The World’s First Invisible Ad - DesignTAXI.com...
To promote its product, deodorant company Lynx created the world’s first invisible ad. Using hundreds of polarized sunglasses, hack LCD screens, and a terrace house in Sydney—the company created ads that were only visible when viewed only through polarized sunglasses. Watch the video below to check out how it worked and what the invisible ads were about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cDwyia2MM5o 
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MAARTEN BAAS DESIGNED "780.559" TO CELEBRATE HIS COUNTRY’S LIBERATION DAY WITH A SYMBOLIC, CITYWIDE MEAL.
May 4th is Remembrance Day in the Netherlands, when those who lost their lives in WWII and subsequent battles fought in the name of keeping peace are honored with a universal two minutes of silence. Liberation Day, which follows on the 5th and marks the country’s independence from German forces in 1945, is a festive celebration commemorated with concerts, parties, and, this year, a massive meal in Amsterdam’s Dam Square. The National Committee of May 4 & 5 invited Dutch design star Maarten Baas to create something to help promote the concept of a citywide supper; 780.559 is a 60-meter-long cotton tablecloth--with “a little bit of glitter thread”--named for the number of residents in Amsterdam. A closer look reveals the unbelievable ingenuity of the project; the names of each of those 780,559 residents is woven into the material.
“It’s symbolic,” Baas says of the epic textile. After coming up with the concept, it was a feat of engineering by fellow Dutchman Bertjan Pot that allowed his idea to be fully realized. Intrigued by the concept that he could control and program every single thread, Pot devised Font of the Loom, an incredibly tiny typeface that can be "written" into the warp and weft of fabric made on a computer-controlled Jacquard loom. Check out the machine in action below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=susEfsHcJAI 
Graphic designer Grey Jay created a Photoshop action that lets you emulate the similar aesthetic you get with toy cameras for your digital photos.
Called ‘Holgarizer’, the Adobe Photoshop action helps you get the look of Lomography cameras for your photographs—if you happen to be shooting with a handheld digital camera, instead of your iPhone/Android where you can ‘Instagram’ the photos.
“I began using it on my own crappy digital images and before long friends started asking me, ‘What camera are you using? What film are you shooting?’ Well, that was it, I was simply running the Holgarizer Action in Photoshop.” Jay wrote. “Now people are probably more likely to ask what effect in Instagram I’m using. Times change. Artistic mediums and tools change with them, I guess.” Jay has made the action freely available to public, download the Holgarizer Action here;
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/108416/Holgarizer%202.0.zip
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No longer will we have to drink large quantities of water, or hold our breaths for a minute, to relieve ourselves of hiccups. A 13-year-old girl from Manchester, Connecticut—Mallory Kievman—may have found a cure in getting rid of hiccups! Called ‘Hiccupops’, they are made with apple cider vinegar and sugar—which according to her will ‘over-stimulate’ the hiccup causing nerves in our throat and mouth, and making the hiccups stop! Her patented Hiccupops have won prizes for innovation and patentability. She will soon be leading a team of graduates from the University of Connecticut to launch Hiccupops worldwide. Say goodbye to hiccups during your next presentation—as long as your audience doesn’t mind you sucking on a Hiccupop! 
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Showcase of Agence MURMURE Créative
Visit the website to experience the inventive 'Parallax' display of half-transparent images by scrolling... 
Eric Migicovsky needed money. It was January of 2012, and even though he had a cool idea--a watch that could connect to your iPhone or Android smartphone to display incoming calls, calendar and weather alerts, and email, Twitter, and Facebook... 
Yet I had no idea how bad it was until I encountered this remarkable, simple visualization from Ideas Illustrated, which pulled various “English” passages (ranging from Mark Twain to UN maritime documentation) and marked each word’s origin in various colors. It looks like Shakespeare is puking Skittles.
That said, you do learn a few things. By the sheer force of pink, it’s clear that Old English (in pink) is the closest thing we’ve probably got to true English. No doubt, it helps that articles like “the” and “a” along with prepositions like “of” and staple verbs like “is” and “was” are all Old English. And pluralizing by adding an “s” on a word is a Middle English (red) trick--which you begin to appreciate as every word appears to be bleeding. 
27 Apr 2012
Target Store Creates ‘The Avengers’ Using Everyday Objects - DesignTAXI.com...
In anticipation of Marvel’s The Avengers film, popular American retail chain Target has launched an ad campaign that features the Avengers constructed from everyday objects found it its stores. Titled ‘A Superhero in Every Aisle’, the campaign is produced by Portland-based agency Wieden + Kennedy.
The ad features Iron Man made from headlights, toys, Dr. Pepper cans and pencils while Thor’s Hammer is made from among other things, a toaster and a dumbbell. 
26 Apr 2012 | Designtaxi
They say that the sense of smell triggers memories more than all the other senses combined. And if you can smell like a new Apple product, you should be able to smell like your favorite city too. Perfumer Gérald Ghislain and designer Magalie Sénéquier created perfume souvenirs that ‘catch the essence of your travel’.
‘The Scent of Departure’ are bottles of perfume that contain the ‘essence of cities’—so that you can relive and recall your travel destinations with just a whiff of the perfume. Ghislain and Sénéquier have curated the scents of places Abu Dhabi, Paris, Bali, Dubai, Tokyo, Singapore, New York, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Milan, and the likes. We’re not sure whether the scents smell truly of the places they’re supposed to resemble—does New York really smell like green apples, lotus flowers, jasmine, lilac, rose petals, caramelized apples, white musk, vanilla and caramel, put together?
More destinations can be found here; http://usa.thescentofdeparture.com/destinations.php
[via Incredible Things] This pop-up chocolate store let you pay with the promise of a good deed toward a person you care for. The chocolate boxes had a range of different ‘price’ options so that people could pick a box according to the good deed they were willing to do. Via Jb Burdin 
Author: James Mitchell, Strategist, BBH & BBH Labs
Every once in a while at Labs, we like, no, need to get our hands dirty. Oily, even. We like to make stuff that we can learn from – learn from the making of and learn from the interactions with. Robotify.me is one such experiment. And unlike most of our output, we’re going to share its whole gestation with you. Partly because we’re too excited not to, partly because we want you to shape the product.
(...) Birds on twitter is the english version of advertising campaign for Latvian weekly magazine IR, 2011. |
When photographer Julien Mauve found his childhood toys in his grandparents attic, he thought: ‘how cool would it be for adults to play with toys again?’ He then created this fun and quirky series with childhood spunk! 
Last week, we reported on a cool, if seemingly far-fetched, UI concept that’d let you drag files from your phone to your computer with a swipe of the finger. The idea is “so simple and clever, you wonder why it doesn’t exist already,” we wrote.
Read more; http://goo.gl/kJtbA 
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Het winnende ontwerp wordt gekozen door het nederlandse publiek én oud- ArtBagontwerpers Henk Schiffmacher, Marcel Wanders en Piet Paris. Het resultaat is met recht een Crowdbag! Het Insturen en stemmen kan tot en met 25 mei op www.crowdbag.nl. De Crowdbag werd ontwikkeld door ACHTUNG! Amsterdam, in opdracht van STOPAIDSNOW!
Concept: ACHTUNG! 
07 May 2012 Designtaxi (via Daily Mail)
You can now get drunk for a few seconds at a time. As part of their niche market referred to as ‘aerosol cuisine’, French designer Philippe Starck has joined forces with French-American scientist David Edwards to develop a small spray that gets you feeling drunk for a few seconds with no aftereffects. Called ‘WA|HH Quantum Sensations’, the alcohol aerosol spray looks like a lipstick and dispenses 0.075 ml of alcohol each time—a minimum quantity for the alcohol microparticles to stimulate the brain.
Read more.....http://goo.gl/xNAX7 
(Image: proposal for new currency)
Designer-Daily By Mirko
Stockholm Design Lab participated in the competition for the redesign of the Swedish currency. Unfortunately, their design was not chosen. They put up a PDF together to explain their process. You can see some images of their proposal on this post, the last image is the (ugly) chosen new currency. 
When I’m not writing for Fast Company or elsewhere, I make films that help organizations and companies make sense of interesting ideas. 
Our photos are filled with gobs of metadata, but it’s mostly useless stuff to anyone but pro photographers. It identifies the camera the photo was taken on and all of its settings, but it can’t tell us anything else. 
In less than three minutes of video, Migicovsky lays out this case for the Pebble watch with the inevitability of an Apple product launch (without the turtleneck!). 
New York photographer William Miller thought he scored big when he snapped up an old Polaroid SX-70 at a yard sale for $20. “I’ve always loved this camera,” he says in his artist’s statement. 
If you're looking for a new phone with a unique look and a modest price tag, MIT's High-Low Tech research group has just the thing for you — a DIY cellphone made of wood. PhD student David... 
Image: In this Oct. 7, 1914 photo provided by the New York City Municipal Archives, painters are suspended from wires on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. (AP Photo/New York City Municipal Archives, Department of Bridges/Plant & Structures, Eugene de Salignac)
Incredible images among 870,000 photos of NYC now available to the public for the first time
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Published: Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 12:41 PM
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