Blogs on Website Design, Graphic Design and Advertising

Keep Your Kitten or Puppy From Becoming the Town Whore

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 16, 2012

With their fluffiness, big trusting eyes and adorable attempts to learn how to operate their oversized paws, kittens and puppies are the essence of the word squee. But take that fluffy kitty or puppy and multiply it by six. Now, you need to provide …

Solar Power: It’s Not Just for Hippie Freaks Anymore

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 11, 2012

This fun campaign from solar-power company Sunrun and ad agency Heat should make conventional utility companies green with envy. The writing's excellent—far better than my silly lead sentence—in three well-acted spots that invert vie…

Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 1930s

Blogs On DesignPublished May 11, 2012

A collection of Chinese posters taken from Shanghai’s golden age. It’s interesting to see how Chinese characters give a whole [...]

Ikea’s Porta-Potty Is the Tardis of Toilets

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 10, 2012

We've been writing a lot about Ikea lately—its full store inside a banner ad, its rent-paying catalog, its throwback-futuristic home-theater systems. Here's another great idea to add to the pile—the chemical toilet that's much more than it appears. Ad agency 1861 United set up an average-looking Ikea porta-potty at last month's Milan Furniture Fair …

Store Clothes Now Have Real-Time ‘Like’ Counts Built Into the Hangers

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 9, 2012

Is this cool or crazy? Probably more of the latter. In Brazil, fashion retailer C&A has rolled out a program called Fashion Like. People can "like" certain articles of clothing on the brand's Facebook page, and the like counts are …

Ford Destroys Defenseless Creature in Strange, Emotional New Ad

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 9, 2012

This "Cane Toad Road" ad from Australia (via ad agency JWT Melbourne) for the Ford Falcon and its EcoBoost engine leaves me feeling sad for toads rather than impressed by the car's performance. Poor Ralphie. Even if they're too dum…

10 Great TV Spots Directed by David Fincher

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 7, 2012

Few directors have had to work as hard as David Fincher to earn a place among Hollywood's filmmaking elite. Long before he became a household name for visually arresting hits like Fight Club and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Fincher—who…

Ad in Target Circular Either Photoshopped or Features an Alien

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 7, 2012

Photoshop fails can range from annoying to awesome. Here's one for the latter pile—a Target circular with a dad who appears to have one too many appendages. The best part is the wife's face—it's like she knows! And she doesn&…

Shadow-Activated QR Code Actually Useful and Cool

Blogs on AdvertisingPublished May 6, 2012

For all the talk of mobile-marketing tech, there remains a pretty wide gap between the potential and the practicality of QR codes. That's why it's nice to see this case study from Korea, where a retailer increased lunchtime sales by 25 perce…

Valentina typeface

Blogs On DesignPublished May 6, 2012

Pedro Arilla, a spanish graphic designer, dedicated this wonderfully decorated Didone to his grandmother. The best thing about it, you [...]

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