SOLAR POWERED Annual report!
Genius! Solar energy is the main business of our client Austria Solar. We thought about how we could put this energy to paper. The result: the first annual report powered by the sun. Its content remains invisible until sunlight falls on its pages. See more on Behance
Will Verizon’s New Data Pricing Be The Real QR Killer?
Beware of the new threat in town… MOBILE DATA PLANS! In the new pricing structure, a consumer can choose to pay MORE for a super-sized data plan and life goes on for them as normal. If they choose a tiered option, then they pay for the amount of data they will access – like choosing […]
Direct Marketing Gets Eco-Friendly
In the wake of Toshiba’s failed attempt for a National No-Print Day, I am going to be more proactive and help get Print & Paper’s greener messages out there for you to share as you wish… and please, do share them. We live in a bubble of our own industry and the perception of the […]
Forget A Book, Now You Can Read Your Toilet Paper
This little ditty is from The Atlantic. Let’s hope this doesn’t become a metaphor for the industry, and just one literal example of Print going to the crapper… The Most Terrifying Toilet Paper You Will Ever Use JOHN METCALFE I can’t wait for the movie adaptation of this one! “Drop” is a horror story released […]
QRmovie Integrates QR Codes Into A Moving Image
Roger Smolski over at 2D Code never disappoints when it comes to spreading the word on QR, especially new applications and technologies surrounding them. If you don’t follow him on Twitter, you should @RogerSmolski. Here is his latest find… by Roger Smolski Nerdindustries (great name!), a German innovation lab based in Hamburg have developed a software […]
Why Stopping Toshiba's National No Print Day Worked, and Why it Shouldn't Have
10 days after the announcement of National No Print Day, Toshiba pulled the plug and victory celebrations broke out through The Printerverse. Victory is a strong word. It implies a winner and a loser, but there is some grey area here too. Ok, in the movie version yes Toshiba is the villain and Print & […]
Calling all Print-Archists: Take a REAL STAND Against Toshiba’s No-Print Day!
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE AS OF 6/20/2012 TOSHIBA HAS PULLED THIS CAMPAIGN – PARTLY BECAUSE OF POSTS LIKE THIS AND READERS LIKE YOU! Feel free to read it of course and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF PAPER & PRINT! Toshiba’s self declared “National No-Print Day” is a marketing scam. It’s an environmental bait and switch […]
App Has Beer Fans Seeing Gnomes with Augmented Reality Coasters
Oops – a little late on this one since Gnome week was June 6-9th. Still cute – unless it’s 3am and the Gnomes start looking a little too good, leading to the World’s Smallest Walk of Shame! A small Belgian beer brand is hoping little creatures help it make a big splash across the U.S. […]
Ad Agency Rethinks Coffee Cup Sleeves As Newspapers
This campaign will be added to my list of things I wish I came up with. The brilliance here is that the initial audience is already there – coffee drinkers. They don’t have to first create coffee drinkers/customers/fans etc. The campaign only enhances the experience of having your coffee, which you are already having! This […]
Cross Media Creates World's Largest Shoe Store
Take some scanners and a large digital screen, add a healthy amount of Augmented Reality and mix vigorously with Social Media. When compete, scan QR code, proceed directly to mobile checkout, and enjoy your news shoes the next day. You now have the recipe for buying shoes while waiting for your train.
Tesco’s Insulting Italian Error
This is awesome…lol And probably a top ten reason NOT to take a picture and then use that picture as art for packaging (or anything printed) – especially if it’s in a language you don’t speak! I believe the Brits have starred out the word “bollocks” which when flipped to American is equivalent to the […]
Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Minimalistic Coca Cola Can
via Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Minimalistic Coca Cola Can – DesignTAXI.com. New York-based designer Ryan Harc has created a concept design for a minimalistic Coca Cola can that is eco-friendly and 100% recyclable. In his concept design called ‘Colorless’, the can has been designed with a convex logo instead of Coca Cola’s signature red and white […]
