Advertising Agency: Robson Brown Ltd.
Creative Director: Duncan McEwan
Art Director: Tony Lowe
Copywriter: Nick Carter
Other additional credits: Allan Cooke
Released: June 2009

Dünya’nın altını üstüne getirip ne varsa kullandık. Bunun sonucunda hem kirlilik hem de doğanın bozunması hızlandı. Peki buna karşı neler yapılabilir sorusu gündemden düşmeyecek herhalde. Thiago adlı kreatif ekibin yaptığı kısa video bize geri dönüşümü düşünmemizi öğütlüyor. Benim aklıma ise Afganistan, Sri Lanka, Honduras, Türkiye, Somali, Irak ve benzer yerlerde atılan bombaların, sıkılan kurşunların ölen toplumların geri dönüşümü nasıl olacak sorusu geliyor.

Bu tablolar sıkıcı ve sıcak günüme biraz olsun neşe katmayı başardı. Sanatçı Scott Listfield’in ellerine sağlık. Devamı için link…

Sport Illustrated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli gets inked for the July 2009 cover of Esquire. Graphic designer James Victore was asked to transcribe parts of Stephen King’s short story “Morality” on the beautiful Bar Rafaeli.

Click here to see more pictures.

Excuse me, miss, what's the soup du jour? The Soup of the Day. Mmmm...sounds good, think I'll have that.

via Top Cultured

With the help of over 50 businesses we launched thousands of guerrilla executions in Portland, Maine, supported by print, online and TV. For 3 weeks in May businesses became the medium. And any space was potential ad space.

Advertising Agency: VIA, Portland, USA
Creative Director: Greg Smith
Art Director: Chris Avantaggio
Copywriter: Mike Irvine
Illustrator: Lirra Schiebler
Photographer: JoElle Stoecklein
Campaign Website: http://salvationarmydonate.org
Released: May 2009

Print ads for Museo Nazionale del Fumetto. Click images for details!
Agency: JWT, Milan, Italy.

via Diskursdisko.

You should definitely check out these beautiful themes for the most popular CMS in the world.

I put this on Twitter last week while I was trying to figure out how to get permission to post one of these photos. The link got buzzed around really speedily and the photos were everywhere. I figured I’d drop it here for posterity too. Aren’t these trucks great looking? Another neat thing from Johnson County Library System (KS).

The identity of the (now millionaire) infamous graffiti artist is a well kept secret.

Kerry Ward at redbubble.com may have the answer.
This is a great t-shirt. Modern, punk, graffiti, art, cans, hoodie, corgi, it’s got everything.

www.redbubble.com/people/kerryward/t-shirts/1957366-5-one-is-banksy

Jose Antonio Contreras designed this wonderfully minimal busincess card for a friend of his, a motion graphic designer. Beautiful!

This summer we're giving away 100 000 uniquely numbered condoms. See where each one ends up at www.kondom08.nu

Advertising Agency: ESTER
Copywriters: Emma Zetterholm, Daniel Vaccino
Art Directors: Emil Jonsson, Ulrika Eriksson, Lotta Mellgren
Creative Director: Lotta Mellgren
Account Manager: Roger Kempe
Account Coordinators: Anna Wennerström, Emil Couch
Graphic designer: Dennis Hankvist

To celebrate safe sex Lafa are handing out 100 000 free condoms in Stockholm this summer. Every condom has been printed with a unique number (from no.1 to no.100 000) and at the campaign blog kondom08.nu people can upload their own personal stories about what happens to their numbers. These teaser-ads were released day 1 of the campaign.

Tags: Denmark, Revolver, Public awareness messages

Ancilla Tilia, fetisjmodel, Playmate and Most Sexy Vegetarian of 2008

strips down naked for Wakker Dier (Animals Awake), a Dutch non-profit

organization for animal protection and abolishing the bio-industry.

Agency: Revolver Media
Director: Sharif Nasr

Joe wrote us:

I was just in a pattern review meeting, and the age-old discussion of whether to use icons and labels vs. just icons or just labels came up. Years ago, I recall Jared Spool and UIE posting an article in which their tests showed that icons and labels together were generally better. I can’t seem to find it…. could you folks point me to it?

Thanks!
– Joe

P.S. FWIW, I prefer a design *guideline* that would state to use icons + labels unless there is a obviously standard icon, such as email or pdf icons. Of course, even those might not be clear to some user groups. The design guideline runs contrary against visual minimalism. As with all things, you make your choices and do your best to test it.

The article is from the old 1990’s Eye for Design days. It’s something that never made it to the web, probably because nobody has asked us about it in 15 years.

The facts about icons:

1. Text + image works better than just image or just text. However, just text works better than just image.
2. While icon images are learned, icon positions are learned faster. People remember a function by where it lives in 2D space more than by what the art is. (If you change the art, but keep the same location, users aren’t too impeded. If you move the location, but keep the art, users become frustrated.)
3. The speed at which the average user can deduce an icon’s function from the image is directly proportional to the speed at which the design team can agree on what the ideal image for that function should be. (In other words, things that are obvious—question mark for help—are obvious to both the designers and the users. Things that aren’t obvious—what is the icon for “advanced privacy options”?—won’t be obvious to either group in anything less than geologic time periods.)

In 2009 Victorinox celebrates 125 years of Swiss ingenuity since its foundation in 1884, from the brands Original Swiss Army Knife introduced in 1891. The below video has been created by Boutiq. See the making of here.

(thank you rahel)