Couple hoping billboard brings them a child

A Michigan couple has spent $2,000 to rent a billboard on I-75 advertising their desire to be adoptive parents.

Dwyane Wade misunderstood with T-Mobile

T-Mobile features some cautionary tales for basketball celebs in its new spots, directed by Spike Lee.

Summer’s Eve among 2010′s very worst ads

The Tracy Awards, dishonoring the worst of the worst in advertising, has released its list of 2010′s biggest losers.

Flying the friendly skies of MINI.

C’mon, it’s a cute spot. Ironically, the MINI Countryman probably has more legroom than most commercial flights. (Other useless trivia? It’s MINI in all caps when referring to the modern version of the car and Mini when referring to the classic…

Wait, I thought we killed all the guys in lab coats videos?

Snow kidding? Guess who’s back rhymin and stealin with a License To Spill! Yeah boy, it’s Bounty in the house. MAKE THAT THE KITCHEN.

10 Creative Shopping Bag Designs

Shopping bags is an item that pretty much every shop has to use. Strangely, most shops use simple logos or [...]

Calculating Color Contrast

Brian Suda ponders some techniques for maintaining correct color contrast whilst still offering your users the ability to customise their own color scheme. So put your slippers on, kick back with a sherry and let the algorithms do the work.

The Designer’s Cross-Training Toolkit

I watched a TV documentary the other day about a professional soccer player. As well as his normal soccer training he mixed in training in other sports like boxing and yoga and I thought this sounded a bit odd. Why would somebody that earns his (considerable) daily bread playing soccer spend time learning and training in areas that are not directly related to his profession?

Well, it turns out that they are related in a round-about way. The athlete and his coaches went on to explain that training in other sports and physical activities, as well as regular soccer training keep certain parts of the brain active and stimulated, and this in turn improves soccer performance and prevents the brain and body slowing down.

Everything You Wanted To Know About Gradients (And a Few Things You Didn’t)

Ethan Marcotte explains the theory and practice of CSS gradients, separates the duelling syntaxes and wields a mean color-stop. No longer will gradients confound, baffle or frustrate. Just leave the rainbows to the unicorns.

Minimalist packaging

An interesting project by Antrepo studio. They took some popular brands’ packaging and made it evolve into minimalist packages. It [...]