Archive for March, 2009
Best Movie Scene Ever.
Chuck Norris + Buried Alive + Beer Baptism + World’s Gnarliest Truck = Best Movie Scene Ever!
Freedom to Create. Spirit to Achieve.
The Canadian province of Alberta (my home province) released a new logo and slogan yesterday. It’s long overdue as our old logo has been in use as long as I can recall. While it’s probably the best of the generally weak proposed logos (Who did these? Student competition?), it still doesn’t full sit well with [...]
Little Red Riding Hood: Revisited
Slagsmålsklubben – Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo. School assignment to reinterpret the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Very designerly.
Ikea Leko: Seriously?
Ikea is set to introduce a car on April 1. Not much is known, but it’s said to be eco-friendly and strangely has the backing of the World Wildlife Fund. Real? April Fool’s joke? Elaborate marketing scheme? I’ll let you decide. I’ll pass in favor of a few more 50 cent hot dogs. Personally, I [...]
Batman Logo: Evolution
Batman must have an impressive in-house marketing and design team, that’s all I’m saying…or maybe Alfred just knows his way around a set of french curves.
Where The Wild Things Are
The first movie poster has been released for Spike Jonze’s adaptation of the classic children’s book by Maurice Sendak has been released and it looks pretty cool. When I heard Jonze was doing this movie I was very excited at the prospect, and the production stills all look fantastic…then I heard it was too scary [...]
Motel Massacre!!
I’ve been noticing a recent trend in hotel/motel logos as of late, and that trend is that they are generic pieces of trash with little to no visual appeal. There hasn’t been a massacre of this scale in the hospitality industry since the infamous Bates Motel closed its doors. The new Holiday Inn logo looks [...]
