Ad’s Clever: Hot Wheels ambient ads
I don’t know about you, but when you’re stuck in the long and arduous commute to work, you often yearn for a time when car journeys where fun. When you could hold a ’57 Chevy in one hand, tear around your garden or living room floor (with added sound effects) jumping ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ style over any obstacle.
Well, these ambitious ambient ads for Matchbox’s Hot Wheels by Ogilvy & Mather in Bogota might just help bring a little adventure back to the daily grind.
Popularity: 20% [?]
In: Ad's Clever · Tagged with: '57 Chevy, ambient advertising, Bogota, commuters, hot wheels, Matchbox, ogilvy & mather, pr stunt, retro, toys
Weird & Wonderful: Top 10 bookcase designs
Having designed my fair share of books, it goes without saying that I appreciate a good bookcase or two. Why spend all that time designing the books, if you can’t show them off a little? Although, when does showing off go a little too far? I’ll let you be the judge.
“Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends” by Ron Arad. Via Craziest Gadgets
Circular Walking Bookshelf by the David Garcia Studio. Via Impactlab.
Booktree by Kostas Syrtariotis. Via Likecool.
The Patatras Rolling Bookshelf by Michaël Bihain. Via Yanko Design.
See-Saw Bookshelf by BCXSY. Via A Writer’s Desk.
The reading cave by Sakura Adachi. Via Sparkplugged.
Stairs bookshelves. Purpose built for Veronika & Sebastian. Via WebUrbanist.
Criss Cross bookcase via The Decorologist.
Pacman bookshelf by Mirko Ginepro. Via Topless Robot.
The Infinity bookcase by Job Koelewijn. Via Neatorama.
Popularity: 100% [?]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: america bookshelf, BCXSY, bookdesign, bookselves, bookshelf, circular bookshelf, criss cross bookshelf, David Garcia Studio, interior design, Kostas Syrtariotis, Michaël Bihain, Mirko Ginepro, Ron Arad, Sakura Adachi, stairs bookshelf, the infinity bookcase, The reading cave, Top 10 bookcases, tree bookshelf
Best in Build: LEGO Yankee Stadium
If someone had only told my seven year old self that, in the future, it would be possible to make a living building LEGO, I might not be sitting here writing this now. Although, even with my considerable early promise, it’s unlikely that I would be able to rival the current King of LEGO, Sean Kenney.
A professional LEGO artist, Sean makes a living from various corporate commissions for the likes of Google, ABC, NBC and Mazda, to name but a few. With his work featuring all over the world from The New York Times and Good Morning America to BBC news and The Wall Street Journal.
Here, Sean – with the help of a Manhattan gradeschooler – takes on the legendary Yankee Stadium. Taking over three years and 45,000 bricks to complete, I think you’ll agree that it’s yet another home run for the King of Lego.
Popularity: 22% [?]
In: Best in Build · Tagged with: abc, bbc, good morning america, king of lego, lego, lego sculpture, LEGO yankee stadium, nbc, New York, new york times, sean kenney, stadium, stadium model
Weird & Wonderful: The web made real
Apparently, the average adult is” awake for 15 hours and 45 minutes every day and 45 per cent of that time is spent using a proliferation of technology”. Well, that’s what the Mail Online states. And who I am to argue, as cyberworld design starts infiltrating the real world. Not quite the ‘Rise of the Machines’ – but surely it’s only a matter of time?
Facebook ‘Like’ tip jar by Burak Kaynak. Via Likecool.
Pixel Trashcan by Brittliv. Via Likecool
The Urban Cursor project. Via Gearfuse
Google pins by Aram Bartholl. Via Gearfuse
Icon paper and envelope by Brigadacreativa Via Craziest Gadgets
Desktop folder by haseform. Via Materblog
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Popularity: 20% [?]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: brigadacreativapixel trash can, cyberworld, daily mail, desktop folders, facebook, google maps pin, haseform, like button, real life icons, rise of the machines.t2, terminator2, the web made real, urban cursor project
License to ill: Pablo Amargo
In this fast-paced world of visual stimuli, you hit upon very few images that makes you stop, take your finger off the mouse, and smile. Spanish Illustrator Pablo Amargo has this rare gift with his simple, but intelligent work. It’s no wonder that he’s received various awards – including Spain’s National Illustration Prize in 2004 – with his artworks appearing on advertising posters, magazines and many children’s books. These two, however, work just as they are.
You can put your fingers back on your mouse now.
Via FFFFound! and Animalarium
Popularity: 7% [?]
In: License to ill · Tagged with: animal illustration, animals, cow, illustration, milking cow, Pablo Amargo, quirky drawings, spanish illustrator, whale
License to ill: Double take illustrations
Do you believe in love at first sight? Well, what about second time around? Well, I have to say, I was immediately drawn (no pun intended) to these illustrations. However, it’s their intelligence that made me fall in love with them. And all it took was a second look.
Women’s erotic fiction by Tang Yau Hoong
Fonzie ‘A’. Via FFFFound! Artist unkown.
Dirty Harry poster to promote the 2010 Rolling Roadshow Tour by Olly Moss
Popularity: 14% [?]
In: License to ill · Tagged with: dirty harry, erotic fiction, fonzie, graphics, happy days, illustration, movie poster, olly moss, pen vagina, tang yau hoong, type
Ad’s Clever: UNICEF landmine stickers
Despite Mad Men, Advertising does have a bit of an image problem. General public perception is still one of distrust. But as this rather clever piece of advertising for UNICEF proves, ad men can use their powers for good as well as evil. Here Leo Burnett, Frankfurt cleverly stick double-sided floor stickers on the ground to help raise awareness (and funds) for landmine victims.
Via Inspire me now
Popularity: 7% [?]
In: Ad's Clever · Tagged with: advertising, ambient, ambient advertising, bottom of shoe, charity advertising, fllor stickers, frankfurt, landmines, leo burnett, mad men, stickers, UNICEF
Weird & Wonderful: Furniture design
In a world of homogenous flat pack furniture, it worth paying tribute to designers who think outside the (IKEA) box.
‘Skull Chair’ by Pool
Bloody Table, by John Nouanesing
Concrete Sofa by Stefan Zwicky. The Montanara sofa by Gaetana Pesce.
Primo Quatro book shelves by Saba.
Push and store cabinet designed by Chung-Tang Ho/ Tong.
Thanks to Likecool, Doobybrain, Contemporist and You Might Find Yourself
Popularity: 44% [?]
In: Weird & Wonderful · Tagged with: Bloody Table, breezeblock chair, chung-tang ho/tong, dripping table, furniture, furniture design, gaetana pesce, IKEA, John Nouanesing, montanara sofa, pool, primo quatro, push and store cabinet, ruler lightshade, saba, skull chair, squint bookshelf, stefan zwicky, waterfall sofa
Ad’s Clever: 3M’s Sex Tape
Sex sells. Sex tapes go viral (no pun intended). So what better way to spice up one of life’s more mundane products than by turning things on their head – or rather head to toe. Those dirty minds at Ogilvy & Mather produced this simple and rather cheeky ad, with the line
“3M Scotch. Permanent double-sided tape.”
Via Ads of the World
Popularity: 8% [?]
In: Ad's Clever · Tagged with: 3M, 69, celotape, dirty ad, ogilvy & mather, scotch tape, sex, sex position, sex tape
Mad Men ambient ad
Created by Daftfcb in Auckland, this clever concept for advertising the new series of Mad Men certainly jumps out at you.
Popularity: 13% [?]
In: Ad's Clever · Tagged with: ambient advertising, auckland, draftfcb, falling man, mad men, skyscraper
