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The Toy Industry Association’s Toy Fair 2010 was just at New York’s Javitz center.  As the show was open during President’s Day I had the opportunity to run through it unfettered by babies or schedule conflicts.  I have been to many design fairs over the years but this was my first Toy Fair.  I was not [...]

After watching the 2010 Super Bowl XLIV I have a few initial thoughts on the ads.  In no particular order.
The subliminal winner, in true ’speak-of-the-devil’ fashion I think, was Louis Vuitton.  In a Hyundai ad about making ‘luxury’ avbailable to everyone, a close facsimile to the Louis Vuitton pattern was seen on a basketball.  High-end brought down to [...]

I have been thinking about the new ‘Raindrop Besace’ bag by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton.  And I think I love it.  Well… to clarify… I love it… because it is so confusing. 
It is, literally, a trash bag.  Except that it is not.  A neo-realist representation of a trash bag.  But done in glossy treated [...]

Apple, under the guidance of Steve Jobs, is one of the smartest brands out there.  Laser focused on the user experience, the incorporationof design and maintaining its message and identity over the entire scope of the brand.  Which is why the announcement of their latest product seems so surprising. 
I have always been a proponent of [...]

My creativity was weened on years of Star Wars obsession.  How can you be a kid in the 80’s and not love Chewbacca??  I also think Hello Kitty could be the cutest thing on the planet.  I couldn’t resist exploring this convergence of science fiction and cuteness.

Coke has been airing a commercial recently as part of its new ‘Keep It Going’ ad campaign.  The idea behind the ad is that when you are finished drinking a fine coke product and place the empty container into a recycle bin that someone else will then get to enjoy another fine coke product based on [...]

Mtv is currently airing a commercial for Dolce & Gabbana Time.  I first saw it without sound while running on a treadmill at the gym.  At the commercial’s abrupt ending I burst out laughing.  Directed by film maker Cyril Guyot, the piece is a dark and sexy hedonistic bourgeois romp.  Quickly coming to a risque [...]

I have been seeing the new Sun-Maid raisin commercials lately on the Food Network.  Is it just me or does this current computer animated ’spokesperson’ creep you out too?  Now, I understand that the Sun-Maid ’grape maid’ has been a fictional character from its beginning in 1916.    What I am puzzled about is the decision making process that came [...]

We eat cereal around here like we are trying to win a James Beard Foundation award for Cereal Eating.  Too bad there isn’t such an award.  Sam Sifton could write a review; “The breadth and depth of Demian’s cereal eating portrays an insatiable appetite for milk-covered grain-based breakfast products and a passion for the craft.  [...]

I just spent an evening at the new Standard Grill, the brasserie style restaurant at the foot of the also new Standard Hotel in New York’s Meatpacking District.  I came away from the experience feeling a little… odd about the whole thing.  Did I enjoy the experience?  I think so.  Was it a well designed environment?  In [...]