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Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things

1 of 2 posts filed under advertising

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a video posted 2 days ago

filed under: uncanny valley, androids, retail, advertising,

“Tokyo department store Takashimiya has teamed up with Dr Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University to install a new visual merchandising concept using a lifelike android mannequin that has shoppers stopping in their tracks.”

Would you like to know more?

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a video posted 3 weeks ago

filed under: personal, informatics, wrist, watch, health, sport, advertising, wearables,

The Nike+ FuelBand is designed for anyone who wants to be more active. It measures your daily activity and turns it all into NikeFuel. So you can set a goal for every day and then go out and beat it.

www.nike.com/fuelband

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a quote posted 1 month ago

filed under: advertising, design, invention,

In short I believe that the way our business now tends to make “being interesting” subordinate to “being logical” is the single greatest reason why a lot of advertising is awful.

— Rory Sutherland - Who make better planners? Planners or creatives?

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a video posted 3 months ago

filed under: design fiction, advertising, social media, facebook,

The Invite - A concept video by Max Gebhardt (via Ben Redford)

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a video posted 5 months ago

filed under: advertising, spimes, stories, memories,

“…the object is no longer an object, but an instantiation”

San Miguel - as a Spime (sort of).

(Source: shingleton.org)

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a quote posted 8 months ago

filed under: advertising,

Society once did a deal accepting advertising because it seemed occasionally useful and interesting and because it paid for lots of journalism and entertainment. It’s not necessarily going to pay for those things for much longer so we might start questioning whether we want to live in a Blade Runner world brought to us by Cillit Bang.

— Russell Davies on advertising - from 20 predictions for the next 25 Years (Observer)

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a video posted 9 months ago

filed under: displays, facebook, twitter, social, advertising,

Nike Shout by Ogilvy Singapore linked networked perimeter displays with a Facebook page and twitter hashtag to allow Indonesian football fans to broadcast their messages during a match - live.

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a video posted 9 months ago

filed under: advertising, robots,

We’ll let robots do a lot of things, but there is one thing they will never, ever, do.”

(via Toby Barnes)

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a video posted 1 year ago

filed under: advertising, communication, history, building management,

AT&T “Energy Building” ad by Abel and Associates (1980)

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a video posted 1 year ago

filed under: advertising, communication, home, history,

General Electric “Build a Phone” ad by Abel and Associates (1984)

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