Image from an upcoming client presentation…
Image from an upcoming client presentation…
New York based artist, Massimo Gammacurta, has just published a book – Lolli-pop – celebrating the edible side of luxury logos.
The images are on show at the Visionairs Gallery in Paris, until June 7th.
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Icho is a Japanese fashion brand which builds a meditative quality into the brand. Instead of communicating meaning through the marketing, it transfers the meaning through the product itself.
It’s an approach – and a narrative – which is gathering pace in the post-recessionary environment.
From the Icho website; “In this age of mechanization and automation, people [...]
Cire Trudon is the oldest wax and candle maker still in operation. It’s also one of the most compelling.
Over the last few years, some of the most successful luxury brands are cult brands which have captured the imagination through delivering a visceral punch, not an aspirational yearning. Cire Trudon – under the artistic direction of [...]
In 1954, Life Magazine ran a completely fascinating four-page special on a new segmentation of U.S. social structure.
“There are three basic categories of a new U.S. social structure, and the high-brows have the whip hand” runs the sub-head, before the magazine launches into a handy tongue-in-cheek comparison chart about how and what you should be [...]
An interview from 2006 with Carlos magazine about the relationship between pop culture, and marketing, and where Warhol fits into it all…
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Recently updated thoughts from Visvim, on the beauty of form, on retail music, and globalization…
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In 1891, Émile Louis de Laveleye wrote one of the most entertainingly bombastic books about luxury ever published. De Laveleye, a Belgian economist, thinker, and prolific pamphleteer, seeks to analyze the role of luxury in society, and while he begins soberly, his argument quickly gathers pace with his best polemic reserved for luxuries such as [...]
UP THERE from The Ritual Project on Vimeo.
A new short documentary on the demise of hand-painted billboard advertisements. It’s a story of technological change making hard earned skills nearly obsolete and of the few hold outs who won’t let the trade die completely…