Top 100 Branding Trends in 2013 – From Doodled Branding Sleeves to Organic Motif Merchandizing (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) As the top branding trends in 2013 show, brands have taken to their packaging designs to enhance—and even provide entirely new—consumer experiences. Businesses are incorporating both…

Chasing Their Star, on YouTube

The message to aspiring video makers on YouTube is clear, and seductive: Attract an audience, build your brand. But success, let alone stardom and wealth, remains elusive.

    



63 Ultra Luxe Accessories – From Bedazzled 10 Million Dollar Bras to Luxury Gold Toothpaste Tubes (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Luxe accessories are an acquired taste of the rich, however, everyone can bask in the beauty of a high priced and often unnecessary gadget.

The luxurious products and gadgets we see celebrities…

Unicorn-Heeled Pumps – These Unicorn Heels Make Walking Feel Like a Magical Experience (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These unicorn heels are for the bravest of fashionistas. Wearing heels is enough of a workout on its own, as looking good typically is, but you have to be in a completely different stratosphere style-…

Coca-Cola Zero: #onemillionreasons

Advertising Agency: McCann, ?stanbul, Turkey
Chief Creative Officer: Folker Wrage
Creative Group Head: F?rat Y?ld?z, Kaan Ayçe
Art Directors: F?rat Y?ld?z, Serdar Bilginer, Ça?lar Cengiz
Copywriters: Seral Çelikba?, Asl? Topçu
Junior Art Directors: Cem Ha?imi, Dilara Aktu?
Group Account Director: Özlem Milor ?slam
Account Managers: Su Erdo?an Olgaç, Gözde Çeviker
Account Executives: Elif Baki, Elif K?r
Illustrator: Sadi Tekin
Motion Designer: Ozan Dündar

Top 100 Design Trends in 2013 – From DIY Cement Sound Blocks to Adult Fold-Up Bunk Beds (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The most inspiring and attention-grabbing design trends in 2013 focus on their aspects of customization. Designers and artists broke free from tradition this year and created art, decor, consumer…

Top 100 Architecture Trends in 2013 – From Illusory Log Cabins to Spheric Summer Homes (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The top 2013 architecture trends reflect a shift in the mentality of modern society. Portability, simplicity and planet preservation are at the forefront of architects’ minds and this is…

Top 100 Furniture Trends in 2013 – From Sleeping Sofas to Cleverly Configured Beds (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Foldable, custom and wooden are three standout attributes of the furniture trends in 2013. Furniture design now caters to the quickly growing market of urban dwellers who occupy very small living…

Top 100 Print Trends in 2013 – From Retro Motel Fashion Ads to Stunning Celebratory Magazine Covers (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) With print still putting up a vivacious fight against all things digital, the print trends in 2013 demonstrate the use of bold colors and retro themes to hold onto its audience.

Prints ads from…

How Super Bowl Advertising Turned Into a Packaged-Food Fight


Super Bowl viewers are about to get a serious case of the munchies. There are more packaged food and beverage companies advertising during the game than in any year since at least 2003, according to Ad Age research.

“We are not being righteous,” Mr. McGuinness added. The goal is to raise the profile of a brand that is the top-selling Greek yogurt and yet still has relatively low awareness, he said.

H.J. Heinz Co., which last advertised in the game 16 years ago, is trying to squeeze more growth out of the mature ketchup category. In the past 10 years the percentage of hot dog, hamburger and french fry eatings that includes ketchup has fallen by about 3% on average, according to the brand.

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Top 100 DIY Trends in 2013 – From DIY Tassel Garland to Upcycled Car Scrap Benches (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Fashion maintains its front-runner position for the top 2013 DIY trends. With that being said, however, the idea of “doing it yourself” has spread to a wide variety of other markets,…

Top 100 Home Trends in 2013 – From 3D Geometric Wall Decals to Boxy Bedroom Designs (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) Do-it-yourself projects are at the center of the top home trends in 2013. Customization-seeking consumers are personalizing spaces in the homes through a variety of both big and small projects. This…

Doom Diary #14

You will be able ?to remember because of this.

From Adbusters #111: The Big Ideas of 2047

This is #14 of a series of diary entries that have arrived in our lap from beyond the horizon of now. The journey begins on July 3, 2020 and continues on March 6, 2020, January 1, 2021, July 9, 2022, January 3, 2023, February 2023, March 4, 2023, March 19, 2023, April 20, 2030, June 15, 2030, August 20, 2032 and May 2, 2041 … continuing all the way to the year 2047.

Jan 28, 2047

My dearest,

Perhaps that was stupid of me. Perhaps I will regret it as these last few breaths leave my body on this page. There could have easily been five years more—maybe even ten, twenty, a hundred, if I had the money, put more work in, made the right connections. I was one of the purists, you could say … one of those who opted for what is now called the “human life.” Maybe I could have found some surrogate sucker who wanted to sacrifice. But had I done that, you wouldn’t hold this scrapbook in your hand. You’d have no idea how we got here. ?I can’t say I’m happy, though I am happy with this.

I know I’m to become a dinosaur of sorts. They’ll dig this up and maybe they’ll even dig you up, too. They’ll scrape away the petrified wood and fragile compressed clay from your limbs. They’ll peel back the stone layers that have become rock on your face. Ever so carefully, they’ll get to your stomach, your bones, your brain. It will look like obsession … because it is … though they won’t know how to feel the origins of their own madness … it’ll be some sort of trance … your last meal, your last fight, even your last thought. They’ll long for the enigma … and be amazed by your archaic and natural coloured eyes, your ancient and imperfect hips, your intact ?and alien heart.

I guess the great tragedy of life is you never know what ?you’ll be after you’re gone. But maybe … you will be able ?to remember … because of this.

Yours forever,
Kono

Karaliski: Creme Brulee

Advertising Agency: Milk, Vilnius, Lithuania
Executive Creative Director: Rimantas Stanevicius
Creative Director: Antonio Bechtle
Art Director: Adomas Jazdauskas
Copywriter: Vytaute Vilutyte
Copywriter: Asta Buteikyte
Photographer: Fotelier
Published: October 2013

Karaliski: Coffee

Advertising Agency: Milk, Vilnius, Lithuania
Executive Creative Director: Rimantas Stanevicius
Creative Director: Antonio Bechtle
Art Director: Adomas Jazdauskas
Copywriter: Vytaute Vilutyte
Copywriter: Asta Buteikyte
Photographer: Fotelier
Published: October 2013

Zona Cyber Social Media Week: Olsen

Better watch what you’re saying

Advertising Agency: Delantero, Fortaleza, Brazil
Creative Directors: Marcel Pinheiro, Pádua Sampaio, André Miyasaki
Art Directors: André Miyasaki, Matheus Sena, Sabrina Mesquita
Illustrator: Dimitri Bastos
Copywriters: Pádua Sampaio, Marcel Pinheiro, Eveline Farina
Retoucher: Saul Ferreira
Published: November 2013

Zona Cyber Social Media Week: Metcalfe

Better watch what you’re saying

Advertising Agency: Delantero, Fortaleza, Brazil
Creative Directors: Marcel Pinheiro, Pádua Sampaio, André Miyasaki
Art Directors: André Miyasaki, Matheus Sena, Sabrina Mesquita
Illustrator: Dimitri Bastos
Copywriters: Pádua Sampaio, Marcel Pinheiro, Eveline Farina
Retoucher: Saul Ferreira
Published: November 2013

Zona Cyber Social Media Week: Gates

Better watch what you’re saying

Advertising Agency: Delantero, Fortaleza, Brazil
Creative Directors: Marcel Pinheiro, Pádua Sampaio, André Miyasaki
Art Directors: André Miyasaki, Matheus Sena, Sabrina Mesquita
Illustrator: Dimitri Bastos
Copywriters: Pádua Sampaio, Marcel Pinheiro, Eveline Farina
Retoucher: Saul Ferreira
Published: November 2013

Zona Cyber Social Media Week: Clark

Better watch what you’re saying

Advertising Agency: Delantero, Fortaleza, Brazil
Creative Directors: Marcel Pinheiro, Pádua Sampaio, André Miyasaki
Art Directors: André Miyasaki, Matheus Sena, Sabrina Mesquita
Illustrator: Dimitri Bastos
Copywriters: Pádua Sampaio, Marcel Pinheiro, Eveline Farina
Retoucher: Saul Ferreira
Published: November 2013

Dardanel: Before-After, Girl

Advertising Agency: Alaaddin Adworks, ?stanbul, Turkey
Creative Director: Murat Do?u
Art Director / Retoucher: Ferdi Ça?layan
Copywriter: Moris Hasan
Published: July 2013