Monthly Archives: June 2007

Dangers of Glare.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 23, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, trend. No comments.
Dangers of Glare.
This Polaroid spot/minisite is suspiciously close to the Milwaukee’s Best Beer Cannon. I guess that shooting things from cannons has become its own genre. How viral.

Music. Dance. Clock.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 22, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet. No comments.
Music. Dance. Clock.
Incredible Flash-based apparel site. Check out the screen savers.

Site Entrance Hurdles.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 19, 2007. Filed under brand, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface. No comments.
Site Entrance Hurdles.
It’s not unusual for a site to position a long sequence of hurdles just inside their entrance. Someone walking in the door might have to clear some or all of these hurdles before they can even try out the site: 1. Figure out what the service does, and whether it meets their needs. This can [...]

Liberators or Occupiers?

Written by Peter. Posted on June 18, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, guerrilla, interactive, politics, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Liberators or Occupiers?
BBC is running this in NYC, allowing viewers to text their vote in. [read more]

The Rise of Consumer Power.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 15, 2007. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, food, politics, trend, vegetarian. No comments.
The Rise of Consumer Power.
By Marie Jackson BBC News The makers of Mars bars have done a swift U-turn over plans to use animal products in their chocolate, to avoid a public backlash.  It appears the parent company Masterfoods did not reckon on the UK’s vegetarians and their supporters being quite such a force. But as a growing tide [...]

Microsoft Surface.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 12, 2007. Filed under brand, business, consumer, design, interactive, technology, trend, user interface, vids. No comments.
Microsoft Surface.
Pretty neat. Take a look.

Brand America.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under brand, graffiti, guerrilla, politics, trend. No comments.
Brand America.
America – Home Free? America has been, for at least a century, the most powerful brand on the planet. That’s not a metaphor: it’s the literal truth. The ways that people all over the world think about, talk about and relate to America are exactly the same ways that people think about, talk about, and [...]

Highrise Hijinks.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under clorox, pranks, work. 2 Comments.
Highrise Hijinks.
Kind of an inside joke – my sister and I both worked at The Clorox Company in Oakland, at their corporate highrise on Broadway. While I was there, working in the Creative Services department, I’d done a photo shoot with a lot of Pine-Sol product, and ended up with a few gallons of it that [...]

Sneaker Freaker

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under advertising, design. No comments.
Nice. From Dork Magazine – click the image or here to see more.

The Long Hallway.

Written by Peter. Posted on June 10, 2007. Filed under business, tail, technology. No comments.
The Long Hallway.
You’ve heard of the long tail and the long walk home. Now, for all those micro design firms looking to grow to the next level, there’s the long hallway – the distance between the physical working spaces of the individuals that comprise virtual companies – which may be as short as a few miles across [...]