French agency Murmure has created concrete business cards for its employees.
To keep the business cards from crumbling, they come with their own little black case.
Great idea if you're Mr. Slate.
Click here to see see a few business cards that make more sense.
Via Gizmodo
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Answers: 1. Tabasco 2. Wite-Out 3. Scotch 4. Sharpie
BONUS TRIVIA
Liquid Paper, a competitor of Wite-Out, was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, mother of Monkees bandmember Mike Nesmith.
Via Brand Spirit
The Girls Scouts of America are introducing lip balms that smell like Girl Scout cookies.
According to Jezebel, they're found at Walmart and Claire's, individually or in packs of 5 for $5.
Coca-Cola has often used polar bears as an icon.
The soft drink maker is doing it again.
Coke is introducing a limited-edition 1.4 billion white cans featuring polar graphics.
This time the polar bear imaging is also being used as a reminder that the bears' natural habitat is shrinking and steps have to be taken to ensure the bears' survival. To that end, Coca-Cola has already donated $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Conservation efforts.
Read more about Coca-Cola's Arctic Home promotion at The Die Line.
The Super Bubble T-shirt is on sale for $20 at Fab.
Click here to see a gum brand name that I think makes it sound as though it's for seniors.
Good Guide is a website that shows you how far right- or left-leaning 150+ brands are, based on their political contributions.
Click here to go to the Good Guide website.
I know what they're trying to do with these ads. But the scenarios are implausible and harken back to a time that never was. The result only serves to convince me that it's a fantasy to think one could get kids to love salad.
Advertising Agency: DDB, San Francisco
Found at: Ads of the World
Apparently, when Nick Cannon proposed to Mariah Carey, he hid the engagement ring in a ring pop. Which inspired her most recent fragrance line, Lollipop Bling, which includes the fragrances Honey, Mine Again and Ribbon.
Click here to read more about Mariah Carey's Lollipop Bling fragrances.
Am I the only one who thinks it would be more appropriate for a preteen rather than a 40-year-old woman to be launching this fragrance line?
Evidently, more adult women than I would have ever guessed are drawn to... well... childish branding.
DKNY has a very popular fragrance line called Delicious Candy Apples. Delicious Candy Apple fragrances have names like Sweet Caramel, Ripe Raspberry and Juicy Berry.
Gwen Stafani's Harajuku Lovers line is also popular.
Lollipop Bling, Delicious Candy Apples and Harajuku Lovers certainly don't have the
creepy pedophilic undertones of the Love's Baby Soft line of the 1970s, but they do make me wonder why an
adult woman would want to smell like a child.
Three examples from Twitter:
