A mad man with mad time on his hands, Mark Simonson, had some extra time and a DVR so he thought he’d analyze the props in Mad Men, specifically the typography. Pretty in-depth reporting. Take a look at his analysis here.
And if you haven’t seen the show, go watch it. Visually it’s quite the eye candy. Mentally it maintains the candy-gloss on the outside, deep and moody on the inside duality that keeps your curiousity piqued.
So I came across a slick little site that allows you to make a playlist, select your cassette design, customize the title, and post the cassette mixtape into your website, blog. I didn’t get too involved into this first one, but I’m smelling future series of these. Let’s see how she plays, starts off and ends with some rockers, but the middle is all over, seven songs 28 minutes. Make your own here.
Danny Kuo thought up an excellent space/time saving design for a bookshelf. The bottom three shelves pull out to create steps so that you can reach those rarely needed topshelf books. You know the ones you never need but once a decade, but you can’t get rid of them because.. well just because.
Making big things little, or making little things big, just keep messin’ with their heads! Cute new ad campaign with tiny billboards set next to sidewalks advertising a new PS3 video game. Works on multiple levels. Classic.
And this is pretty sweet, I can’t imagine really wanting to know every time somebody threw something away in our house. Hopefully version two will play a pleasant little ditty that might please Oscar the Grouch.
We come across so much stuff these days, too much to keep up with infact, I mean we do have to work right, right? Well at the co-op blog we’ve dedicated a series of posts called “Interesting But…” It’s for all those aesthetically pleasing objects that might have a cool concept behind them but ultimately even if we had one we wouldn’t know what to do with it after the initial reaction.
The first of our series is from artist Su-Mei Tse of Luxembourg. The headphones, the concept (plus the little Sony turned Sumy branding is a kick), it’s interesting but…
Anybody remember this one from this past spring, it was making the blogrounds in March.
Well some higher up at Ogilvy took notice and now the artist Joshua Allen Harris has been recruited to work on an environmental defense fund ad featuring our favorite plastic bag polar bears. Check out the new ad here.
Painstaking photographs by Beijin artist Liu Bolin, from his series “Camouflage” which is a pretty damn accurate description. Bolin hand paints his subjects to blend into the background.
