Taste See The Rainbow

Am i the only one who missed the boat with the Skittles 'Touch' Ad? recently it was announced that it was the most-watched TV/Video spot of 2007!

Here it is..



Most companies would freak out at an agency pitch suggesting that their product be linked to a life of misery - but that’s exactly what happened - the poor, beleagured man with the Midas-Skittles touch - this is totally counter-intuitive to most industry thinking.

Their latest is not quite as good, but still awesome compared to most.
It’s called “Piñata”...

Refreshing

This awesome video is a beautiful concept superbly realised... a moment of calm in the highspeed world of advertising. More of this please...

Third times a charm

If you're a bit slow like me you might not have caught sight of the new Sony Bravia advert... following in the heels of Balls and Splash comes the Bunnies! go see for yourself...awesome

Window

How creepy is this window display, seriously?

Sweeet!

Puccinos, awesome advertising..

Poster Boy

Last year some of my good friends produced some advice posters of which i purchased a couple.. ive just got the email i assume they did, so time to get my thinking cap on! Both David 'Dave' Bain and Temujin 'Tem' Doran produced some excellent posters. The above Bain illustration was one of my favourites.

You'll get THREE

Spotted these posters today in Truro... possibly the worst ever?

Mmm appetising..

rheems

GIANTSUMO is the graphic output of JAMES RHEEM DAVIS - a superb poster artist.. i got these limited signed screen prints quite a while ago and taking them off my wall this week i was reminded at how nice they feel..mmmm yummo

Ewing

I AIN'T GOT NO SOUL is one of my favourite belongings.. its an 18" x 24" screen print by poster artist Brian Ewing, cost me about $65 and is one of a limited run of 200 signed and numbered pieces. Printed on black paper, it looks pretty rad! Unfortunatly its back home at the moment safely tucked away so i cant photograph it.. but when i ordered it i also got a few more Ewing bits, including this cool badge with detail from IAGNS..



and for all you smokers, 14 days to go!

Next up to buy from this guy is his awesome playing cards...

Free press

This guy in Falmouth clearly wants to warn the public about his woes...and in what style!
I love the gall of this guy, the dedication to his cause - and his awesome typography skills :D

One lick..

I'm basically living on ice-cream at the minute (yes, obviously by choice) and so i thought this was quite appropriate...
(haha or not)

Amazing Stories!

Amazing Stories magazine, sometimes retitled Amazing Science Fiction, was first published in April 1926, thereby becoming the first magazine devoted exclusively to publishing stories in the genre presently known as science fiction (SF). It is regarded as the world's first science fiction magazine.

Created by Hugo Gernsback, with many of its covers by the legendary Frank R. Paul, it featured a much-imitated logo of the magazine name in ever-shrinking letters. Amazing Stories was filled with stories of "scientific romance". All totalled, his magazine covers exceed 220. Check out this website for a fairly comprehensive gallery of AS covers.

I flipping love the logo, if anyone knows anything about it get in touch please.

Creative Vandalism!

The city council of Glasgow has escalated a fight against illegal show flyers in a most mischievous way. Paid city workers are placing large stickers reading "Cancelled" across posters hung in prohibited areas.
An article in the Evening Times quotes a council source who commented, "We can be a complete pain in the neck to the people doing this because the money and time they spend is completely wasted. And there's no point getting in a designer to produce a fancy poster when it will soon be a mess that doesn't tell anyone anything."

Seems to me a lot of fly posters are a mess than fail to tell people anything anyway...

2012

Already the subject of a HUGE amount of debate, the 2012 London Olympics logo is truly a piece of controversial design.
A petition to change the design has already received 28227 Signatures at the time of writing. The new design, which cost £400,000 was produced by branding giant Wolff Ollins. I signed, and i think you maybe should too.. SIGN! If you havnt seen it yet, where have you been?!
London Mayor Ken Livingstone commented: "The new Olympic brand draws on what London has become - the world's most forward-looking and international city." Thats funny, to me it looks more like an 80's album cover logo than forward-looking design. I cannot understand for the life of me why Daniel Eatocks design from 2003(!) has been overlooked - it is iconic, simple and importantly, well designed!