Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
experience design: multidimensional business
April 26th, 2010 by lifeproof
I cannot pinpoint to an exact time frame, but I can say that since a decade or so business and trade has become post-postmodernized. That is to say, the usual dynamic of the business and trade has moved from the equasion: product=money, to the equasion: any process, feeling, image, identity, reputation, mind-set, message, propaganda, social [...]
Tags: Apologue, bottled water, Boxed Water, Coca Cola, Cola Turka, consumer goods, consumerism, Evian, experience design, global warming, H2O, humanitarian philanthropy, Israeli Army, Mecca Cola, Middle East, Palestinian refugees, Paul Smith, Paul Smith's bottle design for Evian, Pepsi, philanthropic business, philanthropic products, philanthropy, political philanthropy, product=money, space design, Tali Krakowsky, The Mecca Cola, The Palestinian Liberation Organization, U2
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Encomium Aletudinis * – Part I
November 23rd, 2009 by lifeproof
Recently, the Japanese government has issued a law that determines normal body size and weight of a citizen. According to this new law, it is illegal to be overweight in Japan. The overweight person–and his/her employer–will face consequences. The person will get a compulsory physician visits and the employer will be fined and forced to [...]
Tags: aletudo, BMI Calculator, body mass index, conspicuous consumption, consumerism, encomium aletudinis, fat, fatness, Kids Health, MedicineNet, National Institutes of Health, obese, obesity, overweight, The Praise of Fatness
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Greenness of Guinness
November 5th, 2009 by lifeproof
Guinness joins the brands who exploit the global warming and green thinking. The new commercial and tag line of the brand uses the “green ideology” that is one of the primary things that sells a product. The new commercial is introduced by Creativity Online: This new Guinness ad from AMV BBDO London introduces a new [...]
Tags: advertisement, advertising, AMV BBDO, BBDO, Bring It To Life, consumer, consumerism, Creativity Online, go green, Good Things Come to Those Who Wait, green, green thinking, Guinness, Johnny Green, tag line
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Homo Economicus
October 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
This is not a new term, it is almost as old as Darwin‘s evolution theory and even older than Veblen‘s theory of the leisure class. The term just popped into my mind last night walking down the street thinking about survival of the fittest in the urban jungle and that “fitness” does not have to [...]
Tags: Capitalism, Charles Darwin, consumerism, Darwin, dasein, economy, evolution, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, Michel Foucault, phenomenology, primacy of economics, rags to riches, the medium is the message, theory of the leisure class, Thorsten Veblen, urban jungle
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