// 23 September 2009, 12:28
This is a clever little guerilla marketing campaign going on here in New York. Obviously, Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire-turned-mayor is running again (for a third term), so why not run another billionaire against him. There’s even a whole platform including how Burns will use the subway to ship freight and cattle.
Gothamist featured the story, and [...]
// a tale of New York, advertising: outdoor, politics
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// 01 September 2009, 13:01
O that I were yet a grad student, for surely this would be my thesis.
London, my beloved bittersweet mistress of a second-city, has an identity crisis, and has put out the call to the design firms of Britain (and to a lesser degree, the world), to redesign the brand identity for London. While a bit [...]
// a tale of Britain, advertising: outdoor, brands & branding, design: history, fashion, national identities, politics, the industry, typography
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// 22 August 2009, 16:12
The Advertising and Design community has been talking about Art & Copy, the new documentary film about the ad industry. With anticipation, we’ve been sharing the trailer all over the various Internet outlets.
Well, last night I snuck out to a preview and managed to watch the film. The two words on my tongue after seeing [...]
// a tale of advertising: outdoor, advertising: print, advertising: tv/radio, brands & branding, cinema, music, national identities, photography, politics, the industry
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// 21 August 2009, 23:22
Check out this Flickr pool of beautiful faded signage and advertisements. I love this crap, wish I could go around photographing more of it. There’s actually an example right at the end of my street.
Faded Signage on Flickr »
via Design Work Life »
// a tale of advertising: outdoor, design, design: history, photography, typography
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// 15 April 2009, 11:27
When Naomi Klein wrote about “the 3D Ad takeover” I don’t think this is what she meant. Otherwise, stronger words might have been invented to describe the absurdity of this. From Denmark, comes a grotesque, albeit straightforward, promotion for Silk Soft toilet paper.
I know there are many examples of 3D advertising where unsuspecting objects [...]
// a tale of WTF, advertising: outdoor
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// 19 March 2009, 00:24
Movie poster are usually pretty lame. Repetitive ideas, groupthink and compromise, templates, and occasionally a Photoshop Disaster. But today, PSD TUTS has compiled a collection of 50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters. Not that Photoshop is necessarily employed to retouch or otherwise hoodwink the audience, but these are generally pretty awesome in their artistic composition and/or [...]
// a tale of advertising: outdoor, cinema, design, design: print
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