WABI·SABI / Inteligencia Interactiva

1. Small-scale food production using membership models 2. Low impact advertising 3. Health tracking devices 4. Sample stores, cafes & vending machines 5. Discreet rooftop solar panels and wind turbines...

Nissan Canada is running “Best Part of Your Day” (BPOYD), an integrated advertising campaign including television and online commercials, street-level events, a microsite (www.bestpartofyourday.ca) and social media activity. Th...

China’s DIY is no longer “DIY, for myself”. Today’s Chinese DIY is “DIY, for sale”. via enoVate » Blog Archive » China in Ten Years? A Nation of Creativity and Innovation

The Importance Of When. The popularity of Twitter has helped marketers to focus on one element of social media communications that might have been easy to otherwise forget - the importance of when. In a flood of communications and messages, sometimes what you say matters less than when you say it...

Luxury brands need to make digital part of a coherent strategy. Twitter if you must — or not. No choice will matter unless digital media is part of decision-making from the start. Then designers can come down from their ivory towers and play. ...

LEGO has just released their own application for apple’s iphone, which allows users to turn their photosinto lego bricks mosaics. the application is free through itunes and at the click of a button transformsany image into lego. ...

Mini Amsterdam is promoting their 99€ a month finance deal for the Mini Cooper with a guerilla campaign featuring packing boxes in promiment locations around Amsterdam. ...

“You just take your chopsticks, pick up a blob of tea, and pop it in your mouth. This is a practical demonstration of all the surface chemistry we learned about in college.” - Don Pettit , ISS science officer. Space Station: Tea in Space - Tea Appreciation Society

Designing the 00s It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A look back at the last ten years in the design world reveals 14 moments where design changed the way we interacted with technology, culture, sustainability, and ourselves...

“We’ve never really seen the brain - it’s been hiding in plain sight.” - Van Wedeen, a Harvard radiology professor. via Wired )

Check this 10x10: Here our WABI-favs: Lionel Messi, Bogota, Energy Dieting, Foursquare, Kindle Rivals, Marina Silva (next brazilian president), Pandemic fatalism, Paying for online content, The Pirate Party, Retail as third space, Slow communication, Spotify … 2010 will be f***ing amazing!! ...

“While in 2009, fear played an important role in shaping consumer behaviour, 2010 will see a return of confidence and adaptation to overcome the restraints previously imposed on consumers. Balance has become the new mantra. ...