Archive for May, 2008
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Graffiti artist Banksy has turned a south London tunnel into a half-mile long exhibition space, but the elusive artist kept its location secret until the last minute.
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The HTC Touch Diamond, a collaborative effort between the HTC design team in Taiwan and the One & Co design team in San Francisco, is an iconic design that relies neither on minimalism or overt ornamentation. The design celebrates the rich, innovative use
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Michael Gillette was commissioned to paint fourteen iconic covers. The books were numbered on their spines so it’s not hard to read them in order (if you’re traditionally minded). The blurbs, adapted from earlier Penguin editions, were themed around the n
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Louis Vuitton plans to expand its “Journeys” campaign from print and cinema ads to mp3 audioguides for mp3 players.
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Increasing amounts of luxury brands are beginning to explore the opportunities associated with online video. Tommy Hilfiger has launched TommyTV, Cartier has launched a series of short films with French filmmaker Olivier Dahan, Belvedere Vodka launched th
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It’s been a while since I’ve paid a visit to Agenda Inc and, well, I should have done that way earlier…
A niche part of the social networking scene are the initiatives that are trying to create networks of high-net world individual and luxury consume
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Executives and other affluent types now have their own social networking spaces, but to get in the door you have to fit the profile.
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I don’t know when that happen (probably quite recently) but you now have the option to show geotagged pictures when you are looking for an adress on google maps! How awesome is that?!
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A new medium called adbins for Quit, the stop smoking charity, shows a set of lungs, transparent in the middle so you can see all the discarded cigarette ends inside the bin.
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Green Drinks is a simple concept that has generated an international movement that is now active in 312 cities around the world. The international website www.grenndrinks.org highlights everywhere you can go and join lilke-minded people. For Auckland’s in
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…you can finally surf the Web from seat 17C. Alaska, American, Southwest, and Virgin America all plan to roll out airborne Wi-Fi this summer. The price to you: about $6 to $13 a flight.
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This new venture expands UO’s reach from traditional retailer into the service sector. Terrain will offer garden design consultation services and building services. Within the store there is a cafe that offers a menu of fresh locally sourced food that w
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Specially created by Nike to equip athletes at the upcoming Beijing Olympics in order to protect them from the heat of China, the vest “PreCool” is composed of multiple cavities filled with fluid glossy and covered with aluminum to reflect heat and thus
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More on Nike Innovations at the Beijing olympics
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There are four times as many rats as humans in Paris - perhaps eight million in total, according to the council.
That’s encouraging.
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The Swiss Peace Knife concept is designed to be the … um, Swiss Army Knife of pocket first aid kits. Using that distinctive form-factor for a band-aid dispenser, pill box, disinfectant spray and even a whistle
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The New York City Waterfalls, a major new work of public
art by internationally acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson, will be on view in New York’s East
River from late June through mid-October 2008. Commissioned by Public Art Fund, the
project consists of
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Rayban viral ad
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Viral video for Levi’s jeans, in the same genre as the Rayban one
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Coolspotters is a web application that makes it easy to discover and buy the products being used by your favorite celebrities – in their real lives, and in movies and television.
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The failures of the advertising industry are never more apparent than during an election year. Turn on the television or radio, or click on the Web, and you will see tons of money being spent. But you won’t see many ideas. Budgets continue to be spent d
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A popular search engine for video that uses speech-recognition software to enhance results. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and Google are both rumored to be looking into buying the company before it goes public.
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For many of these manufacturers and designers, the word “biodegradable” is a signal that they are trying to adhere to the closed-loop manufacturing model put forth by William McDonough, the green design guru and architect whose 2002 book, “Cradle to
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‘They like toys more that are associated with someone who has spoken their language. They prefer to eat foods offered to them by a native speaker compared to a speaker of a foreign language. And older children say that they want to be friends with someone
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They brag about their wind turbines rather than their wads, and they’re more likely to wear recycled trainers than red braces. But be in no doubt - they’re still loaded. Liz Hoggard on the return of a peculiarly Eighties breed
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hangtime’s a japanese store selling shoes that are on the limit of cool/strange
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Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument.
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Psychologists, journalists and celebrity chief executives crowd the top of a ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal. The results, based on Google hits, media mentions and academic citations, ranked author and consult
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The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is.
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In the Air Who says big ideas are rare?
By Malcolm Gladwell
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a simple editor for fonts
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links resources to find images on the net
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After the terrorist attacks of 2001 deflated the economy, Mr. Lauder noticed that his company was selling more lipstick than usual. He hypothesized that lipstick purchases are a way to gauge the economy. When it’s shaky, he said, sales increase as women
Artist of the day: Fuck buttons
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I’ll be on vacations from today till tuesday next week so no post.
Cheers!
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The occupation of Iraq will cost $3 trillion, America’s most expensive conflict since WWII.
Can YOU spend that money better?
Here’s your chance to go on a virtual $3 trillion shopping spree and prove it!
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For World Water Day 2008, we look at the planet’s water, how it’s being used, and the increasing strains on this vital resource. Drink up!
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Absolut commissioned comedians Zach Galifianakis and Tim and Eric to create ads however they saw fit. The two-part result is a delightfully twisted take on friendship that surely left the suits baffled. But at the end of the day, what drives the craving f
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The jewelry line created by Kari Arulpragasam, M.I.A.’s sister. Kari’s third world bling really is kind of like the wearable equivalent of an M.I.A. song. For instance, her summer collection, entitled “Tourism,” depicts the cultural highlights of
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“For an artist, going to Gagosian is like playing for the Yankees,” says Heller. He has the most money and the best players, and he seems to pick up talent whenever he puts his mind to it. He can resell artworks to his network of clients as if he were an
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Breakthrough ideas are around the corner, says the Google co-founder. But most of us are failing to take a chance on them.
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as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
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…billed as the world’s first “satcom” - a free series of comedy sketches you can download to your satnav or GPS mobile phone, which automatically play at relevant points along the M6. It was made using a programme called Geovative, which allows users to
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a huge resources site for information design
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FOOD crisis or no, marketing is marketing. This week, the Sun reported that fast food chain Burger King will begin offering a new burger–made of Kobe beef. The dish will include foie gras and bleu cheese. Retail price? The burger can be yours for only £
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The central process driving this is not globalization. It’s the skills revolution. We’re moving into a more demanding cognitive age. In order to thrive, people are compelled to become better at absorbing, processing and combining information. This is
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The first project as a result of the Masdar Initiative is a new 6 million square meter sustainable development that uses the traditional planning principals of a walled city, together with existing technologies, to achieve a zero carbon and zero waste com
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Dezeen’s (only just) monthly top ten: each month we present a hit parade of stories from our archive. Here are the stories about residential housing projects that were most popular during March:
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I can imagine sitting in one of those corners of the apartment, drinking coffee and reading the paper in the morning light — and it would be like sitting right in the middle of the city. We think it’s very important to bring things together coherently
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Heston Blumenthal, the Michelin-starred chef and kitchen chemist who gave the world egg and bacon ice-cream, has won another award for his latest Frankenstein food — warm chocolate wine.
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Temporary inflatable structures are the future of transformable, space-saving architecture.
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OUCH.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at t
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An Average Consumer’s Spending
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I’ve been saying that for years and I love it everytime I read something I think ;P “…these folks are taking photos of moments in order to share those moments with others in order to gain status for having experienced a moment they never really had”
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Steve & Barry’s is manna, a store that sells stylish celebrity-branded clothes at prices that are absurdly inexpensive, lower than those at Old Navy, H & M or Forever 21, undercutting even Wal-Mart by as much as half.
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The Cheapest Coke In NYC | News | Animal
“Just be sure to tell the guy at the front you’re headed for repairs or to rent a machine, it’s their weakest and only line of defense.”
(tags: NYC coke)
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From Adfreak: “Fake medical conditions are a pretty stale advertising idea, but adolescent males are still loving this new “projectile dysfunction” ad from Activision. The game’s players, afflicted by limp bullets, take a “nutricious and shootilic
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Nike POV football ad
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I blogged about Brawndo earlier this year (or was it last one?), anyway, here’s a NYT article about it
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A glimpse at Google Health
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Interview: Justin Ouellette, The Man Behind Muxtape
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Hum. Origami for your furniture. How cool is that?!
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What do you do with 400 free bags of Cheetos? Dump them into the office of an unsuspecting co-worker while he’s out at lunch, of course.
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From Springwise: “Blyk targets 16- to 24-year-olds with its free mobile phone service, which includes 217 texts and 43 minutes every month. In exchange, of course, they get advertising—up to 6 messages sent to their phones each day. Britain’s youth don’
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ECO-ICONIC | “Eco-friendly goods and services sporting bold, iconic markers and design, helping their eco-conscious owners show off their eco-credentials to their peers.At the heart of ECO-ICONIC is a status shift (isn’t there always?): many consume
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