Yearly Archives: 2005

Smelly packaging shall enforce impulse purchases

The scent of chocolate is now being incorporated into a new packaging method with hopes that it will induce impulse purchasing in would-be consumers. ‘Chocolatine,’ as the product is being called, doesn’t have any specific product ties yet. At this … Read

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Brand Directory: Mont Blanc, Nivea, OpenOffice, Toyota

New additions to the brand directory Mont Blanc, the luxurious pen-maker NIVEA, the cream company OpenOffice, the open source office software Toyota, the car producer Technorati Tags: nivea, montblanc, openoffice, toyota

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A1 Lounge – Mobile Phone Provider with futuristic Lounge and Shop Design

The Austrian mobile phone provider A1 has got an interesting showroom located on a main shopping street in Vienna. Built on 700m² it features a very modern interior design and futuristic computer interfaces to provide the guest with multimedia information. … Read

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Branded Nails

Cool nail artwork by manicure specialists, e.g. branded nails with brands like Sprite, Oreo, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, … Technorati Tags: nails, human, color

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Black & Decker BullsEye

[via la parte contratante, in Spanish]

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L.E.D. digital – Fashion Watch by Philippe Starck

For christmas, I would like to get this watch, designed by Philippe Starck. It is based on L.E.D. technology and time or date are presented when the appropriate button is pressed. Nothing special you say but look how pretty L.E.D. … Read

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Duracell Battery

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Mentos Sheep Volley

Mentos, the German Freshmaker has just put online a funny and pretty enjoyable advergame called Sheep Volley. The more or less innovative part of the game is that users can take pictures of their sheep while playing, then send them … Read

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Find Pages on Brand Websites

I have developed a new feature for the Brand Directory. It is a small but powerful spider-engine who finds pages on corporate websites. So for example, if you want to find the About page on Apple’s website directly this should … Read

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Clio Xtrem Racer

Renault is online with a new game “Clio Xtrem Racer: Race to resurrection”. The gamer at the wheel of “ghost” car races against the time for reincarnation into New Clio. This futuristic racing game developed by Publicis Net France challenges … Read

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Unusually modern for a cheese brand

Tasty cheese logo from the brand “Gouda Jung”. Spotted at a supermarket in Berlin, Germany

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blummy – The Tool to end all Bookmarklets

My friend Alex had a great idea: to get rid of all those bookmarklets one has in his/her toolbar: “add to delicious, add to newsgator, add to bloglines, blog this with wordpress, …” You get the point. blummy is a … Read

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Brand Update: Visa changes its Logo

When Visa’s founders sat around a table in Northern California in 1969, they could hardly have imagined its metamorphosis from a lending instrument tied to a plastic card, to a global entity processing more than US$3 trillion a year. Today, … Read

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I bought some pixels … (Update)

and because I’m a millionaire I bought a whole 6 blocks, enormous chunks of pixels on the Million Quarter Webpage. Hey, I got 2 blocks for free! This is how it looks like: Maybe you think this is a waste … Read

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Black Power

DM9 DDB, Sao Paulo for Antarctica Beer (Brazil)

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