If you showed the ad below for Arrow menswear to an advertising exec today, s/he’d probably say: “Too wordy! You can’t see the real product! The illustrations are too small!” It’s a shame, because I rather like the style of these old ads:
Click the ad to see it at full size.Image courtesy of Miss Fipi [...]
Category Archives: Art and Design
“Play-by-Play Account of a Strip Tease”
April 25, 2008 – 11:16 am
Help Remedies’ Clever Packaging
April 24, 2008 – 12:10 pm
The blog HealthBolt (one of the blogs in the b5media network) has an article about Help Remedies’ cool packaging for things like aspirin and band-aids. The aspirin package is labelled “Help / I have a headache” and the package for the band-aids says “Help / I’ve cut myself”:
Click the photo to go to Help [...]
Unintentional Onanism
April 22, 2008 – 1:07 pm
The smart-alecky UK-based technology site The Register noticed something about the new logo for the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC), picture below:
If you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, it looks like a stick figure engaging in the act of…er, pleasuring himself:
Come to think of it, considering how government initiatives related to business typically end [...]
I Feel Like Annoying Typeface Nerds Today…
April 22, 2008 – 12:20 pm
…hence the graphic below:
You can also call it “Arial Serif” if you like, because Arial and Helvetica are the same thing.
More “Canadian Club” Ads
April 16, 2008 – 12:13 pm
Here are two more “Damn Right Your Dad Drank It” Canadian Club ads in the same spirit as the ones I covered earlier (here and here). Both these posters were on the boarded-up windows of the as-yet-unpurchased former location of “The 360″ on Queen Street West:
The Drama Triangle
February 28, 2008 – 4:12 pm
This would make an excellent T-shirt design. Or perhaps the crest for a high school! Or a LiveJournal!
Diagram courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Super Tuesday Post #1
February 5, 2008 – 10:27 am
Courtesy of Boing Boing and photographed by Sean Bonner in Los Angeles, here’s what’s quite possibly the most plain-and-simple political poster you’ll see:
Click the photo to see the original on its Flickr page.
Missile-Throwing Eyebeam Laser Robot on a Unicorn
August 31, 2007 – 3:40 pm
I couldn’t resist checking out a picture with a name like that, could I?
Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
“The Trouble with Tribbles”, if Edward Gorey Had Illustrated It
August 31, 2007 – 1:38 pm
Webcomic artist Shaenon Garrity came across an old Boston Globe article about macabre comic artist Edward Gorey. The first paragraph read:
Edward Gorey watched television for the first time this summer, or so he claims, and in the process the 52-year-old artist became a “Star Trek” fan. He watched the science-fiction program reruns twice [...]
A Tale of Two Facades
August 21, 2007 – 11:04 am
Take a look at this building:
…and then this building:
Believe it or not, these buildings aren’t just in the same neighbourhood, they’re right beside each other. I took both photos on the same day, perhaps 15 seconds apart. Good landscaping and decent signage make a big difference.
(I really hate the [...]
T-Shirt Design of the Moment
August 20, 2007 – 11:17 am
Right now, my favourite T-shirt design over at Busted Tees is “Canada: America’s Hat”…
Click the photo to see the web page for the shirt.
Mondo Pasta’s Clever Ads
August 13, 2007 – 10:51 am
“To get Mondo Pasta on everyone’s mind,” says the copy that explains this clever bit of sticker work, “we created a bigger than life promotion at the most frequented place in Hamburg: the harbor. Hug stickers of faces turned ships into permanent pasta slurpers.”
Click the photo to see the full version.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi [...]
The “Opposite World” Map
July 15, 2007 – 11:13 pm
Here’s my current desktop background image: a map of an alternate Earth, where land and water have been switched:
Click the image to see it at full size.Illustration courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
I rather dig the “Philippine Kingdom”, located on the far right of the map, not far from the equator.
Richard “Creative Class” Florida Moving to Accordion City
July 12, 2007 – 10:13 am
Richard Florida is moving to Accordion City!
The urban thinker who coined the term “creative class” is following in Jane Jacobs’ footsteps and setting up residence here, where he’ll be doing work at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, where he’ll continue his studies on his pet topic: how creativity [...]
Every Goth Dance Bar Needs One of These
July 10, 2007 – 11:24 am
Click to see the picture at full size.Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
