How A Marketing Agency Really Works LightStream Group is a marketing agency concentrated in bank and credit union, healthcare, and higher education advertising. The organization has …
Evian’s “Baby & Me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pfxB5ut-KTs Evian strikes gold with another spot focusing on their “Live Young” branding and providing us with yet again …
Can Pubes Save American Apparel? American-based “Hipster” brand American Apparel is well-known for three things. First, their severely overpriced, essentially cotton garments (leggings, dresses, v-necks, …
It’s Complicated I continued to look through the April issue of GQ magazine. The “special issue” consists of 100 different “hot” things …
Difference=Good? I was walking around this past weekend and saw on the newsstand an interesting magazine cover. I talked about …
Sex Sells. Right? After looking at the Glamour Magazine cover, I was thinking about something. Nudity. We see from time to time magazine …
Too Boring. I continued to look through Detail Magazineand found something interesting and very different. I don’t know if any of you …
“Design is creativity with strategy.” Students at Temple see thousands of advertisements on campus each day. Some are hung on bulletin boards; others are passed …
A Good Kind of Sweat This week, I took a look at the April 2012 issue of Detail Magazine. In this magazine I found …
Unconventional This week I decided to take a look at Women’s Health magazine. I don’t particularly look at Women’s Health but …
Funny Faces I continued to look at Women’s Health this week, the April 2012 issue with Kristen Bell on the cover. I …
Ads That Don’t Make Sense. This week I continued to look through GQ magazine (March issue) and came across an advertisement that seemed a bit …
Athleta Speaks to the Do-All Woman Most clothing and/or fashion brands highlight women enjoying leisure and the finer things – but Athleta is not just any …
SO? On the same issue of Us Weekly (February issue), I found another advertisement that I found interesting. It was a sweepstakes …
3191 Miles Apart, continued! Just a little update on the previous 3191 miles apart post! 3191 Quarterly: issue no. 6 is now available for you …
All Covers Are Not Created Equal. I came across the Glamour magazine and saw that Rachel McAdams was on the cover. But besides that, I realized …
Ms. Brown is Coming! So this Sunday is THE day when we get to see the Super Bowl XLVI. When the Super Bowl comes …
3191 Miles Apart 3191 Miles Apart is a blog started by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes. Both Photographers, Art Directors, Stylists, and Designers. The …
Future of Dolce & Gabbana We all know that high-end fashion print advertisements seem to have nothing to do with fashion. They usually portray bunch …
People for Bikes Campaign Before I dig into these ads with my thoughts, I want to say that I fully support this cause. Philadelphia …
Alphabet Cities Treating solids as a kind of typography, French artist Armelle Carnon created a series of poster-style flat wall prints that seek …
‘Hardcore’ History Ads by The Smithsonian The bottom reads: “Historically Hardcore.” What a great angle- especially coming from an institution as regarded as the Smithsonian! Check …
Information Design Information design, AKA infographs, are getting increasingly popular every day, week, month, year. Personally I find them tough to do, …
Activia Campaign by Young & Rubicam Okay, so Activia has a new campaign that just launched, developed by Young & Rubicam. They are an agency based …
Arcano Type Project Finally Released After 4 months of work, Arcano Type has finally been released. Totally designed by hand, letter by letter, using Chinese …
1Billion Hungry Well this completely relates to the project that most Art Direction two students just finished, and what some graphic design …
Disastro Ecologico Here’s a throwback design related post. It’s modern with old techniques. It’s been done but it’s fresh. Alberto Seveso is …
The Hit Man… Philadelphia Mob Hit Man John Veasey This composition would make an amazing outdoor installation, but I could understand neighborhood groups …
Norton: Deny Digital Dangers… I’m no expert on Asian culture, but right away I picked up on something about this ad and I could …
Nikon Pour L’homme? This certainly isn’t a vintage ad, but it’s older than you may think. Personally, I can never get enough of …
Listerine: For more than your mouth? The focus remains benefit copy. It’s not about what Listerine can do for you, but what may happen if you don’t use Listerine.
Big Mac: Dynomite! I don’t think it’s any coincidence that this guy looks like J.J. from Good Times. This ad was placed in …
Orbit: Fabulous Foreshadowing The only place I can think of seeing something like this is old vinyl sleeves (records). This sort effect was common back then.
Absolut: Cocktails Perfected There are often times when one may see a TV spot run back to back and they may wonder why. Usually, one spot is national and one is local– usually. For magazines, I really couldn’t say. So after seeing not three, but four pop up this time I just had to say something.
Harman Kardon: Pure Performance? The tag line is “pure performance,” but I’m positive that people will buy these just because of the product design.
Unlitter Us: Time to come clean? The Unlitter Us campaign aims to reverse the damage by using the same principles that created it.
Brawny: A look at brand personality Brawny made the shift in personality a long time ago, but its visual has only caught up recently.
