IKEA recently announced they’ll be investing $77 million USD into its GreenTech energy fund over the next five years. The move will make a number of environmentally heroic products both accessible and very affordable throughout the company’s 270 stores. Solar panels, alternative light sources and water purification wares are just some of the once-elite items [...]
Gone are the days of black, white, red and blue. Car manufacturers are devoting much more resources to developing colour palettes that both entice and satisfy specific demographics. Ford’s been talking about the palette it developed for its all new 2009 Lincoln MKS and in these days of auto-frugality, they took a chance and fostered [...]
So, the whole idea of making old things into art is certainly nothing new, but come on! Who can look at Jean-Luc Cornec’s Telephone Sheep and not say they love them? These things are adorable, and while we’re at it, it never hurts to be reminded of the value of being earth conscious and green-minded [...]
Walgreen’s recently announced they’ll erect the world’s largest LED sign in Times Square. It’ll be 341 feet tall, weigh 250,000 pounds, comprise 12 million LEDs and will clad the company’s new three-level drug emporium at the 1 Times Square Building. The site’s been a bright spot for ads since O.J. Gude, the “Sign King of [...]
Walmart recently unveiled their new word mark and logo, to somewhat mixed reviews. The update comes on the heels of a two-year, customer focused makeover that will remake the image of the world’s largest retailer into a more approachable, less titanic entity. The colour of the word mark itself recalls Sam Walton’s earliest logo from [...]
This beautiful and somewhat ghostly image comes from the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The building, long empty now, was added this year to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2008 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Every year the Trust releases their list of man-made phenomena that are in danger of [...]
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