Marketing
Rubik’s Cube Art
June 23rd, 2009. Posted by James Devon
Nice little time-lapse movie creating album covers with Rubik’s cubes.
Via I was a teenage shake and vac junkie
When Is A T-shirt an Album?
June 23rd, 2009. Posted by James Devon
…when it’s the latest release from Mos Def.
This blog post from Eskimon has more info.
“In a world where illegal downloads are commonplace, what alternative channels can commercial artists harness?
The music t-shirt has long been a valuable source of social expression; they’re what Hugh MacLeod might term ‘social objects‘.
So making the t-shirt the core product, and providing access to the music via a link on the hang tag, is a masterstroke of contemporary marketing.”
Found via PSFK
Herd Behaviour
June 3rd, 2009. Posted by James Devon
The Herdmeister (Mark Earls) is well worth following on his blog and on Twitter for an interesting take on marketing. His angle is that human behaviour is driven by what others around are doing – that we’re fundamentally herd animals.
This video is just doing the rounds on Twitter as “Herd, the Movie”.
