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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

  • Love it!
  • Packaging

• Packaging Emotion

  
  Wow! Talk about giving your brand character and cut through. Us brand specialists ramble on about how important it is to bring emotion to the forefront of your brand, but most of the time our words fall on deaf ears – that is, until something this visually powerful is presented, and then people begin to understand the potential value of those words. Never easy to go against the status quo, but if your going to do it, do it like this!! Love it!! – packaging designed by Lg2boutique.

  (via TDL)

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• Sep 30, 09

  • Innovation
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• One man?

  
  Meet the man who made chopsticks into a spoon! a table that greets you with any message you like, and holds your items like a human hand, and spray cans that produce amazing 3D light shows – Meet Aïssa Logerot

  (via T&T)

  • Posted on the 30.09.2009, Permanent Link
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• Aug 10, 09

  • Architecture
  • Love it!
  • Typography

• Typography Refinado

  
  This stunning facade belongs to a doctors surgery in Portugal, amazing stuff… LOVE IT!!!

  • Posted on the 10.08.2009, 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

  • Fashion
  • Innovation
  • Love it!
  • Marketing

• Uniqlo blowing me away again

  
  They just keep on delivering! I honestly think that Uniqlo have to be one of the most innovative brands of today. No doubt a true reflection of their Japanese origins. You HAVE TO check this one out.

  • Posted on the 05.08.2009, Permanent Link
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