Une campagne très réussie à l’approche de Noël pour le leader mondial des enchères sur Internet Ebay. Une baseline percutante “Christmas is happening” avec les présents achetés sur le site. Un travail de l’agence BETC Euro RSCG Paris, sur des photographies de Grégoire Alexandre.
Chicago-based Object Design League, in production with Pavilion, have just opened Worth Your Salt, a holiday pop up shop featuring a collection of objects by 19 young American designers.
The products, both industrious and playful, include Timothy Liles’ swirled Crayon Rings (made from genuine crayons), Zach Weiss and Kai Williams’ Table Hockey (turn your coffee table into a hockey table), Peter Bo’s Utility Aprons (appropriate for both the woodshop and the home), and Michael Savona’s Shhh Lamp (a nightlight to help you wind down at the end of a hard day), pictured below.
The shop will maintain daytime and evening hours through December 11th at Pavilion’s storefront in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. If you’re in town, don’t miss the open house reception tomorrow from 5-9pm. If you’re not, many of the objects will be available online for the duration of the shop, including a limited-run Object Design League wrapping paper:
Click through for pictures of the opening and some of the available products.
Worth Your Salt: Object Design League Pop Up Shop 2009
at Pavilion: 2055 N. Damen/Chicago, IL 60647 (map)
November 27 – December 11, 2009
M: closed, T: 12-6, W-F: 12-9, S: 12-6, Sn: 12-5
Black Friday Opening: Fri Nov. 27, 5-9pm
December on Damen Reception: Thursday Dec. 3, 5-9pm
 | Living so close to Silicon Valley, it’s no wonder that all my best guy friends have some varying degree of nerdiness. And just so you know, the rumors about nerds being socially awkward are totally untrue. (For the most part, anyway!) Whether it’s obsessions about Apple products to Star Wars memorabilia, they’re surprisingly hard to shop for because they already have everything they’re obsessed with. So my job is to find something either really unexpected or something that they need and will never get for themselves. For something unexpected, I’d like to give the Chumby One to any of my friends who are addicted to knowing the latest sports scores, Twitter, the weather, and just the internet in general. I’ve also gotten lost with a few of my friends while out driving so someone unlucky on the roads would be a perfect candidate for a GPS navigator like the TomTom ONE. Take a look at my slideshow for more tech gift ideas he’ll love and appreciate! |
The last Lego animation we showed you (Tomas Redigh’s) was artsy and original; this one is a frame-by-frame copy of one of the iconic scenes in The Matrix, done for the movie’s 10th anniversary, by the peeps over at LegoMatrix.
We wish it was longer! (Although they’d probably cringe to hear us say that, given that they already spent 440 hours on this one.)
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There are two weeks to go until the deadline for entries to this year’s Creative Review Annual, bringing together our pick of the best work of the year
Each year, The Annual brings together the finest work of the year from graphic design, advertising, digital media, music videos and other fields of visual communication. Work is selected by a panel of judges drawn from the industry and showcased chronologically over some 90 pages in a special double edition of the May issue of Creative Review.
This year’s judges will include:
Phil Clandillon – creative director, Sony Music Entertainment UK
Jonathon Jeffrey – founding director, Bibliothèque
Laura Jordan-Bambach – executive creative director, Lbi London
Jane Scherbaum – deputy head of design, V&A Museum
David Simpson – creative director, Music
Kate Stanners, creative partner, Saatchi & Saatchi London
Alexandra Taylor, art director
Claudio Vecchio, design director, Pearlfisher
To enter The Annual please go to the dedicated website here
“Searching the internet for the next great toy idea,” says TheGreatToySearch.com, “yours.” Backed by the same company that David Fitzgibbons (see previous toy entry) works for, the website has a simple two-step process: You fill out the NDA they provide you with, then send in your concept.
Their FAQ goes over things like patents and trademarks, the types of toys they do (and don’t) like to see, and their relatively unusual approach: Rather than going out to hawk your product like salesmen, “We don’t go to the companies and hope for a sale. We wait for the companies to come to us as interested parties first,” which they can presumably pull off due to longstanding industry relationships.
And, of course, they also include this sobering note:
…In the business of toy concepts it really is one in one thousand concepts that are company acquired and become a success at retail. For the toy inventor the process is long and hard and patience is the king of virtues for this profession.
To be honest, one in one thousand sounds kind of high to me….
Here’s a good read for aspiring toy designers: Inventor’s Digest has an interview up with David Fitzgibbons, a recruiter for the toy industry. Though he recruits at the executive level, Fitzgibbons’ extensive industry experience allow him to break down “some of the biggest mistakes inventors make when approaching toy companies” and what the upcoming areas are in toy innovation. Then he lets loose with this gem:
ID: …Tell us, what’s your favorite toy of all time?
DF: The 1964-era 12″ G I Joe. Joe’s detailed line of accessories, realistic uniforms and extensive play pattern won me over at a young age. It also taught me a valuable lesson as the inventor of GI Joe took a lump-sum payout of $100,000 for his concept rather than a royalty. That decision cost him nearly $20 million in royalties….
“Losing your royalties is half the battle.”
In marginally related original G.I. Joe news, we found this somewhat disturbing photo on a website called Rat Hunter:
Imagine a world where people eat to raise money for a cause they support. That’s what STEW is doing in Baltimore. Their inaugural dinner kicked off last weekend in a beautiful old church known as 2640. STEW was inspired by a national movement of grassroots fundraising solutions for community-supported projects. By most accounts, this trend was started by Chicago’s InCubate and spread to STOCK, in Portland, Oregon, and FEAST, in Brooklyn, before making its way to the mid-Atlantic.
The 70 people who attended the dinner each paid $10 for a four-course meal that was made with donated food from local farms and was served by volunteers. Presentations by local organizations filled the time between each course. Each described what they do and why they need money to run their operation. When the presentations ended, the diners voted on which group should receive the money. In this case, they voted that the three groups split the $700 that was raised.
Imagine the possibilities for designers.
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