Calling all Print-Archists: Take a REAL STAND Against Toshiba’s No-Print Day!
UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE AS OF 6/20/2012 TOSHIBA HAS PULLED THIS CAMPAIGN – PARTLY BECAUSE OF POSTS LIKE THIS AND READERS LIKE YOU! Feel free to read it of course and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF PAPER & PRINT! Toshiba’s self declared “National No-Print Day” is a marketing scam. It’s an environmental bait and switch […]
The Pantone Queen – 60 Years Of Color NOW in a Limited Edition Guide!
It never clicked that the Queen is always dressed in one color – until now. What a cool and creative way to celebrate the Jubilee and have a souvenir (besides maybe a shot glass) that will actually be used! I WANT ONE! …. oh NIGEL Pantone Queen // 60 Years Of Matching Colour By Ricardo Hernandez […]
Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Minimalistic Coca Cola Can
via Designer Creates Eco-Friendly Minimalistic Coca Cola Can – DesignTAXI.com. New York-based designer Ryan Harc has created a concept design for a minimalistic Coca Cola can that is eco-friendly and 100% recyclable. In his concept design called ‘Colorless’, the can has been designed with a convex logo instead of Coca Cola’s signature red and white […]
Guerrilla Art! Paper Book Sculptures Pop Up In Libraries And Bookstores in Edinburgh
Since last Spring, and as recently as May 17th of this year, an anonymous female artist has been leaving intricate sculptures made from books throughout Edinburgh libraries and bookstores. Notes attached read “this is a gift for you in support of libraries, books, words, ideas…” and a reference to the book the sculpture was based. Needless to […]
The Road to drupa 2012 and More from Pat McGrew M-EDP, CMP – Part 10
The Shopping edition! Pat says… “It isn’t all presses and finishing. There is a lot of software, a t-shirt or too, and a really cool color tool!” Ive actually played around with one of these before and Pat is right, it comes in very handy! Also love the drupa APP – thanks for sharing that […]
Rules for Protecting Your Brands Color, in Black and White
This is very interesting, and if you work in advertising the “color” and “font” question comes up very often when creating logo’s in particular. The author goes on to provide this information: “A number of companies have tried to protect single colors, with mixed results. Good Humor failed to protect the color white for its trucks […]
IKEA Reveals A Digital Camera Made Of Cardboard
This is pretty cool! By Yi Chen At the recent Fuorisalone event, a design expo held in Milan, IKEA gave out branded cameras in its press kit to media attendees. The simplistic cardboard camera has built-in memory that can store up to 40 digital photos. It’s powered by two AA-sized batteries and has a pull-out […]
Bold and Justified: A Typography Infographic
via: Creative Market
The Letterpress Thrives in an iPad Age
Who doesn’t love letterpress? There is something so attractive about it – maybe the “intricate simplicity” of the process? Ive rarely come across a bad design – in fact, the typography is usually inspirational. I had an Agency client once that we sold on the idea of letterpress materials on HANDMADE paper. Those are the […]
A look at some new and unusual ad placement
I pretty much live for this stuff. New Zealand wins hands down in my book… Benches that leave ads as SKIN IMPRINTS. I imagine the brainstorming session for that one included many cocktails and perhaps even some “herbal” refreshments. Ambient Overload: A look at some new and unusual ad placement By Gabriel Beltrone Look around and you might […]
Bacon-scented Cat Litter and Other April Fool Branding Pranks
via Of Bacon-scented Cat Litter and Other April Fool Branding Pranks | StockLogos.com. Times may be tough but thats no reason to stop kidding around. In fact, the grim state of things seems to encourage us to appreciate a good joke more than ever. Brands dont want to be left out of anything trending so its […]
NFC Technology is the New QR Code
When the NFC buzz started a few years back, I was all excited since like many I was having bad experiences with QR codes and was hoping something “better” would come along. When this tech did, it was limited in use for mobile payments, but some very smart marketing people jumped on it and saw possibilities […]
