Posts Tagged ‘consumerism’
Buy Buy Green
September 17th, 2009 by lifeproof
I know, right? This is getting out of control. New packaging designs for the same bottled water and one is more expensive than the other because it has a cuter design. The same goes for the milk and coke. Have you seen Pepsi and Coca Cola going green for instance? Other than that as a [...]
Tags: advertisement, advertising, Coca Cola, Coke, commercial, consumer, consumer culture, consumerism, creative design, design, go green, green, green thinking, Pepsi, politics, science, scienticism, Sony, think green, TV commercials
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The Inevitable Lightness of Buying
June 22nd, 2009 by lifeproof
Sydney based designer Dan Flanagan‘s critical and ironic art project [sort of similar to Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol] against contemporary consumer culture, The Consumer™, is being supported and improved by Madison Avenue, Dan Flanagan’s satirical marketing agency. Download the catalog. via the grafik museum
Tags: Andy Warhol, Australia, consumerism, contemporary culture, Damien Hirst, Dan Flanagan, Madison Avenue, Sydney, the consumer, the grafik museum
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Plate… to go
June 22nd, 2009 by lifeproof
There is a new design of a bbq plate, which gives one of your hands to move freely, as the plate can combine the food and your drink in one hand. It’s being sold at a website for 48 bucks. It will go for a high price until its innovative design turns into a commodity. [...]
Tags: barbeque, bbq, blog, consumer, consumerism, design, goplate, innovation, plunder guide
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The Art of Burning the Planet
June 1st, 2009 by lifeproof
Global Warming has been perceived as a mambo-jambo, a conspiracy theory, a myth that was produced by political geeks until as recent as last year maybe. For some others it was a brutal outcome of the capitalist system, the industrial modern world, the consumer society. Today, at the point that we have reached, it is [...]
Tags: bamboo t-shirt, Capitalism, carbon footprint, carbon monoxide, consumerism, freegan, global warming, go green, iPhone, McDonald's, Starbucks, Sunac, tell6.com, think green, Walmart, Whole Foods Market, zipcar
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