Author Archives: James Bealey

As featured on TrendLand this week, Graphic artist, Viktor Hertz has recreated the logos of famous companies to show what they would be like if the companies actually told the truth about their product – Do you agree with Hertz?

Print-on-demand services have been around for a while now (i.e. Sarah Wilson’s first run of IQS) , enabling publishers and authors to save money by only printing copies when an order of their book has been placed. However, it could be carried across to another of our favourite forms of reading material – Magazines – […]

              Source: News.com.au / Shannon Kaiser

As the newspaper industry’s economic decline continues, the shift from old to new media is becoming more prominent… Which is why the recent buying of The Washington Post by Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com has surprised many this week! One of the US’ most famous newspapers – credited with breaking the Watergate scandal nearly […]

High-end US department store Nordstrom has brought their ‘pinning’ to life this week by introducing a section in its brick and mortar outlets that includes some of the most pinned products on its Pinterest page that week. Initially installed in 13 of the US brand’s stores, the scheme simply updates items in store with a […]

Mkt. were lucky enough to attend a Business Chicks breakfast this morning with the fabulous Dr Brene Brown. If you don’t know of Dr Brene Brown below is a link to her profile on TED and to her website…she’s globally renown, speaking to sell-out audiences and one of the most popular TED talks… she boasts […]

Brands often freeze up when they’re criticized on Facebook however U.K. maxipad maker Bodyform made the most of it late last year when a a man, named Richard Neill posted a rant on Bodyform’s Facebook wall, humorously calling out the brand for false advertising—saying his girlfriend doesn’t have happy periods like those depicted in the ads, but instead […]

At Mkt. we love to shop, but sometimes the madness of the end of season sales can be too much to handle, which is exactly why London department store Selfridges created a place for shoppers earlier this year to escape the noisy crowds and find some calm. The Silence Room, as it is aptly named, […]

Mkt.’s favourite personal driver, Uber, is offering a free ice cream-on-demand service – for today only – in more than three dozen cities around the world, including Melbourne, Sydney, New York, London, Singapore and Rome. All you need to do is.. – Download the Uber app for iPhone or Android – Request the “Ice Cream” […]