Hello, Hoi and Bonjour! Welcome to our ever-entertaining Heads-UP! This week we’ve got a good bag of funny, disappointing and outright shocking facts. So, let your Friday night entertainment commence…
- Every odd number that exists has the letter e in it – Cécile
- Pixar Studios always hide hints about their new productions in their movies – Lisa
- The visual identity of The National Police of the Netherlands was designed by Studio Dumbar in 1993. The perfect match between corporate design and boldness. A partnership made to last, even though the police were outraged by the studio’s proposition in the first place. – Victoria I
- Although currently the poster child for a thriving and inclusive nation, in the 1960’s the Canadian government created a gaydar to test the homosexuality of their employees, which as you can guess ended in disaster. – Lynn
- Coca-Cola used to produce coke with cocaine. – Axel
- Word of the week; solutionism. Used by critical thinker, Evgeny Morozov to the spirit of Silicon Valley, it represents the fact that all aspects of society are actually one problem to be solved. Everything is made to erase society flaws, achieve perfection, increase efficiency. The reflexion on society questions fades in front of infatuation for innovations.
This new quest for perfection influences negatively some communication agencies. They tend to forget that a well-made communication depends on emotions that it will provoke, and bases only on figures and innovations. – Victoria F