Top 100 Art & Design Trends for 2018 – From Floating Magnetic Timepieces to Soap-Free Dishwashers (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These 2018 art and design trends make it clear that, as the maxim holds, home is where the heart is. In a year when the happenings in the world at large weren’t viewed as particularly pleasant…

Old Navy: Jingle Jammies Jam

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Old Navy: Do The HOLIYAY Dance

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Cicatricure: Marks – The Commander

Cicatricure is a cream that facilitates the disappearance of scars. The idea is to show the memories that are marked and can´t be eliminated: for the rest of the marks there is Cicatricure.

Cicatricure: Marks – The Family

Cicatricure is a cream that facilitates the disappearance of scars. The idea is to show the memories that are marked and can´t be eliminated: for the rest of the marks there is Cicatricure.

Cicatricure: Marks – The Puppy

Cicatricure is a cream that facilitates the disappearance of scars. The idea is to show the memories that are marked and can´t be eliminated: for the rest of the marks there is Cicatricure.

KLO: Dogs, 1

KLO: Dogs, 2

KLO: Dogs, 3

Kit Kat: Finger

Kit Kat: Head

Kit Kat: Foot

The road to the end

It is hard to see the mountain as a dead body. It is equivalent to texting while driving where you not realize it’s like heading to your death.

Twin Cities YMCA: Mothership

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Twin Cities YMCA: Goat-i-corn

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Awards Season Is Here and Trump Wants in With His 'Dishonest & Corrupt Media Awards'


And then Tuesday evening, perhaps feeling left out of the looming awards seasonThe 75th annual Golden Globes will air this coming Sundayhe announced his own show:

We have so many questions, including:

Who will dominate? CNN? The New York Times? The Washington Post?

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Fashion and Brand Photog Terry Richardson, Banned by Conde Nast, Now Under NYPD Scrutiny


Photographer Terry Richardson, whose often risqu images have been featured in A-list fashion magazines as well as in ad campaigns for leading fashion brands, is under investigation by the New York Police Department, according to a report that appears in this morning’s Daily News. The paper’s Brian Niemietz and Nancy Dillon write that the NYPD’s Special Victims Squad is on the case and that,

Multiple women confirmed Tuesday that investigators from the elite unit have reached out in recent weeks, asking for sit-down meetings regarding the lurid lensman. The development follows a Dec. 15 cover story in The News detailing new allegations of sexual assault against the 52-year-old former fashion industry star who’s shot everyone from Beyonc and Miley Cyrus to President Obama. Ex-model Caron Bernstein stepped forward in the piece with claims Richardson invited her to collaborate on an edgy, topless photo shoot at his Manhattan studio in 2003 and ambushed her with a sex assault.

Richardson had previously made headlines in October when The Telegraph reported that he’d been quietly but thoroughly banned by a glossy media empire that had kept him in steady employ. The U.K. paper’s Ben Riley-Smith and Nick Allen reported then that,

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NFL Playoffs Preview: Advertisers Are Going to Miss the Cowboys and the Packers


Surrounded by a cast of would-be ratings detectives, the NFL this year functioned as the corpse in an English murder mysteryonly in this case the body at the center of the conversation remains in rude good health and the only Brit in the mix (or at least the only one that comes to mind) is Eagles running back Jay Ajayi. Despite enduring a 9 percent seasonal drop in viewership, pro football in 2017 continues to leave pretty much every other flavor of TV programming in the dustwhich goes a long way toward explaining why the NFL’s network partners still managed to eke out slight year-over-year increases in revenue from in-game ads.

Unfortunately for broadcasters and the advertisers who are lining up to buy time in the NFL playoffs, the erosion that characterized the last 17 weeks may only accelerate in the postseason.

For starters, three of the top five highest-rated NFL franchisesDallas, Green Bay and Seattlewill be watching the playoffs from home, thereby eliminating what would have been a rematch of last season’s most-watched playoff broadcast. (The heart-stopping Jan. 15 Divisional Round showdown between the Packers and Cowboys on Fox last year averaged a towering 48.5 million viewers and a 26.1 household rating, making it the year’s second-biggest draw, behind only the Super Bowl.)

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Del Monte Foods Brings on Doner LA as Lead Agency


Doner is on a roll: After a 65 percent revenue increase in 2017 over the prior year, the shop is taking on a fresh challenge as it picks up Del Monte Foods, a giant in the beleaguered packaged fruit and vegetable category.

The MDC agency’s Los Angeles office won the business following a review run by SRI. The agency will officially lead strategy and creative across traditional, digital, social, web, CRM and shopper marketing for all Del Monte brands in May 2018, but effective immediately, Doner will handle the brand strategy for Del Monte Vegetable and Contadina brands.

In 2016, Del Monte Foods, which includes the namesake Del Monte brand, College Inn, S&W, Contadina and more, consolidated its marketing services under Epsilon and named the agency creative agency of record. Representatives from Epsilon declined to comment.

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A Do’s and Don’ts Guide to CES 2018

It’s that time of the year, when you see the first CES events, parties and panels trickle into your email inbox. For some, this brings memories of previous shenanigans and client dinners; for others, it signals that their 2018 roadmap could probably use a refresh. Or perhaps a restart. In either case, going to Las…