Utilitarian Revolution
Product, Price, Place and Promotion must make room for the fifth P of marketing, Purpose. Appealing exclusively to emotional and rational instinct is becoming banal and prosaic. Consumers are [...]
Product, Price, Place and Promotion must make room for the fifth P of marketing, Purpose. Appealing exclusively to emotional and rational instinct is becoming banal and prosaic. Consumers are [...]
Video and photography are experiencing the resurgence of a more primitive medium: illustration. As advertisers strive for an evermore impactful punch, we delve into the learnings of traditional [...]
Randian Objectivism and its influence on Silicon Valley’s ‘Californian Ideology’ promised a world in which the machines would watch over us, leaving individuals free to endeavour in their pursuit [...]
Bentham’s Panopticon provided a sociological metaphor: surveillance ensures conformity. The traditional order of society works to the same principles. But every coin has two sides, and in the age [...]
Fetishisation and demonisation are the ebb and flow of liquid modernity. As opulents surf national borders, the masses, defined by them, wade for their survival. United, however, by an [...]
Parallels between networked technologies and our natural realm reign supreme in critical thought. Though the line between valuable output and gimmick is seemingly all too fine. Exponential [...]
The relationship between art and advertising is ever strengthening, but is this a revelation or merely a spotlight upon a lifelong affinity? Last week the creative world saw an end to one of the [...]
With an abundance of choice and drought in resource, fleeting extremes replace the middle ground in consumer lifestyles. Why diet all the time when you could simply fast for two out of seven days [...]
Biomimetics or biomimicry is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems. Symbiosis is the close and often long-term interaction [...]
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, in 1909, wrote and distributed the Futurist Manifesto. With an advocacy ‘to demolish museums and libraries’, the text spoke of “the beauty of speed” and promoted an [...]