Dummies in a Museum - New Smithsonian Display…

The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian has just unveiled a collection devoted to the history of road safety. The collection includes costumes and body parts from two advertising icons from the 1980s and 1990s: Vince and Larry, the crash test dummies that were used to illustrate the importance of safe driving in [...]

iPhone 4 Antenna Issues Prompt Creativity…

There have been all kinds of really creative posts ever since the antenna issue with the iPhone 4 came to light.  Apparently there’s a “bumper” for that.  Apple said — you’re holding it the wrong way!
There was a cartoon.

And a Rap video…

And a play off of WSJ/All Thing’s Digital pundit, Walt Mossberg.

Let’s keep the creativity [...]

LEGO Version of England vs. U.S. World Cup Match

In case you missed the FIFA World Cup match between England and the United States, here is a re-enactment of the highlights (lowlights?) using LEGOs.
The U.S. got a historic result, a 1-1 draw with England to open the 2010 World Cup for both sides. Steven Gerrard opened the scoring in the fourth minute, but the [...]

First Ever Unboxing: Well-Contained Outdoorsman

Seems like unboxing videos are quite common on the Web.  Most of the time, they have to do with some new fancy gadget.  This is an extension of that concept.
Introducing “The Well-Contained Outdoorsman.”
In order to be able to take off at a moment’s notice, he has come up with a system of organizing what he [...]

Vintage Smartphone Decision Chart

Decision chart from 2009. Things haven’t changed much in a year.

Target’s “Lost” ads Found on Facebook…

One of the best parts of the “Lost” series finale was the clever Target ad that could have been easily missed if you blinked or had your TiVo in zoom mode. Fortunately, Target knew they were onto something good. The ads can be seen on their Facebook page.

Here are the links to the [...]

Changing the Way Brainstorm Sessions are Run…

Some really smart people at Wharton just published research that supports something I’ve known intuitively for years — that is, that group dynamics squish innovation.
In a paper titled, “Idea Generation and the Quality of the Best Idea,” Wharton operations and information management professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl Ulrich, along with co-author Karan Girotra, a professor [...]

Shirts Off for Southwest’s Bags Fly Free Ad

If you watched any of the March Madness NCAA basketball games, you mostly had a chance to view a very delightful ad that Southwest was running to promote their “Bags Fly Free” policy.

It is rare for me to call something delightful, but this one was clever and brilliant and full of energy. Plus, you [...]

Mad Men Barbie Dolls?

According to a story by Stuart Elliott of The New York Times, Mattel has plans to add “Mad Men” inspired Barbie and Ken dolls to their line.  He said it was “a promotion for the television series as well as for Barbie.”
Now before you go off wondering if little girls will be replacing tea parties [...]

Twitter-Powered Popcorn Machine

This is pretty darn clever. Dave Britt and Justin Goeres came up with a way to make popcorn one Tweet at a time. The video below explains it.
It was their entry for the Fireworks Popcorn’s “Creative Pop 2010!” contest, which they won.
They used a custom LabVIEW program which polls Twitter for any [...]

GSP Does Chicken Right…

Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GSP) scored big time during the 2010 Super Bowl with its “Screamin’ Chicken” ads for Denny’s.   A story appearing on Monday in The Wall Street Journal said, “A Denny’s commercial, in which chickens scream in terror at the thought of the eggs needed to support the restaurant chain’s breakfast special, [...]

Super Bowl Ad Watch: Go Daddy Does it Again

The CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com, Bob Parsons, has to be having a chuckle over this one. Traction gained from banned ad is priceless.

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