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ABI’s Sustainability Driver Leverages Green Actions to Build BusinessABI announced Sustainability Driver, a new program that helps B2B companies effectively communicate sustainable initiatives and realize positive business results from green practices.

Sustainability Driver consists of a strategic four-stage discovery and communication process: 1) Assessment Workshop, 2) Competitive Landscape Overview, 3) Analysis and Results Presentation, and 4) Integrated Sustainability Driver Communications Plan.

The strategic process will enable BtoB companies to effectively frame and communicate sustainability initiatives such as lean manufacturing and operations, sustainable materials, reduced shipping costs, and improved energy savings to high-level decision makers.

Sustainability Driver will help identify and position sustainability benefits and create strategic messaging platforms to help businesses fuel relationships with key customers and prospects.

In addition, the focused Sustainability DriverTM communications plan will discover opportunities and drive sales.

“In BtoB we have always focused on the need to focus on business benefits and sustainability is no different,” commented Alan B. (Read the full post about ‘ABI’s Sustainability Driver Leverages Green Actions to Build Business’…)

Ponoko ID Makes Custom Designed Goods AccessibleNow shoppers can have their goods designed and made just for them at the lowest price possible.

Ponoko ID is the world’s first shopping request and match making service for manufactured goods.

It’s the latest offering from Ponoko, the unique online marketplace that brings together consumers and designers of individualized goods.

Shoppers use the new service to post requests for custom-made individualized goods.

Requests are sent to a selection of Ponoko’s pool of more than 10,000 members who then have the chance to put forward a bid to make the item.

Ponoko Chief Strategy Officer Derek Elley says Ponoko ID is a way for shoppers and designers to collaborate to create something unique and special.

“What’s exciting is that Ponoko ID makes getting something made just for you as easy as sending an email,” he says.

“Shoppers no longer have to accept ‘one size fits all’ mass produced goods but can now save a bunch of money to get their ideas turned into reality by expert designers worldwide.”

Stardust Gets Fruitful for Jamba Juice in Colorful 3D Animated SpotBicoastal creative production company Stardust Studios recently produced a spot for the New York-based creatives from advertising agency Publicis and their clients at Nestle’s Jamba Juice.

The :30 spot directed by Stardust’s Santa Monica-based creative director Brad Tucker debuted in targeted broadcast and cable TV outlets earlier this summer, and continues to air widely.

In the 3D animated spot, a Jamba Juicie bottle opens, releasing a swirling cornucopia of vibrant fruit pieces which form into the shape of a person.

To the sounds of the song “Fruit Machine” by The Ting Tings, the animated character swings, swims, plays volleyball and soccer, and the fruit pieces then form the Jamba Juice logo before swirling back into the bottle.

Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives Acquires Tony Palladino CollectionThe Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives has acquired more than 400 works by the New York artist and designer Tony Palladino.

Through a gift of the artist, the Tony Palladino Collection will be held at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) for preservation and research alongside previously acquired collections of work by legendary designers Milton Glaser, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, Henry Wolf and Ed McCabe.

A former student of Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and William Baziotes, Tony Palladino has worked on numerous high-profile advertising campaigns, identity systems and book jackets, and authored two children’s books.

He is a laureate of the New York Art Directors Hall of Fame and is represented in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The artist’s work is known to millions of New Yorkers through SVA’s longstanding subway poster campaign.

Having created some of the campaign’s earliest designs, Palladino now teaches a course at SVA on the history and technique of poster design.

He has been on the faculty since 1958.

The Tony Palladino Collection contains 180 sketches and pieces of original art, 30 posters, and over 200 printed examples of his design and illustration work, including book jackets, logos, advertisements, periodicals, promotional materials, and cards.

Red Monkey reveal a number of incredible new designs at The Magic, Vegas 08. Red Monkey Jeans changes name to RMC Martin Ksohoh. Martin Ksohoh of the exclusive ONE DOUBLE “O” ONE shops on the Kowloon Island of Hong Kong is the man behind the amazing Red Monkey Jeans brand. The brand concept was born of Japanses influence, constructed of specially modified colored cotton, woven into selveage denim, materialized into the form of the Red Monkey Company.

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House of Holland is taking you back to the days of Beverly Hills 90210 and 90s American youth culture. Directional label, House of Holland redesigned Levi 501® and created a limited edition range of six unique designs. The 501® Jeans by House of Holland collection comprises three printed and three laser-cut styles that juxtapose texture, striking foral prints and bold polka dots.

On the collection designer Henry Holland commented: “Being involved in the relaunch of something as iconic as the Levi’s 501® is a real honour and has allowed me to work with denim properly for the ?rst time.

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Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts: Illustration ExhibitionHot Rods, Hula Girls, Hairy Beasts, Himalayan Head Hunters and the Holy Bible are just some of the subjects under discussion by illustrators Linzie Hunter, Rod Hunt, Nishant Choksi and Allan Sanders.

No subject is too small for this group of seasoned professional illustrators and adventurers.

With clients spanning the world of advertising, publishing, design and editorial this band of battle scarred buccaneers are prepared for the eventuality of just about anything.

Their motto is simple : to illustrate the obscure… (Read the full post about ‘Hot Rods and Hairy Beasts: Illustration Exhibition’…)

The Crooks & Castles brand gets Kitmeout’s vote as the best up-and-coming brand at “The Magic” 2008. The Crooks & Castles brand has come a long way in the past few years and now deserves respect and recognition for innovative and stylish collections. With 4 seasonal collection per year, Crooks & Castles has proven to be an acountable brand. Every collection has a variety of items from the strong graphic Tees, to selvage Denims, classic americana jackets and NewEras. Every season is spiced up with special products and collabos. Hat’s off to the guys!

Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to ChicagoThe first Arts and Crafts exhibition mounted at the museum in more than 30 years, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago will present designs by the movement’s most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Highlighting a wide range of objects, including ceramics, furniture, metalwork, paintings, photographs, and textiles, the exhibition will focus on Chicago collections, featuring works from the Art Institute, the University of Chicago, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Crab Tree Farm, and other private collections.

Although Arts and Crafts has been the subject of recent retrospectives, the Art Institute’s exhibition will make a thoughtful contribution to scholarship by exploring the complex influences of Arts and Crafts style, situating its origins and expressions.

Both the exhibition and catalogue will present a thematic history of the movement, culminating in a section on design and collecting in Chicago.

The exhibition will introduce large audiences to some of the city’s little seen, previously unpublished yet spectacular, world-class private Chicago collections.

Approximately half of the objects have not been published before and will be presented in a contextual way to make these objects accessible to a broad audience.

Gola is having a bash at the ubiquitous colab. The Great British sports brand has perhaps a real ACE of a colab in a sea of mediocrity, by colaborating with Christian Lacroix. Gola Trainers are a true British classic in every conceivable way. The brand is indelibly printed in the consciousness of every sports mad Brit on the planet and today this classic brand is set to shares its history, style and innovation with the rest of the globe — luckly old globe!

The Gola by Christian Lacroix collection for SS09 takes its inspiration from the designer’s house pattern ‘Torero Cape’ and comprises two men’s and two women’s styles.

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