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 […]
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 […]
Photoshop or Photo Not?
by Sandy Hubbard, Print Futurist For years, newsrooms have had rules about digital alternations. Photo journalists who edited items out of shots — with only the most honorable artistic intentions — were shown the door for misrepresenting reality. Now, it may be that fashion advertising and celebrity entertainment “news” are heading in a similar direction. […]
Coca-Cola adorns BILLIONS of drinking cups with QR codes
This is Coke’s first US QR Code Promotion and they certainly have gone all out. They are touching upon in store marketing (QR codes on cups and posters), Social Media Marketing (scan of QR goes to a Facebook game) and of course Relationship Marketing – not only in the area of Coke being part of […]
Moving circulars into the digital age
This article is speaking to retailers to get on board with digital circulars, but I am going to focus on Printers. If you are not currently exploring or implementing a digital aspect to your services, you are going to lose out. You have the files, you have the assets, you have the clients. With a […]
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 […]
The New York Times runs a cross-platform interactive ad campaign in HTML5
Interesting in the scheme of trend-setting… by Megan Garber Today, for the first time, The New York Times is featuring a single HTML5 interactive ad campaign across its digital platforms. Coca-Cola is running the ads — an extension of its Arctic Home campaign and its long use of polar bears this time of year — […]
Live Augmented Reality for National Geographic Channel
The thing that gets me every time is the look of wonder on the faces of the crowd. The virtual experience becomes tangible in the sense that collectively it was real and shared by the audience. I could totally see a family going home to find the NatGeo Channel (on my cable its 109 – […]
Starbucks Cup Magic
This year let’s bring the season to life with the Starbucks Cup Magic app. Use the app to find and scan all five Starbucks Holiday Characters – on Red Cups, Christmas Blend bags, in-store and more – and watch as they magically come to life through augmented reality on your mobile device. Who knows what […]
Top 10 Websites for Designers
Thanks to Millcraft Paper who shared this in their LinkedIn Group, Full Circle – Paper + Print + Design. These are pretty cool so Im passing the info along. If you would like to submit a website you think should be included on an upcoming list from HOW, you can do so here. Each month, […]
Microsoft Office Unveils the Future
Notice a few things? Not one piece of paper (that I caught), the future still has Polar Bears (yay! – well that is an assumption buy why tease a kid), signage is the “key maker” (if you dont know your Matrix references by now you should look into that), and more poignantly, when reflecting upon […]
15 Creative & Crazy Cool QR Code Designs
The greatest thing about a designer, especially a great designer, is that they challenge the “rules” when they create. As a matter of fact, asking a designer to stay within the box is the fastest way to get them out of it and that is why they are so much fun to work with […]