Diesel Marketing Stunts at European Music Festivals
Thursday, den 19. June 2008We remember when it was a struggle to dig up $20 for a concert tee with a band logo, but you did it anyway to wear as a badge of honor for having been there/done that. Now Springwise reports on Diesel’s two interesting marketing campaigns at European music festivals this summer. First, Diesel will be [...]
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Housing Made Of Recycled Pallets
Thursday, den 19. June 2008HDR Architecture has created a temporary exhibition that explores sustainable housing alternatives and personal power generation. They’ve constructed a temporary living structure built entirely out of wooden shipping pallets. These pallets are found all over the world, making this a solution that could be easily duplicated. It’s also human powered. Visitors can ride a bike [...]
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Foot-Generated Electricity
Thursday, den 19. June 2008While pacing may be the cure for nervous energy, it might also become a generator of, well, energy. Spinning off American military technologies involving soldiers’ boot-mounted mini-generators, British engineers have developed underfloor generators that can produce energy from footsteps above. They’ve calculated that 34,000 commuters in London’s Victoria Underground station are capable of powering 6,500 [...]
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Pic: Trash
Thursday, den 19. June 2008When we visited the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis this week, we were struck by the vividness of this work by members of the C-Lab (Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting) including Jeffrey Inaba, Benedict Clouette, Matthew Clarke, Yi-han Can, Jesse Seegers and Andrew Shimomura. It’s a piece that ponders suburban living. They say:
It is said [...]
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PSFK Conference San Francisco Speaker Chris Riley
Thursday, den 19. June 2008At the PSFK Conference San Francisco 2008, Chris Riley of Apple’s graphic design group will be giving an inspirational talk on who he considers to be the three most influential Bay Area residents and how they changed the world.
First, who are you and what do you do?
I help people think strategically.
You’ll be speaking about how [...]
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Pic: Sales Strategy At Capital One
Thursday, den 19. June 2008Looking up as you stagger from the Old Town bar in New York, you can see the messaging that the Capital One management must use to train their sales staff. Words stuck to the window say:
Let’s pin them down and close the sale
Don’t you just love being a consumer.
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Huffington Post Goes Local
Thursday, den 19. June 2008We’ve talked about local media recently - with the idea of 10,000 niche newspapers and our interview with John Geraci from local news aggregator Outside.in. This rekindled interest in local media is spreading. The Huffington Post has just announced plans to expand into local news across the US. A site focusing on Chicago will roll [...]
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Telling Secrets: Mayuko Sakisaka Talks to PSFK
Thursday, den 19. June 2008Grad schools are often incubators of innovation—it’s not rare for a final project to become a successful company or product. This year’s students at Central Saint Martins in London have turned out some very cool concepts, if the pics on Flickr are any indication. Unveiled last week at the CSM Product Design Degree Show, the [...]
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Global Youth Culture
Thursday, den 19. June 2008Youth Mesh offers an interesting argument for the rise of a unified “global youth culture,” aided by increased travel and media penetration, social networking sites, cell phones, and all other technology making it easier for people to connect. Rather than these beliefs being “imposed from Western ideals, Youth Mesh argues, a global youth culture is [...]
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Inspirational Music Video by Naive New Beaters
Thursday, den 19. June 2008French electro/rock/pop band, Naive New Beaters, have just come out with this amazing video that will no doubt leave you thinking “how’d they do that?” The track is called, “Live Good.”
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