Stories of theft, grossness and more on the pimping of brands in this edition of Quipsologies.
Yet one more relevant blog to link to. This one, ideasonideas, is handsomely designed. Brought to you by Vancouver-based smashLAB.
This was going to be the closing of the above sentence, but this link deserves its own quip: smashLabs self-promo ads.
Via Typographica, Jonathan Hoefler points us to a typographically awesome, A-to-Z, Flickr collection of graffiti artist Eine.
“The clearest example of math’s disruptive power is in advertising. There Google and other search companies built on math are turning an industry that grew on ideas, hunches, and personal relationships into a series of calculations. They can pull it off because, quite simply, they know where their prospective customers are browsing, what they click on, and often, what they buy.”
Math is the new copywriter. [Thanks to Randy J. Hunt for the link]
Bruce Sterling is in The Well, discussing the State of the World, 2006. [Thanks to Catherine Morley for the link]
Picking up on the reportage started last week by M. Kingsley, Rick Poynor writes on the ADC’s new campaign and how it makes design look dumber than ever.
You think American media is nuts? Take a look at the Russian Marketing Blog.
The sun’s not yellow, it’s chicken: Truly Groundbreaking Advertising Ideas
Russell Baker meditates on the history and tradition of the Sunday paper and reviews “The World on Sunday: Graphic Art in Joseph Pulitzer’s Newspaper (1898-1911)” by Nicholson Baker and Margaret Brentano.
Mimmo Rotella (above left), the Italian member of the Nouveau Réalisme movement (along with Arman and Jacques de la Villéglé) passed away last week in Milan at age 88. At right is his 1961 work “Il Giuramento”. (Via Artnet)
The more ill-spent parts of my childhood involved a certain publication which contained Eldon Dedini’s images of “saucy satyrs and curvaceous, rosy-cheeked nymphs”. Dedini died Thursday in Carmel, California at age 84.
Rounding out the obituary hat-trick is Jacques Faizant, who was until last October the political cartoonist for Le Figaro. President Jacques Chirac remembered him as “a dear friend” and “one of the most brilliant cartoonists of our era”. Faizant drew Chirac “like the Concorde, starting with the nose”. He was 87.
Also via Artnet… Artist Lane Twitchell designed lavish packaging for the first in Starbucks’ new line of premium coffee: Kenya Kirinyaga.
The amazing and crazy J. Otto Seibold is the latest contributor to the Target juggernaut, with this whimsical website for a children’s book club.
Retrievr gives one the ability to search images on Flickr by visual suggestion. How my sketch above to the left resulted in the image to the right, I’ll never know. Perhaps it’s Eldon Dedini’s fault.
On a personal note, a wagging finger of shame to the thieving Brazilian bastards who took our work for Central Park SummerStage, shown in detail below…
…and came up with this pirated graphic system for a pirated music festival near S�o Paolo.
And no, it’s not “appropriation”. Appropriation is a charged technique used to express a determined criticality. There’s no overriding comment here; only theft, you bastards.
re: Retriever: it's gotta be that M, M.! Look at the legs.
On Jan.16.2006 at 12:31 PM