A revolution’s brewing in branded content! In the ‘post-pc’ era, mobile becomes the channel for brand engagement. How can your brand pioneer and what must you avoid?! Today, tablets already outsell laptops, smartphones are ubiquitous, and in closing months of 2013 mobile devices finally became the dominant species on planet earth, outnumbering us humans. Yet … Continue reading
Author Archives: CuratedFutures
Years Of Living Dangerously
YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY takes the viewer directly to the heart of the climate change story in this awe-inspiring and cinematic documentary series event. Combining the storytelling styles of Hollywood’s top movie makers with 60 Minutes’ Joel Bach and David Gelber’s reporting expertise, the docu-series reveals critical stories of heartbreak, hope and heroism as the … Continue reading
Home Is Where The Haptic Is
One of our favourite exhibitions at this year’s Milan Design Week brings together a collection of furniture and homewares designed by students from the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne. Titled ‘Delirious Home’ the objects feature haptic and other integrated technologies to bring us witty interpretations on the concept of the ‘smart home’. “ With … Continue reading
Milano 2014… Qui Veniamo!
Next week sees the opening of a, if not *the*, design event of the year which, if a part of that world, will have most certainly been highlighted with a big red marker (metaphorical if not actual), in whatever diary-keeping system, application or platform you might use, under the heading “NOT TO BE MISSED”. The … Continue reading
Would Like To Meet_ Alice Taylor, MakieLab
Mass-Customisation is an oxymoron of a trend in its slickest form; creative, contradictory, attention-grabbing. It is also one of the most accessible of the disruptive trends available to consumers today. It does not get more open, personal… and playful. One such company at the forefront of this trend is MakieLab. Part of this new breed … Continue reading
The Echo Project
To mark the spring release of Khaled Hosseini’s new book, And The Mountains Echoed, Penguin Books have partnered with Dare Toronto to launch The Echo Project: a sprawling, page-by-page web companion to the novel. Inviting several high profile artists and authors (including Hosseini himself) to choose and interpret one of the book’s 402 pages, the … Continue reading
God’s Whisper…
God’s Whisper… You need this in your lives… Every now and then in music we get to experience an artist that paves their own road with a unique style and approach that is fresh to our ears and hearts. The 17-year-old Atlanta based Raury is that artist. Inspired by a range of influences including Bon … Continue reading
…Cool Shit…
…cool shit is born out of being true to yourself. If you’re a surfer then fire up a spliff and go surfing. If you are a banker then drive a fancy car and rock a Breitling. There is no difference; where it all starts to go wrong when you pretend to be something you’re not. … Continue reading
A Walk On The Wild Side
On a Sunday photowalk round and about Brick Lane, London. Came across street art by Chinese-born, SA-based artist, DALeast #happy Continue reading
Chip Off The Old Block
Chinese artist Li Hongbao recently paired up with the videographers from Kid Guy Collective to make this brain-twisting clip in which his paper sculptures are stretched, spun, and contorted in a surreal fashion. Continue reading