Taking Advantage of Destruction

To increase the sales for the mobile phone game app Angry Birds in Lisbon Publico newspaper produced large print out ads that were strategically placed all over the city onto many of the city's derelict buildings, so that it could increase awareness of the brand across the city on almost no budget. Genius! 

Buckle Up

Here we have a very simple but very effective poster ad reminding young drivers to fasten their seat belts. It does this quite simply by having a potential death-date of someone around the age of 19, blocked out by the seatbelt.

Oxford Street Christmas Lights

DDB, Piggots and Marmite have come together to create this years christmas lights. When I first heard about the marmite themed lighting I was a bit skeptical as to how it would look but after seeing them myself all lit up I realised how great they actually where, after seeing row after row of elves diving into Marmite pots you forget that its Marmite and just appreciate the for their festivity.

Awesome Silk Prints

Joshua M. Smith from Orlando Florida teamed up with Graphika Manila and Team Manila to produce a series of silk prints. I think these prints are really cool with there dark imposing images of skulls or demonic animals. If I had the space and the money I would definitely have something like this up on my wall!

Geekier by the day

Last time I shown you some minimalist super heroes that I really enjoyed. Now I'm going to show you some minimalist video game posters! I found these posters by Fran Asensio of many famous video games, some new, some retro. As a big video game fan I find these posters very interesting and enjoy being able to understand the image in relation to the game although this may damage my social life. Here is some examples from some of my favourite games that have been made into posters, enjoy!

Before, During and After

British photographer, journalist and film maker. Lalage. Spent 8 months in Afganistan with the soldiers at camp bastion, taking pictures of them before during and after their tours. What his photographs say speaks louder than any words. The pictures show how the war has changed the men, making them harder but yet destroying them at the same time. The pictures also show the changes to them caused by the stress for example all of the soldiers show a dramatic loss of weight in their faces. I think these pictures tell a very powerful story of the affects of war on the people who fight them.

Rocky Mountains

In 2015 the Rocky Mountains national park will be celebrating it 100th anniversary and so they have created a new logo made up of different creatures and geographical features around the park. The new logo and poster design definitely differs a lot from the past designs that where very famous and started a whole new style of poster design for that era.

Kater Book

http://www.behance.net/gallery/The-Hangover-Book/6120385
 Here I found some illustration work done by DXTR for a book of world famous hangovers and strange hangover cures. The book uses DXTR's famous cartoon cat character because the German word for a hangover is Kater which also means cat! I love the illustrations because they are so simple yet very dark and entertaining and remind me of old cartoon violence like Tom & Jerry.

Un-naturally Natural

Here we have more picture of animals but this time with a difference! I came across this collection of designs recently that show many different animals such as leopards, owls and the ones I have posted above. I think the prints are great as it has something that is very raw and natural for example a lion, and has turned it into something very un natural, cold and geometric. The pictures give the animals a cold, lifeless look with the use of the blank eyes. Images not usually seen of animals in this manner.

My Kind of Crazy

Here we have some postcards designed by an art collection named "Le Gun" with contibuting artists such as Alex Wright, Hannah Bays and Dr.D. I really like some of the designs that have been put forth for the postcards as they are a special kind of insanity that only a few people (myself included) understand and appreiciate

Here's more anti-festivity!

Following on from my last post, here are some great pieces of art print that I found based on Christmas and or Father Christmas. The pictures are very interesting as they give a darker and more comical look at the festive holiday and for some probably just ruin it for them. But ah well, enjoy!

Well theres Christmas ruined!

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/santa
Here we have a video by Beyond Design. The video takes a very cynical but yet correct description of how Father Christmas would make his Christmas run each year using incredible facts, figures and statistics to pretty much quell the myth of Father Christmas once and for all! Whatever you do don't show this to your children.

House of Wolf

I know that this isn't necessarily what I'd normally post about but i found this place when researching pubs and bars in London for a brief. Its quite hard for me to describe what it is so I'll say it in their own words, "House of Wolf is a multi-functional, multi-sensory experimental pleasure palace, dedicated to the creative pursuits of dining, drinking, art and entertainment." This place to me looks simply incredible, with its victorian steampunk style I can imagine the likes of Dorian Gray popping in for a drink. This place isn't just a fancy drinking hole for the wealthy, it is an experience with its experimental cocktails cooked up in the same style in which alchemists would turn lead in to gold. But don't just think you can walk in, this place has quite the list of reservations!
http://houseofwolf.co.uk/previous

Alternative Movie Posters

As a fan of film and cinema I happen to read Empire magazine quiet a lot, and each month they show a fan made alternative poster for a film that they are either reviewing or that has recently been released. I really like these posters as they give a different approach to the film but still manage to stay in the theme that the film has with most often than not a few subtle hints to the actual film. These posters can be in the style of a rorschach test made to look like Bane the main antagonist of the resent Dark Knight film, a gunshot in the dark lighting up Bond's face in Skyfall (an image from the films opening scene) or just simply an image of one of the key scenes from a film like that of the Avengers Assemble poster which shows IronMan flying into the portal to face the aliens in space.

Up, up and away!

In 2009 Disney Pixar released "Up" where an old man flies his house suspended by hundreds of coloured helium balloons. Now in 2012, Jonathan Trappe has brought that child fantasy to life by flying a small model house 20,000 feet in the air over Leon, Mexico. Trappe is now planing on making a Trans-Atlantic journey in the helium balloon suspended and if he gets the funding, make a documentary on his incredible journey.

Crazy and clever packaging!

When selling a product the packaging is just as important as the advertising itself and here is some great examples of incredible packaging! We have some high protein buns in a box imitating a six pack quite literally, water proof watches sold in a bag of water and a bag designed to emphasize what you are putting into your body. These few examples of very abstract packaging are great as it makes the product into something much more than just a drink or just some bread. It makes the product into something exciting and fun and in the case of the oragami bottles, a piece of art.

Super Heroes are all for minimalism these days

Here we have a few pictures from a larger collection by Mozcreative. The fact that I could name each and every super hero from the collection either means that I need to get out more or that because of pop culture these images have become so well known we no longer need to see a full picture to identify who it is!

I believe that these are some very clever and very cool looking designs.

Ghosts of War

Dutch historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse tries to demonstrate that history and the present day are very much entwined. She does this with her Ghosts of War photo series, where she blends the present day and the original World War II pictures of the same place into one. She spent hours looking for the locations and taking pictures that match the originals, and then photoshops them to combine the war ghosts into the current settings to give a haunting view of what some of these places were like during the war and how life for the allied forces was.

More Than Human

A renowned London-based photographer Tim Flach presents his work of seven years in his new book called “More than Human“. By taking striking close up shots of various animals, he attempts to demonstrate how close animals can get to humans through different poses and the way they act. What looks like images of unselfconscious and spontaneous reactions of the animals, is actually a result of long research and observation done by the artist. The carefully lit and cropped images evoke unexpected sense of intimacy and empathy even with the less cuddly animal models. Tim did everything to create individual settings for all of them, and his magnificent pictures prove that all the efforts paid off.