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An artistic assault on celebrity perfection on Berlin’s underground.

Poor Photoshop. Poor Christina. Working together to expose advertising in its role of a disconnecting agent, a relatively anonymous German street art collective has stuck unambiguously named Photoshop layer menus and brush palettes on six-sheets, thus brutally ‘framing’ the ads and exposing their origins and motivations.

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Categories Art Graffiti Media Tags Graffiti Art Berlin

By Asen on 16/1/09

Bleeding For Design

In 1999, a leading designer with an international reputation was invited to a give a lecture near Detroit on behalf of AIGA, the professional association of design in America. He was also asked to design the poster for the event. How could he visualise for people the pain and suffering he put into every single design project, the kind of effort he believes to be part and parcel of the creative process? Simple: he got his assistant to carve the lecture details into his skin with a knife.

Such is the life of Stefan Sagmeister...

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Categories Design Media Tags Design Sagmeister

By on 17/4/08

Cog In The Making

I'd never seen this video (below). It's the making of Honda's 'Cog' ad.

When determination comes good. Eventually.

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Categories Media Tags Advertising creativity determination

By on 6/3/08

Black And White Colours

Just the other day I came across a copy of Colors magazine. I’d never seen it before. Strange, because it was launched in 1991, and has been published quarterly in multiple languages ever since. Shame on me. Anyway, each issue is dedicated to a particular subject.

It was Colors that was responsible for famously doctoring the face of the Queen to look like a black woman in its issue on race in 1993, and it was Colors that caused uproar when an issue on AIDS discussed the disease in the kind of blunt and forthright manner that no one else dared adopt; a picture of US president Ronald Reagan engineered to look like an emaciated AIDS sufferer reflected their approach.

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Categories Music Media Tags Media Music Publishing

By on 14/2/08

The Others

Some things need no explanation. Things like this. But what are they for? All will be revealed.

There's another one below right in the thumbnails. Such lovely family pics these...

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Categories Fun Media Tags Advertising Funny

By on 12/2/08

A Casual Kickabout

Just as a little side, we headed down the road recently for a little kickabout and for some reason one of us decided to film the whole thing. It’s just a few keepy-uppies and training drills really, nothing much at all. Standard fare in fact.

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Categories Sport Media Tags Advertising Football Fun

By on 6/2/08

Talent Gets You On The Floor, Teamwork Keeps You On It

You’ve got to love adidas’ new ‘Basketball is a Brotherhood’ campaign.

If you haven’t seen or read about it yet (and why would you - it’s happening in the States) then it’s a cool idea that will hopefully start to dispel some of the ego-centric traits which are affecting more and more sports these days. Think of our footballers here in the UK - sorry, here in England I should say. Do they know the real meaning of teamwork? It certainly doesn’t look like it from where we’re sitting. Determination and togetherness, as we’ve said before on here, are not qualities you’d normally associate with any recent England teams. Who knows what will happen under Capello.

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Categories Sport Media Tags Basketball Sport

By on 16/1/08

You May Take Our Money, But You Will Never Take Our Magenta

renaissance these last few years. It’s like those batwing tops women are wearing again which enable them, in tight situations, to jump off buildings and float to safety like the Dark Knight himself.

Yes, Magenta is back, and has been for some time now. But there’s a chance it will be taken away from us by that malevolent b*****d T-Mobile. They claim ownership of the colour in Europe. No one else can use it, they say. Ban us from using one of our most beloved creative tools? O2 monopolise the iPhone, and now this?

We will not be moved. Rebel here.

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Categories Media General Tags Media

By on 21/11/07

Mr. Mann

This is the Reebok Miami Vice limited edition. Why?

Good question. Well because this was one of the early examples of the worlds of Miami Vice and trainers colliding and any excuse to feature a pretty disgusting bit of footwear is not to be missed. Michael (Miami Vice, Collateral, Heat) Mann has directed a new commercial for Nike, thus generating another collision between 'the Vice' and the shoe. It's work so good, it almost makes me want to roll the sleeves up on my jacket in homage to the mighty Crocket and Tubbs. More than this, Mr Mann has managed to get us excited by American Football, making it look more than just a turgid stop/start,stats laden romp between men in tight trousers and pads. Anyway, check out this awesome piece of work from a master of cinema and never buy shoes with palm trees on them. Ever.

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Categories Film Media Tags Film

By on 14/11/07

Orange Unlimited

Orange have a new website to support their unlimited text promotion.

http://unlimited.orange.co.uk

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Categories Media Tags Orange

By on 14/11/07