The Sunday Times – Icons

Pretty fascinating single shot multiple scene ad for ‘Icons’. Directed by US.

This is all about those iconic cultural images that we pin to our walls and stick in our minds. We all have our favourites. Heisenberg, Kraftwerk, and Banksy’s kissing coppers all featured in early scripts, but we wanted to take a snapshot of what’s making the headlines.

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Paper Generators

Disney Research present a new energy harvesting technology that generates electrical energy from a user’s interactions with paper-like materials. The energy harvesters are flexible, light, and inexpensive, and they utilize a user’s gestures such as tapping, touching, rubbing and sliding to generate energy. The harvested energy is then used to actuate LEDs, e-paper displays and other devices to create interactive applications for books and other printed media.

Lego Calendar

The Lego calendar is a wall mounted time planner made entirely of Lego. Take a photo of it with a smartphone all of the events and timings will be magically synchronised to an online, digital calendar. It makes the most of the tangibility of physical objects, and the ubiquity of digital platforms.

Created by Vitamins, Design and Invention Studio. View more.

Creating Icons: Lee Clow

Lee Clow shares his thoughts on what makes a genius, icon, and maverick and provides great insight into how intensity, passion, and desire led him to the successful career he has today. He touches on his working relationship with Steve Jobs and how the experience impacted his life.

Electrolux – Christmas Cookie

Electrolux invited its Facebook fans to write a Christmas card to friends. The messages were posted on the wall of the friend in the form of an appetizing Christmas cookie. The authors and recipients of the 100 most original messages received at home, the real cookie. Work by F / Nazca.

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