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 | Wanna Solve Impossible Problems? Find Ways to Fail Quicker |
| Aza Raskin |
| 1959 was a time of change. Disney released their seminal film Sleeping Beauty, Fidel Castro became the prime minister of Cuba, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower made Hawaii an official state. That same year, a British industry magnate by the name of Henry Kremer wondered: Could an airplane fly powered only by the pilot's body?  Read more |
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| | Unify, Simplify, Amplify: How Moleskine Gets Branding Right |
| Ken Carbone |
| Last month I offered some branding advice based on the belief that, in order to win, companies need to Unify, Simplify and Amplify their brand message. This month I will showcase my first example of a brand that puts this formula into practice -- the Italian brand Moleskine, or as they pronounce it in Italy, "mol-a-skeen-a." Read more |
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| | A Skull Carved From $11K in Cash [Slideshow] |
| Suzanne LaBarre |
| Scott Campbell is a tattoo artist in Brooklyn who got kinda' famous for inking cool-kid celebs like Marc Jacobs and Heath Ledger -- something he somehow managed to parlay into a place in the world of gallery art. Read more |
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| | A 19th Century Theater, Converted Into a Monument to Digital Art [Slideshow] |
| Suzanne LaBarre |
| France has a gift for injecting its historic buildings with dashes of spectacular modernism, and with the freshly completed Gaîté Lyrique, in Paris, the nation has elevated this to a high art. A fussy old theater built at the height of Napoleon Bonaparte's rule and later abandoned (locals took to calling it "The Sad Mute"), the Gaîté Lyrique has been converted into a bright, experimental funhouse dedicated exclusively to the digital arts. Read more |
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| | Wanted: A Blankie That Doubles as a Transformable Fort |
| John Pavlus |
| Kids are more imaginative than any toy designer could ever hope to be: we all saw Big, we know this. But Studio Gorm is putting that old saw into action with their fun-as-hell-looking "Construction Quilt," which turns a basic throw cover into... well, anything a kid might think up. Read more |
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