Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: I Love Dust, UK
Creative Director: Mark Graham
Art Director: Johnny Winslade
Published: March 2008

(TrendHunter.com) At first glance, I thought this alarm clock looked fantastic, with a funky, green floral graphic on a clear cylinder encasing what looks like an hourglass. Upon reading about it, I’m astounded that it is also environmentally friendly and promises to get the user out of bed with a good groove.

The …

 
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Advertising Agency: I Love Dust, UK
Creative Director: Mark Graham
Art Director: Johnny Winslade
Published: March 2008

(TrendHunter.com) You can win an Emmy. The Emmy guys are advertising that all original content distributed over broadband is now eligible for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Mary Tyler Moore is one of the “spokespersons” for the ad campaign from WONGDOODY. The deadline to enter is March 28, so crank up the scriptwriter an…

(TrendHunter.com) The Strap-On Chair, created by Cambridge, Massachusetts born and raised designer Annika Schmidt, is proudly taking on the established preconceptions of what a chair should look like. The chair is one of a progressive series of designs, and like its name suggests it is only fully functional when it i…

William F. Buckley Jr., the acid-tongued, staunchly conservative author (40+ books), columnist (since 1979), publishing exec (National Review) and TV host (Firing Line), helped shape the modern media landscape. His reaction to a society increasingly obsessed by celebrity and trivia was rigorously intellectual, intense and probing. Buckley never stopped at the surface, equivocated about his positions, or suffered fools gladly (“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said,” he once quipped when presented with a viewpoint in opposition to his own). Buckley was no friend to the left (“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”), but he also knew when to stick it to The Man (“It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!”). He was feared, beloved, ridiculed, admired and despised. Though it all, he had an unfailingly playful sense of humor about himself (“Some of my instincts are reprehensible”) and the best diction of any English speaker on the planet. William F. Buckley Jr. died today at his home in Connecticut at age 82. This seems a fitting end-quote: “I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it, and one is the feeling that I haven’t just been sitting on my ass all afternoon.”

—Posted by David Gianatasio

No more seasons

Advertising Agency: La Chose, France
Creative Director: Pascal Gregoire
Art Director: Fanny Corcia, Volker Gehr
Copywriter: Basile Theet, Arthur Castillon
Photographer: Rip Hopkins

No more seasons

Advertising Agency: La Chose, France
Creative Director: Pascal Gregoire
Art Director: Fanny Corcia, Volker Gehr
Copywriter: Basile Theet, Arthur Castillon
Photographer: Rip Hopkins

(TrendHunter.com) The Abarth is making a comeback. The what? It’s a neck-snapping, head-turner that had its hey-day in the 1960’s.

You probably know how much excitement the return of the Mini-Cooper caused. The Abarth will cause the same stir in Europe. The Scorpion was a killer on the track as the video shows. It’…