Tag: ideas

Cool Campaigns: Nike’s Extreme Swoosh Slide; Louis Vuitton’s Big Apple City Guides

Marketing ideas worth noting bring out both the idea of fun and adventure, but also tap into potential viral video and youth culture’s savvy social networking patterns.

Vans Warped Tour Sponsor Activities Provide Insight on What Rocks This Summer in Music Festivals Towards Attracting Youth Culture

Often considered leading-edge in sponsorship programs, here’s was what to expect from Warped’s 15th anniversary tour launching June 26.

Trade Show Season Prep Part 3: Trade Show Lead Generation, Marketing Materials, Follow-up -How to Make the Most of Limited Funds Towards Getting Your Brand Noticed

Keepsakes for buyers and media are a good idea but bigger is not always better. Other than a postcard or marketing kit flyer, if you have cool buttons or pins that are designed and include your URL on them these tend to create a viral marketing buzz. Here are other good give-aways that work well but are not all that expensive:

Shanghai Brand Eno Among New Crop of Top Women’s Contemporary Streetwear Brands from China Taking Local Inspiration to New Levels Introducing Americans to Original Apparel

When we first met Lin Lin from the brand Eno in 2007 at United Fashion Trade Show, we were intrigued by her passion for her home city of Shanghai and the inspiration taken from her country when it came to the emerging China youth and street culture scenes, including rise of indie bands, social networks, and corresponding lifestyle apparel. We met up with Lin Lin and her partner Yvette again at MAGIC in the South Hall last month where they represented not only one of the few women’s contemporary streetwear brands in the area (despite the growing marketplace), but also were the only ones from Shanghai–a burgeoning hotspot of designers and rockers inspired by street culture.

Trade Show Season Prep Part 2: Making the Most of Your Booth Space to Attract Buyers, Media, Fashion Business Leaders

It’s amazing what you can achieve within an 8′ by 10′ space which is often the minimum size of a trade show booth. Make the most it of it with proper signage of your brand’s logo, a carefully displayed rack of your collection -often on at least two sides of the booth area, a portfolio with any media you’ve been in from magazines or online magazines, and leave-behind material for either buyers glancing in your direction or media that may pass by.

Street Art Round-up 2008

Banksy Tears Through the South; Sao Paolo Graffiti Artists Commissioned For London’s Tate While Own Art Back Home Gets the Cover-up; Paris’ colette Revamped and Offers Collabs at NYC Gap with Andre; Swoon Disembarks Another Art Raft But This Time Down the Hudson

Need an Idea for Fun? Vending Machine Delivers for 50 Cents (and a Quarter Refund) Creating Pop-up Vending Street Art in New York City

Culture jamming and economic solutions were never so fun: new idea machine combines pop-up street vending art and a quarter refund.