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Posted by on Feb 10th, 2009 | 4 comments

Pepsi’s post-rationalization presentation

Pepsi’s post-rationalization presentation
Arnell allegedly presented this package to PepsiCo back in 2008 to pitch their branding trajectory for Pepsi Cola. It’s full of ridiculous infographics and designer hyperbole. One can’t help but think that someone somewhere took it seriously. Most of it makes no sense and doesn’t even look like its trying to. It’s happy to be so convoluted and absurd. A familar sight to anybody who has been...
Posted by on Nov 5th, 2008 | 0 comments

Manetone

Manetone
Tim Fraser Brown has done a charming peice with Sam Hall, Alex Wooley, Amy Knowles and Andy Kidd took Manet’s Bar at the Folies Bergere and reproduced it using a grid of over five thousand Pantone swatch chips. It ends up as a kind of contemporary pixelated sort of impressionism just stopping short of digitization. This technique could – and probably should – be applied to some other paintings...
Posted by on Aug 26th, 2008 | 6 comments

LivingColors Mini

LivingColors Mini
Apparently one of our favorite designs from the Philips Simplicity concept show we discussed a long time ago has finally been adapted for a commercial product. The Philips LivingColour mini lamp doesn’t look as good as the original concept design but instead takes the form of some kind of odd magical egg. It’s rather expensive too at £85.00 ($164.59 CAD). This really illustrates how something can...
Posted by on Aug 25th, 2008 | 0 comments

Colour design 101

Colour design 101
At the aptly named Colourful Animation Expressons site, Oswald Iten has been writing about colour design and theory including a series regarding Walt Disney’s 101 Dalmatians. He does a great job of highlighting the subtext involved and how potent effective use of colour can be. Many videogames and advertisements are trying to use such techniques now but many movies are really struggling with good colour design...
Posted by on Aug 22nd, 2008 | 0 comments

Maptoons

Maptoons
Pecay over at BibliOdessy has collected a few examples of satirical maps from the first World War. They function as political cartoons diagramming both geographic conditions and sentiment regarding various regions. You don’t see many such maps produced anymore but their charm is undeniable as they anthropomorphise various countries giving them personality and character, illustrating how they all...
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