(TrendHunter.com) I have never seen a more moving animation than this PSA entitled “Burma Viral,†from the beautiful imagery and soul-touching music to the potent message. The 90 second clip was created by Shilo for MTV and Ogilvy to bring awareness to Burma, or Myanmar.
The animated public service announcement…
(TrendHunter.com) The Solid car was designed by Nikita Gutsalenko, a student at the Product Design and Transport Design at the Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Russia. The aim of Gutsalenko’s design is to help solve the issue of overcrowded parking spaces.
The concept car comes with the standard safety f…
Insound is showing their love for music with a new “Give More. Get More.” program to help change the way people think about and purchase music.
The “Give More†aspect is called “Show Support.†Insound now donates 25 cents for every MP3 album sold to a young, touring band (hence “Show Su…
(TrendHunter.com) The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland promotes their diverse and open nature with a message of “Room for faith you consider yours†in a campaign that depicts Jesus as a female and a black man.
My favorite however is a hip dude Jesse who “really digs ya, man,†which continues with “A…
(TrendHunter.com) Hardcore, New Finnish Design is presenting Noa Bembibre and her Glass Knives collection during New York Design Week 2008.
“Bembibre’s glass knives combine the very ancient roots of design – transforming rocks into tools – with innovative contemporary kitchenware design,†HardcoreDesign s…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Ikea has inked a deal with "The Sims 2" to provide an online content package, The Sims 2 Ikea Home Stuff, available in late June. And H&M, which signed on with the game last year to provide The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, is pushing its partnership from virtual world to real world.
(TrendHunter.com) Be warned Starbucks, McDonald’s is making a very strong push to promote its coffee. Following the unusual Sort Your Head outdoors campaign, Alma DDB has created a fun print ad campaign promoting McDonald’s premium roast coffee.
The “Wake up with a premium roast coffee” campaign features wind-up toy…
For all the talk of fancy-schmancy agency site redesigns lately, I’m far more impressed with this limited-time reskinning of RedTettemer.com. That’s Creative Media Strategist Rachel Timmerman posing à la Miley in the agency lobby. Philadelphia-based Red Tettemer occasionally switches up the look of its front page, and this week it appears they caught the Cyrus virus with a beautiful shot by photographer Chris Sembrot. I e-mailed Timmerman about the homage, and it sounds like she’s just yet another young starlet being steamrolled by an industry of sweet-talking jackals. “I was enjoying a private moment ideating when someone snapped this shot,†Timmerman said. “At first I was nervous and a little embarrassed — but now that I’ve seen it, I think it’s really artsy, not…you know…skanky. If this proves controversial, I know my support team and my faith will help me through this journey.â€
—Posted by David Griner
(TrendHunter.com) Those with a modern sense of style and a dwelling to match will appreciate the ‘Architect’s Bird Feeder’ .
Architect Doug Patt designed the contemporary feeder out of bullet-proof polycarbonate. Why bullet-proof? I can only assume that the material’s clearness and durability was his rationale…
(TrendHunter.com) My father, a German living in Beijing, sent me a beautiful article from Bild.de, the online version of a popular German newspaper. It was a moving piece that was supplemented with touching photos like those in the gallery. It got me thinking how a natural disaster can leave over 42,000 individuals k…
LONDON – Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has launched an attempt to replace Yahoo’s 10-person board – a move aimed at pressuring the company into reopening takeover talks with Microsoft.
(TrendHunter.com) Insound is showing their love for music with a new “Give More. Get More.” program to help change the way people think about and purchase music.
The “Give More†aspect is called “Show Support.†Insound now donates 25 cents for every MP3 album sold to a young, touring band (hence “Show Su…
(TrendHunter.com) No matter what your product, people want choice. Radius, a earphones manufacturer, realized the need to address this demand which is why they are offering their TruTune line of headphones in just about every colour of the rainbow — the ten shades of the iPod Nano — so there’s one guaranteed to mat…
One of my biggest gripes about the market is that it seems like we're always talking to ourselves. By we, I mean U.S. Hispanic ad agencies. Every Hispanic industry event it seems like we're preaching to the choir. We need an advocate that spreads the word down the client halls and throughout corporate America.
Last week, writer Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek wrote a collaborative article with Twitter users. The compilation took several days and generated more than 250 contributions, including quotes and citizen reporting.
(TrendHunter.com) The EMC (easy mobile calling) phone by designer Matthias Pinkert is targeted at growing baby boomer demographic. As they age, designers are trying to come up with products and designs to keep them up to date with technology while still taking their age into consideration.
The EMC phone features fou…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A day after its companywide presentation to ad buyers, CBS Corp. has acquired CNet Networks, owner of sites such as News.com, TV.com and MP3.com, for $1.8 billion. The deal unites two content companies — one that is trying to figure out how it can make its broadcast TV business model relevant in the digital space and the other a web pioneer that is facing a swath of new online competition.
What does the store of the future look like? It has digital components, of course, a few less employees, and in all likelihood a giant screen that lets consumers virtually interact with merchandise with the touch of a finger. That's what Avenue/A Razorfish is betting anyway.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Could Carl Icahn be Microsoft's white knight? The financier hopes to reprise the Microhoo saga as he launches a proxy fight today for Yahoo by nominating and alternative slate of directors to Yahoo's board.
Any company winding down has an obligation to dispose of its assets. That’s a lesson being learned right now by Firebrand, the defunct Web venture and TV show that featured nothing but commercials as content. When Firebrand got doused, its Facebook group smoldered on.Now Chris Abraham, a PR guru doofus who helped craft Firebrand’s social media strategy, is using the Firebrand TV group to pitch random stuff to the 581 lingering members. Yesterday, more than two months after Firebrand faded to black, I got a Facebook message from Chris with “an offer for bloggers in the house†to get a review copy of a self-help book. Awesome, just what I wanted. Obviously, when I signed up to keep updated on Firebrand, I was also expressing my desire to review self-help books. Tres contextual. When I contacted Chris about why he’s sending me this crap, he said that Firebrand still owed him money, so he’s using the group until they pay him. The moral: When you turn out the lights and lock the doors, make damn sure you gathered up all the keys.
—Posted by Brian Morrissey
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