If you’re creating a website, developing an app, or looking to better develop and market your brand, the German-based brand management company Mutabor will be saving you a lot of time, creative effort and money with their new flexicover book Lingua Digitalis. Released by Gestalten, the book explores how to develop effective, memorable logos and [...]
Advertising
27
Sep
Gestalten explains how to communicate in the digital age
3
May
Projects, posters & history of illustrated information by Taschen
How do you best grasp obtuse concepts? With a constant influx of information, prose becomes tedious, PowerPoint is mundane, lectures are too easy to tune out; but the information graphic seems to maintain focus from even the shortest of attention spans. Author of Information Graphics Sandra Rendgen has concluded that visuals are the only way [...]
12
Apr
A two-volume exploration into 1950's Madison Ave.
Capitalism saw its true boom in America from the 1950′s into the 1960′s. Advertising gained importance in design, presentation and overall execution, demographics would be specified and targeted, and the phrase “always be closing” would ring in the ears of business men across the states. TASCHEN America’s own Executive Editor Jim Heimann and contributing author [...]
22
Mar
Cheeming Boey helps Sharpie win a TED Award
Awhile back we featured an artist named Cheeming Boey, who specializes in illustrations done on Styrofoam cups. His art is ridiculous, and we fell for his stuff instantly. Well apparently Boey was tapped by Sharpie for an ad (seemingly a no brainer), and that ad ended up winning the prestigious 2012 TED Award for “Ads [...]
4
Jan
When George Lois offers you advice, take it.
Legendary ad-man George Lois, known best for his groundbreaking Esquire covers (which we’ve covered before) wrote a book to give advice for people with talent, and it’s damn good advice too. Perhaps Lois has been accused in the advertising world for taking credit for others’ work, but in this Phaidon book the art director/designer/author offers [...]
4
Jan
Pin-up inspired bombshell calendar from a fanzine for models
Looking to do for models what fanzines like Tiger Beat and Circus did for teen idols and rock stars, nascent magazine Lovecat is a quarterly print publication dedicated to the ladies that sell us everything from mascara to push-up bras. Their 3rd issue includes a pin-up inspired calendar featuring models Damaris Lewis, Heide Lindgren, Charlotte [...]
31
Oct
The final book in trilogy of complete world knowledge
God I love John Hodgman. Ever since first seeing him on The Daily Show I recognized his genius, and so did apparently Jon Stewart, as from that first appearance he’s grown to become the show’s re-occurring “Resident Expert”. Since then of course he played the role of the hapless “PC” in those brilliant Mac ads, [...]
5
Oct
Dropping F-bombs for the "World Gone Sour" campaign
Apparently Method Man is a big fan of Sour Patch Kids. Who knew. With Rae’s obsession with marble cake, I can’t say I’m shocked (altho Ghost’s healthy veggie ways might have some beef). Given Meth’s a true fan, is this selling out or simply a man declaring his love for diabetes bait? I gotta tip [...]
