Motrin Relief

Toronto ad agency TAXI 2 developed a cleverly designed mannequin to demonstrate how Motrin targets the aches and pains of holiday shopping. Genius.

Season's Greetings

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Let us not forget the true meaning of the holiday season.

Mad Men Holiday

People are embracing the "Mad Men" elements of style. In a Fashion & Style article of The New York Times, we see Christmas in the '60s.

Neon Boneyard

Not far from the hotels of the Vegas strip is the quiet desert resting place of the city’s neon history. The Las Vegas Neon Museum and Boneyard are home to countless neon lights, historic signage and advertisements from a time long passed.

While we're on the subject of Sin City, I want to give a shout out to BYU as they will be playing Oregon State today in the MAACO Las Vegas Bowl. Go Cougars!

Black on Black

Nike has co-opted Maharam, the world’s leading supplier of textiles for architects and interior designers, to emphasize the relationship between the way a sneaker looks and how it feels.

[Via NY Times Magazine]

Wax Wick

The best selling AND smelling surf wax now in a candle. Experience the long lasting 30-40 hour burn time scents of coconut, grape, and strawberry. $8.78 at Sexwax.com or most surf shops.

Tiki Room

The retro tiki-style paintings, serigraphs, and illustrations of Derek are one of a kind and kind of a big deal. Check them out here.

Gucci Goggles

Dress up your snow gear with a pair of these. Never could have predicted ski goggles coming from Gucci. See them here.

Mane Memo

Gradual hair loss is a problem people tend to neglect. This memo pad is designed to engage people to address the issue.

As users tear off memo sheets, the person's "hair" becomes thinner, alerting them of possible hair loss. They then remind them to face the problem before it is too late with Pantogar.

[Via I Believe in Advertising]

Coinage Simplication

This project by Mac Funamizu is based on the challenge idea for people who travel to figure out the coin system of money in each new country they’re in. Solution? Pie chart coins.

The original intent of the project is to for just a moment dismiss the obvious pros in the circular-only design of modern coins and jump on the fractions train. I dig it.

Smart promotional idea. Putting a spin on pop-up shops, designers, architects, and contractors have set up a temporary studio called the PopUp Design Clinic in a vacant storefront of New York’s West Village to provide free architectural services between December 5 to 13.

JetBlue Gift Catalog

JetBlue introduces a satirical holiday catalog of gifts for non-JetBlue fliers to help them cope with flying on other airlines.

The 14 products include leather in a jar, for those uncomfortable cloth seats; a knee-jockey apparatus (above), to make up for the lack of legroom; depth goggles (below), to make the seat in front of you seem farther away; and the YumBro robot, to dispense snacks you won't be given for free.

Genius idea from JetBlue's ad agency JWT. Feel free to browse the Flyer's Collection catalog on their Facebook fan page here.

Point and Shoot

Franziska Dierschke gives the point-and-shoot camera an even richer meaning with his conceptual digital camera gun.

[Via Toxel]

Flipped Out

A Vancouver Gap store gets flipped upside down for a promotion of the brand's new loyalty program called Sprize.

With Sprize, shoppers who buy Gap products at full price will receive shopping credit for the price difference if any of their goods go on sale in the following 45 days after their purchase.

[Via Creativity]

Drink Up Sweden

Coffee, like Helvetica, is an acquired taste. To satisfy both appetites, this mug features four weights of the timeless font. I don't even drink coffee and I envy this mug. Holy Helvetica.

'Tis the Season

Volcom presents Give Jeans A Chance, where you can drop off any jeans in wearable condition to your nearest Volcom store and be entered to win a years supply of new denim.

All jeans donated will be distributed locally by the National Coalition for the Homeless. Go here to learn more.

Believe it or not, I'm graduating in just a matter of weeks--that means beginning my career and landing a job. Wish me luck.

America Online

To coincide with its parting from Time Warner and its shares being offered on the NYSE, AOL is unveiling a new logo.

Designed by Wolff Olins, the new identity re-imagines AOL as Aol. (the period is part of the logo, not just an indicator that the sentence has ended, which it hasn't). Your thoughts?

Grand Canyon State

We just got back from a great Thanksgiving holiday at grandma's in Prescott, Arizona. Didn't see cacti, but plenty of pine.

Paddle Power

Revolutionizing ping pong one paddle at a time. Brodmann Blades take table tennis to a whole new level with innovative handle free, glove-like paddles.