Cool Edition November ‘08




01. Your Own Chinese Look

Your Own Chinese Look

It’s a titanium jewel that Occidentals can wear in order to assume the more obvious oriental somatic features, showing off fascinating almond-shaped eyes. It’s also an instrument of visual correction…

02. Carrotmob

Carrotmob

Carrot-mob is a Web 2.0-empowered, open community that promotes social responsibility in a simple, clever fun way. Initiated in California they invite company’s of all kinds – though the most…

03. Truth Videos

Truth Videos

Google Video is YouTube’s little sister – with a big advantage: it has no limit to its video length (just 10 minutes on YouTube). So on Google Video we find…

04. Digital Human Emotions

Digital Human Emotions

Recent promotional picture for “Medals of Honor” computer game. Scored high at the Cannes commercial communication Festival. The pictured emotions are very real and easy to recognise. Though home coming…

05. Mutant Mobiles

Mutant Mobiles

From bicycle racks for motorcycles to intermodal transportation, Americans are discovering how different forms of mobility can be linked without the mediation of the car. Bicycle racks for motorcycles, bike…

06. Cool Sustainability Simply Continues

Cool Sustainability Simply Continues

The whole world feels the threat of global pollution. We all are warned. It is cool to strive for a better environment, up to the point where it might get…

07. Felice Varini: YOUR Point of View makes it work

Felice Varini: YOUR Point of View makes it work

So you walk around in this garage, or in this Osaka shopping mall. And you see these blue or red markings all over the place that at first sight don’t…

08. Solar Power Bags

Solar Power Bags

Solar powered handbags, purses, briefcases with a thin solar panel incorporated into the outer design so that one can constantly charge ones’s iPod, mobile phone, computer.

09. Individual Treehouses

Individual Treehouses

It’s not a tree cabin. It’s a luxurious tree house! Like, say, a boat with a sunroof, where one can play and sleep. Or like a…

10. Manscara & Guyliner

Manscara & Guyliner

Men using cosmetics: we have been here many times before. Especially in Britain, the country that perfected metrosexuality in the glamorous shape of David Beckham. But now the metrosexualisation of…

11. Obama T-Shirts are the Best

Obama T-Shirts are the Best

Barack Obama t-shirts have transcended the traditional promotional item and made their way into popular culture, with dozens of releases from credible street wear designers, including Geoff McFettridge, Ron English,…

12. MagCloud will publish your high quality magazine

MagCloud will publish your high quality magazine

www.magcloud.com is a platform that enables people to publish their own hardcopy magazines. A person/persons only needs to upload a PDF, and MagCloud takes care of the rest:…

13. The Small Movement

The Small Movement

Everything is getting smaller, from homes to cars to technology to packaged goods products to supply chains. In the auto car sector the trend is all about greater fuel efficiency…

14. Colourful and critical

Colourful and critical

PLASTIC ART AGAINST POLLUTION
This Korean artist turns polluting plastics in thoughtful art. Asia by now is covered with plastic waste. Here the plastics trays used all the time…

15. Garment Graffiti

Garment Graffiti

Thomas Voorn, a Dutch Renaissance man/artist/designer makes Garment Graffiti. He leaves (his) clothes in public spaces transforming it into remarkable artistic urban signs, robust and fragile at…


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