Monthly Archives: November 2009

Slow Card Flourishes.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 23, 2009. Filed under vids. No comments.
Slow Card Flourishes.
This guy Dimitri Arleri is an animal w. playing cards – this video Opera is just astounding.

Southern-grown Creatives.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under advertising, design, guerrilla, pranks, vids. No comments.
Southern-grown Creatives.
We just mulch them up and send them to Chelsea.

Choose Your Own Visualization.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 12, 2009. Filed under consumer, design, flash, interactive, kids, user interface. No comments.
Choose Your Own Visualization.
Children of the 80s may remember those awesome ‘Choose Your Own Adventure‘ books, in which the reader determines the storyline by choosing to follow plot path options.  This site features some incredible Flash visualizations of the plot possibilities as motion animations.  Select a Title, and then hit the ‘Play’ button to watch the magic.

Chilean Deliciousness.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 10, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, food, trend, vegetarian. No comments.
Chilean Deliciousness.
My buddy Tom Caestecker is a Chicago-based wine reviewer – check out his latest column on Chilean reds here.  I just like hearing things described as “total fruit bombs”.  And what other wine review references the ‘sixth’ Rolling Stone?  Little Red Rooster, indeed.

Social Insecurity.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 9, 2009. Filed under business, consumer, politics, trend. No comments.
Social Insecurity.
One of many really nice infographics from visualeconomics.com.

Splat.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 6, 2009. Filed under design, photography. No comments.
Splat.
Wow, incredible macro shot of mercury in motion.  One of a great set of liquid photographs here.

Brooklyn Fare.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 5, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, user interface. No comments.
Brooklyn Fare.
Beautiful brand & packaging design work featured recently on Behance. Brooklyn Fare is a new, full service grocery store located in Downtown Brooklyn. The identity is very simple: one custom proprietary typeface (Fare Serif), four colors, and lots of witty copy. The text is useful in highlighting the store’s diverse range of quality products and [...]

Test Driving the Fiesta.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 4, 2009. Filed under uncategorized. No comments.
Test Driving the Fiesta.
Epic British test drive.  The Ford Fiesta put through the paces.

Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 4, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design. 3 Comments.
Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.
Hells Angels win legal battle with fashion label Mambo over death head logo. WHEN the Hells Angels saw their “death head” logo on a Mambo sweatshirt, they reached not for the baseball bats of stereotypical bikie lore, but for their lawyers, in a bid to protect their intellectual property. The Australian has revealed that Gazal Corp [...]

Social Media Ghettos.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 3, 2009. Filed under brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, kids, technology, trend. No comments.
Social Media Ghettos.
I’ve noted before that the vast, competing social networking sites seem to be aligning to members based on socio-economic status. The Globe And Mail’s Lisan Jutras continues the topic: Last year, Facebook overtook MySpace in numbers of members. If you are like me, you made the switch because information was better organized on Facebook, and [...]