If the alphabet could talk, what would the letters say to each other? That’s what The Jokelabet playfully imagines, encouraging kids to have creative fun learning the ABCs. Luckily for parents, it’s more contagious than a child’s laugh.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Tempo : Bike
A classic boy-meets-girl love story unfolds and folds as a bicycling boy races to catch up with a girl and helpfully dispenses Tempo tissues to people he passes along the way.
The TV spot , “Bike”, is the first in a series for “As Life Unfolds” campaign. The ink-drawn animation is delightfully original .
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
AIGA : Style + Fart = Language
Stefan Sagmeister had these words carved into his skin to try and visualize the pain that accompanies each of his design projects. Yes, it really hurt bad.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Freebie : Round labels in vintage style design
Cathe Holden has designed vintage label set printable on blank round labels in 2.5″ size.
Use these beautiful vintage designed round labels for jars, tin containers and boxes .
Free printable round labels for your laser and inkjet printers. Available in red, black, light brown, blue, green and dark red.
DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE COLOR SET (PDF) . Thanks to WorldLabels.com
Free for your personal use only.
About the artist: Cathe Holden is a seasoned graphic designer with a love for vintage style. She works from her home studio in Petaluma, California while raising her children. She also publishes a creative blog, Just Something I Made, featuring unique craft ideas and inspiration for everyone from experienced crafters and designers to the novice. Cathe also shares free digital images for downloading to use in various projects.
Friday, January 20, 2012
US online ad spend to surpass print in 2012
For the first time, online advertising spend will surpass print in 2012.
US online advertising spending, which grew 23% to $32.03 billion in 2011, is expected to grow an additional 23.3% to $39.5 billion this year. Pushing it ahead of total spending on print newspapers and magazines, according to new forecast by eMarketer
Marketers are expected to continue cutting their print advertising budgets for the next half-decade, spending $32.3 billion in 2016, 10% less than what they invested in print ads in 2011.
The study says the growing amount of time consumers spend with digital platforms and advertisers’ view of the internet as a more measurable medium especially as the troubled economy forces businesses to be more accountable with their ad dollars - are both significant contributors to online marketing's growth.
This year, eMarketer says TV ad spending will grow an estimated 6.8% to $64.8 billion.
Bottomline? 2012 looks to be bad year for newspapers and magazines and good for TV and digital advertising .
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Victoria's Secret Swim 2012: Angels, islands and sexy suits
Bikini clad Victoria's Secret models frolicking on the beach at sunset. How's that for motivation to get to the gym and get into shape?
The strange thing about this TV commercial is that you can't see too much of the swimwear they're trying to sell. Maybe Victoria's Secret are branching out into sunscreen .
Behind the scenes of the girls shooting in Turks & Caicos.
Brazilian supermodel Adriana Lima says, "Some of the bikinis are inspired by the Amazon" . "You really see the jungle through the bikini, also mixed with animal prints and vibrant colours," says Lima.
Others featured are Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge, Miranda Kerr, along with new faces Edita Vilkeviciut and Michaela Kocionova.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Herb Ritts: I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot
"I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light. I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques."
~Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts (1952 –2002) , probably the greatest master of celebrity and beauty photography, convinced us all that the stars, the supermodels and even statesmen , were part of our everyday world.
Images that are dramatic,intimate and spontaneous. Herb’s groundbreaking approach is still the standard to which others aspire .
Salvador Dali
Dizzy Gillespie
Liz Taylor
Clint Eastwood
Jack Nicholson
Sinead O'Connor
Mick Jagger
Al Pacino
Michelle Pfeiffer
Richard Gere
Madonna
Cindy Crawford
Johnny Depp
Karl Lagerfeld
Kate Moss
Making of Michael Jackson's " In the Closet”
The sepia- colored music video was filmed in late March 1992 in Salton Sea, California and premiered in 1992. The " In the Closet” music video was Michael Jackson's most sexually provocative piece ever. It was banned in South Africa due to its imagery.
Director: Herb Ritts
Chris Isaak : Wicked Game
Director: Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts.
(c) The Herb Ritts Foundation. All rights reserved.
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Autochrome : No small potatoes
The most improbable object imaginable - the lowly, lumpy potato - played a leading role in the great leap forward of color photography.
The story begins in 1903, when two imaginative French inventors, Auguste and Louis Lumiere, seized the pomme de terre and made it the basis for a dazzling new imaging process they called the autochrome, an innovation that would transform a monochromatic world into one suddenly gleaming with color.
Autochrome was the king of the photographic world for the next 30 years, until it was overtaken by Kodachrome and Agfacolor film and the easy-to-use 35-millimeter camera, which allowed photographers to blend in, move fast and render a rapidly changing world in bright colors.
Nothing would look quite so mellow after that.
( Tip of the hat to The Smithsonian )
Saturday, January 07, 2012
An account planner, art director and copywriter walk into a bar
So this SEO copywriter joke is on Twitter for over a year. It is hilarious.
“An SEO copywriter walks into a bar, grill, pub, public house, Irish, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor...”
Just because a Web copywriter can stuff as many synonyms as possible into a piece in order to attract attention from the search engines, your reader may dismiss your website as being too mechanical and boring.
Bad writing is bad writing. Good writing is good writing. Be it social media, print, billboard, TV, radio, films, or billboard. Any medium.
Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Isn't it micro blogging? Many in Victorian England wrote diaries. Aren’t they bloggers? How about haiku? Way back in the 16th century, Basho wrote, "Old pond/a frog leaps in/ water’s sound." Perfect for the cell phone.
Would you let me go away without wrapping up the title of this blog post?
An account planner, art director and copywriter walk into a bar.
The art director says, “I’ll have a Scotch on the rocks.”
The copywriter says, “I’ll have Scotch on the rocks too.”
The account planner says, “I’ll have single malt Scotch matured in an oak cask for 25 years.”
The bartender hands them their drinks.
The art director and copywriter take a sip of their Scotch and wince,"Ugh! That tastes horrible!”
Then both grab the account planner’s glass and guzzle down the single malt Scotch.
The account planner says, “Hey, what the heck are you doing?”
The art director and copywriter say, “Split testing.”
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