"Parking lot"

Agency: Wexley School for Girls

Animal Action

[Agency: BBDO Portugal]

"Aparición" 3D

[Via: TBWA\Lisbon blog]

Nike: "Joga bonito"

Here.

Brand provenance

"When CNW surveyed shoppers coming out of Wal-Mart stores, 75% said they preferred to buy American, yet an inspection of their purchases found that 90% were made in China."
- CHICAGO TRIBUNE 1.24.06

This would make an interesting post about the «brand provenance» image, the real "made in" country and the perceptions the consumer has about what he thinks he's buying.

"Food for thought"

"The 'surplus society' has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices and similar quality. To succeed we must stop being so damn normal. In a winner-takes-all world, normal = nothing."
- Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, "Funky Business"

Agencies "inside out"

The Martin Agency || ................. || Strawberry Frog, NY

Ignacio Oreamuno and the good people at I Have and Idea, have done a great work in every front.

In their latest "Agency profile" they guide us through The Martin Agency and Strawberry Frog, NY (above).

"The Fogged Mirror"

"The Fogged Mirror" - Current exhibition by Ed Templeton, skater, founder of Toy Machine and iconoclast artist.

[Via: Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles]

Sopranos and Google maps

According to Advertising Age, HBO is creating a map of New Jersey to remind viewers about some of the Sopranos' story lines, scenes and places. Using a Google platform as branding medium, HBO expects it to work as "a geo-visual tour of the TV series, a very interactive way to get people caught up".

"Scrabble"

Scrabble - A "peculiar" but rather interesting spot created by director Graydon Sheppard for Shots magazine, London.

The end of the "Battle"

Because I'm proud of it ...

"Quite large"

Client: VW Golf Plus
Agency: DDB Belgium

"Use Tigor"

Client: Tigor
Agency: Opus Comunicação, Brasil

Charles Bukowski

"The more crap you believe, the better off you are."

Scholz & Friends, Berlin

"Matches"
Agency: Scholz & Friends
Client: Lidoposterine

Blue Cross of India: "Adopt"

"Just one word can give the homeless, a home."
Agency: 1Pointsize

Architecture of density

[Click on pics to see them bigger]

by Michael Wolf

Recycled office paper

"There are easier ways to help the environment"

Client: Reflex Recycled Office Paper
Agency: O'Keefe Murphy Gaff (Australia)

"Attention grabbing" poster

Flashy Bacardi poster created by Viacom Holland.

[Via: MIT Advertising Lab]

Ruminations #02

Contrapunto, Madrid: "Smart"

"There are no small spaces."