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Charlie Brooker on Microsoft's new campaign

Charlie Brooker is on form with this article about Microsoft’s new campaign and his disliking of Mac evangelists. You can see the ad he’s on about here »

“It’s so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call “shitasmia”. It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It’s the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history.”

So many brilliant quotes:

“Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”

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advertising Tango

Ha ha, a re-design of the Tango can accidently spelled out twat! They reckon it was a mistake, but I wouldn’t be surprised if if was intentional ;)

Via: The Sun.

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Wow this is pretty good, a couple of typographers and a stunt car driver make a font with a Toyota iQ. You can download the font they created here. Not entirely sure the type of people that this ad would appeal to - designers & boy racers, would be likely to buy an iQ.. but impressive bit of work none the less.

Via: Cpluv.

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The Beatles - Rockband

You’ve got to see this awesome cinematic teaser for the new Rockband game, Beatles edition. It’s starts off pretty good, nice 2D animation, well stylised. Then the boys parachute down, like the Lemmings, into a proper bonkers psychedelic wonderland, I loved it.

Directed by Pete Candeland of Passion Pictures, the guy who did the Gorillaz videos with Jamie Hewlett.

It’s a shame the actual game isn’t stylised the same..

Via: yewknee.

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goodbye bush, veet ad.

Above is a scan from today’s Daily Telegraph (Australian), is the ad at the bottom for Veet the ladies hair removal cream coincidence or planned? I hope it’s by accident, much funnier that way :) Cheers for the spot Greeny.

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Abelha Cachaça

There’s nothing better than a free drink and on Saturday I had plenty :) Courtesy of my friends Ant & Hal, who are launching a new brand of Cachaça in the UK - Abelha. For those who don’t know, Cachaça is a sugar cane based spirit (a little bit like rum, but not rum) from Brasil. It’s the main ingredient of the world famous Caipirinha cocktail. I’m so jealous, wish I had my own brand of booze.

It was a fancy dress do and we took the Brazilian theme to it’s logical conclusion by going in pubeless naked suits… Check out the photos of the event here »

The Brazilian crew in our naked outfits

Check out the stop motion how to make a caipirinha cocktail animation Hal made:

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This was of those rare times where I saw an online ad and really felt the need to click it. Come on, design your own tequila bottle and have it put into production, who wouldn’t want to take part it that? Well maybe I’m a bit biased with my recent Margarita addiction. Wait a minute, just seen that it’s not a competition… you have to pay them to print your design on a bottle, $225 no less! Not sure if I really want to design my own tequila bottle quite as much any more…

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Tastebuddyland

The campaign site for Robinsons Squash - Return to Tastebuddyland caught my eye while looking through B-Reel’s portfolio of work. Love the uber-rich photograhy mixed with the colourful illustrations. The characters were designed by Aardman Animations, but not quite as nice as Adrian Johnson’s original work on the campaign, although they have kept his type treatment which was a good move. I admit, probably more suited to the young age of the target audience though.

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advertising The Journey of Innovation

Achingly good looking site for ToshiaThe Journey of Innovation. Interact with the little woodland creatures and explore Toshiba’s innovations by the power of mouse gestures, good stuff. Made by Unit 9.

 

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Wavish Industries

I‘ve just spent most of my morning trawling through the back catalogue of posts on the blog Wavish Industries, written by Nick Wavish an Interactive Director at Unit 9. Couldn’t help myself cherry picking some of my favourites to post here. Above is the hilarious Message from Batman, this clever Mario ad, the well spotted volume dial up to 11 on BBC iPlayer, Wallace & Gromit start male modeling, the awesome typograhic work of Craig Ward and this clever google images game. Anyhow, added to my list of blogs I regularly read :)

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advertising He is Rob Law

You might already know Rob, he invented the Trunki, he’s been on Dragons Den and is currently spear heading an advertising campaign for Orange business. He’s also also a great mate of me and Paul, Orange have just produced a short film about him and we almost fell off our seats laughing at some of the old uni pictures, nights out and holiday pics of us all spanning the last decade! Check out the film here. We shot some footage of our thoughts about Rob (although they only seem to of used the sensible ones for some reason) and posted them back, they even included some shots of us we had on there of our trip, looks really good :)

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hearing test button

Are you listening? Find out now by taking the Horseltest » Extremely well done simple and thought proving piece.

Cheers for the link Asi.

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are you british in bed quiz for K-Y Jelly

Asite I designed and illustrated a while ago has just launched today, it’s the Are you British in Bed Quiz or K-Y Jelly ;)

They’ve got a new product out in the UK called Touch Massage, or how we had to refer to it endlessly in the site - K-Y® brand TOUCH MASSAGE® 2-in-1 Tingling or Warming… that rolls off the tongue nicely doesn’t it! Anyhow it’s a combination of pussy rub and massage oil, to get you all sexed up in the bedroom.

We basically built a sex quiz located in a passport control booth (I didn’t think of the idea!). It’s pretty well done if I don’t say so myself, Dezza & Russ did the flash development, Mattias did the HTML and FaceBook application. So on give it a go, it is actually pretty funny.

If you just want to get your hands on the lube, it’s available from Boots here »

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moustach me vinyl stickers

Why not jazz up mundane, un-interesting marketing messages with the addition of a nice big moustache? Why not indeed I say! Moustache Me have 9 different vinyl stickers available to liberate outdoor advertising :)

Cheers for the link Scotty.

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History of Adidas

Nice stop motion History of Adidas animation, rest of the site is a bit ‘light’ though. No mention of the other brother that set up Puma, I like that story.

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