Hornbach films a life in one-square-meter rooms — Cannes Film Craft Grand Prix 2024
Facing shrinking homes, German DIY chain Hornbach films a man living entirely in one-square-meter rooms, built as real sets — a Film Craft Grand Prix.
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2,000 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTThe Bundesliga refreshed its brand five times in 15 years — one player icon, new skin
DFL's Markert and Mutabor's Paravicini trace the league's design evolution from glossy 3D to a tactile, AI-assisted system synced to media contracts.
Lire le casInside Out: JR turns his TED Prize wish into world's largest participatory art project
Winning the 2011 TED Prize, JR let anyone upload a portrait, get a giant poster by mail, and paste it in public — 500,000+ joined in 152 countries.
Lire le casWelcome to Night Vale turns cosmic horror into mundane radio news — a fiction-podcast hit
Two theatre writers frame a desert town's supernatural events as routine radio news — and create a fiction-podcast institution.
Lire le casMarazzi's Terramater tiles turn a 1974 patent into Red Dot Best of the Best 2025
Marazzi revived its 50-year-old single-firing patent with red clay and 60% recycled content — and won Red Dot's top product-design prize.
Lire le casQuakeWorld: Carmack makes 300 ms dial-up multiplayer feel like single player
Rearchitecting Quake for modem links, Carmack cut server turnaround below 4 ms and let each client predict its own movement.
Lire le casAirbnb sold $40 cereal to raise $30k; YC invested.
Rejected and in debt, Airbnb sold 1,000 $40 cereal boxes; Graham saw proof they could persuade strangers.
Lire le casSBS makes an ad only it can air — full-frontal nudity proves 'We Go There', Spikes GP
SBS's 50th-birthday ad is too explicit for any other network — only SBS can air it, and that exclusivity is the point; a PG version ran elsewhere.
Lire le casTOMS ties a donated pair to every purchase — One for One becomes the model
Every pair bought triggers a pair given away — giving is priced into the product, not a separate charity.
Lire le casLALCEC ambushes press conferences with one prostate-cancer question — Cannes PR Gold
LALCEC had journalists end big interviews with 'Have you had your annual prostate exam yet?' — prostate check-up appointments rose 31%.
Lire le casBabyshop's double-sided pencils turn colouring time into a colour-blindness test
One pencil end shows colours as seen, the other as colour-blind kids see them; mismatches while colouring flag the condition — 30,000 sets reached schools.
Lire le casMorning Star runs a tomato giant with no managers — colleague letters replace bosses
Tomato giant with no bosses, titles or promotions: every employee negotiates a Colleague Letter of Understanding with peers and is paid by elected committees.
Lire le casCheetos turns snack dust into comedy — 1.5B impressions, AAF Best of Show
99% of people snack with their dominant hand, so Cheetos built comedy around the 'other hand' — films, OOH stunts and a wonky font drawn with the wrong hand.
Lire le casCadbury redrew its founder's family signature for its first identity overhaul in 50 years
Bulletproof rebuilt Cadbury's identity from the Bournville archives — a lighter cursive wordmark and a Glass and a Half with a chocolate chunk inside it.
Lire le casCopenhagen puts a ski slope on a waste incinerator — CopenHill opens in 2019
Copenhagen's ARC turned its new waste-to-energy plant into a playground — a 450m ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall on a working incinerator.
Lire le casXiaohongshu (小红书) makes strangers acquaintances at a 33-room festival
China's Xiaohongshu (小红书) filled a 1,100 m² Shanghai air-raid shelter with 33 'xx我熟' interest rooms, inviting strangers with real sweet potatoes in steamers.
Lire le casRetina: Tobias Frere-Jones' notched typeface packed more stock listings into the WSJ
For The Wall Street Journal, Frere-Jones built Retina with ink-trap notches so 5.5-point stock tables stayed legible on newsprint.
Lire le casRocket League makes car soccer a sport — 14M downloads and $70M in year one
Psyonix strips a 2008 cult game down to one universal idea — rocket cars playing soccer — and 14 million people download it in a year.
Lire le casThe Tech Guy: a shy trader's second-hand tech stall in Tavistock grows into a shop
A shy trader opened a Friday stall selling repaired, nostalgic tech; a year later he had a shop, a national final and a calmer self.
Lire le casadidas Japan runs a full Tokyo marathon with zero red lights — ADFEST 2018 Grande
Analyzing Tokyo's 15,772 traffic-light cycles, adidas designs a 42.195km marathon where runners never stop — 30 runners pass 96 signals, ADFEST 2018 Grande.
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