Fingerprint Paintings – Inspiration Across the Nation Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) Inspiration Across the Nation is a new campaign The Library of Congress is running to encourage people to inspire others to reach their potential. To participate, all you have to do is send the library your poems, essays, films, pictures or any type of art form you excel at and which can be transfer…

Plantvertising to Go Green – Adidas Grün Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) Adidas has gone green with its advertising campaign. The advertisement, which is suspected to be for its Grün range of footwear, is made of bushes with the iconic three stripes placed using three strips of wood.

High Gloss Mini Cans – Coke Slims

(TrendHunter.com) Coke has released their Coke Slim cans all over UK. The Coke Slim is being directly targeting at young women, the idea being the design being that it can easily fit inside the purse. Women don’t want to sacrifice the space they would store their makeup, gadgets and other essentials, but they’re also…

Death of Pinball – Is it Gameover? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is something pretty disturbing which I saw while hunting for trends. Although trendhunter.com tends to look at the future and upbeat finds, I just had to give this a mention. According to the New York Times, there is only one company left that mass produces the Pinball machine. Stern Pinball In…

Motorcycle Tow Trucks – Honda Goldwings Coming Through (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish firm Coming Through has employed specially modified Honda Goldwing motorcycles to quickly travel through traffic and rescue stranded vehicles.

The specially designed bike takes little over a minute to convert to its towing glory, powerful enough to haul most passenger cars. The foldable br…

Movie Inspired Fashion – Sex And The City Lingerie (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Coinciding with the release of the much awaited movie version of Sex And The City, Bare Necessities has created the Cosabella Lingerie Collection ($22-$162), inspired by the fearsome foursome. Each of the characters Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte or Miranda, has their own collection. So you can choose …

Hair’s Point of View – Head and Shoulders Ad Gives You New Perspective (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ad agency Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi have produced clever outdoor and in-store ads for the “The Head & Shoulders Point of View” campaign. The ads literally show you the Hair’s point of view.

The ads give a bird’s eye view of the hair of iconic figures like the Mona Lisa sending out the mess…

Branded Recycling – “Drink 2 Wear” Fashion Made of Old Coke Bottles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) To the brim with complaints from environmental activists that their plastic bottles are clogging up landfills, Coke has come up with a unique solution: turning recycled bottles into “Drink 2 Wear” apparel.

T-shirts that read, “Make your plastic fantastic” and “Rehash your trash” will appear at nea…

Sit-Down Cereal Cafes – Cereality (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) According to the co founders of Cereality, David Roth and Rick Bacher, Cereality is a “Home for Cereal away from home.”

Cereality is the first outlet that sells nothing but cereal. Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe, which opened its first sit-down cafe Wednesday on the University of Pennsylvania campus…

Wine Trial by Vial – WineSide Test Tube Samples

(TrendHunter.com) Fine wine is often an art kept to connoisseurs and other “cultured,” snobby people. But for the rest of us, how do we select a wine without letting our ignorance take the better of us? People who are not too well informed of the right year or region now have the ability to sample a selection of fine…

Plastic Surgery Kids Books – My Beautiful Mommy by Dr. Michael Salzhauer

(TrendHunter.com) Dr. Michael Salzhauer, who is a plastic surgeon, has written an illustrated book for children to help them understand why their mother looks different. In 2007, 348,000 women had plastic surgery in the USA for various different kinds of procedures ranging from breast augmentation, face lifts, tummy …

Mini-Notebooks the New Text Book? – $500 HP 2133 Mini-Note PC

(TrendHunter.com) Last week HP introduced the HP 2133, a full-function, mini-notebook designed for students with a price tag of US $500. The Mini-Note PC allows students to bring it comfortably from school to home or to any place where they might continue studying.

At slightly more than 2½ lbs (1.150 gr), the HP M…

DIY Braille – AccuBraille Adds Dots Everywhere

(TrendHunter.com) AccuBraille is a new module which enables the embossing of Braille dots on all sorts of packages. Braille is now mandatory in the EU on pharmaceutical packaging. This was enough for Bobst, the well-known Swiss manufacturer of cardboard processing machines, to dedicate a team of 5 people for 18 mont…

Recyclable Retail – ‘NoStore’ Offers Artisans Retail Space for Just One Week

(TrendHunter.com) The NoStore store is a “recyclable” retail space located in Shanghai’s Metro that offers artists retail space for just one week. As a result, the contents and theme of the store change every week. The concept is dynamic and also provides artisans with an accessible outlet for their unique products…

Shoe Vending – Onitsuka Tiger’s Sneaker Vending Machine

(TrendHunter.com) “Do you have change for a hundred? Yeah, I have a real hankering today for a pair of those new shoes.” Shoe manufacturer, Onitsuka Tiger, has placed a shoe vending machine on Carnaby Street in London. They are selling their new red/blue/white Mexico 66s in 6 sizes directly from an electronic vending…

Commercializing Religion – The Pope is for Sale (and His Bobble Head) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “The pope is for sale,” ntoes the New York Daily News. Pope Benedict XVI’s imminent visit to the United States has unleashed a totally expected wave of commercialism. The article notes, “Memorabilia on sale at the (St Patrick’s Cathedral) Fifth Ave. house of worship ranges from a $4 Pope Benedict bo…

Easy Packaging for Pain Relief – Richard Fine’s Help Removes Bottle Opening Headaches (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “Help” is the name of a new branded product by Richard Fine. The products packaging which is made from a soft molded paper pulp and 100% recycled materials. Mocoloco says of the designer’s creative process that, “Fine’s response(to the confusion created by the plethora of pharmacy pain relief prod…

Prescription Video Games – Sony PSP Ad Portrays Games as a Dose of Fun (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a new ad campaign from advertising agency Euro RSCG, Buenos Aires, Argentina for Sony PSP portable. I don’t quite understand the concept behind the pills. Are they supposed to help us visualize how small and “portable” the product is? In any event, each poster comes with its own slogan: “Adr…

Hygienic Shockvertizing II – Wash your Hands (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is an ad for an instant hand sanitizer from advertising agency EURO RSCG in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is not as nastily graphic as the one TrendHunter published a few days ago but it drives the message home.

I like the way this ad cleverly shows some of the junk our hands come in contact wit…

Shaving Ads – Philips Arcitecs’ Hairy Apple (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hairy Apple is an ad Philips is running in Bucharest Romania. It says, “The new Philips Arcitec has a shaving head that pivots with a full range of motion to give a perfectly close shave. Even on the most difficult to reach parts of your neck.

The images: the Elvis, Punk, and Afro.

Tattoo Shaving…