i [love] marketing.

happy new year.

the 100 things I liked in 2011

In lieu of the year's ending (and with some free time on my hands) I went through stuff that I noted last year and picked things from culture, web, ideas, apps, fashion, etc that I liked the most in 2011. Here they are, in no particular order:

Iris Apfel's appartment  Digby  The Meaningfulness of Lives  Naked Hiking  Carousels  3 main lessons of physchology  Savage Beauty   Think Quarterly   Bayes' Theorem   Jonathan's card  What was there  The Breakthrough Myth & The Myth of Innovation Hero   Not without salt  Designing for tomorrow  Instagram   Why being certain means being wrong  The App Internet  Totokaelo  Spotify top tracks of 2011  Home Plus grocery store  Seth Priebatsch's TED talk  Code & Story   Wicked Problems  Runkeeper's Health Graph  Misfit Ideas  Down time  Pitfalls of Certainty   The cognitive cost of expertise  Collaborative consumption  Design Research  Redistribution markets  Bill Cunningham New York  Square  Good design  Certified Pre-Owned  Mohawk General Store  Kevin Slavin's TED talk  Satisficing vs. Optimizing  Dissonance  Online fashion marketplaces  The year in reading  Social Flow  Kinfolk  Curisma  Gimme Bar   Arrested Motion  How consumers interact with Facebook  Delight by design  Why we are not hiring creative technologists  MIU MIU Glitter-finish sandals  Facebook makes brands stupid  Sharing economy  The Fancy  Foursquare + Square  Apple TV  Innovators share their thoughts  Bucketlabs  Drunken online shopping  The never ending story  The Economics of Happiness  The obvious, the easy, and the possible  Strangers and groundbreaking ideas  Creatures of comfort  MNZ Store  Social Games  Disruptive hypotheses  La Garconne  GroupMe  Svpply sets  1Q84 TaskRabbit  Le Havre  This isn't happiness  Maurizio Cattelan at Guggenheim  Venmo  A brief rant on the future of interaction design  Lanvin AW 2011  Shop Terrain  Retromania  The world's biggest family  The power of metaphors  Mikkat Market   Bicycle curriers   Retronaut   Give a smile  On the edge   Talent is nothing without focus and endurance   Henry the Worst   Wantful   Puppy Elite   7 major problems   The isolator   Koi pond  The history of high five  Brands are simple   Trendland   Cereal Couture   Idea Mensch Its this for that

McLuhan is right (again)

The other day I came across this image (regretably, can't remember where), and it striked me as a lovely way to summarize the problem of fitting digital media into marketing thinking. Yes, we still have that problem. We are collecting Likes and views, measuring awareness, and resizing content - all instead of accepting that the rules of the game are through and through new and trying to understand them.