I can imagine that the Fallon brainstorming session for the new Sony ad went a little something like this:
“Ok everyone, we’ve done bouncy balls, we’ve done exploding paint, we’ve even done plasticine rabbits, now what else can we fill a City with?”
“Funny you should ask that boss coz my washing machine broke this morning!”
See the ad here (via motionographer.com)
See more images here
Dave Brown
Posted on Wednesday, 16th of April 2008 Permalink
In the US, marshmallow Peeps are as famous as the Easter Bunny. Introduced in 1952, the sickly confections were originally only in yellow chick form, hence the name. Now they come in a variety of shapes, colours and flavours, which makes them ideal material for building sickly sweet dioramas. The Washington Post has just judged it’s second annual Peeps Diorama Contest and with over 800 entries, it’s clearly catching on.
TV shows, films or the year’s events inspire many of the entries such as this year’s winner “The Tomb of King Peepankhamun” by Laura Sillers. My favourite however is Sue Hauser’s campfire scene “Suddenly There Was a Peep!” in which four Peep rabbits toast their marshmallows over a fire – surely that’s cannibalism?!
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 24th of March 2008 Permalink
I’ve been hooked on the US primaries this year – I’m fascinated at how different the process is from the UK, and also by the possibility of either the first women or the first African-American President. Barack Obama’s campaign has been inspirational, but even the most elevating stump speeches can get a little repetitive after a few weeks.
Spare a thought then for Scout Tufankjin – who has been photographing the Obama campaign for over fourteen months. She’s captured some great moments backstage and at the fringes of the phenomenon that is Obama.
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 3rd of March 2008 Permalink
Whenever I miss London I like to look at the photographs at Curiously Incongruous. For the past few year’s Eric Perlberg has walked thousands of kilometres of every part of the city and taken over 3,500 photos. Eric doesn’t capture the tourist’s London, but the city that Londoners know - defaced road signs, gaps between pebble-dashed houses, brutal advertising hoardings and abandoned cars. You’ll rarely see people in his photos, something that lends them a feeling of isolation, but occasionally Eric appears as a reflection in a shop window or a shadow against concrete, wielding his camera. It’s a fascinating document and a real treat for any ex-Londoner.
David Rainbird
Posted on Monday, 3rd of December 2007 Permalink
In the next few days quite a few Americans will be tucking into Thanksgiving feasts with a generous helping of Maple syrup. This image was photographed by Chris Glass from southwestern Ohio, he’s recently obsessed over Maples in a different way, over the seasons he has collected samples from a single Maple tree and matched their Pantone values.
If you like this you should have a look at this and link via Chris Glass
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 21st of November 2007 Permalink
Sign found in Rutland, VT. They just need to cut the hole so that you can put your face through it, then it’s perfect. Reminded me of this.
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 19th of October 2007 Permalink
Anyone in business knows this rubric. The problem that designers have is that we always want to produce good work while clients always want it cheap and fast – perhaps this is why designers are so poor. Occasionally we succeed at making everybody happy but when clients expect all three every time – well, then we don’t expect to be working with that client for very long. (Image found via Eyebeam)
David Rainbird
Posted on Friday, 12th of October 2007 Permalink
It was 40 years ago this week that Ernesto Che Guevara was executed by the CIA and the Bolivian Army. As a tribute to the man and a protest against his assassination, Jim Fitzpatrick, a young graphic artist from Ireland, produced the ubiquitous high-contrast drawing (above) from a photograph by Alberto Korda. With the intellectual copy rights being waived by both men the image became, in essence, the first piece of viral imagery with the intention of getting “the broadest possible circulation”. And subsequently became an icon of revolutionaries, freedom fighters and Marxist students worldwide.
Oh, and of course Madonna.
Nathan Usmar Lauder
Posted on Thursday, 11th of October 2007 Permalink
Ever since coming to the States I’ve been amused by the 110V electrical sockets that look, if you’ll forgive the pun, shocked.
It’s the sight of faces in everyday objects that is the founding principal of Faces in Places, an ever expanding, user contributed library of images of faces in, er… places.
It takes over where the Francois and Jean Robert book left off and hands the mantle to anyone with a digital camera. One such person to contribute is Dave Gorman (yes, that Dave Gorman) who has, among a crop of beautiful Flickr sets, his own collection of faces.
Smile.
Gary Butcher
Posted on Thursday, 27th of September 2007 Permalink
To coincide with the Financial Times newspaper redesign. DDB London have created a pretty nice branding campaign The campaign features three distinct images that represent globalization, mergers and acquisitions and entrepreneurship. The shark-mergers one makes me feel quite uneasy especially viewing it on a huge billboard at 8:00 in the morning waiting for a train.
The posters for entrepreneurship shows the face of Richard Branson made to resemble the iconic picture of Che Guevara and globalization is an island containing recognizable business buildings from all over the world. Check the posters out here.
Vikesh Bhatt
Posted on Wednesday, 26th of September 2007 Permalink