Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

Ecological Packaging

Another impressive packaging news here. Ever thought of a green pack as your food packaging? Something like this:

On these pics you can see a banana leaf used as a take-away pack. The leaf is, on one hand, flexible and can take shapes, roll, bend and stuff. On the other hand, the leaves last long [...]

BicMac Matreshka From Vancouver

If I ask you to list the Russian words that you know, where do you start? Babushka, matreshka, balalayka, ikra… That seems it. McDonalds have played this well in Canada during the Olympics. For the Russian delegation that had settled near the restaurant, they’ve prepared something that one would call a McMatreshka.
The idea is that [...]

VisitDenmark’s Strange Move Brings It Down

The Danish tourism promotion agency VisitDenmark has made a shockingly strange advertising move, which seems to have proved blunderous in the end.
In brief, the viral video showing a young mom talking about a one-night meeting with some touristm, was posted on YouTube.  The baby in her hands is, thus, the outcome of that night. What [...]

Beer & Cigarettes Suffer NOT in Russia

The Russian edition of Forbes published a small note in their recent issue, about the items on which most of the Russian population economise during the crisis. Looks like the beer and tobacco producers can stop troubling themselves, ’cause they are the last ones on the list, with food and clothes at the top.
I wonder, [...]

79 Years’ Best Movies In Posters

Movie Poster Addict have posted a very interesting collection of posters: all the winners over 79 years (and, of course, updated now to 80 after the 80th Oscar ceremony).
If you are into posters – have a look at the way they made it in the old times, and what we have now, and if [...]