Last May, graffiti artist Kidult scrawled "ART" in huge red letters across the Marc Jacobs store in Soho. Skilled clothing pricer Marc Jacobs proceeded to screenprint the image of the tagged store onto t-shirts and sell them for $686. The t-shirt read "Art by Art Jacob$." On Monday, Kidult tagged the Marc Jacobs Paris store with 686 in reference to the price of the shirt, surrounding the number with dollar signs. The clothing company seems to have already begun merchandizing hats and shirts with this new design.680? How much are you going to sell this for? — KIDULT (@therealkidult) June 24, 2013By last night, the Paris Marc Jacobs team posted a number of photos of themselves over some bottles of wine, wearing white hats with 686 emblazoned on them. Our president @robertcduffy celebrating w/ European operations manager Luca in his birthday @therealkidult gear. — Marc Jacobs Intl (@MarcJacobsIntl) June 25, 2013Marc Jacobs immediate marketing of this protest has even prompted questions about whether Kidult is now intentionally working with the clothing brand to provide edgy, semi-subversive designs.

We'll debut our new t-shirt tmrw! $686 unsigned, $430 signed. Price set by @therealkidult. — Marc Jacobs Intl (@MarcJacobsIntl) June 25, 2013Kidult has also targeted Celine and Hermes stores with his anti-consumerist graffiti. His last tweet is a Chomsky/Herman reference, but Kidult's references seem to have only worked against him thus far: — KIDULT (@therealkidult) June 24, 2013 35 Photos and videosViewing Tweets won't unblock @therealkidult.love a good “twinning” outfit with my kids, but as a mother of a 2 year old, and an 8 year old boy it is hard to find an outfit that looks good, and is functional on all of us. About six months ago I discovered a new British kids clothing company called Kidult and Co when shopping for my younger one online, and quickly become obsessed with their garments. Melissa, Laura and Emily are the girls behind the brand. All three are fresh out of university with each of them bringing different attributes to the business. Their backgrounds in Web Design, Fashion Brand Management, Marketing, Art and Graphic Design have been the basis, strength and knowledge behind the startup of Kidult and Co.

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No new media office is complete without a table tennis table First, a little history. , famously, had an indoor lawn, while Clickmango had an inflatable boardroom table which is supposed to have cost £100,000. boom, web2.0 has been characterised by an awful lot of money and companies dominated (and often founded) by young men whose background tend to be areas like computer science and engineering. So part of the answer to the 'why do it?' question is that many of these companies are very wealthy and are in a “war for talent.” Being a fun place to work, so the thinking goes, will help attract and keep this talent. Where this thinking may break down is that you get sucked into a kind of arms race, where you have to think up ever more ridiculous and elaborate staff amenities. Who cares about your bean-bagged coffee bar when the other guys have a ball pit for adults? But if you get a ball pit, perhaps your competitors down the road will chuck in a giant bouncy castle for and lunchtime bungee jumping.

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