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First the president-elect tells me I have earned a puppy. Now Burger King’s tellin’ me I have earned the chance to make a t-shirt with six icons of my choosing. This is at least 4x better than the last time I decorated my clothes at Burger King. With Whopper debris.
The Burger King Studio is a collaboration between Burger King and a team of artists and designers. With their powers combined, they’ve put together a “palette” of 23 different graphics you can slap…
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A-Ron “The Downtown Don” (né Aaron Bondaroff) finally launched his long-delayed Off Bowery Productions site last night. The brains behind aNYthing, The Wreck Center, 205 Club, and indie popsters The Virgins returns to his roots by doing what he does best: selling tshirts.
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Proactiv is the best face-wash I have ever used. Hands down. End of discussion. I have never considered another product since I started using it about 6 years ago.
That said, buying Proactiv has always been somewhat of a frustration. You can order it online at Proactiv.com, but only by agreeing to have it automatically re-ordered every month for something like $49.95. So even if I don’t use up my supply every month it automatically gets re-ordered and delivered, which I don’t like. I want to control when I get…
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About a week ago we discovered Brick Arms, a collection of custom Lego mini-figures with custom-molded weapons and accessories. Of course we had to press the button, make the little guys travel across the country into our hands. I was sold the second I saw the Colonial Marine. Hicks or Hudson, doesn’t matter. Aliens is the only film James Cameron needed to make.
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We also picked up some little ditties named Mr. Gray and Mr. White, Brick Arms’ Jihadist tribute to Reservoir Dogs. They come with a bandoleer full…
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We got some neat little juicboxes from Macktez.com the other day: packages with yellow notebooks and instructions for how to make the most of Black Friday (biggest retail day of the year).
Macktez reminds us of last years’ day-after-thanksgiving shopping fiasco:
We hit the mall running at 6am, buying way too much shit we didn’t need, and far too many of the wrong gifts. All because we didn’t plan ahead.
Mackez included a notebook in the package so we could start making our holiday shopping list early and stay organized, hopefully…
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Ponoko’s idea for collaboration between designers is a cool one. You submit a design to the Ponoko website, if they like it, they send it to their factory and it gets built by people and machines. Then you take your finished product and post it in the Ponoko online showroom. People see your design, love it, buy it, and you make $.
If you’re a designer looking for a factory you can sign up to beta test Ponoko. Check out their blog for some designs they’ve already manufactured.
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We’re still not sure about the new “In an Absolut world†campaign, but this one on the UES is at least decent (via curbed).
Can anyone tell us why Absolut needed to supplement their “Absolut X†campaign? It’s one of the longest uninterrupted campaigns in history. They could have had Matthew Barney design an ad if they’d wanted to. Now they’re muddying that iconography with hypocritical interpretations of an ad-free Times Square?
According to Absolut:
“In our new advertising campaign, ‘In an ABSOLUT world,’ we invite consumers around the world to discuss…
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We can’t help but notice the similarities between the advancing throngs on iDay and the good citizens in Apple’s 1984 Macintosh commercial lining up for indoctrination under the guise of being set free: “We are one will, one resolve, one cause.”
Not that there’s anything bad about buying iPhones to raise money for charity, but when we saw the crowd push into the Soho Apple store, march up the stairs to receive their device while the Apple staff applauded, it was a bit unnerving. iPhones for everyone. That’s thinking different.
What happens…
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This is a humanitarian post. Steve Jobs announced today at Apple’s town hall meeting that every employee, part and full-time, will get an iPhone. That’s over $12 million retail.
Pretty cool. And pretty cool for AT&T. You know not nearly all of those 17,787 employess are AT&T subscribers. Switch or be denied! (via engadget)
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We hope you didn’t pass your Earth Day in darkness. You didn’t have to. Home Depot was handing out Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs (CFL) to anyone who wanted one. We don’t know how close they came to meeting their million-bulb goal; not everyone who took advantage of the offer thought the home improvement giant was doing it out of the goodness of their green hearts. The Consumerist cornered people for feedback in front of Home Depot’s Chelsea location, including one “Mr. Skeptical Glasses” who hit the nail on the head saying, “If you…
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Get out your stepladders. In celebration of Earth Day, Home Depot will give away 1 million n:vision Compact Flourescent Lightbulbs to customers who visit any Home Depot store in the contiguous 48 states.
This lucent bonanza is part of Home Depot’s Eco Options program: products in their stores with the Eco Options seal have less of a negative impact on the environment than products without it. It might be a good idea to switch to CFL anyway, since they use about %75 less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs and last 10 times…
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Catch a video on PSFK of their most recent conference in NYC where panelists discussed how much of organizations’ sudden willingness to “go green” is authentic and how much is misleading posturing.
Tamara Giltsoff, senior consultant at live|work, a British service innovation and design firm, chairs the discussion with Theeightfold.com founder Hemal Vasavada-Gill, Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher, and Marc Alt, president of Marc Alt + Partners (MAP).
The PSFK forum brought up a number of case studies including, Wal-Mart, HSBC, H&M, and Starbucks to illustrate the increasing importance of transparency and the need for…
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