Author Archive for damon

Santa Claus is now following you on Twitter!

08
Dec
09

What does Christmas really mean to you?

christmas tweets

Well… that is exactly what this funny experiment is trying to find out by tracking keywords on Twitter, and launching a poetic race around the world between Christmas Spirit, Commercialism, Credit Crunch, and Religion.

Sweeeeet!
Oh? Are the reindeer on facebook yet?

Glass half empty, glass half full.

06
Dec
09

Introducing The Cipher Glass: A beautiful concept designed by Damjan Stankovic, an award wining designer based in Belgrade, Serbia.

Empty, the glass resembles a meaningless colorful mosaic.
Full, it reveals the name of the liquid poured into it.

dekrypt glass

Though the Cipher glass is complex in appearance, it is in fact based on a very simple idea:

Differently coloured squares are scattered across the glass surface in a seemingly random pattern. Their position, however, is hardly accidental. The true purpose of the glass mosaic is revealed when coloured liquid is poured into it – orange juice, milk, or Coca-Cola.

The pattern of shapes and empty spaces on the glass, combined with the colour of the liquid inside the glass, form a word that reveals exactly which drink you are having. Each side of the glass is reserved for a specific drink.

Besides being a novelty item with entertainment value it can also serve as a marketing item for beverage companies as it has a strong promotional potential… And we love that!

Twit’up the volume

25
Nov
09

Wyclef Jean (aka @wyclef, aka Toussaint St Jean) is using his Twitter showing 1 million+ followers and TwitVid (Twitter+Video) to launch his new Mixtape EP “Walk Away”.

Some funny stuff man, happened to me,
I signed an autograph for a kid, Clef from The Fugees,
Kid looked at me, said what the hell is a Fugee,
Aint you Will.i.am from the peas,
I’m a fan, but no I aint Will.i.am,
Let me introduce myself to the new generation,
I’m wyclef jean singer, song writer, composer,
In high school I used to be a battle rapper,
Then I got with The Fugees, hi haters,
Fifteen years later, still sold more records than all of ya’ll put together,
That’s just a piece of the biography of Wyclef Jean,
And when I spit call me Tousaint St. Jean.

HipHopAtLunch.com met up with him to speak about the inspiration behind his Toussaint St. Jean mixtape, his Yéle Haiti Timberland boot, taking classes at Berklee College of Music, and of course his views on Twitter and Facebook…

This is a men’s world…

19
Nov
09

For males that didn’t had a chance to play with the interactive playmate of the last Esquire “Augmented Reality” Issue… Enjoy this official tour!

Moonwalk.

07
Nov
09

Stuck on earth?
Step on the moon with experts Sally Ride, Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell.

A wonderful set, a beautiful talk, a nice journey again, by Louis Vuitton.

I Just Made Love.

21
Oct
09

And you?
Oh! I’m sorry. Is this too intimate?

Well thousands of people are…

I Just Made Love shows on the map of the world places where people just made love in real time. What massive social change drives people to be ready to share that level of privacy? Interesting…

Bar Talks

07
Oct
09

Google’s new logo is a barcode, because today is the 57th anniversary of the first patent on the barcode…

The barcode is a technical innovation from inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver that has become an often unnoticed, yet essential, part of modern day life. It is a global standard, where a scanner from any manufacturer can interpret any barcode from anywhere.

It’s a great example of why uniform protocols and standards serve a greater good for everybody, and the same lesson certainly applies to the web!

The (5 minutes) TrendWatch Break

30
Sep
09

STOP motion
A mind-blowing collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis produced by studio cromie music by Roberto Lange.

STOP walking
From London to LA, join the new “fix gear bike” craze, and get your own for only $399 at The Urban Outfitters Custom Bike online shop.

STOP acting like a “Mad Men” TV star
…and become one with AMC!

STOP moving
Introducing Augearth, the Augmenting Aerial Earth Maps with Dynamic Information from Kihwan Kim, Sangmin Oh, Jeonggyu Lee and Irfan Essa, at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Pit STOP
The Puma Pit-crew Builds a Ferrari Car Out of Clothes

STOP watching YouTube
…and get your videos exported as a flip book.

STOP using marker
With HandyAR and thanks to Taehee Lee and Tobias Höllerer, you can now create Markerless Augmented Reality.

Alright STOP!
Get back to work now…….

Now we know we don’t know!

25
Sep
09

The Economist conference just finished Monday in New York and some marketers still don’t believe what happened in 2009…

Post-digital culture drastically changed consumer behavior and the media landscape. The way marketers reach their audience must also change. Quickly.

So when the L.A. Times announced that ABC, the Disney-owned network, decided to skip the first commercial break while premiering their most anticipated TV series “Flash Forward” and Courteney Cox’s “Cougar Town”, some think the network was experimenting with a new tactic to keep viewers tuned in, while others speculate that the network couldn’t find enough media buyers…

Fall in love with The NEW TrendWatch!

21
Sep
09

The seasons remind us that it’s natural to change… So TheTrendWatch is proud to introduce a few of them. And we hope you’ll fall in love.

New design
White is the new background.
Black is the new type.
The combo is stylish and easy to read.

New functionalities
We’ve been here
We’ve been there (RSS, e-mail, Facebook)
We’re now everywhere a trend should be (Twitter, YouTube) and we look forward to seeing you around…

New Team
Creative Director, Media Specialist, Data Miner, CEO, Art Director, or Strategic Planner… Please welcome our new team members from Asia, USA & Europe, an exciting mix of newbie and old-school trend watchers.

But before introducing ourselves, a big hug and thanks to our initial contributors who have moved on (especially Olivier Peyre whose adventures can be followed on Twitter).

Rest assured guys, we’ve got the baton and we’re off!!!




The TrendWatch:


The TrendWatch is the collective postings of some of the FullSIX Group’s designers, strategists, and consultants on new media and marketing trends. It is meant to be an impromptu think-tank, and is a way for us to share theories and beliefs about how we think communication and connectivity is evolving.

We work for The FullSIX Group; a leading full service marketing agency with digital DNA. From our 15 international offices with over 600 employees, we constantly embrace and encourage innovation to make integrated marketing and communication campaigns that are more accountable and efficient for our clients.