The story of stuff

The story of stuff is a very interesting and thought provoking short film about our consumer culture.
In their own words: “What is the Story of Stuff? From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The [...]

The blue rabbit

For some weird reason, Belgium’s embattled prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt has launched a website targeting young kids. He appears as a blue rabbit cartoon character… Have a look at the likeness between him and the character!

Children can discover “what is a prime minister doing?” Asking him questions, and even find out him [...]

FN & Second Life

This is both scary and reassuring; the Front National (far right nationalist French political party) has opened a second life headquarters late in 2006. Thankfully the protests weren’t that long in coming and there is a lot of activism against the FN presence in SL. This is the reassuring bit I think, lots of people [...]

Political comparison site

I remember writing this essay at University: is cultural marketing any different than classic marketing? And then I’ve seen this article in the Brainstroming’s newsletter: A comparison site: comparer.com (probably a new one) is going to prove this point: ‘with comparer.com you can compare everything’ so they are comparing the candidates to the next French [...]

Gorilla Political Marketing

 
This video illustrates quite nicely the point I was making yesterday!

More political communication

2007 is an important year for French politician, a bunch of ‘younger’ politicians dream to be the next French president… I spoke about DSK and his crap poster before! The subject of today is the use of the internet and the buzz by DSK.
A bit of background, DSK has been trapped by some journalists at [...]

Crap design!

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I’ve received this email for a political meeting (DSK). The design makes me think at some small compagnies: there is always a nephew who has studied graphic design for one year and will do the [...]