Probably the best speech on creativity I’ve seen
This weekend saw the release of the latest film in the Lady Dior series starring the French Oscar winning actress, Marion Cotillard, and her Dior handbag. The latest film is directed by David Lynch and has a distinctly Twin Peaks feel to it. The previous film directed by Jonas Akerlund has the gorgeous Ms Cotillard [...]
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If you bought a book by Belgian’s most famous crime writer, Pieter Aspe, you got this bag.
Or is the other way around. Fuse Project out of San Francisco developed this revolutionary solution to reduce use of packaging materials.
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Walmart is using Big Data gleaned from social media to target consumers with highly relevant suggestions for products. Last year it bought a startup focused on social media, Kosmix, and formed WalmartLabs. It uses Kosmix’s vast knowledge base, called ‘Social Genome’ to capture information and relationships about entities such as people, events, topics, products, locations [...]
IDEO’s Tim Brown at a recent TED talk. Interviews with Tim appear in Business Playground, the book.
When you’re done with this cardboard box you can tear it up and plant it. Seeds embedded in the recycled card will grow up to 100 trees. See more here.
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Closed stores look ugly for passerby and detract from the streets they are, making them look less attractive and vibrant. That’s why the idea of dressing them up with attractive fake shop fronts, with colorful window displays is such a good one. As written about in the Financial Times, fake shop fronts are starting to [...]
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Director Michel Gondry always has wonderful ideas for his films. This is mesmerizing.
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Why do bar codes have to be boring stripes? They don’t. These are from Japan and were created by D-Barcode. For the full article in Fast Company click here.
Nokia has unveiled the first pedal-powered phone battery charger. According to the Financial Times cyclists will be able to plug their handsets into a charger mounted on their handlebars and connected to a dynamo that harnesses electricity from the wheels. It would take two-and-a- half hours for a cyclist riding at 15km an hour to [...]
You will have seen the announcement earlier this year that pop sensation Lady Gaga has become the creative director for instant camera company Polaroid. The cynical amongst us might view this as a publicity stunt that won’t translate into anything more than a few column inches. After all, now that all pictures are pretty much [...]