A Charlie Brown Ad Agency Christmas

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Wassup 2008

I don't know if Obama's campaign is behind this spot... but if they are, talk about some viral awesomeness!

Just a couple cool things I've stumbled across as of late...

Air Fish?

Air Art from flip on Vimeo.

Car Passenger Video Game?

Carcade from Long Tran on Vimeo.

I’m a big fan of the films that Charles and Ray Eames did. They are great examples of how “designers” can have a an amazing view of, and impact on, the world. Here is a promotional film they did for the Polaroid SX-70 camera:




And I had to add this one too:

Winner at the New York Television & Radio Advertising Festival.

standard equipment for Star employees?

:-)

awesome short

Check out this awesome short called Oktapodi about two cephalopods who'll do anything for love.

And just for a total chuckle..."Getting chased by Jacob..."

Getting chased by Jacob's Bronco in my go-kart from skaw on Vimeo.

I can't believe cars are still designed like this!

Click on the pic, and it's a nice run-thru of the design process of the new BMW 7 series...

some wicked cool flash shite!

http://fontpark.morisawa.co.jp/
Draw with Kanji characters, and the site tracks all of your motions and creative actions and then replay for folks to watch and vote on! Try it out! It's really fun.

striking dress codes of various social groups

just thought this was interesting:
some of the categories are hilarious... like technohippies?

Design by committee

What if there were no STOP signs and major corporation were charged with intenting one?...

Doing research before starting...

found this little ditty surfing... it's a bit lengthy, but can be a good primer on how (and a bit of why) you'd want to do research before starting some project development...


Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer from Gabe & Kristy on Vimeo.

something else to look at on subway walls besides graffiti

Officially announced today, the high-tech subway tunnel advertising tool is a first in North America for this type of digital advertising. It is "an LED system composed of 360 digital strips [that] will light up at timed intervals as the train passes the subway wall at speeds of 70 miles per hour, blending together to form a smooth-flowing video advertisement," according to Metro.

via LAist

a wall-painted animation

Andreas found this awesomeness. http://www.vimeo.com/993998

FONTSTRUCT

Very cool website where you can build your own font face and download it and use it. Enjoy!

Pangea Day - Saturday May 10th - 2pm EST

Pangea Day is coming...

To Drexel:
On May 10, 2008 the Drexel Marketing Association will host a public Pangea Day event. A large outdoor screen will display the films. Free food and performances will accompany the viewing.
Location: 3141 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Or on your computer:
http://www.pangeaday.org/television.php

http://www.pangeaday.org/?vid=3

compfight: your new favorite idea-generation tool

"Ever wish you didn't have to click through two or three pages to do an "Advanced search" at photo sharing site Flickr, and then click around further to find the right size and photo options? Compfight, an AJAX-powered search site utilizing Flickr's API, is a super-streamlined interface for finding search terms in either tags or descriptions, choosing between Creative Commons and more traditional licenses, and popping up original sizes or choosing to head to a photo's default photo/comments page. Better still, mouse over a photo with a blue bottom border, and you'll see what size the original is available in. We've seen specialized search tools for Flickr before, but Compfight simply takes Flickr's built-in search tools and puts all the results on one super-thumbnailed page."

This got a big old "so what" from me when I first saw it, but trust me, play with it for a few minutes the next time you need to jog the visual thinking part of your brain.

via LifeHacker.

livesurface takes the work out of photocomping

Some pretty amazing stuff at LiveSurface. Much better than searching Google Images and crossing our fingers.

They're maybe a bit pricey, but the vanishing point implementation, masking and shading is pretty spot-on. I found a few of these if you'd like to play around; email me.

Or maybe this gives us an idea to do this ourselves…

Big Brained MIT peeps

There are some people in this world that have really big brains...



...why can't one of them become our president?

Randy Pausch Lecture

I think everyoone should take time out and watch this....
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Lounge

it really does smell like armpit when you don't know it's salad.

-erin during the vault madness

I couldn't resist posting this...

...for all you video wanna-be's, take note!

Stopping time at Grand Central Station

Pretty cool "prank"

StrataG

Gangsta rap parodies and ad agency self promotion... they go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Paul Polak is the man

Design for the other 90%
http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/
http://www.paulpolak.com/

Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for this “other 90%.” Through partnerships both local and global, individuals and organizations are finding unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalized.

And he's coming to Philly in April:
The final culminating event will be held on Earth Day – Tuesday, April 22, 2008 – with a lecture by Dr. Paul Polak. Psychiatrist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Polak is the founder and president of International Development Enterprises (IDE), a nonprofit that is harnessing the power of the market to alleviate poverty.

meet zig

zig takes a whole new approach to the agency website: having one of the employees act as a virtual tour guide. Compelling stuff. (via)

Viral Marketing Backlash has begun...

It's a bit slow at the beginning, but picks up after about a minute or so...

Minnesota Lottery Ads Capture Store Clerk Geekism Perfectly

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You Suck at Photoshop #2

Not work related at all:

The Perfect Girl (Vince Vaughn)

This is funny little use of typography:

not to get into partisan politics or anything

but the applications of Barrack Obama's logo are nothing short of mind-boggling.

See a detailed write-up here.

For each segment of people, the logo changes accordingly, tip-toeing a fine line between cliché and clever, and never crossing to the former's dark side. The iterations are quickly identifiable and feel genuinely concerned with connecting to the people they are talking to, without pandering. The executions are rather flawless and work perfectly on screen with the detailed gradients and subtle background illustrations. Even the typography is lovingly handled, with each segment changing ever so slightly and unified by the use of Gotham in most of the applications, and using other typefaces as fitting — even the "kids" typography looks finessed, despite the looming pitfalls of faux child-drawn typography. This kind of playful flexibility is typically reserved for the likes of MTV, VH1 or Nickelodeon and the breadth of this kind of brand architecture for global corporations with endless divisions.