Articles in the Design Category

Disney Pixar CARS: The Art of CARS Live at the L.A. Petersen Automotive Museum
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Posted in Design, Film, Gadgets, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys, Travel on 5 March 2008
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© Copyright Disney/Pixar The great Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles will open the “The Art of Cars” starting on March 29, 2008 (and running ’til November 2, 2008). “The Art of Cars” exhibit includes more than 60 watercolor and pastel drawings, pencil and marker sketches, and a variety of three-dimensional pieces, including: •Life-size replicas […]

Disney Pixar CARS 2: Sequel Coming in 2011 (Update Confirmed – 2012!)
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Posted in Advertising, Design, Film, Financial, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media on 3 March 2008
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(OFFICIAL CARS2 LOGO – see new post) According to DarkHorizons.com, they are reporting that CARS 2 is coming 2011. “… the studio is filling up its schedule again with big sequels and franchise entries. Most exciting is that the studio plans to release a sequel to 80’s sci-fi classic “Tron” in Digital Disney 3D in […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Cars: How to Photoshop Your Car as a Pixar CAR
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Posted in Advertising, Design, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, Retail, Toys, TV on 1 March 2008
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Can you tell I’m going through all my bookmarks and finally filing them – just a couple thousand to sort through so while these are not new ‘news,” for anyone who’s missed them, I’ve consolidated all the info into one post … Yes, you too can join the Pixar CARS world – well, at least […]

Mattel Disney Pixar Cars: “More Coming …” Toyfair 2008
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Posted in Advertising, comics, Design, Film, Internet, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Media, TV on 17 February 2008
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Well, the show doesn’t officially open until tomorrow. Here’s an interesting quote, “Disney’s “Cars,” which, despite no new film or TV content, generated $2 billion in retail sales in 2007 and has become a major priority for Disney that it plans to support with additional content in the future.” HUMM … “The biggest trend industrywide […]

Mattel Pixar Disney Cars Checklist: September 2007 to Today
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, Design, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Toys on 15 February 2008
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So, to avoid any confusion, this list is EVERYTHING NEW from the post recall embargo CARS era – about September 2007 to today. I only listed the “new” CARS or CARS Mattel has marked ‘new.’ For multi-packs or boxes, I only listed the ‘new’ CARS you’re should be looking for. In the case of the […]

Mattel Pixar Disney Cars Checklist: The Been Here-Done That List 2008
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Posted in Advertising, Checklist, Design, Film, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS on 13 February 2008
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Now, this list won’t be very useful to many – this is simply a list for the ultra completists who will fight you to the death for a WOC Lizzie … well, okay, maybe not ‘fight to the death,’ – maybe just a simple “ACK!” For the ultra completists who have to have every CAR […]

A Million Unlocked iPhones Being Shown Off All Around the World – That’s a Tragedy?
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Computing, Design, Film, Financial, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Mobile, Music, Retail, TV on 30 January 2008
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Even if the numbers of a million iPhones being unlocked are correct, that’s a MILLION iPhones walking around all over the world as FREE marketing and advertising for Apple – the most effective advertising of all – because it gives those users the cachet of doing something “not quite legal.” That they are “above the […]

Hello From MacWorld 2008
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Posted in Advertising, Apple, Apple Mac, Computing, Design, Gadgets, Internet, iPhone, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Retail, Video on 15 January 2008
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Not actually blogging from here since we’re only #72,000 on Technorati 🙂 … there are only about 15 seats … maybe next year. Other than the keynote, there’s not much to see that’s new – I don’t think Adobe is even here. The nicest booth by far is Belkin’s … If this were in Venice, […]

Microvision Pico Movie Projector for Your iPod
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Posted in Apple, Computing, Design, Film, Gadgets, Marketing, Mobile, Retail, Travel, TV on 11 January 2008
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You’re on a plane, the movie they are offering is NORBIT or the edited 9-minute version of DEADWOOD … fortunately the rotund dude in front of you who had to buy two tickets is sound asleep and he’s wearing a white shirt – just attach the Pico Movie Projector to your iPod and you use […]

Mattel Pixar Cars Checklist 2008: Cards, Sealed Boxes, 3-Packs & More
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Posted in Advertising, Design, Marketing, Mattel Disney Pixar CARS, Retail, Toys on 29 December 2007
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For collectors of the Mattel Pixar CARS 1:55, we have been through an interesting, amazing, infuriating and wonderous 18 months. We have seen a few highs, many lows and the strangest sight of all – hundreds of people who drive miles and miles through blazing heat, pouring rain, sleet and gloom of night – seemingly […]