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I saw this sticker on a lamp post today. It makes me wonder if people sometimes forget about Jesus? I imagine two people walking down the street when suddenly they see a three legged chicken singing the national anthem, "Jesus Christ!" says one, "Oh yeah" says the other, "Jesus. I forgot about him,".
Have you forgotten Jesus?
Spent an enjoyable afternoon drinking in the W hotel. In the downstairs toilets there is an opaque window where you can see into the Ladies loo's from the Gents loo's, and vice versa. By the window there's this nice little sign, "smile, wink, wave or meet her outside". Witty, sexy, brilliant.
This is unbelievable. It's 2005 in the year of of Lord and this is how they sell brands to the world's most powerful nation. This guy was promoting a gin, called Broker's Gin, in a wine warehouse in Chicago. He is dressed in a pinstripe suit and a bowler hat. Yes, a fucking bowler hat. At least the salesman was English. You can read more about the founding brothers here. Truly atrocious.
I'm not really sure what this is. Well, it's typography painted onto a garage door. But what I mean is I'm not sure if it's an instruction or a company name. I think it's a garage and the "gently used" refers to the type of cars they sell. I don't even like the typography that much. It's just interesting. And interesting is always good, even if it's bad.
Saw this building in Streeterville Chicago. I love all this painting on buildings stuff. The should be more of it. Doesn't this brighten up the street? Nicely designed website too, nicely designed but the usability is shite.
I was in Chicago at the weekend (great city) and I've got loads that I want to blog about. It's pretty hectic here though so I'll have to upload them one by one, as and when. Here's part one.
These wine labels are the own brand wine of a local wine store. I think they're great. Things like this normally fall down because people don't go far enough with the hand made effect. These labels do not fall in to this trap. Simple, elegant, witty, unpretentious. Great stuff.
Ms Moss. She needs a seriously strong brand and some clever next moves to survive all this.
She is one of the strongest "personal brands" in the world. She will survive. You read it here first.
This is still "Your Input Required" month. So what do you think? Will Kate survive?
All that flowery stuff. It's everywhere. You know what I mean stuff like this
or this one, slightly better art directed.
I quite like it. It's starting to look a bit dated, but then it has been around for a while.
The other day I was walking past a poster of Keira Knightly and I noticed the same effect on the poster.
Except that this was actually created by the shadow of a nearby tree. Truely, life imitating art. Or I like to think of it as life taking the piss out of designers.
I saw this Boots logo on a wall the other day.
Great isn't it? There ought to be more of this. Rise up and paint your logos on your walls brand owners.
Yesterday we held a crit in the office of all the recent newspaper redesigns. We do that kind of thing here.
We looked at the new Indy, the old Indy, the new Guardian, the old Guardian and the new Neville Brody designed times2. It was very interesting to look at all the different fonts, leading, column widths etc. Interesting if you're a designer anyway.
The new Indy was our favourite.
The new Guardian is a nice size, but the headlines are too thin and it's lost a lot of the power of the Pentagram designed classic. There's too much colour and it only has 5 columns making the text hard to read. Interestingly when they dropped from broadsheet to tabloid the Indy went from 8 columns to 7, the Guardian went from 8 columns to 5.
times2 is just a mess. Neville, where did it all go wrong?
Hmmm. Not sure about this.
I had a 20 min cab ride the other day on my way to a meeting. In the back of the cab I noticed (couldn't fail to miss) this.
it's called Cabvision. Essentially it's a TV in the back of the cab. Obviously it's there to play ads, but this one had classic comedy clips and CNN latest news. I thought it looked interesting. I grabbed the remote, flicked through the channels and thought I'd watch the news, it was 8.30am and I'd been working all night in preparation for this meeting. But CNN wasn't doing it for me. So I thought I'd watch BBC comedy. Nope wasn't doing it for me. I tried the music channel. Nope wasn't doing it for me.
In the end I turned it off and went through my presentation one more time.
Which all leads to me thinking - what's the point? Who's going to watch it? It wasn't loud enough anyway. The news wasn't live it was recorded like you get on planes or on the Heathrow Express. Very annoying, surely they can do a live feed these days?
They have a similar thing to this in the US and that's shite as well.
On the Cabvision website it states "As an advertiser have you wondered how to efficiently target an ABC1, under 35, affluent audience in London?" Whoa, whoa, whoa sweet child of mine! Under 35?? Surely the majority of black cab users are over 35?
"Cabvision is a 'Total Taxi marketing solution'". What the fuck does that mean?
"allowing 1:1 communication with c1.4million young affluent consumers working full time and mobile". Hold on a minute. Black Cabs are expensive. Brilliant, but expensive. Mostly used by middle aged business men. Young? I don' think so.
Anyway, this is "Your Input Required" month. So what do you think?
There are loads of you reading this blog, I know because I've just been looking at the stats, but hardly any of you leaving comments. The last comment was on the 23rd August, which frankly, is pathetic.
So, if you're reading this leave a comment. What do you think to this blog? Good? Bad? Do you work in design? Do you come here often? How did you find this blog?
(Oh, and all those people who search for Beattie McGuinness Bungay and end up here, what do you think about life?)
Saw this in the Royal Opera House the other day.
I popped in looking for some inspiration. And I found some.
This is a calendar of forthcoming events and I think it's great. Rather than a standard leafet they've opted for something different and striking. It would have been cheap to print, it's really simple, it gives you the information in a quick, clear way. It's elegant. It's relevant. Pats on backs.
In Selfridges again the other day. After this, it seems that the signage gets stranger and stranger.
Exhibit A
Personal Shopping Hats? What's all that about? Does it mean you wear a hat so that the assistants know you're a genuine buyer rather than a casual browser?
Exhibit B
This needs no explanation, but it's fucking September for fucks sake. And it was 27 degrees today.
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