Me and partner in crime Göran Adlén, one of Swedens most hired and admired speakers on future trends, had a nice lunch a couple of weeks ago. Half way into a wonderful Pizza at Vapiano we suddenly cracked, what probably is our most stupid or…genius idea so far:

“Why don’t we lock our selves up somewhere and chat away about trends, communication, design, technology, the environment, the world and much more for 24 hours without any sleep or pause. NO SLEEP – NO PAUSE! and broadcast it – Live!?”

Seconds later I was off the phone with Robin Danehav, thincasting mastermind, who answered in seconds “I’m in!”.

Göran Adlén & Johan Ronnestam 24 Hours Live at Clarion Sign Hotel! Thincasted by Robin Danehav.

The event will be broadcasted live, both here on my blog and on the campaign website 24 Hours.se, as well as performed on stage at Clarion Sign Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden. So, mark the 6th and 7th of May 2011 in your calendars. Ah, almost forgot. If you’re on Twitter. Use the #24live if you wanna tag along.

Oh, and of course it’s all free. If you wanna pay something – pay me a Tweet or a Facebook link.

See you at lunchtime on the 6th of may!

ps. For you english speaking readers – the event will be held in Swedish but followed with 24 videos summarising the event – these will be text translated.

Some of you might have followed my blog since way back while others followed me only a couple of days. So I decided it was time to dig into Google Analytics and gather my top 100 blog posts, based on traffic, (I have written 596 to this date) between the years 2005 and 2011 for you to read.

I did actually start my first blog back in 2002 but quickly stopped blogging. It was more of an installation experiment. Then in 2005 I slowly started posting again. Up until now I’ve had over a half a million pageviews and 367374 unique visitors dropping in.

Oh, by the way. If there’s anything you like – please Tweet it or put it on your FB page. It would make me happy.

So here we go:

The Top 100 posts on the future of communication by Johan Ronnestam posted between 2005 and 2011 Have a good read!

1. Pixel Art Has Become Vintage Technology
2. 3 Social Media Models That Will Guide Your Brand Into The Conversation Landscape
3. A Book, MashUp, PDF or Whatever You Wanna Call It By Johan Ronnestam
4. 10 Packaging Concepts That Bring Boring Objects & Products to Life
5. The Essential Guide On How To Start And Configure A Blog That Rocks The World
6. Svenska politiker i sociala och digital media under valet 2010. Några råd på vägen – Det handlar om vem du är, vad du tycker och hur vi kan bli vänner.
7. Dear SAAB. Your Global Web Site Sucks.
8. Controlling your brand with creative excellence
9. Case ›› Re-branding: Turning A Diving Brand With A Heritage Into A Brand With A Future
10. Why Are The Worlds Greatest Brands Stuck In Old Technology And What Should They Do About It?
11. Lightbulb Packaging. If They Can – You Can Too!
12. The 10 Commandments Of Future Brands
13. Adolf Hitler and his evil eyes
14. 50 movie posters that will bring you back in time
15. The Social Formula For Small Business Owners
16. Future Integrated Communication From A Digital Perspective
17. A short story about love
18. I Think I Can Beat Steve Jobs
19. Social Marketing Simplified
20. Case: The Story Of How Sweden’s Newest Bank ‘Marginalen Bank’ Was Created, Implemented and Launched
21. So What About Volvo? Does Your Site Suck Too?
22. The Ultimate Mood and Storyboard Application
23. Brand and Communication Predictions For 2010 by Johan Ronnestam
24. Poladroid brings back the Polaroid memories
25. 21 Steps on How to Monitor Your Brand Online and Keep Track of the Conversation
26. Dear CEO’s, Board Members and Top Management – what’s more important? Wine or Change?
27. Toys that makes me go wow
28. Why You Should Wait To Use Facebook Email
29. Brand and communication predictions for 2009 by Johan Ronnestam
30. Here’s a logo that can stand time
31. I Just Want To Be Myself
32. How Traditionalists Think About Social Media
33. Mr Shohei Otomo rock my sunday evening
34. Is MobileMe the iTunes killer?
35. Foreign – The End. Ronnestam – The Beginning.
36. How To Successfully Identify A Future Trend
37. Steve Jobs and Apple will replace the Apple TV with a 10” wireless iMedia remote control.
38. Pepsi rebranding features dynamic logo
39. Mitt svar i sin helhet till Tobias Brandel på Svenska Dagbladet
40. Simon Pestridge From Nike Make Future Advertising Sound Simple
41. First Versace, then H&M and now Louis Vuitton ads. Madonna got the fashion giants wrapped around her finger
42. Ask Yourselves These 10 Questions And Then Go Off Conquer The World
43. 10 Reasons Why The Screens Are Coming in 2010
44. Top 5 viral advertising videos on Youtube in 2007
45. Seduce us or excuse us – 11 ways to bring your brand up to date
46. Swedish Television launches a great online television site but where’s the social interaction?
47. Think People Will Read About Your Service? Think Again!
48. Emotional vs rational messages in communication during global recession and Nigel Hollis
49. Luxury champagne brand Krug pops up their brand and shows how entertain the masses with minimum effort
50. Social Media. It’s There To Give Your Brand A Body
51. All Your Brands Are Belong To Us
52. AIDA Transformed By Digital Media. What Does It Mean To Your Brand Communication?
53. Dear The Economist – it’s MY thinking space, not yours!
54. Come On Over and I’ll Print A Lasagna or Pizza For Dinner!
55. Common Sense Communication
56. What Transparency Will Do To Your Brand
57. How to work better by Peter Fischli & David Weiss
58. The checklist that will save our world and maybe your brand too!
59. The Boy Who Lived – How a Comic Strip Can Make You Cry
60. How I Create
61. Let Me Introduce JAJDO – A Swedish App Brand For Kids
62. I Spent The Weekend On An Island And Challenged My Fears
63. Here’s To The Crazy Ones
64. Talar framtidens kommunikation med Göran Adlén och TrendTV nu igen
65. Time Replaces Money.
66. Control Your Home With Your Mobile
67. What Does The New York Times Know That We Don’t?
68. How To Win And Keep A Client
69. I’m a Leo
70. Hand drawn qoutes
71. adidas Techfit launched
72. How To Create A Great Ad For A Beer Brand? Easy! – You Don’t!
73. I’ve Said It Before But It’s Worth Repeating – We Just Wanna Have Fun
74. 2010 Is Coming To An End. Here Are Some Things I Did
75. Life Is Made Up By Small Things That Don’t Seem To Matter
76. How to innovate a album cover using typography
77. Why SAAB, Volvo, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Peugeot, AUDI, Chevrolet, Buick and the rest of the car industry should the adopt the iPhone model and develop the InCar OS
78. Google Introduce Live Search and Augmented Reality With Google Goggles
79. Optimal Webbnärvaro – Svar till Elias Betinakis
80. The new Blossa Glögg bottle
81. Here’s a flashmob I wish I’d known about
82. A Brand New Branded Day
83. A great post on car logos
84. Vad var det jag sade – Årets Julklapp 2010 – En läsplatta.
85. On my way home from 6 days on Lanai, Hawaii that changed my life
86. I adore a good wine. I love a great design. When these two collide I’m lost in the explosion
87. When You Want To Communicate Something. Change Perspective!
88. Varsågod. Here are my Netvibes feeds
89. Foreign provided the vows for the marriage between H&M and Viktor and Rolf.
90. What is shopping? What is branding? What is marketing? Who’s the designer?
91. If you wanna get some brand love tomorrow you better get into the conversation today
92. RIP Michael Jackson
93. Göran Adlén intervjuar Johan Ronnestam om framtidens kommunikation i TrendTV
94. Turn Your Business Into A Smarter Social Business
95. I Ffffound my new favourite image search
96. New York Times reinvents online newspaper reading with a new skimmering interface
97. It’s all an illusion
98. A Sustainable Plan And My Point Of View
99. In order to create something timeless you’ve gotta set Megagoals.
100. WWRD – 36 things Ronnestam would do differently if he had control of brand that delivered broadband, telecom and television services

And there we go. The Top 100 posts. Personally I still lack tons of posts in this list. But in order for you to find those – stick to the tag cloud to the right and look for the related posts beneath each and everyone of these posts.

Have a good night! – Johan Ronnestam

I’m currently working on my 2011 brand and communication prediction. While I’m working on that I drew up one of the best models I know when it comes to predicting future trends. Enjoy!

We are born. Even before we’re born our life is being shaped day by day. Every day, every hour and every second life passes by.

Sometimes tons of things happens at once and suddenly we notice a shape, we call these shapes memories. But most of the time life is made up by small things that never form shapes. The truth however is that these small things is what life is all about. The more of em’ you notice, the more you’ll notice life. And the more you notice life, the more you’ll enjoy it!

This all came to me when I looked at this video below found over at Mario Vellandi’s Melodies in Marketing, which by the way is a great blog on Ethical communication.

Thanks Mario, but above all, thanks Everynone for putting images to life!

State your problems first. Then it might turn out social media is not what you need. And if it is. The do something unique made to work. Don’t just treat it like another channel where you can dump your offline activities.

A sloppy little drawing I did this morning inspired by the works of Al Baik.

Oh…like when you do traditional advertising you actually need money. It’s not free to reach success. And oh nr 2 – online communication is about creating equity over time. Campaigns might work every now and then but overall you should strive to build a socially distributed content driven platform over time. Then you might get fans. Might…

While spending some time reading up on what the ‘fine art’ video photographer Vincent Lafore was up to I ran into a campaign by Canon placed on the video site Vimeo.

The concept called ‘The Story Beyond The Still’ is a perfect example on how brands could look into creating digital events rather than necessarily trying to pull traffic to their own sites.

Swedish brands as well as most brands seem preoccupied with trying to figure out how to get traffic to their campaign (often built in flash…) and brand sites. This is of course the number one strategy for any brand with an online business. But so far most brands do not have their business online so brand building and advertising is still what it’s all about. In the new landscape of trust brands should rather think about how to provide the community they wanna serve with products and services with something that adds value.

This project from Canon is a great example of this. Much like Nikons “We gave then a D80 and what they came back with was stunning” project back in 2004 performs a perfect lunar landing on the right spot. Vimeo is quickly turning out to be the first spot for people exploring moving art. Equipped with the right keywords you’ll find tons of inspiration in high quality.

The Story Beyond The Still: The Cabbie from Vincent Laforet on Vimeo.

The Canon 5D and especially the 7D is definitely transferring Hollywood movie quality into the hands of the masses and Canons HD competition is bringing out the best for us to see.

Another thing this concept brings to mind is the fact that online branding is slowly moving away from design and graphical execution to rather directing people into joining conversations. Anyone can design and build technology today. It’s more about picking the right technology and putting together the right ideas!

We can you set down your lunar lander?

Today I’m browsing for mood images. My search has led me to tons of newspaper blogs. Then suddenly as I noticed this comic strip below my heart stop for a brief second.

This piece of communication is so simple yet so strong. If this would have a been an ad that ended with ‘Send Money to The Earthquake Victims in China’ I’d have my wallet turned upside down.

I can’t think of a better, stronger and more emotional way to portrait this story. Thank you Visual Journalism for bringing it too me!

Thomas Traxler has got his shit together. Powered by nothing but sunlight and some threads, Thomas Traxler‘s “The idea of a tree project” shows us how objects can grow during the course of a day. His project more or less mimics the way a tree grows and changes shape due to weather conditions. Amazing.

Thomas got exactly the characteristic you need in order to create future communication. The competence of combining art, technology and while caring for the nature into ideas that get noticed.

infosthetics pointed the laser on it!

It’s Sunday evening and I’m spending some time browsing my feeds and maybe finding some last minute stuff for this coming week presentations. Pink Tentacle, one of my favorite blogs that always surprise me with something quirky introduce me to Mr Shohei Otomo – a Japanese manga artist. Shohei’s ballpoint drawings rock!

A Geisha playing Ping Pong with sunglasses makes me go wow

This guy knows how to tweak something into wow by dropping different cultures into the blender and pushing the button. Out comes innovative, provocative yet wonderful pieces of Manga. I’ve posted two more of my favorites below.

Doesn’t look all that healthy. But it’s a rockin’ piece of art

A Geisha with sunglasses and suddenly you turn peoples head around

If you’re into this kinda art you should get your but over to Shohei’s and check out his gallery. It’s in Japanese but if you press that mouse of yours a couple of times you’ll find your way!

In Paris, France there’s a guy named Aïssa Logerot. He makes all sorts of cool industrial design objects. The thing that got me hooked though was this outstanding LED spray can called halo. The photo says it all. I want one. For what I don’t know but that’s generally how I feel about cool objects – ‘Buy first think later’.

Thanks Coolhunting and Notcot for enlightening me today!

On Sergels Torg in central Stockholm yesterday. Swedish street dance company Bounce tribute Michael Jackson with this flash mob to Beat It.

Found the beauty over at The Girls of Florida.

Spotted this wonderful video showcasing a series of round balls that generate different sounds as the audience bounce them around.

It’s a great ‘stunt’ performed by Intellijel in collaboration with Danjel Van Tijn at the Siggraph 2009. Give people something fun and innovative to interact with and they’ll do just that. Listen to the audience laughing – they love it!