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		<title>Ecological Packaging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/10/ecological-packaging/</link>
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		<title>Art In Disposable Cups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently come across a very nice idea of making such a dull and unimportant thing as disposable cups much more fun. At that moment I appreciated the idea but left it out of the blog. Something has made me come back to it, though, so here the idea is: A cup acquires a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/09/art-in-disposable-cups/</link>
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		<title>When Sticking To Traditions Hurts&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am pretty much the guy who loves traditions. Coming from the place I come it is not uncommon. However, as traditions and wisdom of the past are good in some areas of life, they are what many business failures stem from.

People of business talk about flexibility and its importance in proper responding to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/08/when-sticking-to-traditions-hurts/</link>
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		<title>Russia Today Ads Controversial?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A very powerful piece of advertising art  I came across the other day when browsing Internet. The ads are developed by McCann Ericksson team for Russia Today TV channel.
The ad was claimed &#8220;ad of the month&#8221; in January by Awards for National Newspaper Advertising (the ANNAs) in the British media. The ads feature two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/05/russia-today-ads-controversial/</link>
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		<title>BicMac Matreshka From Vancouver</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I ask you to list the Russian words that you know, where do you start? Babushka, matreshka, balalayka, ikra&#8230; That seems it. McDonalds have played this well in Canada during the Olympics. For the Russian delegation that had settled near the restaurant, they&#8217;ve prepared something that one would call a McMatreshka.
The idea is that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/03/bicmac-matreshka-from-vancouver/</link>
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		<title>When Future Mistakes Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people of business talk about mistakes they&#8217;ve made in the past. They do so following the wisdom of the people of the past. Experience is what matters, and it matters a lot. The things you did right and you did wrong leave traces in your mind which help you do things better in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/03/02/when-future-mistakes-help/</link>
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		<title>Water Bobble &#8211; Bottle With Filter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a couple of news whith interesting design for bottled water, one of which was missing some volume to share with dry lands, while another one&#8217;s (Water For Water) profit was aimed at implementing various water projects in developing countries.
Now, there&#8217;s another interesting design from Karim Rashid.
PSFK reports about Water Bobble:
Water Bobble, an inexpensive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/02/24/water-bobble-bottle-with-filter/</link>
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		<title>We Have Moved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my personal blog, after all, so I guess it is better if I move it to www.nastaev.com. Keep reading us here, if interested  
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		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/02/23/we-have-moved/</link>
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		<title>Coca-Cola Robo-Vendor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I already talked about how I love the efforts of Coca-Cola marketing people.
Cool device from Japan. Coke vending machine is actually a robot, says Stan Lee at Brand DNA.

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		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/02/11/coca-cola-robo-vendor/</link>
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		<title>Hardware Billboard From BestBuy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story comes from Gizmodo.
BestBuy have installed a billboard on the Times Square advertising the E-cycling program. The program says that you can bring the hardware that you were going to throw away and have it recycled by paying $10. But you are not losing that money &#8211; it is transferred to you BestBuy gift [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nastaev.com/2010/02/11/hardware-billboard-from-bestbuy/</link>
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