http://www.pompeiad.com Pompei A.D. LLC, C3: Commerce, Culture, and Community – creative services firm specializing in architecture, design, and experiential branding for retail, museums, spas, hotels, real estate development, and events. http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/4_109 World Retail Congress in Barcelona, Spain. Pompei A.D. participated in Future Stores, where we Ron presented an overview of the evolving cultural landscape and its implications in the world of retail. In this video that accompanied the live presentation, trend expert Kate Ancketill of GDR Creative Intelligence joins Ron to discuss 3 cultural shifts that are having significant impact on the relationships between brands and their customers. ]]> Pompei_A.D. Ron Pompei,Retail,Conference,Speaking Event,Europe 2007-05-02 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/4_109 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/3_185 Sir Ken Robinson is a voice of our emerging culture. His talks are mesmerizing since he can, with great skill, entertain, inform, inspire, and emotionally challenge us with questions that lead us back to ourselves once again where our real potential lies waiting to be re-discovered.
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This video is from the TED Conference, February 2006. Visit the TED website to see many more videos from some of the most inspiring thinkers in the world. ]]> Pompei_A.D. Education 2007-03-28 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/3_185 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/3_153 Marco Bevolo impressed with me the substance of his inquiry into culture and its evolution beyond talks of trend and 'market analysis'. And he inspired me with his knowledge of the Italian Futurists, who established at the beginning of the 20th Century so many of the roots of artistic expression that we rely on today and tomorrow.
- Ron Pompei

An essay by Marco Bevolo

Introduction

More than one world-class trend research scholar defined the Zero’s as the age of a “new modernity”, using the “modernist paradigm” as a reference for the current cultural climate. It is difficult to disagree: it appears clear that the social need of an overarching, systematic design behind societies marks the paradigmatic difference between this first decade of the new millennium and the postmodernist years between 1977 -year of first surfacing of Transavanguardia in Italy- and the year of 9/11. In the short span of these last few of years, a number of societal indicators of various nature and scale pointed out how the modernist idea of structure, of progress, ultimately of avant-garde is back “en vogue”. This short essay will attempt to identify connections and threads between some examples of contemporary phenomena in the cultural and branding worlds, and the techniques and poetics of Italian Futurism, the modern art movement aiming to achieve universal change and reconstruction at the beginning of the XX Century.

Labeled as “The Other Modernism” (1996) by Cinzia Sartini Blum, who analyzed the rhetorical mechanisms used by Marinetti, founder and director of Futurism, the movement roared into the 1910’s with a uniquely innovative mix of aesthetic visions and communication techniques. While other aspects of the movement, from the articulation of their ideological theories to the outcome of their culinary experiments, appear weak and irrelevant to our contemporary understanding and taste, the overall design and deployment of the movement remains what brand marketers would define as a “best practice” and a “benchmark”. Furthermore, Marinetti’s aesthetic intuitions, even some among the ones by the late Marinetti, appear blessed by the ability to identify future qualities of great relevance, especially when retrospectively studied along the general lines of post-WWII art history.

To continue reading, click on the link to the left to download the complete essay in PDF format. ]]> Ron_Pompei Art,Art History 2007-03-27 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/3_153 http://www.pompeiad.com/articles/3_92 combined expertise of these distinguished speakers, global trend gurus, authors and experts on storytelling, education, and cultural studies, contributes to the creative, interdisciplinary way Pompei A.D. approaches every new design project. In keeping with our C3 philosophy, this diverse group has become a connected community, exchanging ideas and information with each other, and new clients. This section contains current news about what this inspiring group has been doing lately, as well as original contributions authored by them.

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New Voice of Business

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