And improve your French ! France, land of better wine in the world, beautiful women, Tour de France, bling-bling president, Art of living. France which as a country can give birth to the better or worse.
Let’s talk about the better today, let’s open the JAK LAB #3 . Every quarter JAKLAB magazine offers a 360° vision about a theme or an aspirationnal trend. JAKLAB invites contributors and gives them room and time to explore and talk. Strategic planners, researchers, writers, artists, photographers, architects are creating an effervescent on line webzine. Monitored friendly by Just A Kiss  founders, a design, creative and strategic agency in Paris, JAKLAB is an open publication and platform.
After Desirable Sunstainability, Absolute Necessity , give a breath to your eyes and brain and involve your senses in Urbanity. If you want to contribute to the next issue, please feel free to “superpoke” this unique quartet on their Facebook group.  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=11026998211 !  Have fun !  Brigitte Mantel .

We live surrounded by images, under the spell of visual stimuli. Taking a break in that rush is an absolute necessity. In Paris (France), the market research company Gatard & Associes offers a room on its website, e-dito.com, to discover arts, culture, literature, and to share thoughts about advertising and marketing.

This month Jumping in advertising is deciphered. The writer, Christian Gatard takes us in the advertising backstages. Exploration is done through the prism of mythology. Following him opens our minds for a journey to unexplored areas of our culture and for times as far as 30 000 years ago. Gatard gives us tips to consider shamanism in a new way. The next topic that will be deciphered in E-dito.com next issue is the MASK in advertising. Provocative and appealing idea! Wherever you live if you dig up an interesting and recent advertising example relating to the Mask theme, do dare to share it with the E-dito.com guys : redaction [at] e-dito [dot] com. You’ll make them happy. Enjoy! ( Jumping Frog - Courtesy of American Images Inc / Getty Images)

Philip J Brittan

Interesting entry in jet-setting troubadour/intellectual Nick Currie’s (aka Momus) blog about the opening last year of a Japanese division of Pantone, New Jersey-based color coders who’ve become the ubiquitous industry standard in design and printing. Following just on the heels of the Japanese division launch, Pantone also unveiled a new global brand identity.
I just saw the line of Japanese Pantone cellphones last week which I thought was a cool new development in the ever-expanding Pantone Universe, but didn’t think too much of it until stumbling upon Nick’s blog entry, which contains amusingly brainy and acerbic ruminations on Japanese culture, proprietary culture/copyright, and marketing.

Momus (Nick Currie)

Wendy McClure, parodist and scribe of weight loss culture (”I’m Not the New Me“), posted the vintage Weight Watchers diet cards and commentary from the aforementioned book on a dedicated site of their own to permanently shine, candyboots. Keep clicking through, some of these are too funny.

thanks Christian!