(TrendHunter.com) A fun guerrilla campaign to promote Pantene Anti-Breakage Shampoo has just been deployed in Toronto, Canada.
The campaign uses enormous braids a la Rapunzel that dangle from buildings, complete with a dummy of a man climbing them. The obvious nod to the well-known fairytale is used to demonstrate…
(TrendHunter.com) Criss Angel, the young rock magician and escape artist, is collaborating with Cirque du Soleil to launch Believe, a new Las Vegas show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino.
The teaser for the much-anticipated show has finally been launched, and can be seen above.
The show kicks off in about five months…
(TrendHunter.com) Omadaka has created a new video for the chiptune disco track “Kyoteizinc,†featuring the computer tweaked dance moves of Masako Yasumoto.
The Omodaka creative project adopts a process which they describe as “trial and error process of mutational fusion of music and motion graphics”.
The so…
(TrendHunter.com) Frustrated that so much potential green space was being wasted in their cities, groups of “guerrilla gardeners” have organized late night sneak outs which involve planting miniature gardens around town.
Their goal is to transform previously neglected public spaces into green havens for urbanites t…
(TrendHunter.com) Frantic Milanese shoppers are being catapulted from their hypnotic states as they witness the reverberation of their reflections projected in front of them. The images are displayed across an interactive sculpture installed in the window of the forthcoming Diesel store in Piazza San Babila, Milan.
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(TrendHunter.com) VEIL is a shimmering curtain comprised of 1440 1440 Swarovski crystals. It was created by Paul Cocksedge for the Swarovski Crystal Palace in Milan.
The four meter high curtain appears to transforms when you see its reflection in a mirror as it creates a fantastic optical illusion of da Vinci’s Mon…
(TrendHunter.com) Swedish designers Front created Randomly Crystallised which is a collection of vases and lights for the Swarovski Crystal Palace, a high-end crystal and glass store.
The pieces were made by combining cut crystals with hard blown liquid crystal.
“Front has experimented with crystal as a material,…
(TrendHunter.com) The unique Beating Heart art by Billy Chasen was presented at the American Heart Association’s 2008 Heart of New York Gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City.
I am not sure how to describe it, watch the video above as the heart sprays blood all over the inside of a glass cube and come u…
(TrendHunter.com) More frequently than ever before, superstar artists are finding their videos leaked to YouTube. Although the record labels attempt to control the piracy, it is usually quite easy to find new versions of hit songs.
The latest victim is Fergie. Labels or Love, the new song by Fergie has been leaked…
(TrendHunter.com) This year’s Milan furniture fair has produced really beautiful work by different design studies, including Front Design Studio. The Swedish company exhibited their “Shade†project at Spazio Rossana Orlandi using standard silhouettes of household items to produce really beautiful paper shading. E…
(TrendHunter.com) Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous “toon” universe.
Jessica Rabbit was “untooned” and made to look lifelike and the result is prett…
(TrendHunter.com) Project Or is a vortex-shaped surface installation at the Milan Furniture Fair 2008.
When in the shade, Project Or, which reacts to ultra-violet light, turns a transluscent white and when hit by the sun, the segments become colored with different hues. At night, Or turns into a huge chandelier.
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(TrendHunter.com) Wedding season is finally upon us. If you’re looking for tips for a traditional wedding, you’d better leave now. If you’re looking for cutting edge and quirky, read on!
The following bits of trend candy highlight some of the top innovations for your special day, from high tech engagement rings lik…
(TrendHunter.com) One of the Wal-mart billionaires decided that the world wide headquarters for Wal-mart, Bentonville, Arkansas, needed a world-class art institution.
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art will be dedicated to American art and artists. Over 100,000 square feed with a 25 seat auditorium will be …
(TrendHunter.com) Remember that scene in Charlie’s Angels where Cameron Diaz danced around in her undies? Or when Britney Spears did the same in Cross Roads? If not, I’m sure you can imagine… and somehow I have a feeling a good lot of you have done some of your own panty prancing.
If the urge strike again soon, m…
(TrendHunter.com) A good idea gets copied. A great idea infects like the plague, multiplying like rabbits on crack.
The creatives behind Improv Everywhere are the masters of guerrilla marketing. It was cool enough when they got 200 people at to pose for Frozen Grand Central Station in New York to freeze in their tr…
(TrendHunter.com) The unique “Space Book” art installation by designer Jin-Hui Kim is not your usual pop-up book.
For starters, it is so gigantic that it features whole spaces completely furnished open up like a pop-up book.
You can simply walk into the story.
I could see the concept working in museums or exposit…
(TrendHunter.com) Talk about a dramatic performance.
Earlier this month, Japanese pianist Yosuke Yamashita plopped down on the bench of grand piano as it went up in flames. Fortunately, he played it safe by not only jumping into a fireproof suit pre-performance, but his seaside location was also thought through.
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(TrendHunter.com) Dutch Atelier Van Lieshout has their Sensory Deprivation Skull on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a new Gallery in Mayfair, London, designated to furniture. A chair you can sit in with the doors closed and without any disturbance from the outside world. Even with a cosy sheepskin!
Joep van L…
(TrendHunter.com) Working in advertising for some of the world’s big brands introduced me to the fantastic world of event organizing. Europe is the perfect place to find innovative ideas to promote brand launches and events. The Puffershere, for example, is a phenomenal way to display multimedia shows. So what is thi…
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