(TrendHunter.com) If you are a tiny desert city surrounded by the exploding architectural gems of Dubai and capital city Abu Dhabi, what do you do? You go big.
Only 250,000 people live in Ras Al Khaimah, but they plan…
(TrendHunter.com) While we’re certainly not out of the water yet, oil prices have fallen noticeably. The national average is now $3.403, which provides an excellent opportunity to point out all of the fun badass gas guzzlers…
(TrendHunter.com) When Neiman Marcus offers up their ridiculous Christmas gift idea, it always inspires a lot of interest. One of this year’s ideas is the super-studly Fighter Motorcycle from the Confederate Motor Company.…
Portland’s ID Branding brought home some One Show Design love for its packaging of Lovejoy Vodka, an Integrity Spirits’ brand.
There is so much to love about our client Integrity Spirits. First, it’s a Portland distillery that makes small batch, hand-crafted spirits. Second, it’s run by two passionate and talented young guys who happen to be best friends. Third, there’s the taste-testing.
[NOTE] If you’d like to see your work appear in this new AdPulp series, and you’re based in ID, OR, WA, BC or AK, let me know: dburn AT adpulp DOT com.
Electronics giant Best Buy has just opened a store in Aurora, Colorado that takes aim at a relatively unaddressed slice of the market–women. Best Buy polled their in-house Women’s Leadership Forum, also…
(TrendHunter.com) Bon Bon Kakku is a clever online marketplace for textile artists to upload images of their fabrics to be viewed and rated; the designs with the highest votes are sold on the site. Bon Bon Kakku expands…
This gets filed in the “if you say so” folder. A couple of scientists took a bunch of data collected about global perceptions of beauty into an algorithm that uses 234 measurements to take a photo of a…
(TrendHunter.com) Sven Andersson is the inventor of Bike Stand, an urban transport initiative from Sweden that is proposed for Australian cities. Bike Stand involves several underground installations that house bicycles…
(TrendHunter.com) When most people think of the Rioja region of Spain, they think of wine; the £388 million Logroño Montecorvo Eco City aims to add the word ‘sustainable’ to that connotation. The 56-hectare site (about…
ABC was the top-rated network last night during the presidential debate, making it the #1 network for both presidential debates and the VP debate according to our brother blog, TVNewser.
Awesome, except that one the other end, ABC may be losing some viewers due to their decision to refuse to wrong Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America during the debates. In fact, a digital campaign asking for folks to sign up in an attempt to peer-pressure the network to run the spot. As of right now, 130,069 people have signed on.
This just looks so bad for ABC. They aired a Chevron ad during the presidential debates, why not a green one?
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For the first time, New York City is allowing the 42 Street shuttle train to be branded with a wrap of the car’s outside. The History Channel is promoting “Cities of the Underworld” and will wrap the subway…
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To the uneducated viewer, Bikini Bandits might appear to be nothing more than eye-candy. However, the creator of the series, has much loftier ideas.
In fact, Gyro Worldwide CEO, Steve Grasse, sees Bikini Bandits as a post-feminist attack on the way women are portrayed in modern culture, especially by advertising.
According to the artist’s statement on The Arcadia Project (which he describes as “a sequence of five projects that together form a phenomenology of attentional economics and American pop culture at the beginning of the 21st century):
Advertising usually presents women as passive objects who are acted upon. And the consumption that advertising promotes–though it may be dressed up as an act of rebellion–is equally passive. Before the retail environment swallowed the natural world, satisfaction was wrested by violent force from the land. Today satisfaction is not longer a visceral atavistic exchange but a hollow, symbolic one, obtained by calmly waiting in line and exchanging symbols of credit for symbols of desire.
With the Bikini Bandits, I restored the old sense of blood-and-guts dominion to the act of consumption and the feminine form.
It’s copy like that leaves me dumbfounded. I don’t know whether to stand up and cheer, or roll around on the floor in a fit of laughter.
(TrendHunter.com) The Blackberry Storm isn’t the only invention named for or inspired by the weather–it’s just the latest. At Trend Hunter, we’ve noticed how widespread our fascination with the weather truly is, whether…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re into hot Sarah Palin photos, you may be one of the same people who would want a Sarah Palin love doll.
It was really only a matter of time before Sarah Palin became the theme of some adult…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a simply brilliant idea that promotes Egypt and reading in one creative package. This translation combines the famous rabbit that wears fluffy clothes with the British Museum’s world-renowned expertise…
AIG was recently taken to task by the White House, Congress and Barack Obama for hosting a $440,000 conference that included expensive spa treatments for executives just days after the $85 billion federal bailout. Guess what? They’re going to hold another event and guess who’s paying it for it? You, me and your mama.
According to Bloomberg, the second event is to be held at Ritz-Carlton in California and is to help ‘motivate and educate’ about 150 independent agents the insurance.
AIG considered launching an ad campaign to explain its position. Thank god George Sard three PR consultant told them in an email message that it was “a really bad idea.”
You think M&C Saatchi New York, AIG’s agency of record, would want any piece of this? You guys are getting too twisted for advertising to mess around with. Who do you think we are – the tobacco industry? Note to the banking sector: You’ve been very very bad and no, we don’t want your war. Sorry. You’re riding solo on this one.
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