Innovation Overdrive from Sugru
Sugru may be the coolest brand you’ve never heard of. An innovative mouldable glue from a team of inventive London-based scientists and product designers that, overnight turns into rubber. Out of the package, Sugru feels like play-dough and is child’s play to work with for everyday fixes and fabulous inventions alike. It cures with air […]
The Insta-Colorventures of Amy Chen Design
Color is expressive, rich with energy and filled with emotion. Did you know happy people typically like yellow and law enforcement uses pink as a “passive color” to sooth and calm? My love affair with color is a relationship in its infancy; I was quite comfortable living within the confines of neutral tones with an […]
The Greenbrier Resort
My fascination with The Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV began as a child. Massive and magnificent, I felt like a princess in a palace, a fairytale come to life. Years later when I returned as an adult, I was surprised to discover that The Greenbrier still delivered every ounce of the splendor and awe that […]
Pedego Electric Bikes
2014 was a banner year for the bike industry in the United Sates, ushering in a 5% increase against a zero growth trend that goes all the way back to 2003. Bikers looking to ride for fun, for sport or to commute purchased over 18 million new bikes last year- that’s a lot of wheels! I’m […]
Marketing Pay 2 Play
Making an independent documentary film is about as tough as it gets. Most filmmakers need investors or a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise enough capital to even start production. And once that labor of love is completed, you need to find a way for people to see it. For many indie docs, festivals are the […]
Art-o-Mat’s Vend Art
Delight and surprise are powerful aspects of a great brand experience. Layer in clever design and interactivity and you’ve hit a home run. Art-o-mat®, an organization that repurposes vintage cigarette vending machines into one-of-a-kind vend art dispensaries, is connecting with both the voracious art collector and the casual passerby that gets caught up in the […]
Real California Milk
California loyalist or not, I think over the course of its 10-year run, the Happy Cows from California managed to make just about everyone smile. The premise of the ads was simple but clever – dairy cows living in the Golden State are happier and therefore make better quality milk than their counterparts in chillier, […]
James Beard Award-Winner, Naomi Pomeroy of Beast
My singular dining experience at Beast came with a significant amount of planning. I had spent many evenings Googling, Yelping and obsessing over Eater reviews to find the perfect evening out during a long anticipated weekend trip to Portland. I can’t remember exactly how my path wound it’s way to Beast, but it led to […]
H&H Nail Jewelry
Fueled by the explosive global growth of the nail category, nail art became ubiquitous in 2012 and 2013. E!’s ManiCam debut, the introduction of nail art subscription services and hype around the 2014 launch of Oxygen’s Nailed It! reality show transformed nails into a new form of self-expression for the masses. But what stood out above all the rest were […]
Sunset Skateboards
Highly competitive with a gift for fluid motion, it’s no surprise that surfers crafted the first skateboards in the 1950’s out of a desire to “surf” on concrete. Clay wheels affixed to wood boards, these first skateboards were often homemade and highly dangerous, and in the 1960’s, support of the sport started to wane. In […]