Designer Nori: Delicate Laser Cut Seaweed Patterns
Japanese ad agency I&SBBDO was approached by a client who wanted to boost their flagging business after the 2011 tsunami in Japan– the product, however, was nori (sheets of Japanese seaweed used in sushi). In an effort to reinvent this simple square of seaweed without losing sight of the age-old traditions embedded in their culture,...
Reflections: Touching Photographs Of People As They See Themselves
My coworkers and I were recently talking about the concept of one’s “internal age”– the age that you perceive yourself to be at, rather than the age you actually are. In this award-winning ad campaign for an Alzheimer’s drug for Novartis, photographer Tom Hussey captures the complex emotion of jarring self-perception in a series of...
Read, Cook, & Eat Your Words: Edible Cookbook Teaches You How to Make Lasagna
Imagine not only learning how to make lasagna from your cookbook, but also being able to bake and eat the book, using the pages as the lasagna’s pasta! German design agency Korefe came up with this edible cookbook as a special project for a publishing house, and the best part of the ad concept is...
License Plate Invitation: An Amazing Tribute To A Guest Speaker
The Society of Design of Pennsylvania wanted famed typographer Jessica Hische as a speaker, but what’s the best way to the attention of someone so busy (and, to get them to say yes?) They created an entire website just for this purpose, and the crowning achievement of their project was a invitation made out of...
Websites Made Of Nothing But Chocolates
What better way to advertise chocolate than to make the product website entirely out of the delicious stuff? Two different companies had the similar idea to launch all-chocolate websites, both of which use custom molds for every button, sidebar, and background of their respective websites. The concepts are indeed very similar, but the products and...
Giant Saint Bernards: “We’re in California in a big way!”
Too cute: art director Nate Wells needed an ad campaign to promote Applied Underwriters‘s worker compensation services, so he took the company’s St. Bernard mascot and photographed the dog quietly taking over California. The big dog in the photos looks absolutely friendly, gentle, and enormous, all of which serve to highlight the tagline of this...
Life Is Too Short for the Wrong Job: Funny Ad Campaign for the Unhappily Employed
German advertising agency Scholz & Friends came up with a hilarious ad campaign for Jobsintown, a German online recruitment company: the series of humorous photographs is meant to touch a raw nerve with dissatisfied employees, by imagining the worst possible jobs that power our 21st century machines. Each photo is an x-ray shot of common...
Incredible Real Life House from Pixar’s UP
I am in shock and awe. A new National Geographic show called “How Hard Can It Be?” launched a real-life version of the house from UP this past weekend, using 300 weather balloons to lift the house over 10,000 feet into the air. From My Modern Met: Yesterday morning, March 5 at dawn, National Geographic...
Disney Dream Series: New Photos by Annie Leibowitz
Famed photographer Annie Leibowitz has been creating magical photographs for the Walt Disney Company since 2007– the “Disney Dream Series” features different celebrities in the roles of our favorite childhood Disney characters. The Disney blog released three new photos in the series today, which will all run as ads in different print magazines around the...
Left Brain/Right Brain: Gorgeously Illustrated Mercedes Benz Ads
This series of Mercedes Benz ads have left me speechless: what a wonderful way to illustrate the experience of owning a luxury car, which appeals to both your left brain and your right brain. The ad is split neatly down the middle, separating the brain into its clean, analytical left side and colorful, explosive right...
Playful Live Painting by Kikayis
Barcelona based artist and illustrator Kikayis recently finished live painting at a children’s boutique in Madrid called Mon Ptit Tresor, and his bright and playful window illustrations are wonderfully detailed despite the bold lines. I think this is a wonderful collaboration on Kikayis’ part, since his drawings complement the existing peapod logo for Mon Ptit...
Lego Tattoo Ad for the Pilot Extrafine Pen
I’m in awe of the detail in these Lego tattoos which advertise the Pilot Extrafine Pen– the ad is created by Grey agency of Barcelona, and shows you just how precise the nib of this pen can be. I’d love to know the process of how these were inked onto the plastic– I wonder if they...
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