Techno-Savvy Naughtiness – Cosmos Austria’s High-Tech Fetish

An electronic website called Cosmos Austria launched a viral microsite called Hitech-Fetish which shows half-naked women and men in different situations surrounding by equipment sold by Cosmos.

The ads…

99 Year Digital Photo Storage – Swiss Picturebank (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Swiss Picture Bank is a new service that stores your digital pictures for up to 99 years. The bank gives you a guarantee that they will save your digital pictures for 3 cents per 30 years.

The SwissPictureBank.com…

Wacky Wine Labels – 10 Bizarre Brands You Won’t Forget

What’s in a name? A little bit of marketing, I suppose. Here are 10 wines that have odd, easy-to-remember names.

Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush – Crafted using fruit from a number of vineyards

Vampire…

Glamorizing Violence – Roller Derbies Knock Out UK (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Roller derbies are taking off in the UK in a big way. Seeing that the women who compete in these aggressive competitions dress in incredibly sexy, often dirty, costumes, it is not really surprising.

Roller…

Techno-Savvy Naughtiness – Cosmos Austria’s High-Tech Fetish (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) An electronic website called Cosmos Austria launched a viral microsite called Hitech-Fetish which shows half-naked women and men in different situations surrounding by equipment sold by Cosmos.

The ads…

Career Scarevertising – Jobsintown.de Barber’s Cape

Life’s too short for the wrong job. That is the message of this brilliant ambient campaign by Jobsintown.de, a German job search portal.

The campaign uses barber capes that transform the person getting…

Motion Sickness Furniture – The Hypnose Sofa (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Rafael Simões Miranda must have been totally wired when he designed the Hypnose Sofa. This would be a great piece of furniture for an optometrist’s waiting room.

Note the lovely wallpaper the designer…

Wacky Wine Labels – 10 Bizarre Brands You Won’t Forget (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What’s in a name? A little bit of marketing, I suppose. Here are 10 wines that have odd, easy-to-remember names.

Cat’s Pee on a Gooseberry Bush – Crafted using fruit from a number of vineyards

Vampire…

Career Scarevertising – Jobsintown.de Barber’s Cape (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Life’s too short for the wrong job. That is the message of this brilliant ambient campaign by Jobsintown.de, a German job search portal.

The campaign uses barber capes that transform the person getting…

Faking FedEx – Bandai’s Peri Peri

(TrendHunter.com) It seems like most of my mail these days is some sort of bill, somebody wanting money. And to add injury to insult, these parcels seem to have been designed to NOT open, resulting in me ripping the contents.…

Skyrocketing Cartoon Values – Comic Book Collectibles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Comic book art for sci-fi fans continually gains strength in the art world as computer generated graphics dominate the current on-screen genre. Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, Terminator and…

Read This Skip That

Tina Brown, like her friend Arianna Huffington, is a mainstream media figure turned web mistress. Her new property, The Daily Beast, launched this morning.

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Brown describes her creation:

It’s a speedy, smart edit of the web from the merciless point of view of what interests the editors. The Daily Beast doesn’t aggregate. It sifts, sorts, and curates. We’re as much about what’s not there as what is. And we freshen the stream with a good helping of our own original content from a wonderfully diverse group of contributors

From a design perspective, it’s easy to see the homage to tabloids. Brown told paidContent, “I’ve always loved the look of the European smart tabloids—La Republica., El Pais … There’s a lot to be said for the sex appeal of the tabloid flavor but then incorporating into that really terrific writing and good thinking.”

Barry Diller is backing the new pub, named for a fictional newspaper in the Evelyn Waugh novel, Scoop.

Painting Death – Disturbing Art by Fred Einaudi (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A bizarre catalogue of danger, impending death and final death, these paintings by Fred Einaudi are truly haunting.

This artist is clearly not afraid to push the boundaries of taboo, as seen by the smile…

Real Weapons as Computer Gadgets – Grenade Mouse

(TrendHunter.com) Now you can feel a little like Rambo as you sit at the computer! This grenade mouse is made from a real grenade; just the plastic casing though, as the rest of the space houses the actual Targus computer…

Decorating With Stationary – Post-It-Note Obsession (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Post-It Notes are not just office supplies; they’ve become pop cultural icons. From Sod using them in the Office to Post-it notes becoming a new decorating and art trend, the sticky paper seems to be taking…

PhotoShopvertising – Butts With Eyes and Ears with Teeth

Photoshop is an amazing tool for creating fantastically surreal, trompe l’oeil images.

Many, if not all, of these photos were created for commercials. For example, the very creative and imaginative picture…

Hyper Techno Home Theaters – First Impressions “Architecture of Fantasy” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “Architecture of Fantasy” are the creations of 62 artisans for who join to make end-to-end, one-of-a-kind, high performance, high tech, hyper plush, digital cinema experiences for individual homes.

The…

The…

Guerrilla Hotel Pillows – “Sleep on Boobs” Wonderbra Campaign

The ever creative Wonderbra brand went for a humorous, ambient advertising approach with this unusual campaign that was deployed in hotels and beauty parlors in China.

Pillows with graphic images of the…

2.5″ Clip-On HDDs – “Hang It On” Enclosure (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With SSD notebooks coming with a rather low amount of storage, having your complete Janet Jackson and Bruce Springsteen (or Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers, I don’t judge) music and video library handy…

Embarrassing Commercial Debuts – Celebrities Who Got Their Break in Japan

The pay must have been very good for these Japanese commercials, because these celebrities would not have been caught dead in these ads if they had aired back in the US. Thanks to Japander, many of these…