Hell yeah!
"We know that the best drum solo in the whole history of rock - ever - is coming. The Gorilla knows it too." Those cheeky Brits do really know a thing or two about advertising: Cadbury — A Glass and a half full of Joy.
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"We know that the best drum solo in the whole history of rock - ever - is coming. The Gorilla knows it too." Those cheeky Brits do really know a thing or two about advertising: Cadbury — A Glass and a half full of Joy.
"Today isn’t a good day to be a Zune fan, that’s for sure. Why? Because Apple unleashed a new wave of iPods today, and they’re every bit as impressive as I was fearing they’d be. This was no simple product refresh with memory bumps and price drops — no, this is a whole new generation of iPods." Zunethoughts.com [via DF]
Apple unveiled the new iPods: new iPod classic, new iPod nano (ad) and brand new iPod touch (tour). Plus iTunes® Wi-Fi Music Store. Watch Job's keynote.
"I love seeing the end of advertising." — São Paulo No Logo article at PingMag and adjacent Tony de Marco's Flickr photoset. All good except the inept title— it's not about logo (identity), it's about advertising (sales).
Video for FORM video installation shot by Richard Reens in Malaysia, Frankfurt and New York, starring supermodel Chandra North. Beautiful black and white photography — besides directing, Richard is an amazingly gifted DOP.
My guess is that you may want to have a look at Bent Objects weblog. Don't you?
After making a royal mess out of their PMS lately, Pantone plans to clean up their act by launching Pantone Goe spot-color matching system. New inks, new numbers, new books and new software. I don't like it. At all.
Good Lord, Airbag (the one that—along with DF and Subtraction—inspired me to design this blog) linked me in the Longboard section! What's the verb here?—being airbagged?
Please tell me that Romania's visual identity is an elaborated practical joke. I try to find the right words here—indignity, humiliation, shame, misfortune, pity, disgrace... shall I continue? Romanian bloggers/designers, please spread the word and protest against this horror.
Romania's ID — a follow-up. It seems that the infantile identity program was developed in-house by The Agency for Governmental Strategies. Contacted representatives declared that the logo and manuals were posted for public consultations, are drafts and should not be regarded as final. Journalists should look into it and clarify this matter.
Pentagram's principal Paula Scher interviewed about how and why the US needs to overhaul its image, brand promise, name and messaging—watch the video at Monocle.
If you worked with Copperplate Gothic you'll feel deep in your stomach the point Armin makes in Dr. Copperplate and Mr. Gothic: this apparently submissive typeface is a hard-boiled motherf**ker.
Adobe® Photoshop® has a (new) logo, 3D candy, shiny and poor—looks like it's targeted at teenagers and amateurs. And the slogan—"See what's possible"—looks crafted towards inducing trial. Photoshop is "the ultimate playground"... what's wrong with Adobe?!? 100% penetration in the pro market and they try to lure some kids now with colorful balloons?
Follow-up: John Nack, a Senior Product Manager from Adobe Photoshop team, introduces the new Photoshop logo to the public on his adobe-dot-com-hosted blog and a tidal wave on negative comments flows right in. No wonder. [via DF] Others put together long lists (and rather incomplete) of speech bubble logos to demonstrate the inflationism.
My Goodness, there are things that take you by surprise. Book sculpture is one of those things. Take a look at Book Autopsies.
There are film to be watched and films to be agonized through. Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days pertains to the latter. A masterpiece, a glimpse of our grim youth during the eighties and triumph at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival—Palme d'Or Award—"432" is not to be missed.
Surrealism is alive and doing well on Flickr, in Noah Wilson's black and white set Aberrations. Lay back and view it as a slideshow. [via Tumblr]
Romanian language is not dead, it just smells funny and Urban Pedia, the Romanian slang dictionary, harvested an inventory well above the 2k mark to prove it—lexpionage (lexicon+espionage) at its best, well worth a RSS subscription. And if colloquialism is your thing, don't forget about Dictionar Urban and their definition of the day feed. [links in Romanian]
Luke Skywalker can be easily defeated by musical weapons—watch his failure. [via DF]
Sorry for the erratic feed operation—FeedBurner seems to be a capricious and cruel mistress. Besides, all those little SmartThis and FlareThat seem to be cutting each-other's throats.
Update: Done. Works again. Sorry for the mess.
When the sound is not enough, brand the music! Hmm, I wonder when will slogans appear next to those logos? Via Design Forum.
Novices! You've seen nuthin' until you observe the honking habits in Bucharest.
We'll always have Paris. 360° of it. And Shakespeare. [From Alia]
The "can't tell rebranding from redesign—hey, who cares?—I'll rank that stuff regardless" school of thought. [Via Core77]
"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason." Hunter S. Thompson in Generation of Swine.
Homework: reflect on if/how the quote applies to your industry.
Make me say "Macintosh" in one image and I'll say: this. I'm staring at it for ten minutes and I can't get enough.
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