Category Archives: Advertising

“The Pitch” Reality Advertising TV Show airs Tonight 10pm EST on AMC

Can’t wait to see how awfully bad this show is going to be. I think the last time someone attempted this show concept, it was that remarkable Agency.com “pitch process” video for Subway, which was truly painful, and very awkward to watch. The pitch trailer: Hilarious Agency.com fail: Advertising gets a new spotlight in April [...]

Two Turntable Drawing Apparatus

Really nice drawing machine by

Kool Keith and the 98 Year Old Refrigerator

Kool Keith on losing yoohoos, seltzer water, weird cakes and the concept behind the 98 year old refrigerator. Love Kool Keith, this video is awesomeore.

Mark Gonzalez and Basketball and Dunkachino w/Al Pacino

Dumb fun. Good. Lol. Thanks Dan Cookout and Andrew Payton.

The Sale of Manhattan Animation by Saul Bass

Manhattan old school, things go boom, nice old school commentary.

How to find great Pins for Pinterest – a Pinterest Hack

Pinterest is a great tool for curating visual information, empowering people to form valuable mental connections between groups of related, and unrelated images in a central space. What I really find fascinating about Pinterest is the images are already curated and filtered by human beings and friends within your social network, rather than a web [...]

Rollins x Independent Ad from Vintage Thrasher

Henry Rollins riding for Independent trucks, an ad from a vintage Thrasher magazine my childhood friend Andrew sent me.

Fonts to Save for Later #2: Bookmania

This font is hot. Lovely retro library / 60s advertising feel with tons of OpenType swashes and ligatures. Check out the type speciman here. I wish the digital download came with that musty old book smell you get turning pages in used book stores or a public library. Bookmania is a revival of Bookman Oldstyle [...]

Fonts to Save for Later #1

I’ve started a few lists here on the blog, partly just so I can look up things I may forget, partly because it would be cool to do a “best of” for a the categories once there is enough content. I often look up, and see typefaces I like, but sometimes don’t get around to [...]

Amtrak Wi-Fi Posters

Clean, iconic, route specific posters for Amtrak’s new wi-fi service onboard by Arnold.

Catvertising

Promotional viral video for Toroto agency St John. Guess these guys have a lot of time on their hands up there in Canadia, or they really, really want Friskies to check our their agency credentials.

Kidult Owns Celine

I’ve been meaning to post this, but haven’t found the time lately to write on here. Anyway, Kidult owns Celine with a giant “SK8″ tage after their recent ads showing models posing with skateboards and oversized canvases. Looks like Kidult made their store his canvas and got the paint color pretty darn close.

True or False Kidult?

Please say false… I have my no. 2 pencil ready.

Making signs in a LARGE sign factory x ESPO

ESPO murals inside a mega-sign shop oblisk. Oh, the irony. I bet in four years this will be painted over. That’s a good number I think.

Hennesy Youngman talks his new drink – Sunkist + Woodford

Fresh off the presses internet! Hennesy Youngman talks some time off the rigorous and exhausting art scene to discuss his new drink of choice, “Sun Over North Philly”: Sunkist and Woodford reserve (brown liquor). Complex flavor profiles and deep side-talkin’. I’ll drink about 15 of those bartender. Love this guy.

Enough Already

Really? Facebook is scary. “How people bring your info into apps they use.” Nice.

Kidult Anti-Advertising Agency Tee-Shirt Collection

Louis Vuitton, Supreme, Hermes. Kidult’s chopped and screwed version of expensive tee-shirts and fashionable art. More at Kidult’s site.  

Album Covers Mixed with Real Life

Brilliant print campaign for Paris radio station Oui FM by photographer Matthieu Raffard. via Laughing Squid. Would love to try this with San Francisco album covers, but can only imagine this would be difficult to pull off correctly.

Kidult Anti-Advertising Agency Tee Shirt

Seems Kidult is on a new tee-shirt launch, no details, but all concept and ironic angst judging by the title. Can’t wait until Highsnobiety picks it up. Love this guy. Keep up the good work, keep it left. Tee shirts graphics suck, but do what you gotta do and keep it accessible until the next [...]