In possibly the greatest cross-promotion ever, 7-11 has transformed a dozen of their stores into Kwik-E-Marts, to promote the upcoming Simpsons Movie. They are even selling Simpsons-inspired products. Thank you Jeebus! Here’s a Flickr photoset thst shows a ton of photos from the Burbank, CA location.
Posts Tagged ‘marketing’
Mash Up at Mos Eisley
Make-It-Yourself ‘Star Wars’
Lucasfilm Will Post Clips From Film Saga on the Web, Inviting Fans to Edit at Will
via WSJ.com
Creative Roundup
Pantone Color Kill
Got an old Pantone swatchbook laying around? Destroy it publicly for a chance to win - or at least some publicity for them.
Is Washington DC keeping its creative promise?
Washington DC says it wants to cultivate its artistic community, but all it has to show for it is big big corporate development.
Model D
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MarketingSherpa’s Email Award Winner Gallery 2007
Good inspiration for email design via MarketingSherpa.
Including:
Nice clean design and use of icons in this Dell welcome email.
The comments on this one cite that welcome and 1st-time buyer emails “…have far higher open and click rates than other emails further on”. Never too early to start that balance build campaigning…
In-tunnel Advertising
This is so cool. Advertisements that achieve simulated motion by turning a subway into a zoetrope. See a video demonstration.
This blog began tracking the use of this technique, including a record of this being done back in the eighties.
(more) consumer, create!
CES and Macworld–Where Consumers Become Producers
Design your own Nikes
Skinning the real world
Build your Scion
Create a font from your handwriting
Series 13 - Customize a Burton Snowboard
Taken to another level, the Web 2.0 tenet of the user base adding to the value of the entire system. The trailblazers in this space being ebay and amazon.com, and more [...]



