How to catch people's attention and make them eat baby carrots? How do you make baby carrots cool? Well, the solution can be packaging them like junk food. You just need to adapt to people's needs and expectations. The question is whether the chips-like packaging will turn carrots into the new cool, people want to eat.
Packaging design by Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Via USA Today
What makes us laugh? What makes talk? What is worth sharing? The overview of internet memes.
Via: Online University
Once we used to believe it will be Google and Amazon who share the power and newspapers will be dead. We had no idea about the role Facebook will play. Why? Because we are anchored in the present. We believe in linear development of media and technology. We believe that some of them will progress and evolve undisturbed, while other become extinct. Well, fortunately the universe and people are full of surprises. It is interesting though to watch this video from 2007 and see how things have already took a completely different route.
Hat tip to Helge Tennø
Sometimes, it is hard imagine how powerful and big some events can be. We need to set things in perspective. This is what BBC Dimensions does. It takes important places, events and things, and overlays them onto a map of where you are.
We so used to customiztion. We can adjust so many things around us, so they fit to our needs, from mail to shoes. Things are the way we like and want. So why not take it a step harder and change the reality by using the glasses that can photoshop reality. Funny and dangerous invention. Don't try it at home ;)
Can you imagine this is the real working space!? Someone is really sitting there and working. Amazing and so calming.
What I love about it, is the lack of ditractions around and the omnipresent calmness. This is you and your thoughts. Wonderful. I wish I could spend there a few working days. I imagine that it is impossible to get stressed out in there :) Idyllic.
Here is my working space. I like being surrounded by things I like and things where I can bring inspiration. Quiet and safe. It means a lot to me where I work, though the best ideas come to me while I am walking.
What's your favorite working space?
The culture is the never ending remaking and reinventing. The past inspires and is the foundation of the new "creations". Culture is the sum of all achievements of humanity. They add up and become something new. The act of copying and remixing has become more visible and accessible than ever thanks to Internet.
In fact it also means that there are and can still occur cultural big bangs when the completely new ideas are born.
Make things happen is what defines the success.
It has all begun with just a toothpaste...45 years later...what's toothpaste? The hell of added value....
Via Gavin Potenza
Via Johnnie Moore
The future is the remix of the present. Great example of the evolution of present into future is this service called Recorded Future, which offers unique analysis tools to aggregate and organize past and present events, and provides a comprehensive outlook of the future. You can get insights into what's going to happen for only $149 a month. Exciting idea and cheap price for taking a look into the future.
3 years ago I wrote a post about Polish NON-COMMERCIAL artistic project called Sufferosa by Dawid Marcinkowski and yesterday I was contacted by him and he got great news - the project is finished. So get ready for amazing experience. Sufferrosa is a non-linear, interactive web-based movie, an experimental storytelling project combining cinema and the web. Film actors includes famous legends of the Polish film industry: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Ewa Szykulska and Ryszard Ronczewski and great soundtrack with the names as Sonic Youth, Glass Candy, Tarwater, Exploding Star Orchestra and many more.
Sufferrosa is a satire of cult of beauty and youth in the present-day world and frustrated woopies (Well-Off Older People) who spend their life savings on plastic surgery.
Sufferrosa is D. Marcinkowski's homage to
Jean Luc Godard’s movie 'Alphaville' (1965), W.J.Has's cult-movie 'Manuscript
found in Saragossa' (1965), American film noir and the French writer Vernon
Sullivan.
I will not tell you more, just tune into Sufferosa universe and take on this interactive and amazing ride. Remember what happens in the movie depends entirely on the choices you make.
For two days ago I wrote about the sharing tyranny and now Pringles comes up with the new campaign that should help us fight over-sharing phenomena where people share things of the very low importance. Clever. We will see more of this type initiatives that help us fight overflow of informations. The brands that will we be those who give us powerful and useful filtering tools.
