Entries Tagged as 'Breakthroughs'

Target Shoots the Messenger

October 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments

This past June, Treehugger reported that Timbuk2 was going to team up with RootPhito build a messenger bag by pressing (laminating) recycled billboards, grocery bags, posters, and the like.  The bags will be called Lamitron, and their development process has been closely watched by influential bloggers including Cool Hunting, Wired and PSFK.
Here are a few prototypes:

I dig […]

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Tags: Pop Culturisms · Ad Biz · Cultures & Fringes · Design & Creativity

Crank This

September 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Hip Hop - the music and the business - has been struggling over the past few years. According to Fox News, “though music sales are down overall, rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, and for the first time in 12 years no rap album was among the top 10 sellers of […]

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Tags: Pop Culturisms · Web 2.0 · Trends · Community Marketing · Entrepreneurialism & Innovation

Pop

September 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Pop Up Store

Pop Up Diner

Pop Up Studio

Pop Up Trade Show

Pop Up Hotel

Pop Up Ad

Pop Up Club

Pop Up Book

Pop Up Gallery

pop up

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Tags: Ad Biz · Design & Creativity

It’s More Like Ditch Digging Than Brain Surgery

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

There has been much written about virtual worlds (VW’s) and Second Life in particular.  As there is with anything new, many of the articles deal with what is easy to understand or what is wrong, thereby not really providing a full and useful picture of the opportunity.  This is not to say that what these […]

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Tags: Web 2.0 · Ad Biz · Digital Media · Second Life · Trends · Entrepreneurialism & Innovation · In Defense Of · Design & Creativity

Fake Cop

August 24th, 2007 · 4 Comments

The New York Times reports the town of Smyrna, Tennessee has posted life-size, corrugated plastic cutouts of cops holding speed guns at busy intersections in town:

From the AP report:
The idea for the posed patrolman came from Jim Gammon, whose sign company sits on busy Front Street. He suggested it as a way to slow drivers […]

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Tags: Community Marketing · Entrepreneurialism & Innovation

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