"The Battle of Big Thinking 2010"

Eating carrots like Cheetos

Using the weapons of your "enemies" ...

Baby carrots take on junk food with hip marketing campaign

"Name a snack food that's neon orange and makes a loud crunch when munched.
If you picked Cheetos, the nation's biggest producer of baby carrots wants you to think again.

Just in time for the battle over what's gonna be in millions of back-to-school lunches, Bolthouse Farms and nearly 50 other carrot growers today will unveil plans for the industry's first-ever marketing campaign. The $25 million effort sets its sights on a giant, big-spending rival: junk food"

"SMARTIES: 8 Colours of Fun"

"Consumers in a Turbulent Recovery"

"Anxiety about the future and mistrust of big business have triggered a 'back to basics' movement in which consumers continue to rank home, family, stability, and the environment high on their list of values."

-- in "2010 BCG Global Report on Consumer Sentiment"

"The dialectics of modern life"

[photo via Flickr]

"By creating the car we also create pollution, road accidents and landscapes devastated by motorways. By creating the film industry we also create Rocky 18, Home Alone 7 and Emmanuelle Meets Godzilla (actually that last one might be worth watching)."

--Prof. Daniel Miller, "Stuff"

"My first playground"

"The future is now!"

"The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!"

-- Jim Carrey, "The Cable Guy", 1996

"Bollywood pole dancing"

"The Beatles Principles"

Principle Number 1: Invest in and build face time between team members long before they are required to appear together.
Principle Number 2: Evolve your “songs” and bring the same level of ideas, new perspectives, excitement, and enthusiasm to your hundredth meeting with a client that you brought to the first.
Principle Number 3: Help team members become brands-within-a-brand by giving them a song — an idea or proposal — that will help them to shine.
Principle Number 4: Put exceedingly diverse professionals on the same team, mix specialists with generalists, and foster friendly competition to produce the best ideas.

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"Arcade analogic"

RACER DEMO 0.1 - video game mashup from sputnic on Vimeo.

"Food for thought"

"Are we heading towards a Teflon society in which nothing sticks or creates resonance? We see more, but we 'see' less?"
-- Gee Thomson, "Mesmerization"

"Dr. Ozzy"

True. We live in a society where everyone's an expert or a specialist on something. But Ozzy Osbourne as the new health-advicer at The Sunday Times??

Is it because he's the living proof that Western medicine can't explain miracles? (laughs)

"The "

iPad + Arcade = iCade

Coke | Burn "Ride" video

WOW!

"Vespa..papapapa"

"Facebook - status update"

Facebook - A status update presentation by Stephen Haines from The IPA on Vimeo.

"Spots v Stripes"

Client: Cadbury
Agency: Fallon, London

"Palindrome"

Troika's installation at the V&A Museum.

"Domino's Pizza Proverbs"

How to get a pizza brand in tbe top-of-mind of people in a funny and engaging way?

Crispin Porter+Bogusky's answer: "Pizza Proverbs"

"The daily social me"

The screen is the new mirror of the social me.

It's where I show what I read, I watch, I like, I do ...

"Food for thought"

"We don’t have feelings about facts. We accept the facts that fit our feelings."
-- Bill Moun, Drumcircle co-founder

"Brands and social mobile tools"

"Brand owners that exploit location-based services on mobile phones could benefit from a substantial first-mover advantage among a small but highly influential audience.

According to a poll by Forrester, a total of 4% of American adults have used platforms like Foursquare, Gowalla and Loopt, which reward shoppers for "checking in" at specific sites such as restaurants and retail outlets."