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The Doers Club

2009-09-26T23:29:00.000+01:00

How DIY design:
(1) gave a teenager from Malawi electricity, and
(2) can help transform Africa.

Read more here. Via Design Observer

Yasmin spoke at TED KL

2009-08-15T06:58:00.000+01:00

BBC documentary on Cosmetic Surgery in Malaysia

2009-07-13T19:17:00.003+01:00

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

How Propaganda Became Known As Public Relation

2009-06-13T20:18:00.004+01:00

"When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And 'propaganda' got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words 'public relations'."
- Edward Bernays

The Best (and Worst) CEOs. Ever.

2009-05-22T21:59:00.005+01:00

Guy walks into a bar and declares that Henry Ford was the best CEO ever, the way somebody from Baltimore might insist Johnny Unitas was the best quarterback of all time. A woman on a bar stool calls him on it. “Hell, no! Lou Gerstner was the best pure manager to run a company!” Other patrons chime in: Bill Gates! Sam Walton! Epithets fly. Someone gets punched.
Read the rest at Portfolio.com

A Chili Sauce to Crow About

2009-05-21T07:52:00.003+01:00

It burns your body, not your tongue.
Read in full at NYTimes.

Smurfs

2009-05-19T16:33:00.002+01:00

You can make 70 grand by just talking about smurfs. The power of personal branding.

Cryonics

2009-05-04T01:56:00.002+01:00

Imagine having your body placed in an aluminium can to be kept in deep freeze storage for hundreds of years. It sounds nightmarish but not for the hundreds of people who are paying hand over fist to sign up for cryonic preservation in a bid to defy the final human frontier - death.

See the full documentary here.

Ford Image Goes Way Up For Not Taking Taxpayer Money

2009-05-02T16:00:00.002+01:00

Results of a national study measuring the current perception of the Ford Motor Company, conducted by Aloft Group, Inc., a brand consulting and communication firm, show that consumer perception of the Ford brand improved after they chose to not receive a loan from the U.S government.

The the rest here

Yes, design can make you happy.

2009-04-25T23:00:00.001+01:00

Stefan Sagmeister interviews here scene360 and designboom.

Why the Democratization of design is a good thing -- really

2009-04-21T20:14:00.004+01:00

How did design get so popular? Why has every business from Procter & Gamble to the corner restaurant decided that design is going to help them connect to a broader audience? There's something going on here, and everyone wants a piece of it, but I think many are missing the real reason this change is taking place.
Found at Duffy, also appeared in Adweek

Karipap is sponsoring full length adaptation of Clovis Dardentor, by Jules Verne.

2009-04-17T05:10:00.007+01:00

Crowd financing is making it possible to take part in the making of movie history.

To take part click here
Read the Guardian article here
Read the news blog here
Join the discussion about Crowd Financing here

Campaign Magazine Hall of Fame 2008

2009-04-13T20:37:00.003+01:00

The Hall of Fame comprises the most influential ad industry figures in UK from the past 40 years.

Click here to put the names to the faces.

The Power of Dreams

2009-04-10T10:20:00.001+01:00

The Commercial

How they did it

From CEO to Delivering Pizza

2009-03-22T19:33:00.001Z

2009 F1 rule changes - animated

2009-03-19T07:48:00.000Z

Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

2009-03-01T21:53:00.001Z

Alan Greenspan is not, we're told, happy about this 42-minute blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating.

The credit crisis visualised

2009-02-21T07:52:00.001Z

Financier's Life Becomes Crazy Spy Movie

2009-01-17T02:18:00.003Z

Movie idea: the daughter of Jewish refugees flees Europe for Wall Street, strikes it rich, gains billionaire mobster clients, but is then forced into hiding by a deal gone wrong. Bonus: it's a true story.
Via Gawker, NYT

The Man Who Made Too Much

2009-01-13T23:46:00.002Z

Hedge fund manager John Paulson has profited more than anyone else from the financial crisis. His $3.7 billion payday in 2007 broke every record, and he made it all by betting against homeowners, shareholders, and the rest of us. Read via Portfolio

Time to be greedy

2008-10-18T14:38:00.002+01:00

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. Read via Guardian

Hirst sells for a record amount while the U.S. economy plunges.

2008-09-17T23:51:00.001+01:00

In the art world, all’s fine—but will that last? Read via Portfolio

Investment Bank, R.I.P

2008-09-15T22:29:00.001+01:00

In just six short months (or long ones, depending on where you sit), the number of major investment banks on Wall Street has shrunk from five to two. Read here via Portfolio.com

One sentence stories

2008-09-15T00:08:00.003+01:00

Captivating. Read all here.

Learning from the Olympics

2008-08-20T14:25:00.002+01:00

From GE to Nestlé to watchmaker Omega, companies use the Games to test-drive new ideas—and strut their stuff.

Via Business Week

Making Capitalism More Creative

2008-08-03T22:19:00.000+01:00

Capitalism has improved the lives of billions of people — something that's easy to forget at a time of great economic uncertainty. But it has left out billions more.

Via TIME. Read the rest here

Neodymium Supermagnets

2008-08-03T20:50:00.003+01:00

Most Dangerous Object in the Office This Month.

Via wired

Draining the poetry

2008-07-31T22:21:00.002+01:00

Cars explode, jails and hospitals are blown up, bombs are put in people’s mouths and sewn into their stomachs.

Via The New Yorker here

Doctor Fish

2008-07-30T13:41:00.000+01:00

Fish pedicures are creating something of a splash in the Washington D.C. area, where a northern Virginia spa has been offering them for the past four months. John Ho, who runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife, Yvonne Le, said 5,000 people have taken the plunge so far.

Via IHT here

Li Wei - Performance Artist

2008-07-29T05:24:00.002+01:00

See more amazing pictures here
Link to about Lin Wei and his art

Monkey Returns for the Olympics on the BBC

2008-07-28T02:23:00.002+01:00

Animation from Jamie Hewlett and music by Damon Albarn. The lavish two-minute trailer apparently took twelve weeks to complete, using the team of four senior key animators and five animation assistants, and the track features traditional Chinese instruments (such as the Pipa, Ur Hu and Zheng) and etheral vocals from singer Jia Ruhan.

Wikipedia of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn, creator of Gorillaz

New Rival to Wikipedia - financed by Google

2008-07-24T22:01:00.003+01:00

A unit of knowledge here
Knol in wikipedia

Lunch with Ronnie Wood

2008-07-20T13:32:00.004+01:00

Ronnie Wood on touring and his latest art exhibition.

Read via FT here
The Rolling Stones in wikipedia

Possibly the web most anarchic and influential site

2008-07-20T11:20:00.001+01:00

Time magazine calls it the wellspring of net culture and its online pranks are world-famous. David Smith reports on the man who began the chaotic but powerful 4chan website from home.

Read via Guardian here
Read via WSJ here

The man who designed the 20th century

2008-07-17T21:22:00.003+01:00

The many contradictions of Le Corbusier. An urbanist who lived in a fishing cottage, an iconoclast who invented the highrise, an architect who wanted to be a painter.

Via The Guardian
Le Corbusier at wikipedia

I like you, but I have to get rid of you

2008-07-15T14:13:00.005+01:00

Yahoo’s chief executive, Jerry Yang, center, at the Allen & Company conference in Idaho, where he talked with Google’s co-founders, Larry Page, left, and Sergey Brin.

Yahoo — and Mr. Yang’s fate — were Topic A at the annual billionaires’ summer camp, as rival moguls gossiped about whether Yahoo would end up in the hands of Microsoft. While Mr. Yang casually smoked a cigar Thursday evening outside of the bar with Richard Parsons, the chairman of Time Warner — who himself battled with Mr. Icahn two years ago — the debate was raging at virtually every table.

Read full at NY Times

The Petabyte Age

2008-07-15T12:38:00.003+01:00

Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different

Via wired

Either way, Google wins

2008-07-14T11:52:00.004+01:00

With nearly 700 million cell phones sold each year compared with fewer than 200 million PCs (the gap is widening), the world will witness the re-creation of the PC story and the re-creation of the Internet.

Via wired. Full story here

Glasnost

2008-07-13T12:51:00.001+01:00

Sensor less and open more here.

Being quotable is good, but being humble is better

2008-07-13T05:17:00.014+01:00

Sir John Templeton (1912 – 2008)
After decades as one of the most influential investors of the 20th century. His death is a moment to reflect on what makes a lasting legacy.

Read on FT A real reputation here
Sir John on: Wikipedia : Guardian