Brik Case is a fun new customizable laptop cover created by San Francisco-based startup Jolt Team that is compatible with a number of popular building blocks, including LEGO, Mega Bloks, PixelBlocks, KRE-O and K’NEX.
Some people like to spice up their laptops with stickers on the back. We couldn’t help thinking, though, that stickers are sticky. Plus, once they’re stuck, you’re stuck. So we designed a case that permits constant change, collaboration, and originality.
In conjunction with their exhibition overview of the origins of modern abstraction, MoMA analyzed social and artistic relationships among key figures and modern artists in order to develop this interactive network diagram of the founders and pioneers of modern abstraction. Edges connect individuals whose acquaintance could be documented. Those in red are the most connected of the group.
Remember Green Street Media’s no-spraypaint-necessary sidewalk advertising? To refresh your memory, the UK-based firm exploited the filthy nature of sidewalks by placing a stencil over them and blasting them with a pressure washer. With the stencil lifted, the area blasted clean spelled out their message.
Green Street Media
Seattle-based artist Peregrine Church does something similar, but using rain rather than a pressure washer. By coating the sidewalks in an invisible superhydrophobic coating applied through a stencil, he creates messages that are only visible when it rains out.
Peregrine Church
Peregrine Church
Peregrine Church
Here’s how he does it, and it seems simple as pie:
So at this point we’ve seen hydrophobic coatings used to defeat public urinators and help get glue out of bottles. Church’s “Rainworks” project, as he’s calling it, has a more humble purpose: “To make people smile on rainy days.”
So you think you’re a smartphone expert. You know your iPhone or Android phone inside and out and you constantly help your friends and family with their mobile problems. Well, we hate to break it to you, but there are still plenty of things that even the savviest smartphone users out there don’t know about.
For example, did you know that your iPhone or Android phone has tons of secret hidden menus that you can only access by dialing special codes into the phone app?
There’s no doubt about it: spending on digital display advertising in the U.S. is definitely traveling to the social media sites.
That market, which will total $27.05 billion this year, according eMarketer estimates, will change again by 2017, when the “U.S. digital display ad expenditure will reach $37.36 billion, (with) Facebook and Twitter together accounting for 33.7 percent of the market, up from 30.2 percent this year.”
“In 2015, Facebook’s U.S. digital display ad revenues will reach $6.82 billion, just over one-quarter of the total market, and Twitter will take 5.0 percent share, increasing its digital display ad revenues to $1.34 billion,” according to eMarketer. “By 2017, Facebook’s portion will continue to creep upward, reaching 26.9 percent, and Twitter will take 6.8 percent.”
Whither Twitter and Google?
“Notably, Twitter will surpass Yahoo in total U.S. digital display ad revenues for the first time in 2015,” eMarketer posits. “Even though we project that Yahoo will see positive display ad growth this year for the first time since we started tracking the company’s ad revenues in 2009, its market share will continue a rapid decline, falling to 4.6 percent in 2015, down from 5.5 percent last year and 7.2 percent in 2013.”
Google could maintain its market position behind Facebook, according to the projections, but its share of U.S. digital display ad revenues are expected to dip from 13.7 percent in 2014 to 13.0 percent this year—and down to as much as just 11.1 percent by 2017.
What’s driving Facebook and Twitter gains in the digital display market? Mobile advertising, of course.
“For the first time in 2015, mobile will surpass desktop in display ad spending in the U.S., increasing from $9.65 billion in 2014 to $14.67 billion,” says eMarketer. “Meanwhile, desktop display ad spend will decline in 2015, falling to $12.38 billion, from $12.56 billion last year.”
There’s no doubt about it: spending on digital display advertising in the U.S. is definitely traveling to the social media sites.
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