When you’re two, quokkas are pretty frigging awsome. When you’re a quokka, two year-olds are pretty frigging awsome.
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4 months ago • 0 notesAmazing Sharp Brothers illustration for the upcoming Mammoth Mammoth debut LP.
View it bigger on the Mammoth Mammoth website. And, if you’re in Melbourne, check out the album launch. September 12 in The Espy’s Gershwin Room.
August 11, 2009
Why does everyone feel the need to have an opinion about Twitter?
A Rant by Mark Braddock
Was it like this in China back in the day? Back when they invented paper, I mean.
Were half the population going around saying that this new paper stuff will change everything, while the other half tried to convince them that they were full-of-it?
Were the fireworks sellers and rice merchants running around, like chickens with their heads cut off, yelling about paradigm shifts and the need for paper-specific strategies?
Did the recipient of the first letter written on paper go; “Why are these people telling me what they did yesterday – do they really think I care?”
Did the readers of the first newspaper go; “Why are these people telling me what all these other people did yesterday? I’m really busy and important and don’t have time for this.”
Was the first guy to write his shopping list on a scrap of paper greeted with a chorus of; “We gave you this amazing technology and all you can think to do with it is write an inane list?!”
People, Twitter is just another tool. Let’s all stop taking it so personally. Either it will become the notepaper of its day or it will be another fad. What will be will be. In the mean time, if it works for you, use it and shut up – and is it doesn’t work for you, don’t use it and shut up.
Now, can we just move on?
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July 31, 2009
Artist Andrew Nicholls’ show has opened at the Boutwell Draper Gallery in Sydney. We have just completed a retrospective book for him which covers the last ten years of his life and work. I am sure you can purchase up a copy at the exhibition.
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July 30, 2009
Pigeon Print. What happens when a dusty pigeon hits a window while in full flight. Believe it or not, it walked away from this - took awhile before it was flying again.
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The PADC (Perth Advertising and Design Club) Gold Award designed by Block and shot by f22.
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July 27, 2009
do as they say not as they do
5 months ago • 40 notesQ. — As a general rule, what industry (as a whole) has the worst web sites?
A. — Ad Agencies.
I’ve noticed most agency web sites have a few common characteristics:
- Rule #1: Flash!
- Staff / Management Bios: Wacky, fun, and meaningless. There is a über-creative photo of the person pretending to have fun.
- Site Navigation: Not at the top, bottom, left, or right. In order to click around to the other pages on the site, you’ll need to take a bus to another location.
- Contact Info: Phone numbers, emails, etc hidden on the most illogical page possible.
- Office Pictures: Two ways to go here. 1) If it’s an “agency” of one guy with a Mac in his bedroom, then you’ll see some creative use of stock photography. 2) If it’s a real “agency”, the wackiness continues with pics of the foosball table, the aquarium, and the video game area to show potential clients how their billable hours are being wasted while creativity happens.
- Philosophy: Starts off with “We’re a new type of agency.” and the rest is filled with meaningless jargon and buzzwords.
- I don’t think we can say it enough: Flash!
- Portfolio: Just a few logos. Maybe a shot of an ad. The ROI is never mentioned. This link is always called “the work”
- Blogs: All staff members seem to take turns “writing posts” by copying / summarizing chapters out of the advertising textbooks they couldn’t sell back to their college bookstore.
- Content: It seems everyone shot down everyone else’s ideas until there was no content left
- Timeliness: Site is never updated. (except for every few years when the whole thing is torn down and replaced with something similar.) Rinse. Repeat.
July 7, 2009
Diesel recently launched a ‘Magic’ mirror in their newest Madrid store equipped with a mirror that allows a 360° view of the customer’s front and back. Great idea, but could also mean that sales people and their feedback will be needed less and less. At the present time this feature is only available in Spain5 months ago • 18 notes
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6 months ago • 19 notesLight breakfast by David Sykes
This latest piece of personal work is all shot in one shot on 5×4 transparency. I comisioned a model maker Ridley West to make a giant plate that we could attach to the wall and with the help of Jennie Webster who sourced some amazing balloons this shot was the result.
June 18, 2009
