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Introducing Guest Blogger Gaston Legorburu: Taking His "Think Tank" to Cannes

I've never met Sapient's Worldwide Chief Creative Officer Gaston Legorburu, but if I wanted to connect with him this week, my best bet would be to hang around bars in Cannes after midnight. That's where the real business of ...READ»

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Big Awards for the Year's Best Industrial Design

The International Design Excellence Awards were announced yesterday, and represent the 150 best designs among over 1600 entries.READ»

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MiLoft is The Eco-Friendly Apartment We Should All Live in

Architects RMJM have unveiled a design for an apartment today at the Cannes MIPIM property fair that represents the eco-friendly future of apartment design. And in the best trends of innovation, MiLoft doesn't skimp on cool design ...READ»

GreatPackaging

Cannes Picks the Year's Best Package Design

There's a new trend afoot, emphasizing hand-drawn craftiness and artisanal values.READ»

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Business Cards Fashioned Out of Laser Cut Leaves Make a Big Impression

Looking for a high-impact way to show off your company's environmental commitment? Consider business cards etched onto laser cut leaves. Brazilian Design firm Tatil Design came up with the idea as a way to show how design can ...READ»

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Nitro's 'Best Job' Campaign Wins Cyber Lions Grand Prix in Cannes

One of the buzziest campaigns we've seen in a long time tops three categories in the advertising awards festival.READ»

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MIPIM

"The home-building market is on life support," says Mike Lucki, head of Ernst & Young's global-infrastructure services, reaffirming what we already know. Yet the 30,000 attendees at this four-day event -- ...READ»

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Tweaking a Dictator, With a Remarkable Ad Campaign

The Outdoor Grand Prix at Cannes went to a campaign aimed at memorializing Robert Mugabe's corruption.READ»

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Big Winner at Cannes? SWAG

The most sought after prize at Cannes this week, aside from those fancy little lions...READ»

MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

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Our Man in Cannes: On the Ground at the International Advertising Festival

This week's expert designer brings us the winners, the losers, and, most importantly, the parties from the annual Cannes Lions awards.READ»

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To Reach Multicultural Youth, Go Mobile

It's no secret; multicultural consumers have always been trendsetters. The music, fashion, and lifestyle categories have always been synonymous with--and adopted--what emanates from “the streets." Yet, when it comes to influence in ...READ»

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Schematics' Multi-touch Interactive Touchwall Debuts in Cannes [video]

Schematic, one of the firms which designed interface concepts for Minority Report, unveils their latest attempt at realizing those ideas.READ»

A Mad Man Gets His Head Together
E-COMMERCE   |  Comment

A Mad Man Gets His Head Together

Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe, has bet more than $1 Billion that he can define the future of digital advertising. Getting there has been enough to make anyone a little schizophrenic. READ»

Jerry Springer

How to Run Your Brand Like a Therapist

To keep consumers coming back, companies should consider getting in touch with their feelings.READ»

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Let 'Em Eat Grapes!

Marketers should apply more of their creativity to solving the childhood obesity problem than they do contributing to it.READ»

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The Internet Makes Work for Idle Hands

The radical decentralization of the means of cultural production and distribution it has brought about, that I mentioned in the slidecast in my last post, "Social Begins At Home," has changed the very nature of the audience--of what ...READ»

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6 Lessons From the Best Marketing Campaign Ever

Last month an unlikely underdog stunned the marketing world at the International Cannes Advertising Festival. At the show, a single marketing campaign took home a Grand Prix award in three categories simultaneously--direct, cyber and ...READ»

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How Emily Gould Turns Us On

The last seven days have kept arts and entertainment editors busy. Amidst Cannes and Indiana Jones coverage came the season finales of most high-profile TV dramas, the confetti-accompanied crowning of an indie rocker as the newest ...READ»

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HOPENHAGEN   |  Comment

Hopenhagen: Twitter-Like Site to Push World Leaders at Copenhagen Climate Change Meeting

Twitter's political usefulness has already proven itself in this month's Iran protests. The U.N. hopes to further its own political goals with a similar microblogging platform on its Hopenhagen campaign site, just launched this week ...READ»

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Asian Innovation in Marketing -- Integrated Online Branded Communities

There is a perception that Asia lags North America in terms of social media uptake and marketing innovation. Not true. Take for example global mobile marketing leadership in Korea and Japan, or the strong role played by online in ...READ»

Colbert and AK-47

60 Years Later, Everyone's Still Loving the AK-47

The iconic machine gun turns 60 this year, and remains one of the most effective tools ever designed. Graham Button heads to his local gun show to find out why something that kills people is so revered.READ»

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Online, We're the Sales Leads and the Cookies are the Closers

My son plays some pretty obscure online games. You have to leave the beaten track to find them. About six months ago he was playing one in my dungeon office at home, where I was using hypnosis to coax ideas out of a blank piece of ...READ»

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Designed Experiences: The Evolution of Intelligent Design

Established brands are an evolution, constantly adapting. Designed brands are born adapted.READ»