Monthly archive February, 2007

Big Shot In Cannes contest

User generated content is one of the buzz phrases of this year. Save the planet is another. So, why not make a competition with user generated content and save the planet in combination? Voila – Big shot in Cannes. In this competition Yahoo invites you to make an online ad that inspires people to get...

The Oscars are going green

Jon Alain Guzik and Michelle Lanz reports in Oscars going from Red to Green carpet about how the Global Green USA Pre-Oscar party exemplifies the growing relationship between celebrities and the environment. Y Fray, founder of Los Angeles-based Eco-limo, and a former driver of Leonardo’s Prius says; “When someone like Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman, Cameron...

Honda F1 racing team campaign

This year, the Honda racing F1 team‘s car will race to raise awareness of environmental issues and to encourage people everywhere to make a difference to the world around them. The car will have no corporate colours and no advertising. Instead it will be painted with a picture of mother earth. Through a campaign called...
Ten rules about starting a new magazine

Ten rules about starting a new magazine

Andrew Tuck is editor of the newly started Monocle magazine. In this article from The Independent (where he used to work) he reveals ten rules about starting a new magazine. 1) You need a good name. 2) Forget the focus groups. 3) Spot the opportunity. 4) Invest in photography. 5) Hire an international team. 6)...

The global shutdown day

The 24th of March is the big Shutdown Day. Would we be able to cope if your computer disappeared for just one day? The organisation behind the Shutdown day invites you to one of the biggest global experiments of the internet. The idea behind the experiment is to find out how many people can go...

The World according to Dubai

The World is constructed once again. The new version of the world consists of 300 man made islands off the coast of Dubai in the shape of the world map. Engineered to be flexible and designed to be unforgettable – a blank canvas in the azure waters of the Arabian Gulf. The World is quickly...

Colette ten year anniversary

The Paris based styledesignartfoodmusicbeauty shop Colette turns ten which I reported earlier about here and they are celebrating it by producing a lot of limited-editions with their partners including Cartier, Lacoste, Lucien Pellat-Finet, Linda Farrow, Repetto, Aprosio & Co, Alexis Mabille, Medicom Toy and Goyard. Fashion Week Daily reports on a special anniversary magazine as...

Karma Capitalism

The annual German Trend Day Hamburg by Trendbuero takes place May 8 this year. They are not only inviting participants to the Curio-House in Hamburg but to the virtual world of Second Life as well. The Trend Day has established a reputation as a central trend and future forum for management, media and marketing. The...

Fair Made exhibition

Fair Made – an exhibition of ecological Haute Couture invites new ideas and thoughts about important and fundamental issues, while at the same time showing the unique creativity and individual skills of the exhibition’s participants. Aia Jüdes, project manager for the Fair Made exhibition describes the project like this: “Fair Made is an independent, non...
Beautiful paper art by Jen Stark.

Beautiful paper art by Jen Stark.

Jen Stark makes beautiful paper art. It’s surprisingly to see what can be made out of regular multi-coloured construction paper. Tech Tags: paper+art jen+stark Andra bloggar om: papper, konst