(TrendHunter.com) Culturegraph.com incorporates and creates pop culture graphs, which include flowcharts, calendars and maps, collectively on one website.
They monitored the massive Internet following that was started on Flickr “song chart meme” and wanted to incorporate this Internet sensation to focus not only on…
I’ve heard people complaining about these new “green” ads for Wal-Mart, but you really have to see them yourself for the full effect. Sure, Wal-Mart’s been talking about cutting down on its planet-raping for a few years now, but is this how you sell it? With each preachy TV spot, the call to action is, “If every Wal-Mart shopper, all 200 million of us, bought one of these, then the Earth would cease its inexorable descent into a strip-mined wasteland.†So, instead of showing that it’s following through on serious, long-term corporate commitments to eco-friendly practices, the company is just tossing the job back in the consumer’s lap. The ads get extra demerits for smug delivery, forced natural backdrops and a blatant rip-off of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s beautiful “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.†Check out the other two spots after the jump. Via Ads of the World.
—Posted by David Griner
(TrendHunter.com) How delightful are these sperm-inspired earrings? With their kewpie heads and sperm-shaped bodies, what else should a designer name them other than “Spermies?”
They sell for $25 on Etsy.com and they do look swimmingly on.
Breaking with a 112-year tradition, the Boston Marathon will put corporate ads on the start and finish lines of Monday’s race promoting its two main sponsors: John Hancock Financial Services and Adidas. “It’s not like they are up in the air, blocking anyone’s view or anything like that,†says Dorothy Ferriter, who heads the marathon committee in Hopkinton, Mass., where the race begins, 26.2 miles from the Back Bay finish line. I wish they’d change the course, because the runners go right past my front door, and all the spectators barbecue and toss their trash in the courtyard. Maybe the South End could host the race. Boston University could build the proposed bio-terror lab in my neighborhood instead—it’d actually be less disruptive. Rosie Ruiz once “won†the Boston Marathon by taking the subway. I’m with her: I’ll risk a quick grope over shin splits and dehydration any day.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Tired of other brands like Philips Norelco getting all the plaudits for groundbreaking and edgy work, Gillette has decided to get in to the “sex sells ” game.
(TrendHunter.com) I don’t know how I feel about this Ferrari cell phone. On the one hand, I love miniatures, on the other hand the phone looks kitschy as hell. But that’s just my opinion. The little Ferrari has 2.2 inch touch-sensitive LCD display, USB connectivity, MP3 and picture and video camera. This little toy w…
Given how much online gaming has cut into tabletop, pen-and-paper role-playing’s profit margins, it’s only natural that Dungeons and Dragons would fight back with an ad like this. (The ad is from a couple years ago—see the full image here.) It’s a funny blow struck in a generally annoying nerd argument, the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Dream Theater vs. Dragonforce debate. And it makes a good point. If you want to kill Orcs with your friends, why not do it together? Just don’t run out of snacks.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
LONDON – Global Radio is teaming up with experts in the travel industry to launch a weekly travel programme on LBC hosted by Simon Calder, travel editor of The Independent newspaper.
LONDON – Keith Jones, the former group leader of UK services at Acxiom, is to join data management company Qbase as its first commercial director.
LONDON – Global Radio is teaming up with experts in the travel industry to launch a new weekly travel programme. Simon Calder, The Independent’s travel editor, will host the weekly LBC show as part of Global Radio’s on-going strategy to focus on travel, both commercially and editorially.
(TrendHunter.com) The tankless Neorest AH by Japanese Toto is a water-saving hybrid toilet that uses both inboard and outside water sources of about 5.5 litres per flush campared to the wasteful 13 litres used by traditional tank-type models.
Other features include warm water and gentle warm-air drying built into th…
(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…
LONDON – Unicef hopes to raise vital funds through the global rollout of its virtual gift-giving programme, Inspired Gifts.
LONDON – UNICEF hopes to raise vital funds through the global roll out of its virtual gift giving programme, Inspired Gifts.
Orbital founder Paul Hartnoll has created the soundtrack for the latest Volkswagen Golf ad by DDB.
(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…
(TrendHunter.com) The unique and sexy “Her” Chair by designer Fabio Novembre draws inspiration from the body of a curvy female. The design has the right curves and contours to hug your body for an exciting and comfortable rest.
The “Her” Chair, which is being produced by Casamania, is currently showcased at the Mila…
On the heels of last week’s Erik Estrada commercial for Bloom, BooneOakley stages a mock rebellion for the supermarket chain featuring jealous muffin bottoms who are incensed over Bloom’s sale of scrumptious muffin tops. There’s a Web site, a MySpace page and more online antics—but why confine the hilarity to the Internet? The promotion includes events in several South Carolina locations (including Clemson U.) at which “the four members of C.R.U.M.B., the Coalition of Really United Muffin Bottoms, crash an ostensible Bloom promotion for its new line of blueberry muffin tops.†They’re known as “Bloomberry Muffins,†by the way. A few years back, Bloom dropped a giant jumbo muffin from one of its billboards, crushing a car below. All good reasons to avoid South Carolina. (Kidding. Great state. Tasty muffins.) In the videos, it’s not clear which muffin Erik Estrada plays.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
LONDON – Fun Text, a mobile phone application that combines the text-based content of SMS with the rich media of MMS, is to provide its service to customers of mobile phone network 3.
LONDON – WFCA looks set to scoop the £15m UK ad account for French financial services company Axa after its competitor Euro RSCG was knocked out of the two-way final round.
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