NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The nation's retailers today reported the weakest for the month of March since 1995, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, which tracks 80 retailers and takes into account sales at stores open at least a year, as well as total sales.
(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese inventor Chen Yugang has designed the perfect bike for a date. The two seater bicycle can be used face-to-face, to get to know your date; but also it can be used back-to-back for when you eventually fight and don’t want to look at each other.
His unique bicycle design can be ridden face-t…
Ãœber stay at home mommy blogger, Heather Armstong, a.k.a. “Dooce,” is often profiled in MSM.
Today, it’s Career Journal’s turn to mine for material.
Here’s what I learned this time:
Heather is also a really gifted photog, but that’s been established.
latest image from Dooce.com’s daily offering
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The marriage of AOL and Yahoo could be Christmas come early for Time Warner. One motivation for Time Warner to set up AOL up with Yahoo is to save its once high-flying internet child from being a distant last place player in the giant portal space; but even more, this is the perfect opportunity for the company to rid itself of its Achilles heel.
(TrendHunter.com) This amazing image comes from The Australian Postal Service.
The text in the background of the image appears to be wrapping around the hugging couple. It says, “If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter”.
Amazing optical illusion. Great ad.
(TrendHunter.com) The name of is this beautiful ambient lamp is “O”. Sounds like the title of a mildly erotic novel. Yanko Design says, “O†the spherical ambient lamp is made out of composite materials and consists of elegant art nouveau symbols illuminated at varying intensities by rotating a ring. The lamp can…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — There's no doubt the departure of "Project Runway" from Bravo will be closely watched, and not just on TV, when it makes the official move to Lifetime in November. In addition to the high-profile lawsuit NBC Universal filed April 7 against the Weinstein Co., the show's producers, a sponsorship war could be afoot as well.
Advertising Agency: JWT London, UK
Creative Director: Howard Willmott
Photographer: Laurent Seroussi
Retouchers: Maria Tall, Mark Boyle
Art Director: Ross Callow
Copywriter: Simon Bullett
Planner: Nicole Rulka
According to Ernie Schenck, Hill Holliday is settling into its new offices at 53 State St, Boston, MA 02109, USA.
Made with the help of solar energy.
Advertising Agency: Juniper Park, USA
Chief Creative Officers: Terry Drummond, Alan Madill, Barry Quinn
Art Director: Hylton Mann
Producers: John Silva, Debbie Ingham, Kathie Hintsa
Copywriter: Andy Linardatos
Client Service: Dana Brochu
Media: Angie Assa, Andrea Montano, Rachel Weinstein, Erika Munson
(TrendHunter.com) Recently Trend Hunter featured a cluster with 33 Lego inspired creations, and this quirky Lego Brick Calendar is a worthy addition to these ever popular and geeky lego designs.
This playful 10,000 Year Desktop Calendar features three blocks (yellow, red, white) that you can assemble and rearrange a…
(TrendHunter.com) Garbage as design is a modern art form that seems to be on the rise, as the push to become environmentally innovative grows stronger. A different approach to this green art form is this recent guerrilla campaign featuring animals made of recycled garbage bags. Art student Joshua Alan Harris literall…
You might remember the Cadbury Gorilla spot we wrote about a while back. The question was posed:
Is it a worthwhile piece of content simply because it makes people watch? Or is it missing the boat because it has no connection to the brand?
Well, something as unique (and bizarre) as a gorilla drumming to Phil Collins is hard to top, but Cabral and Fallon have certainly done their best.
Both the drumming gorilla and this new spot share a bizarre semi-disconnect from the brand, and a similar feeling of enjoyment and satisfaction. And as touchy as I am at the use of Queen, this spot does it beautifully, just as the Gorilla did justice to “In The Air Tonight.” And then there’s the whole whole Cadburyesque purple sky, which is creatively beautiful.
Does it work? Can the “campaign” be continued successfully (and if so, does this accomplish it?) or was the drumming gorilla enough?
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) — The entertainment industry has just gotten a peek at Tom Cruise, version 3.0, and it appears to like what it sees.
(TrendHunter.com) This homoerotic recreation of Leonardo’s Last Supper has offended a Viennese cardinal, making it second piece of modern art on Trend Hunter we’ve known to offend the church.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, archbishop of Vienna, described the image as “a homosexual orgy” of Apostles, which he found …
(TrendHunter.com) Schools in the UK can now dress their students in a uniform made entirely from old Coca-Cola bottles, which will help them meet their carbon footprint targets.
New advances in flaking, chipping and spinning plastic at a plant in Taiwan have made “blazers with bottle” commercially viable.
According…
We’d be a fan of Justice Mitchell even if he didn’t ply his trade at our friend and co-conspirator David Griner’s agency, Luckie & Company. And ply he does, with interactive marketing chops that bring to mind the old Tenacious D quote: “If you want your asses blown out, stay in the room.†Luckie has built a whole campaign, Demand Justice Now, around its hiring of Mitchell. It includes a savvier-than-thou Twitter feed and several spoof legal ads. As Justice would say (and, in fact, did say), “It’s not bragging if you can throw out enough metrics to imply you did it.†Stick that in your Facebook and smoke it.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has featured numerous designs by the talented Zaha Hadid. Here we present you with her latest design that won a competition to design the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
According to Zaha Hadid Architects, “The new centre for international art will house pieces fro…
About six months ago we launched an office blog called Scratch, where people share favorite websites, creative briefs, the video of the moment, and whatever they happen to be thinking about. Some of my favorite posts describe what people are reading, so I asked them to send me a list of books that have influenced their thinking about advertising and business.
For all you adgrunts out there who want to watch season one again, the DVD set will be released July 1. It comes packaged in a metal box shaped like a lighter.
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