Top 40 Travel Ideas in May – From Supportive Airplane Head Rests to Female-Only Capsule Hotels (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) The May 2016 travel trends reveal that companies are not only interested in changing the way consumers travel, but also where they are traveling to. Indeed, companies are increasingly working to…

Top 30 Transportation Innovations in May – From Heavy-Duty Electric Trucks to Invisible Urban Trains (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) 3D-printed planes, virtually invisible trains and pedal-powered cars are just a few of the top May 2016 transportation ideas that are emerging to improve the way people get around in the near future….

Unmas @MinesweeperGame on Instagram (2016) (Denmark)

Unmas @MinesweeperGame on Instagram (2016) (Denmark)
UNMAS has created a playable minesweeper game on Instagram, you can Start here at minesweeper and test your luck. I only got a few tiles in before I hit a mine and had a leg blown off.

Podcasts Surge, but Producers Fear Apple Isn’t Listening

The podcast has soared in popularity. But there’s not much money in it for Apple, the genre’s creator, leaving many in the community feeling neglected.

What Do Consumers Want? Look at Their Selfies

Companies are paying to have people to take selfies with their products to learn about consumer behavior, and marketers say the insights are eye-opening.

Connected Hybrid Guitars – The Sensus Smart Guitar Blends Acoustic and Modern Sounds (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Sensus smart guitar is an incredibly unique musical instrument and technological innovation that is designed to make it easier than ever for players to enjoy the sounds of an instruments that…

Cityscape Sport Sneakers – The Air Jordan 10 Celebrate the City of Chicago and the Bulls NBA Team (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Air Jordan 10 ‘Chicago’ sport sneakers pay tribute to the culture and sport heritage of the popular American city with a colorway that honors both the Bulls basketball team and the…

Top 100 Eco Ideas in May – From Portable At-Home Greenhouses to Hotel Gardening Initiatives (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) As the May 2016 eco trends reveal, consumers and businesses are becoming increasingly concerned with the issue of food waste. As a result, there has been a growing demand for new products and…

CATS wants to fill a tube station with cats instead of ads

In silly kickstarter news of the week, there’s a bunch of renegade creatives (a.k.a Glimpse who want to create positive social change) are attempting raise enough money to plaster a London tube stations with pictures of cats instead of ads. If you donate over £100 you can even feature your own cat in the cat-anti-ads. Cads? Meowertising? I don’t know what to call non-ads with cats.

The kickstarter is created by The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service, ie: (CATS) – they’re confident that they can do ten posters with their £23,000 goal. If they get even more money, such as the lofty stretch goal sum of £75,000 “we could do Oxford Circus or something.”

We know this is a silly project. But what if we did this around the whole country, or in every major city in the world? Cats everywhere!

Dumb yes, but also this is about trying something, flexing our collective voice in the most idiotic of ways. From all this madness something amazing could happen. Perhaps we’ll start to realise that buying stuff isn’t making us happy.

Maybe cats won’t make us happy either, but it’s got to be better than insurance adverts. Maybe during this moment of cat related calm we might have a brilliant thought, or a dumb one or even… spend a moment thinking about nothing at all.

Do watch the kickstarter video, there’s a little blond girl with a guitar and the most adorable lisp I’ve ever heard saying but one word in it and I almost donated just for that. Creatives trying to change the world, by advertising, may seem a little ironic to some – but at least they’re ambitious. Taking over all of Oxford circus with cats. Why not? If you pledge £5 you’ll get an ad blocker that replaces all the ads online with pictures of cats instead. If you like that sort of thing you’ll love the chrome plugin make America Kittens again right now, as it replaces all images of Trump with pictures of cats. Since he’s all over the news lately, all I see all day is kittens.

ESPN – Movies Can Wait / Queue (2016) :30 (USA)

ESPN - Movies Can Wait / Queue (2016) :30 (USA)
ESPN are flaunting what they do that those streaming network and subscriber TV channels don’t do – and that is air games live. An entire campaign has been created around this insight, illustrating the urgency of ESPN’s live content and how other media – like social or streaming media – can simply wait.

In this ad, a woman flipping through her movie queue, contemplating her options based on a recommendations algorithm. But then she realizes her team is about to play a potentially historic game on ESPN and unlike a movie, she must watch the game right then or be left out. This would indeed be the only reason I’d get ESPN, I’m a football (soccer to you US folks) addict.

Female cinematographers create International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC)

Women who work as cinematographers can now join an international group called the “International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC)”, created to giving public face their “often overlooked” minority in the industry. Their website icfcfilm.com has a database of the women who behind the camera, and list their skillsets so you know what they’re good at. The ICFC hold local events for members, while the database serves as a global job site if you need to find a qualified DP anywhere in the world.

In their official launch statement they explain: “The aim of the collective and web presence is to establish that female Directors of Photography are not, in fact, an anomaly…Individually ICFC members identify as simply Cinematographers — without gender qualifiers. However, as a group, they’ve found it useful to organize around gender until such time as women cease to be perceived as statistical anomalies or token hires behind the lens.

“Though they are indeed technical wizards, Female DPs are by no means magical or imaginary; our rarity is often overstated, while our under-employment is frequently overlooked.”

You can find some of the current members on the website already, such as Tarin Anderson (depicted above), Sandra Valde, Liz Yarwood and Savannah Bloch.

Letter to my dear – 3000 generations grand-child to visualize nuclear waste (2016) (Sweden)

“Letter to my dear” has been created by the artist Lennart Grebelius, in collaboration with Forsman & Bodenfors to bring the question of our moral responsibility to future generations to the fore. If you want to skip https://youtu.be/Pf9s68ZZoho?t=852directly to the letter and past all those “great great great”, do so as the letter itself is a long way in.

Nuclear waste has to be stored for 100,000 before it becomes safe for people, animals and nature itself. 100,000 years corresponds to 3,000 generations.

“The time perspective is dizzying and our responsibility for what we do today becomes so very obvious when you make it concrete. Do we really have the right to demand that the citizens of the future shall guard our radioactive rubbish?” says Lennart Grebelius.

The art project Letter to my dear is based on Grebelius’ book with the same title. Most of Grebelius’ earlier art projects revolve around time, chance and numbers, which is also very much the case for Letter to my dear where the 100,000 years are physically made visible. The core of the work is a letter to a child of a future generation.

Compact Camping Trailers – The Timberleaf is Scaled Down to Size for Functionality and Portability (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Since living on the road can require most consumers to scale down their possessions for portability, the Timberleaf is a compact camping trailer that is designed to provide motility as well as…

Red Cross – History lesson of crosses (2016) :30 (Belgium)

Red Cross - History lesson of crosses (2016) :30 (Belgium)
“This history lesson will give you goosebumps” says Duval Guillaume?, Belgium about this ad. Next Sunday is the international Red Cross Day, and Red Cross Belgium want to remind people how important their organisation is. In an extremely simple film, we see various types of crosses, coupled with the number of people killed in – presumably – the name of the crosses. Even the Swastika makes an appearance though some anglo people might not even realize it’s a hooked cross – “hakenkreuz” in German literally means hooked cross. Even the latin cross has a huge death toll attached to it, making me ponder if they’re counting crucifixions, as people are crucified on the latin cross to this day. Either way, it’s a really simple graphic idea that communicates quickly.

#Predatorwatch – using Instagram to scare sexual predators

#Predatorwatch - using Instagram to scare sexual predators
Cosette knows that Instagram is the most widely used social network for teenagers and kids, which also means it’s the most attractive social network for online predators to find and befriend kids on. So Cosette created special profiles, and posted images with the kind of tags these predators would search on, so that they’d find these user profiles. The grid layout of Instagram this becomes bars on a prison cell door.

I’m assuming predators don’t search on the tag #underage. I mean, do teens really post with that tag when they’re taking selfies? Really?

Monster Strike – Locker Room / Andy Samberg (2016) 1:50 (USA)

Monster Strike - Locker Room / Andy Samberg (2016) 1:50 (USA)
Andy Samberg is giving his best motivational speech while tripping balls. It’s all in the delivery, man.

Opulently Upgraded Cars – This Mitsuoka Special Edition Car Features Handmade Wire WHeels (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As far as luxury special edition cars, they truly do not come about as well engineered as this Brooklands offering.

This particular vehicle is intended to take its place as an upgrade over the…

180 LA's Snapchat geo-poaching vs the #FilterInfiltrator

Creative director Juan Davila Morris is probably not all that impressed with 180’s recent poaching tactic which uses Snapchat’s geofilters to tap those who work at competing local agencies. You see, Juan Davila Morris already did the same thing back in March when he was hunting for a new gig. It would’ve been hilarious if 180 tried to poach him with this method. Alas, 180 are looking specifically for a social media managed, and Juan is a Creative Director. Presto, you’ve been Badlanded, 180 LA. It happens to the best of us.

Top 5 mockup helpers Art Directors & Designers should know

Graphic Burger ‘Tasty design resources made with care for each pixel’, they say. If you need a bag, a coffee cup, a beer label, they will have your mockup image, for free. Just download the .psd, the UI kit, the icons, the 3D photoshop text effects, the background image, the wordpress template. You name it, they have it.

Speaking of templates, with Bootstrap you will save yourself hours of work creating a mobile first responsive design for the web. Thank me later.

Icons? We need icons. The Noun Project will have all the icons you can think of and then some.

Invisionapp is a design prototyping tool where your clients can comment directly on your work. When collaborating on things, this is extremely useful.

Also, nag everyone you know to get your portfolio on to Working not working. It’s like a VIP Linkedin for creatives only.

The amusing illustration showing the difference between Art Directors and Copywriters comes from Digital Synopsis. Know of more useful tools out there? Comment.

Blurred Supermodel Portraits – This Kendall Jenner Style Exclusive is Lensed by Karl Lagerfeld (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Kendall Jenner style exclusive is captured by Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld for V Magazine. The editorial boasts styling by the talented Amanda Harlech and graces the publication’s…