Say it with Heinz
Who said ketchup couldn't be personal. Now, Heinz Ketchup wants to help you celebrate with their product. Whether as a unique favor, customized gift or just fun, you can customize bottles from Heinz for any occasion.
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August 28, 2006
Mass market (M&M) packaged goods turn custom
The newest, trend -customize mass market packaged goods. It started with M&M's. Now you can speak your own sweet mind on M&M's and package them just as creatively. Find the newest colors and write print your own message.
August 13, 2006
Give your Clothesline a Face-lift
One of the hottest things to hit the clothesline since World War II - Harmony a colour coordinated manual-drying system, manufactured by Ben-Mor. It contains, a 150 foot line with vinyl coated galvanized aircraft cable, two zinc ball-bearing pulleys, one zinc spacer, one zinc mini-winch and two hooks. Anything in the system made with zinc normally silver grey has become a shade called Sahara Beige. It took twenty-four months of trial and error to select the most durable paint and perfect its application on zinc so that the colour would not chip with use or fade under the sun.
Crew Colors
J. Crew opens new children's concept store, called crewcuts. The store will closely resemble a New England seaside cottage, complete with a miniature lighthouse and white wainscoting throughout and fresh sky blue and bright green color schemes, blond hardwood floors and brightly colored upholstered benches.
Objects of Pure Desire: A New Vision for the PC
A How-To kit for the ideal PC has been making the rounds of leading design shops. It calls for "accelerated curves" and "purposeful contrast." The preferred colors include a shade of black called Obsidian and a translucent white dubbed Ice. "We want people to fall in love with their PCs, not to simply use them to be productive and successful," reads the enclosed booklet. "We want PCs to be objects of pure desire."
Doesn't sound much like Microsoft (MSFT), does it? But it is. BusinessWeek has learned that a team of 20 in-house designers has been working quietly for the past 18 months on an elegant new look for PCs that will run Microsoft's next operating system, Windows Vista. It's a major departure for the company, which historically has left design to the likes of Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and Gateway (GTW). Persuading the hardware guys to embrace the toolkit won't be easy. They're already working overtime to build better-looking gear on theirown.