Having been writing about the Beijing branding for well over a year, I almost feel like I have nothing left to say. I mean, you all saw it, right.
When I was watching the games I was obviously watching the sports, but I had a keen eye on the background graphics, the signage, the uniforms, [...]

// a tale of China, advertising: outdoor, brands & branding, design, design: print, fashion, national identities, politics, typography
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Now that the dust has settled at the Bird’s Nest Stadium and the Olympics flame has been extinguished, I can finally collect my thoughts and comment on the global circus that was the media coverage. This year’s coverage was bigger, more intense, more global, more comprehensive, more technologically-advanced, more highly-defined, and more quickly deployed than [...]

// a tale of China, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, computers & gadgets, national identities, the internet, web technology
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With the unofficial end of Summer only one week away (!) I had take a moment to post and simply explain why this has been the sparsest month on this blog since I started actively blogging back in 2006. I hope I haven’t turned anyone off with my lack of witty graphical observations or controversial [...]

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This one happened to fall into my lap via the always-insightful Randy Ludacer. Randy has a knack for digging up interesting and forgotten packaging designs, but this one totally knocked me back.
Have you ever seen branded lip balm? I’m not talking about Barbie products aimed at girls, but lip balm minted in the image of [...]

// a tale of WTF, brands & branding, design: packaging
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Designing with limited colours is a unique challenge for designers. Corporate colours, production budget, and other logistical limitations often mean that we have to dig deep for ideas on how to make an eye-catching design using only a limited palette.
Sometimes we’ll just use plain old CMYK. From Germany comes the Thnk CMYK series. These books, [...]

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I stumbled across this and it blew my mind.
The following is an animation to accompany a recorded [audio] interview with John Lennon, from 1969. A young Canadian sneaked into John’s hotel room in Toronto and quizzed him on the subject of Peace. The results are puzzlingly profound, but which make for a gorgeous journey of [...]

// a tale of Britain, design, typography
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This is by far the coolest interactive info graphic I’ve seen in recent memory. And yes, it has to do with the Olympics.
From the New York Times comes an interactive visual display of all the medal-winning nations by year. I really don’t need to explain, you should be able to figure it out instantly.
Check it [...]

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