Few months back I got excited about Candy Chang’s street art project “I Wish This Was“. New Orleans post Katrina is full of vacant storefronts and people who need things so Chang created fill-in-the-blank stickers, available to the residents to articulate their wishes and stick them on different places. It’s a fun, low-barrier tool/platform for [...]
Very few things on the internet bring me more joy (ok and jealousy too) than passionate individuals doing something genuinely cool and get the attention and love that brands can only dream of. Advanced Style is going for 2 years apparently and I only discovered it now. Meet Ari Seth Cohen My name is Ari [...]
Mindblowing read from the New Yorker “And though history has made us self-conscious in order to enhance our survival prospects, we still have deep impulses to erase the skull lines in our head and become immersed directly in the river. I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you [...]
Read this and this for better context (Oh wait! don’t go read them as you’ll never come back to read this post – that’s what this post is all about) My experience tells me that almost always when two competing arguments trying to describe a reality, the ‘truth’ is somewhere in the middle. In case [...]
Some beautiful things coming up my stream related to the x-box kinect. We know from previous examples that great unexpected things can come from an open system that allows you freedom and play. Not sure if Microsoft had that on the Kinect business strategy (imagine a platform like the app store where developers can create [...]
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Not too often you see a product, an innovation that is so simple and brilliant you want to hug the people behind it. That’s exactly what Tegu makes me feel. Tegu is a fledgling, positive, green Toy Company. It’s an honest company doing a world of good in all kinds of meaningful ways by creating [...]
Couple of weeks ago I took part in a Guided Collective super awesome campaign for Ted Baker London. We’ve been tasked with helping them make some noise around the oppening of the USA online shop. The idea: Take on Ted – the world’s first live styling studio remote-controlled by fashion bloggers and the public. In [...]
So I finally got some time to breath and tell you a little bit about what I’ve been up to recently. #newbaby #newjob #etc. As some of you may know, few months ago I went my own way and founded Bench & Friends. What started initially as a tax evasion (read: optimisation) exercise – (going [...]
I’m not a geek. I rarely get a kick out of technology per se. It has always been the possibilities for human social experiences that made me tick. And cleverly awesome marketing. The Conan Blimp, just launched onto the skies of the east cost in the USA is the best thing I’ve seen this year. [...]