Da Vinci’s Laaste Avondmaal in detail. New York Times, Masterpiece Home Theater: ““Water Lilies” is the second-most-popular cellphone wallpaper sold by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, which opened a new digital-images shop in September. This service is only the latest future-shock innovation at the museum, a civilized institution that has nonetheless adopted what one tech [...]
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Improv Everywhere: No Shirts
October 19th, 2007
Improv Everywhere (We Cause Scenes): No Shirts “For our latest mission, 111 men of all shapes and sizes shopped shirtless in the Abercrombie and Fitch store on 5th Avenue here in New York.”
Tags: abercrombie and fitch · advertising · improv everywhere · marketing
Vanity sizing
April 16th, 2007
Times: “Britain’s high-street shops have been flattering the vanity of their customers by understating the true sizes of their trousers on the label by an average of 3in.”
Tags: fashion · fcuk · gap · health · hennes and mauritz · jeans · marketing · vanity sizing · waist · zara
Now that’s a website! Now that’s storytelling!
April 7th, 2007
Het boek No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July. gaat vergezeld van een bijzonder creative en charmante website. (Via svn.)
Tags: design · literature · marketing · miranda july · storytelling · webdesign
links for 2006-09-18
September 18th, 2006
Architecural Tricks To Control Users “Below is an A-Z of retail tricks that we have compiled to empower you before you go out shopping, so that you can buy what you need and collapse our economy! More will be added as we root them out.” (tags: shopping evil architecture design marketing) Wired News: One Million [...]
Tags: architecture · marketing · os x · shopping · terrorism · video
links for 2006-03-22
March 22nd, 2006
Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad? “”What went wrong with Friendster? Why is MySpace any different?”” (tags: socialnetworks myspace friendster) Wired: How France Is Saving Civilization “New legislation in France would force Apple Computer to open the iPod and iTunes to competitors — and that’s a good thing for consumers, in the long [...]
Tags: apple · business · danah boyd · design · drm · france · friendster · internet · itunes · linden labs · marketing · media · myspace · nl · publishing · second life · signal versus noise · social networks · vpro