Matthew Leavitt

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Tag archive for ‘advertising’

2 Contagions // Week #5

1.) Interventional Innovation

Summary // This article spoke on how specific vectors of innovation an target people (specifically caregivers), into adopting certain recommendations in our society. Through advertising we are constantly becoming more blunt as ads have inherent suggestions that urge people to help the ones they love by using product X. Teachers are recommending that [...]

2 Contagions // Week #4

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1.) Add-Art

Summary // Add-Art is an firefox extension that replaces advertisements on websites with art images that are curated. The images that are replaced are updated about every two weeks (like advertisements) , so that users of this extension are experiencing an art view of the world of art instead of being bombarded with ads [...]

5 Contagions // Week #2

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1.) The Bubble Project

Summary // The Bubble Project is a fun and creative, person-based, critique on Corporate America. What started out as a project that consisted of 15,000 empty voice bubbles (the ones often used in comic strips) and put over advertisements throughout New York City. These empty bubbles were [...]