Hasta La Creative!

If you haven’t received these in the form of a chain letter, you’ll have to take a look at these controversial flags by 25-year-old Brazilian artist, Icaro Doria. He created the campaign for Revista Grande Reportagem, the hard journalism magazine he works at.

The Meet the World Flags have legends …

(TrendHunter.com) If you have an iPhone or any iPod, surely you’re protective of it; you don’t want to spend that much money on something that’s going to get banged around and scratched. Another thing to consider is that since everyone has an iPod these days, it can be really difficult to tell them apart. You don’t w…

Blogs have been running hot over the last 24 hours with news of actor Heath Ledger’s death in NYC overnight. According the Nielsen BuzzMetrics, the number of blogs writing about Ledger’s death numbered 2.04 million.

Nielsen BuzzMetrics, which sources topical information from over 71 million ‘known blogs’ around the world, indicates that the news has […]

At Falmouth University College all graduates are participating in a project named “Advice to Sink in Slowly“, which consists of giving advice through a poster to all newcomers about how to handle college life.
 
The idea behind this is that every student gets a free poster when they enter the University.
 
Awesome. Specially by the fact that the institution itself stands behind the idea.
 
And to top everything off, you can see the posters at this flickr or buy one to have at your own home for only 5 british pounds (plus shipping costs).
 
Via: Core77.

We were casually perusing the FAO Schwarz website when we came across the Barbie section. This should be fun, we thought.

(TrendHunter.com) Using an outline of a world map, BreathingEarth shows graphic illustrations to bring awareness to environmental issues. At the bottom of the atlas is a counter that is constantly updated with numbers representing number of births since the site goer entered the page, deaths, and, the most shocking s…

Media Shift’s Mark Glaser spoke to BusinessWeek executive editor, John Byrne, about sweeping usability changes to the venerable magazine’s website.

In response to a question about upping participation from the user base, or community, Byrne says:

We have had a very rigourous, very lively reader involvement on the site for a long time. In any given month, roughly 15,000 people participate in conversations on our site, but they are largely hidden from view. You have to either go into a blog and see how people are responding, or you have to go into a forum to see how people are exchanging views, or go to the end of a story to see the comments on it. We want to elevate those conversations and make them more apparent to everyone that these conversations are occuring.

We are rewarding our readers for making thoughtful comments on our site by going to the reader and saying, “We like what you’re saying and want to feature it in a prominent way, can you send us a digital picture of yourself so we can put it on the home page.”

This is about elevating our conversation and giving credence to the rhetoric that everyone has, that the web is a dialogue and not a lecture. The truth is that very few people are delivering on it, having reporters actively engage with readers or elevating comments and saying, “This is as important as any story we have, any video we have, any audio we have.”

(TrendHunter.com) An experimental environmental project was set up by REBAR in San Francisco to encourage the entire world to convert parking lots into temporary green space in a project known as PARK(ing) Day.

WORLDwidE PARK(ing) Day 2007 took place in September and was hugely successful with 180 make-shift parks …

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — To put on a show or not to put on a show? For the big broadcast networks, that is the question. NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker has gained notice in recent days for press reports that quote him suggesting that NBC is mulling the end of its lavish upfront presentation to advertisers and the media. Instead, the thinking goes, it would be better to meet with advertisers in smaller groups and eschew the costly spectacle.

(TrendHunter.com) Companies all over the world are leveraging whatever green traits their product or service can offer, and now, so is a famous candy brand… just not in the way you’d think. Nope, the Valentines campaign has nothing to do with being environmentally friendly, instead, it has to do with sex.

The ol…