Design with Intelligence in Mind
Something’s going on in Silver Lake and Echo Park. Plastered on that is.
By lainie at 23 September, 2008, 12:45 pm
Everyone’s seen the Barack Obama screen prints by Shepard Fairey, right? The ones that were enthusiastically waved by supporters at the DNC; the ones that were on the back cover of Wide-Eyed, and included in several other publications, for four months; the ones by the same artist of the Obey Giant fame? Well there’s a [...]
Hits and Misses in High-End Branding
By lainie at 4 September, 2008, 6:14 pm
At first glance, it looks like an image straight out of Time Magazine: a toothless old woman holds a small child in her arms as she walks down a crowded street in India. Just another photo spread on world poverty, right? Wrong. The image is from a recent photoshoot from the September issue of Vogue [...]
making money on women’s fear
By lainie at 2 September, 2008, 7:58 pm
If you’re female, and have watched TV within the past year, or gone to see the recent Sex and the City movie, you’ve most likely been urged to get a new vaccine called Gardasil, marking the first time most of us experienced being targeted by a drug company when sitting in a movie theater. Pharmaceutical [...]
leave it to americans to make eating competitive
By lainie at 26 August, 2008, 2:07 pm
The Food Network recently announced their new series “Eat the Clock”, a reality show similar to “The Amazing Race”, where teams of contestants race from restaurant to restaurant, gathering clues and consuming meals at local LA hotspots. While the Food Network says their show doesn’t emphasize frantic face-stuffing, like Spike TV and ESPN’s competitive eating [...]
Web 2.0 is NOT a design aesthetic
By lainie at 21 August, 2008, 4:02 pm
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: futureofwebdesign fowd) This is a brilliant slide show of what Web 2.0 is and what Web 2.0 is not. Let’s get it straight, it’s NOT a design aesthetic.
green bus stops
By lainie at 21 August, 2008, 1:35 pm
Leave it to the Sunshine state to use solar power to fuel a collaboration between outdoor ad company Fuel Outdoor, and Miami’s Metro line. Under a new agreement, Fuel is harnessing the state’s most prolific but chronically under-used resource to give the city 600 new bus stops for free. Metro users will get shelter them [...]
needy hands are better than landfills
By lainie at 19 August, 2008, 7:43 pm
The Sunday afternoon shadows are falling across your front yard, and you’re staring at the mounds of stuff your garage sale’s best efforts didn’t eliminate. Next step: a quick trip to Goodwill, then the dumpster, right? It’s Monday morning at the office, and you’re standing in front of a large pile of old monitors and [...]
united we stand!
By lainie at 13 August, 2008, 5:59 pm
In a festival of imagination and colors, “we the people” of the world united their artistic efforts and creativity around a common muse: Bush. Never before has a U.S. president evoked such an outpouring of artistic inspiration abroad. With his face depicted in frescoes and graffiti in 25 countries around the globe, the art world [...]
did that laundry detergent just hit on me??
By lainie at 12 August, 2008, 6:21 pm
I’m not used to lines like “I Promise I’ll be Gentle”, or “I Care About You, Baby” when strolling through the home cleaning product section at my local super market. Especially not when coming from the cleaning supplies themselves. A laundry detergent whispering sweet nothings like, “I’ll Make Everything All White”, or a very forward [...]
What if we used only what we needed?
By lainie at 12 August, 2008, 4:32 pm
No excess. No waste. This is the message the Denver Water Council want you to remember as it pertains to your water usage. Great ad campaign by Sukle Advertising & Design in Denver Colorado. (Hey, isn’t that right by the Rockies? ) + Great many executions.. Yeah, got the point. Found: this much water each [...]
