Entries Tagged as 'creativity'

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Fashion Flavors

Back in February, in the aftermath of the public outcry against Tropicana’s packaging redesign which ultimately led to the cartons reverting back to the original art, I suggested that Tropicana had the opportunity to do something completely different with orange juice: Now that there’s a buzz about Tropicana’s openness to fan-feedback in general, and about [...]

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Monday, August 24th, 2009

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

. Also awesome: wonderful and wondrous large-scale art creations shown happening absolut-ly anywhere but the desert. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Friday, February 27th, 2009

what you could do if you were tropicana

In case you happen to have missed it, Tropicana changed the design on their cartons last month, and in the process discovered that “Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging,” as Stuart Elliott writes in the New York Times: PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure [...]

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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

lame ad. great mashup.

This is tripping me out. I was just going to write a quick post about how terrifically lame I think the outdoor ads for The Day The Earth Stood Still are. It’s basically just a stock-photo image of the Earth’s curvature, against a black outer-space backdrop, with big, block-y, white letters that read: “THEY’RE HERE. [...]

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Monday, October 6th, 2008

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Just… WOW! such great creativity and innovation with this. really freakin’ awesome. CLICK THE SCREENSHOT BELOW TO EXPERIENCE IT >>> Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

today’s awesome ad award goes to:

Levi’s “unbuttoned” billboard. Fairfax Ave. @ 3rd St. Across the street from the Farmer’s Market. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

“i’m a PC. and a human being.”

Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone in the room is using a Mac except one person? Ever notice what happens when suddenly everyone starts to get on that person’s case about the fact that he’s the only one not on a Mac? I have, and it kinda looked a little bit like [...]

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

building characters

While trying to track down a quote from Bret Easton Ellis’s The Rules of Attraction, I came across a LinkedIn profile for Sean Bateman. In case you’re not acquainted with Sean Bateman, one of the main protagonists of the Rules of Attraction, here’s his LinkedIn profile: Sean Bateman Student at Bennington College Albany, New York [...]

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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

post-war trade launches!

A quick little break in the travelling silence just to mention that Post-War Trade, the “democratic future of merchandising” dreamed up by Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls, and produced by Katie Kay–indisputably two of the savviest, sassiest lasses I know, whom it was my pleasure to introduce a few years back–is now, finally, up [...]

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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

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way to put the “trend” in perspective. (and way to go on knowing your audience, flavorpill). Like this? Share it: Tweet

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