
26 2018 January
Spy Testing, Open Source Furniture and How To Find A Pet That Likes Your Music
I spent the early part of this past week thinking a lot about transformation as I spoke at the SocialMedia.org Winter Meeting in front of a group...
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24 2017 October
Why You Can Focus In A Noisy Coffee Shop, But Not A Noisy Office
For years one of my favorite tools for writing is a website called Coffitivity which simulates the background noise of a coffee shop. I find this little...
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08 2017 September
Want To Live Cheaply In London? Try An Abandoned Building …
London-based property management company Lowe Guardians has a unique business proposition for landlords of abandoned buildings: rent them out. The company has pioneered the brilliant...
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06 2017 September
Why Leica Thinks Brand Transformation Is Overrated
I once heard a CEO describe the mentality of many new marketing executives as similar to a dog peeing on a fire hydrant: they are...
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04 2017 September
Japan’s Hottest Wedding Photo Trend: Couples Sealed In Airtight Plastic
Nothing says forever like getting vacuum sealed in plastic to be photographed with your newly beloved. Tokyo-based photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi describes his quirky portrait idea as...
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30 2017 August
An Inside Look At The First Robotic Microapartment Design
As apartments get smaller and urban areas get more crowded, real estate companies and residents themselves will look for more creative ways to use limited...
Read Now14 2017 August
How Brands and Small Town America Are Cashing In On The Eclipse
As the highly anticipated solar eclipse approaches, there are plenty of towns and brands finding creative ways to cash in. Chiquita created a humorous video about...
Read Now10 2017 August
IKEA Creates 72 Regional Versions Of Its Iconic Catalog … Here’s Why
This week IKEA will release its new 2018 catalog, and this timely piece looks at how a small internal army of hundreds of photographers, art...
Read Now08 2017 August
Your Next Camera Will Retouch Your Pictures While You Take Them
Starting with a set of 5,000 images that were retouched by five different photographers, Google and MIT built an algorithm that can automatically retouch a...
Read Now31 2017 July
How “The Backscratchers” Are Reinventing The Agency Model
Back when I worked in the agency world, I remember the angst every time an unreasonable demand came in from a client without a “proper”...
Read Now20 2017 June
Brazilian Publisher Offers On-Demand Clever Captions For Your Selfies
Sometimes it is hard to pick the perfect caption for your selfie, but Brazilian publisher Leya has a solution to help … and introduce you...
Read Now09 2016 December
15 Non-Obvious Business Trends Shaping 2017 (Retail, Consumer, Tech, Marketing, and Media)
Are you a member of the media? Visit our media kit to download a trend summary and more information about requesting an interview with Rohit...
Read Now01 2016 July
Intel Creates Drone Fireworks, Unilever Bans Sexist Ads and How To Spin Getting Fired
Fear dominated the headlines this week as “Brexit” cast a scary spotlight on everything from the future of globalization to the belief gap between the...
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