Ling to head MEC’s Global Solutions

LONDON – WPP’s Mediaedge:cia has appointed former I-Level director Ed Ling to lead its multinational business as managing director for Global Solutions.

DCSF seeks agency for child protection brief

LONDON – The Department for Children, Schools and Families has called a communications planning pitch for its child internet safety account.

Networks line up for Manpower ad task

LONDON – Manpower, the employment services group, has put its global advertising account up for pitch in a bid to consolidate the business into one agency network.

Agencies cull grad intake in recession

LONDON – The number of graduates being hired by Britain’s agencies is expected to drop by more than half this year.

Dairy giant Lactalis calls £150m review

LONDON – Lactalis, the owner of Munch Bunch and Ski yoghurts, is reviewing its estimated £150 million pan-European media planning and buying account.

Ling joins MEC as global business MD

LONDON – Mediaedge:cia has hired Ed Ling, a founding partner of AnalogFolk, as its managing director for global solutions.

Runway Manga Manes – Stylish Sailor Moon Hair at Nathan Jenden Sprin 2010 RTW (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The models at Nathan Jenden’s Spring 2010 collection showing were bearing more than minimal resemblance to popular Japanimation, manga character of the nineties, with their Sailor Moon hair.

Rocking their…

Book Review – Digital Fabrications : Architectural and Material Techniques

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Digital Fabrications explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms. The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold continue

Make your money work for you

Advertising Agency: IMPACT BBDO, Beirut
Chief Creative Officer: Dani Richa
Creative Director: Joe Abou Khaled
Associate Creative Director: Joe Abou Khaled
Copywriter: Cara Khatib
Art Director: Joelle El-khoury

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Stylish Metrosexual Watches – The Hodinkee Top Ten Watches is Shaping the Future of Watchmaking (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A watch can tell you a lot about a man (being one of the key accessories he can wear) so the Hodinkee top ten watches may just predict where men are heading, at least in terms of style. From the Urwerk…

Google | Experiments In Digital Creativity

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O senhor Google fez uma senhora apresentação no Adweek 2009, em Nova Iorque. São slides do Google Docs. com + de 80 campanhas digitais que, segundo eles, são as melhores dos últimos 12 meses. Todas com criatividade e execução de dar inveja em qualquer ‘digital ninja’ que tem por aí. Se preferir, clique aqui para acessar a apresentação!

:: Ótima dica do @adenhepburn.

Visa cria online game educativo

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Nos últimos anos a Visa tem apresentando diversos projetos, campanhas e promoções relacionadas ao futebol, tanto é que a empresa é uma das principais parceiras da FIFA na Copa do Mundo 2010. Com a intenção de ensinar para as pessoas alguns conceitos sobre finanças pessoais através do futebol, a Visa lançou em todo mundo o Financial Soccer, um video game online educativo e interativo com questões de múltipla escolha, que testa o conhecimento de educação financeira dos usuários à medida que eles avançam no jogo. O Financial Soccer tem uma meta de atingir 10 milhões de pessoas em todo mundo, inclusive do Brasil, país onde o game foi lançado no dia 15 de setembro.

Brazen Burlesque Bras – The Dita Von Teese Wonderbra Collection Offers Stylish Support (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sexy burleqsue star Dita Von Teese has once again teamed up with the god to millions of women around the globe to create the Dita Von Teese Wonderbra collection.

The dancer, famous for both her porcelain…

Playstation 4 Concept

Dans l’attente des prochaines générations de consoles, voici le concept produit de la Playstation 4 pensé par le designer australien Tai Chiem. Un modèle tactile et en verre plutôt étonnant. Une console dotée d’un écran transparent et de matériaux nobles. Plus d’images dans la suite.



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How Brands Can Build a Successful App Strategy


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — More than a year into the age of the iPhone app, brands are starting to get on board — and best practices are emerging. At Wednesday's Apps for Brands event in New York, MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman and marketers from Kraft, Bank of America, Benjamin Moore, Zagat and Men's Health convened to talk about what they've learned from their early, successful forays into the space.

Highlife Container Housing – The Luxury Shipping Container Home is an Eco-Chic Small Space (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Luxury and pre-fab homes do not usually go together, but in Buenos Aries they sure do! Built for the Casa FOA home design show, the luxury shipping container home makes being eco-friendly glamorous.

The…

Floating Island Boats – Wally and Hermes Yacht WHY 58×38 is More Island Than Yacht (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You’d think the best yacht on the market would look like a boat, right? Wrong! Introducing the latest in must have yachts, the Wally and Hermes Yacht WHY 58×38 (on account of its length and breadth).

This…

MLB.com CEO: Why Brands Need to Push Mobile Now

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Mobile apps are a must for brands, MLB.com CEO Bob Bowman told attendees at Wednesday's Apps for Brands event in New York. He said mobile grows your audience — and your revenue, because brands have learned they can charge for an app. MLB's $9.99 At Bat app, for example, has 400,000 downloads.

Writhing Wraparound Shoes – The ‘Mojito’ Shoe by Julian Hakes Has No Foot Plate (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why are there foot plates on shoes? As Julian Hakes’ wraparound shoes—or the ‘Mojito’—suggest, there’s really no need for them.

The wraparound shoes were the product of what the designer discovered when…

Vintage Parent Pics – MyParentsWereAwesome.tumblr.com Hilariously Shows Mom and Dad Back in the Day (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The site MyParentsWereAwesome.tumblr.com/ is a testament to all that is wonderful in awkwardly hilarious and nostalgic blogs. Body hair, form-fitting clothing and and white guys with Afros petting dogs…