When it comes to marketing, play up your cultural holidays – or create some. 

Smart: Using the looming Mayan calendar prophecies to reach your target demographic in a fun, irreverent way. 

(Source: adsoftheworld.com)

macys:

Learn how to pull your pareo together with these to-tie-for tips from the editors of Fashionista. Only on mBLOG.

Guerilla marketing at its best…

I once asked a friend: Is there anything better than a well-dressed man? Her reply: One that brings your food and drinks as well. I guess she’s into bougie waiters. 

curiositycounts:

I’m a firm believer that every man should understand the art of a well-tailored suit. So here’s a hat tip (and infograph) to the “Discerning Gentleman’s Guide To Suit-Tailoring.”

See full infograph here.

Word? If taking recycling to the extreme produces these kind of results we should all step up are game.

A fish sculpture constructed from discarded plastic bottles rises out of the sand at Botafogo beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 19, 2012. The city is host to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, which runs through June 22.

(Source: razorshapes)

How Famous Brands Got Their Names and Logos

jaymug:

Nike Advertising in Venice

theweekmagazine:

The practice of employing underdressed women to shill gadgets at trade shows is increasingly coming under fire as both sexist and antiquated. A new article in IT World says that the models are often hired to stand for upward of eight hours a day in heels, only to be paid somewhere between $100 to $170. “You have to look happy all day and smile, but it’s not that easy,” says former booth babe Eileen Lee. “It gets very tiring.”

Time for trade shows to banish ‘booth babes’?