This is post is me cleaning up my ever growing list of bookmarks. These commercials only real connection is that they made me feel something. I guess that’s the point of a good ad — and that’s why they’re here now. Enjoy!
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The Sunday Times – Icons
Pretty fascinating single shot multiple scene ad for ‘Icons’. Directed by US.
This is all about those iconic cultural images that we pin to our walls and stick in our minds. We all have our favourites. Heisenberg, Kraftwerk, and Banksy’s kissing coppers all featured in early scripts, but we wanted to take a snapshot of what’s making the headlines.
16 tumblr Blogs to Follow
Tumblrs endless scroll gives a visual person such as myself a complete and euphoric overload of inspiration. This post is a list of 16 tumblr blogs that I love to follow and who share some inspiring stuff. If you want – you can checkout the B/I/D tumblr blog here. Â Share any tumblr blogs you love in the comments below or on twitter.
Paper Generators
Disney Research present a new energy harvesting technology that generates electrical energy from a user’s interactions with paper-like materials. The energy harvesters are flexible, light, and inexpensive, and they utilize a user’s gestures such as tapping, touching, rubbing and sliding to generate energy. The harvested energy is then used to actuate LEDs, e-paper displays and other devices to create interactive applications for books and other printed media.
Lego Calendar
The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner made entirely of Lego. Take a photo of it with a smartphone all of the events and timings will be magically synchronised to an online, digital calendar. It makes the most of the tangibility of physical objects, and the ubiquity of digital platforms.
Created by Vitamins, Design and Invention Studio. View more.
Creating Icons: Lee Clow
Lee Clow shares his thoughts on what makes a genius, icon, and maverick and provides great insight into how intensity, passion, and desire led him to the successful career he has today. He touches on his working relationship with Steve Jobs and how the experience impacted his life.
Molson Canadian | The Beer Fridge
And this warms my heart. A beer fridge in Europe, the only one way to open it — a Canadian passport. See how the fridge was built.