192 Creative, Smart & Clever Advertisements

Jacob Cass of the "Just Creative Design" blog has an article on his favorite recent ads. A few of the pieces are great examples of context relevancy.

Link: Creative Advertising - 192 Smart & Clever Ads

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On This Day, April 20

1808: Napoleon, emperor of France, was born.

1836: The territory of Wisconsin (the dairy state) was established by Congress.

2008: We celebrated Joanne's birthday!

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Her Secret is Patience

Janet Echelman's latest installation piece, "Her Secret is Patience", was inaugurated last night in Phoenix, Arizona. During the day, it may look like a bit of tangled fisherman net;but at night, it lights up like a jellyfish under a blacklight.

Janet is known for her large and elegant netting sculptures that often mimic undersea creatures. Here are some of her past pieces...

Link: Janet Echelman Sculpture

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On this Day (Yesterday), April 14

1912: The R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland.

2009: We celebrated David Turner's birthday!

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A Nice Angle on Handcrafted Illustration

Brazilian illustrator, Thiago de Souza Queiroz's portfolio can be found here...

Link: TSQ

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The guru speaks.

Joel Bauer spent 25 years designing his business card. Now he shares his secrets with us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk

rockin' with Jamie

Another busy wednesday in London, definitely not skiving whilst Bruce is on holiday, then Jamie's band t-shirts show up, time to rock!

Playing with Your Food

Sket One created a custom series of vinyl toys for the Subcultures show at Channel 1. Unfortunately, this was in 2006 and the link is now dead. Regardless, we should do our own Coca-Cola Dunny doll.

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Sweet Fashion

Massimo Gammacurta has taken familiar fashion brand logos and rendered them in sugar.

Link: +++Massimo Gammacurta Conceptual Still Life Photographer+++

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Canoe dig it?

A cool bus shelter found on Flickr.

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A Sharpened Sense of Artistry

Melbourne-based, Ghostpatrol, is a stenciling artist that has shifted his quick-style sensibilities to a more delicate medium of colored pencils.

Link: Upcoming-Shows | Ghost Patrol

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The Is-real Thing

Diet Coke in Jerusalem.

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Monday Morning Motivation

This was on Flickr, but you can buy it as a t-shirt at Howies. The popularity of the original poster must be inspiring endless copycats.

Link: howies®

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Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Room

Graphic designer, Can Sayinli, and artist, Jorgen Evil Ekvoll, have created a series of oriental rugs that weave together elementa of politics, war, sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. The designs were created the computer-generated patterns; and traditional weavers outside Istanbul wove the rugs by hand.

With a middle name like "Evil", one needs to do something badass in their lives.

Link: Can Sayinli & Jørgen Evil Ekvoll – Exhibition at Galerist

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Züny

Züny is a toy brand consisting of high-end leather animal dolls. The products look great, and the packaging creates a fun environment for the dolls. The website is also executed really well — it's clean and easy to navigate, but still creates little discoveries of fun with animated scenery and animals gracing the horizon.

Link: Zuny

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Is it weird to make animal toys out of leather?