Category Archives: advertising

Support Your Local Heroin Brand.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 9, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla. No comments.
Support Your Local Heroin Brand.
Neat blurb about a startup art project documenting ‘heroin brands’ – the stamps found on bags of heroin identifying their maker or seller.  This has always been a little intriguing to me.  You can support their project with a small donation here.

State of the Web.

Written by Peter. Posted on February 3, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, brand, business, consumer, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
Great infographic re: web usage and demographic stats from focus.com.

iCarumba.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 28, 2010. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface. No comments.
iCarumba.
Like many, I’ve had a long, strange relationship with Apple.  Since the 80s I’ve owned Apple II’s, Macintoshes, Performas, Quadras, G4s, G5s, Powerbooks, MacBooks, iBooks, iPods, iPhones, etc etc etc.  My disposition toward the company teeters between unabashed fanboy-ism to outright fury. Because we live in an age of rapid progress, I can’t find fault with [...]

UI Realism.

Written by Peter. Posted on January 22, 2010. Filed under advertising, annunciation, consumer, design, interactive, internet, technology, user interface, work. No comments.
UI Realism.
I was a huge fan of Marvel Comics growing up, and love Scott McCloud’s books on comic art’s ability to communicate across languages via symbology, etc.  Found an article recently by Lukas Mathis of ignorethecode.net that applies cartoon principles to User Interface (UI) design.  Not quite ‘less is more’, but rather ‘just enough is correct’ [...]

Bankrupt Mall of America.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 22, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, trend. No comments.
Delicious infographic from the economic crisis blog.  Apparently something called Consumer Sentiment is down to its lowest levels since 1980.  Coincidentally, so is my Frequency of Visits to Crappy Stores at Crowded Malls index.

Cool AR Biz Card.

Written by Peter. Posted on December 15, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design, flash, interactive, internet, technology, trend, user interface, vids. No comments.
Cool AR Biz Card.
This is pretty neat – nice application of augmented reality in a business card context. AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

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.

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 high [...]

Hell’s Trademark Attorneys.

Written by Peter. Posted on November 4, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, business, consumer, design. No 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 – Mambo’s [...]

In case of Vampire…

Written by Peter. Posted on October 13, 2009. Filed under advertising, brand, consumer, design, graffiti, guerrilla, signs, trend. No comments.
In case of Vampire…
I go back & forth on the Vampire phenomenon, but really love this type of creative ‘disruptor’ advertising. Nice.