Heineken U-code Proves Some Marketers Do Get It!

 For all the horrid examples of QR use – here is a GREAT ONE!  Thanks to Creative Guerrilla Marketing for posting and tweeting a link to this video.  Agency: Leo Burnett WarsawCreative Director: Paweł Heinze, Krzysztof IwińskiCopywriter: Anna Gadecka, Kamil KowalczykArt Director: Yigit Unan, Robert ChudzikAccount Manager: Jacek PilachowskiAccount Executive: Dominika GowikPhotographer: Lukasz MurgrabiaArt Buyer: […]

iPad Survives 100,000+ Foot Fall From Space Near Area 51

 Here is some pretty extreme and cool marketing… Now I want to drop things from space!! http://g-form.com — G-Form, a company well known for delivering the most extreme electronics cases and athletic pads, launched an iPad clad solely in the company’s 6oz Extreme Edge case into space and then let it free-fall back to Earth. […]

Printed Business Cards Based on Facebook Timelines

Well, this is quite a coup for Moo.com!  And of course a win for PRINT!  According to PrintWeek “Moo.com currently does 100% of its printing in-house on four HP Indigo 5500 presses, although it has previously outsourced its UK print production to its neighbouring Clerkenwell digital printer 1st Byte. Moo expects to manage the bulk of […]

Concept Digital Vending Machine With Facial Recognition

A vending machine prototype is being developed by Sanden, Okaya Electronics and Intel. The 65in HD display window attracts your attention with animations, the camera gives you the once-over when you step close, then targets you with ads based on your ‘physical attributes’. via Concept Vending Machine With See-through Display | Adverblog. Related articles The Vending […]

Coca-Cola Transforms Highway Into Outdoor Cinema

Cheers to Ogilvy and Mather, Bogata, for inventing Rush Hour Traffic Jam Cinema!  One way to curb road rage, if the movie was good of course. In Bogota’, Colombia, commuters in average spend 4 hours a day stuck in traffic and so the soda-pop giant had a great idea to take advantage of traffic jams […]

The Importance of Relationships

A few weeks back I shared this very well produced and relevant video on “The Importance of Relationships” by Nick Hancock, a Business Development Manager for the Print Industry in the UK. I followed up with him and he was kind enough to provide us with this article. The Importance of Relationships. by Nick HancockNot wanting […]

Heineken’s Social Christmas Tree

 Now you can drink your beer and send some holiday cheer to your friends and family and to the world. I tried to use the program but it just kept reloading so I cant share my tree with you now.  If you get it to work please let me know by sharing it with us […]

New Flexible Screen Technology For Displays

The video and concept Tablet are aimed at consumers, but this product also has amazing potential for in-store displays!  The second video shows the screen applied to tangible materials and Im not sure since it’s a concept if they can be made any larger, but if they could – imagine the Trade Show Booth of the […]

Toyota Fun-Vii: A Smartphone on Wheels

The Toyota ‘fun-vii’ concept car, described by the company as ‘a smartphone on wheels’ to be officially presented at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011. Toyota’s ‘fun-vii’ concept car offers the realtime customization of visual content on the interior and exterior of the vehicle. The touchscreen digital surfaces that compose the car can be used to broadcast images, patterns, […]

SELF-MADE: The Mobile Letterpress and Printmaking Studio

Here is something to support during the Holidays that will support PRINT as well.  This project will focus on creating and outfitting a mobile printmaking studio to introduce others to the art of letterpress, screen and relief printmaking. I plan on demonstrating and teaching how to cut and print with linoleum, hand set lead and […]

PROTECT IP Act: A Law to Censor The Internet

It simply amazes me that censorship of ANY kind would be implemented to protect creative materials. I get that copyright infringement is illegal, but since the internet is so vast, the measures to stop it have to be equal if not greater.  In this case, anyone – including YOU – who has posted a link […]