APART?
Interactive communications and digital technologies have birthed the greatest idea propagation framework in history. But when will our ability to freight it with emotion catch up? With each leap of technology, it takes time for our emotive power to catchup – for us to imbue the technology with our humanity. When will we do so interactively? Will we ever? And how do brands and advertisers, whose greatest connections often come through empathetic/emotional connections make sense of this landscape?
Consultant, Janet Lee Johnson, is looking forward to hearing from several other speakers, as am I.
I’ll be covering the two-day event here, on BFG’s blog, and on Twitter.
LONDON – Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe Y&R and Bartle Bogle Hegarty have both secured four nominations each for the 2008 IPA Effectiveness Awards.
LONDON – Alison Burns, the chief executive of JWT London, is leaving her post to take a senior client services role in the agency’s New York office.
(TrendHunter.com) Evisu is a Japanese designer that loves high end jeans. The company also loves Japan’s history and wants to intermingle it with modern day American styles.
The Sashimono is an important icon of the…
(TrendHunter.com) “These come from trees” is a part viral, part DIY campaign to jog people’s conscience just as they reach for yet another paper towel or napkin.
The project features stickers on paper towel dispensers…
To promote “Music for Life,” whose theme this year was the dearth of drinking water in some countries, the Red Cross and Studio Brussels let loose a thirsty black kid, who invaded TV studios and stole a drink out of TV personalities’ glasses.
(TrendHunter.com) Lancome is proving that black lipstick is a beauty must-have for the fall season. Flip through fashion magazines, and you’ll notice that there are a lot of really dark, sometimes completely black, lips.…
(TrendHunter.com) Aside from the Fluttua bed that actually floats on air, the Float bridge bed has to be the coolest bed ever made.
Max Longin designed the bed based on the inspiration of the architecture of suspension…
These jeans by Krylon simply invite the question, “Did you spray those jeans on?”
Well, actually the colors were inspired by the paint preferred by graffiti artists everywhere, named Krylon. Genetic Denim…
Sony’s 25-year-old blockbuster Ghostbusters is the first movie to be released on a USB stick (for something like $50).
– via Slyck
Earlier:
Bible Preloaded on USB
Disposable Audio Books
(TrendHunter.com) The FBI is so desperate to catch James “Whitey” Bulger, the boss of the Winter Hill Gang, they’re doubling the reward. They’re offering $2 million for the capture of mob boss in time or his 79th birthday.…
(TrendHunter.com) Amazon.com wants to hone in on Wikipedia as the source for all their content. Specifically, Amazon.com wants their SoundUnwound.com site to be the place to go for everything musical.
Users can build…
Creativity online reports:
In the end, it was a technicality, not international outcry, that relieved TBWA, Paris of its Bronze Lion.Despite angering the Chinese government with depictions of Olympics-related torture for Amnesty International, Cannes International Advertising Festival organizers and the network, upon reviewing the entry, realized its token media buy occurred after the April 30 deadline.
The campaign can be seen in full here: Amnesty International – After the Olympics
Our previous posts on this campaign:
Amnesty international disavow a Cannes Lions winner – did another scam ad get a Lion? 07/22/2008
TBWA are two-faced, according to Chinese netheads. 07/14/2008
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