February 2012
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Seven Ways to Reinvent Yourself
View the article here.
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Future Hipsters
In the year 2062, a bunch of elderly hipsters are interviewed about the good old days of social media.
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The Customer is Always Right
They say the customer is always right and in Lily Robinson’s case she was! Last May, Lily a three and a half year old from Great Britain, noticed that Tiger bread, her favorite bread from grocery chain Sainsbury, actually looked more like Giraffe bread. With the help of her mother, Lily wrote a letter to Sainsburry suggesting that the splotches on the bloomer’s crustresemble more a...
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Digital Platform Display Shows Subway Car Volume...
Getting a seat on a NYC subway car is always a challenge. Recently, the MTA commissioned a survey on the F and L lines to determine what are the most crowded areas of the subway car. The study found that both the front and back were over occupied, while the middle had room to spare. Whether you’re waiting for the train on the platform or on a subway car, its difficult to know if there are...
January 2012
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Five Year Old Analyzes Popular Brand Logos
Wanted – passionate and enthusiastic account and...
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@Jabari talks Film, Hip-Hop + @TinieTempah
In a 140-characters or less, who are you?
I’m a filmmaker and media personality who loves music and was lucky enough to blend two hobbies into a profession.
How did you get to your current position?
I began doing interviews with artists while I was in school at Howard University and putting them online. As they got more and more popular I began to take it very seriously and get better...
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WatchCheck out the Board of Innovation’s “7 Business Models that Got Shot in 2011”, featured as the top presentations on slideshare today.
Behind it all is the Board of Innovations Brainstorm tool kit, which you can find on their site. I love this kit, it breaks down the complexity of business models and more importantly it’s visual, it feels more like a game than a...
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How Much is SOPA & PIPA Worth?
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 will forever be a memorable day in Internet history; it has officially been dubbed “Internet Blackout Day.” For the first time, some of America’s most high-trafficking websites, which are visited by millions of users daily, are ‘blacked-out.’ Wikipedia, Reddit, Wordpress and other websites have decided to protest the SOPA & PIPA initiatives for...
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Brooklyn Artist Creates Coloring Book Based on the...
“People forget that hip hop as a culture is not just about money and ego. It’s an art form that can provide kids with self esteem and identity. It promotes individuality.”
- James ‘Creative’ Shields
We had a chance to speak to James ‘Creative’ Shields about his amazingly dope coloring book, here’s what the artist had to say:
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Are We Stuck in a 1992 Time Capsule?
Every 20 years America’s societal landscape shifts dramatically, but in the 21st century, popular style has been stuck on repeat. Vanity Fair has published an article exploring American culture from 1930 to 2012. Even as technological and scientific advancements have revolutionized life, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between the culture of 1992 and 2012. People are...
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Smart Urnials Report Your Health
Getting to the doctor isn’t always easy, but designer Royce Zhang, has created a new way to tune into your health status during the lavatory experience.
The E-Urinal concept is the normal urinal with the added benefit of reporting your daily health score based on urine quality. The E-Urinal measures your sugar levels, PH, red/white blood cells and other minerals to compute a health score based...
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Budgets vs Buckets, How to Save in 2012
Clearing debt and saving money is one of the top resolutions of 2012 and every resolution needs a well designed strategy to help us break our bad habits and achieve our goal.
According to Ryan Jacoby who co-leads the New York office of global design consultancy firm IDEO, “Behavior change is the hardest thing to design for.” When it comes to financial goals most people tend to tackle the issue...
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Now! That's What I Call A Startup
Are you brainstorming a start-up idea for 2012? Well design shop, Reuben & Hunter have launched a ‘next generational game changer,’ Now! That’s What I Call Startups to help you with your new business idea. The site is a spoof of the popular, Now That’s What I Call Music volumes. Just press the red button, and presto! You have the secret sauce to your next big...
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Brooklyn's 'Bonebreaking' Takes It to the Subway
The awe-inspiring video above from NextLevel Squad features Bonebreaking, a street dance, also known as flexing, which originated in Brooklyn, NY. The dance became a worldwide phenomenon after The Ringmasters Crew were contestants on MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew in 2009. Bonebreaking is comprised of contortionist moving, waving, tutting and glidding and is usually performed to...
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Today’s Pace: Reevaluating Time
Scott Thrift captures quite elegantly our inability to pause and enjoy the moments in life, because we are so caught up in the speed and connectivity of today’s culture. His solution is a seasonal clock, which is an interesting take on reevaluating how we think about time, although I wonder what more can be done in refining time and dimension with...
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IBM's POV on the Computer Circa 1958
“The computer is helping to define society’s most complicated problems. It is a tool for turning inspiration into fruitful predictions. As an information machine, it has done much to broaden the base of our growing concepts. But the real miracle is the promise that there will also be room for those smallest details, that have been the basis for man’s most rewarding wishes.”
The Information...
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Clothes That Clean Themselves
With the NFL playoffs starting, our New Years resolutions looming and our “Twitterverse” exploding, who has time for laundry? Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China have come up with a new cotton fabric that will allow sunshine to do the cleaning and deodorizing itself. We skip the process of carrying our laundry to the washer machine and waiting for it to dry by allowing...
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Technology Pirates in the Pacific Ocean
While President Obama is going around the country looking for support on his Jobs Act to create jobs in the United States, start up Blueseed has a different plan. Backed by PayPal founder Peter Thiel, Blueseed is looking to become a technology ‘incubator’ that will be housed in International waters, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act states, before...
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Eco Automatic Sink Saves Space and Washes Dishes
The fridge is full, you start chopping up the vegetables, and before you know it the whole house has a wonderful aroma of chicken soup. It is cold outside and the warm soup quickly fills your cold body. After enjoying such a satisfying dinner you look over to the mess in the kitchen with despair. Your favorite show starts in 20 minutes and you know there is no way you could have all your dishes...
December 2011
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Mitsubishi Goes Intergalactic With Future Model...
Mitsubishi has designed a game-changer within the race for innovation in the automobile industry. The EMIRAI concept has reshapes the standard LCD dashboard to a freely curved, rear-projection touch display. The rear seats feature newly developed, glasses-free 3D touchscreen displays as well. The new, effective dashboard design has a safety system that uses biometrics and 18 shape-changing...
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R&D Lab At The New York Times Develops Augmented...
The R&D Lab at the New York Times has introduced, Reveal, a mirror-based platform that explores the relationship between information and the self. The mirror shows media content from the New York Times overlaid onto a semi-reflective glass surface, so the user will see their reflection and high-contrast graphics. The Lab developed both the hardware and software for the mirror and has deemed...
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YouTube for Schools Brings Free Educational Videos...
While education reform is becoming a household name, YouTube has announced an important stepping stone to the betterment of our children’s education. YouTube for Schools brings free educational lessons of top teachers and thought leaders from around the world to the classroom. Teachers will be able to access any video on YouTube and create playlists to control what content to provide...
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The New York Times Visualizes Every American Block...
Have you ever wondered what were the richest neighborhoods in your area? Well, The New York Times has visualized every city block in the United States by race, income, housing and education. The data visualization, Mapping America: Every City, Every Block uses samples from 2005-2009 of the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Users can browse location-based demographic data like the...
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People Becoming Brands, Brands Becoming People
“Social networks are emotional landscapes. Many people want to see that the businesses they support also share their values. Again, social media only works if it is designed to engage consumers because 1) that’s where a notable population of consumers are connected and 2) because you’ve identified what they’re seeking or missing and use social networks to deliver against them....
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Buzzfeed's 90 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011
One of the most difficult aspects of Twitter could be who to follow. With over 380 million “tweeters” finding the best followers could be an impossible task. No fear! We have a list of the 90 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011, courtesy of BuzzFeed! From Bronx Zoo Cobras to Newspapers even the Drunk Hulk made the list. This list includes some of the most followed, funniest and most informative...
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Food Trends 2012: American Comfort Food Classics...
2012 will be the year of comfort foods and breakfast will be ‘occupying’ dinner menus everywhere according to The Passion Collection 2012 food trend report. American comfort food classics, like the grilled cheese, will be receiving an unusual surprise as chefs create menus with gourmet interpretations of the sandwich and other classics. Everyone loves brunch and breakfast foods, so...
WatchMarco Brambilla and Ewen Cameron Behind The Scenes: Brambilla Inspired By Salvador Dali Throwing Cats and Water Into The Air
Check out our behind the scenes video footage where our CEO, Ewen Cameron interviews Marco Brambilla on his surprising influences for RPM, such as Salvador Dali throwing cats and water into the air. And get an idea of the emotional space Brambilla is trying to push viewers...
WatchBCU Bringing The Power of Art and Brands Together: Marco Brambilla and Ferrari Collaborate To Hypnotize Your Senses At Art Basel Miami
Debuted to rave reviews last week at Miami’s Art Basel and featured on Nowness, Marco Brambilla revealed his psychedelic 3D film, RPM, commissioned by Ferrari to launch Ferrari’s new 458 Spider. RPM was brokered by our CEO Ewen Cameron, who concepted the idea...
Berlin Cameron Launches HASHTAG- Propagating Culture, Collaborations, and Influences
Ok, so we’ve been busy talking to our clients, networks and friends about the power of creating true cultural collaborations with brands, artists, musicians, photographers and directors but we haven’t told you yet Tumblr.
So here it goes, we are launching HASHTAG, to propagate our POV on culture, showcase our...