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• Dec 12, 09

  • Clever Ideas
  • Love it!

• Simply brilliant!

  

  This amazing window display designed by Tokujin Yoshioka needs few words, speaks volumes on its own. Brilliant!!

  (via T&T)

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• Dec 12, 09

  • Clever Ideas

• Clever Ketchup!

  
  Ive seen this before some time back, but have decided to post as its one of my favs. Having done some work recently for Amnesty International, I know how tricky these campaigns can be, so my hat goes off to Publicis Mojo for this clever placement.

  (via TDL)

  • Posted on the 12.12.2009, Permanent Link
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• Dec 12, 09

  • Clever Ideas

• Handy and well designed to do list!

  I love the usability of this to do list designed by Swissmiss. Its dead simple but obviously very well thought out. Ive always been a massive fan of to do lists, and this is by far the best one Ive come across to date. Worth a look.

  • Posted on the 12.12.2009, Permanent Link
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• Oct 5, 09

  • Clever Ideas
  • Products

• Break glass in case of emergency.

  
  Clever little ash tray by Burak Kaynak.

  (via LLGD)

  • Posted on the 05.10.2009, Permanent Link
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• Sep 30, 09

  • Art
  • Clever Ideas

• Glass like you’ve never seen it!

  
  
  
  One of the most amazing forms of art making I’ve ever seen. Stunning!

  (via T&T)

  • Posted on the 30.09.2009, Permanent Link
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• Sep 9, 09

  • Clever Ideas

• More cleverness from the Japanese!

  
  Very clever recycling idea out of Japan.

  (via SHFT)

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• Aug 8, 09

  • Advertising
  • Clever Ideas

• Relax, it’s advertising

  
  So wrong, yet so clever. Produced by McCann Lowe in Belgium.

  (via AF)

  • Posted on the 08.08.2009, Permanent Link
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• Aug 5, 09

  • Advertising
  • Clever Ideas
  • Love it!

• Advertising that (literally) saves the day

  
  I REALLY like this one. A mobile provider in India mounted a real inflatable dinghy on a billboard in Mumbai (which is known for monsoonal floods) with the line “In case of emergency, cut rope.” Sure enough a few weeks after the billboard was erected the floods came, and the rope was cut, and the boat was actually used to ferry people to safety.

  • Posted on the 05.08.2009, Permanent Link
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• Aug 5, 09

  • Clever Ideas
  • Design
  • Stationery

• Interesting Business Card Ideas

  
  Some nice ideas I haven’t seen before.

  (via ABD)

  • Posted on the 05.08.2009, Permanent Link
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• Jul 27, 09

  • Advertising
  • Clever Ideas
  • Design

• Absolutely brilliant!

  The following posters were aimed at attracting students to a design school. The posters had to effectively seperate the people that think visually, to those that think… well… like everybody else. Best series of ads I’ve seen in a long time.

  

  

  • Posted on the 27.07.2009, Permanent Link
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• Jul 26, 09

  • Branding
  • Clever Ideas
  • Design
  • Packaging
  • Typography

• 7 good reasons to visit this website

  
  Project 7’s basic mission, strives to build a better world by creating a collective awareness and improvement in the seven areas of need – build the Future, Feed the Hungry, Heal the Sick, Help those in Need, Hope for Peace, House the Homeless, and Save the Planet.

  Fantastic cause! Brilliantly designed by 29 Agency.

  • Posted on the 26.07.2009, Permanent Link
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• Jul 22, 09

  • Advertising
  • Clever Ideas
  • Story Telling

• Checkmate!

  
  The billboard on the left is for Audi, the billboard on the right for BMW was strategically erected at a later stage to challenge the Audi ad. Billboard rage, Love it!

  Sometimes it pays to know where your competitors are advertising.

  (via AG)

  • Posted on the 22.07.2009, Permanent Link
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