Bic and Converse

For one of my Senior Project classes I am creating an iPhone app that is for both Bic and Converse. It's based on off of the idea of doodling on your shoes. Anyway my idea is really not relevant to this blog at all but what is relevant is how awesome both Bic's and Converse's websites are!
As I have pointed out in previous blog postings I have a thing for websites that use "real materials" and both of these do!
Check them out even if you aren't in the market for Bic products or a new pair of shoes.

Take me to Chiquitaville!

Wow! I love how interactive the new Chiquita website is! It's so much fun and even through there is a lot going on it doesn't seem overwhelming at all.
Check it out.

Cast Your Vote

I love websites that look like this one with "real" objects and paper! What's particularly cool about this on is that its to vote on indie musicians that have submitted their songs.
I found this website because a friend of mine posted it on facebook and asked people to go on and vote for video #5. So I did. You should do the same.
I'm also always down for some good ol' social media
Check it out!

Go Forth! (Again!)

You may remember my post a few months ago about how awesome the Levi's "Go Forth" campaign is. Well, I still love it! This spot, which isn't new but new to me, gets me so excited for summer (and wish that I was still a teenager in New Hampshire)! Enjoy!

Crazy Animated GIFs

This is an awesome little website that just plays short animated GIFs over and over and over and over again! There is something so captivating about watching a few seconds of something that may be in all actuality really boring repeat. It is mind numbing.
Check it out if you feel like staring at your computer screen for longer then you already have to. It's kind of awesome.

Thanks Swiss Miss, for posting about such a weird little site.

Why was the farmer angry that his cheese wasn't curdling?

It was whey behind schedule.

hehe. I can't take credit for this awesome joke, my friend Mike Enright came up with it, but these awesome packages for Whey Protein that I saw on the dieline are whey cool! haha

Alright, enough with the jokes.
The packaging is really cool but there is something about it that reminds me of mascara boxes.


Here is the article if you want to read more about it.

Short Cuts

For some reason, when I tried to post this originally it didn't post the content. Well, here it is again.


Adobe recently created a Student Hub website to sell their student edition of the Creative Suite. The design is nice and all but the really awesome thing is the downloadable application! Gosh, I wish I had this sophomore year. When you download the application you can choose the program that your working in and it will show you all of the shortcuts you can then and you can select some favorites.

Check it out!

Ridiculously Thick Yogurt

Ok, this ad makes up for the one that kept crashing my browser. Good job Fage.

This banner ad is an upside down ad so it immediately grabs you attention. Then the honey starts to drip out, but the yogurt still doesn't move. It keeps dripping and dripping and dripping leaving the walls of the box and dripping down the page. It's great!

Canon Take Over of NYtimes.com

Today some of you may have gone to NYTimes.com and maybe you went to the "Business" section. At that point you may have noticed a take over banner ad that makes the page black and white and then another page slides in in color. The tagline is something like "Doesn't it look better in color." I actually can't remember the tagline because very shortly after the animation stops my browser crashes! This happened multiple times! I would say it's good if it didn't crash my browser.

The Westin's Amazon Store Front

BBH just helped launch Westin's "storefront" on amazon.com.
It came out really beautifully. The page nicely reflects the Westin's brand. It's also a pretty cool idea.
Check it out!

New Palm Ads

I usually try not to bash any ads on my blog because I know that clients and politics often stunt the creative process, and sometimes I try to be understanding and sensitive. An ad really has to bug me for me to speak publicly about how much I dislike it. Well, the Palm Plus ads bug me to that point, and maybe beyond.

If they weren't all over I wouldn't care. They could be easily ignored because there is nothing about them that makes people notice them. The only thing that makes you notice them is that they are everywhere. They are even at subway stations that you wouldn't expect to see them like the Myrtle-Willoughby stop on the G-train (no one is ever at this stop! not the best media buy in my opinion). The placements of these ads make it seem like Palm is marketing this phone, to well, basically everyone, considering that they are everywhere.


The phone? It's not that beautiful. Visually, it can't compete with the iPhone or even the Droid. The ads showcase qualities of the phone that seemingly every PDA and smartphone have. So why should I buy this phone, that offers me what any other phone does but in a less fashionable way for the same price? Yeah, I don't really know either.

One would think that after the terribly creepy spots that launched in 2009 Palm would be trying to win people over. Negative commenters on YouTube went to the extent of saying that due to those creepy spots they wouldn't buy the phone. I don't know how much this actually affected people in the market for a very average smartphone but after comments like that Palm was most likely wanting to play this campaign pretty safe.

The tag line leaves something to be desired. "Life moves fast. Don't miss a thing." In the words of Cher Horowitz (Clueless), "Can we please be more generic?"

On a good note, they are clean looking ads so I have to give them props on not cluttering the city with messes.

Mohawk Paper

Mohawk Paper's website is really cool. Over all the layout and design is nice but the best part about this website is the movement. The pages of the website are built on pieces of paper that shuffle around as you view different pages from the website.
Unfortunately this website is built in flash so every time I hit the back button it would take me away from the website.
Check it out!

Cutsie Little Barcodes

D-Barcode is a design firm in Japan that is designing these barcodes. Most of the time, Barcodes look like they are slapped on after everything else is designed, which they usually are. These new designs may really bring barcodes to a new design level. So far I think they are a little too cute, but I'm excited that some attention is being paid to them.

Dove for Men

Dove's new line of products for men called, Men+Care. The packaging and website have a pretty good design, and I like the idea of reaching out to the male audience who may be turned away by Dove's very feminine brand and may be a little to old for Axe's young image.
Check out the products and the website.
The Dieline also has a nice posting about it.

Be Stupid? ….um ok

I have had the new Deisel Campaign “Be Stupid” stuck in my head like a bad song. I really wish I could stop thinking about it. When I first saw the print ads in the subway stations around NY, I was immediately turned off. The words, “Be Stupid.” cover the walls along the subway platforms at almost every station I go to. “If buying your product makes me stupid then I don't want it,” I thought to myself as I walked by countless print ads in the Broadway-Nassau station.

The Problem is the more and more I think about the campaign and research it on the internet, the more I like it. Gosh, I never thought I would say this but... I actually think it's kind of clever.

The design and visuals are really good and I love the colors. Some of the ads are still lacking but the ones that aren't plastered all over the walls of the subway are really funny. I don't know why these weren't the ones chosen for these media placements. When I saw these I understood why I would want to “Be Stupid.”

They also want people to send in the “stupid” things that they are doing.

What really tied the whole campaign together for me was the website that they created for it. It is really worth a visit. I'm not going to give away what is so cool about it.

Oh, and the viral flash video is cool, too.

I'm a nerd

I am home sick with the flu and really only have the capacity to do brainless activities like search the web and look at things. I came across N.E.R.D's website. I usually don't like websites for musicians but I really like this one because it isn't typical of a musical groups website.

Check it out! its pretty nerdy!

ohhhhh yyyyyeeeeaaaaa!

It's a beauty. Check out the iPad section of Apple.com

The Little Prince Pops Up!

I was recently told that an there is addition of "The Little Prince" as a pop up book! I had no idea! "The Little Prince" is one of my all time favorite books, as a child and as an adult. This is on my list of things to order on Amazon. I highly recommend that any Little Prince fan check it out!

Ampersands

So this post is a repost from swiss-miss.com, one of my favorite blogs.
300&65 Ampersands is a blog solely dedicated to ampersands. For everyone who loves type out there, and all of the lovely things that come along with it, this ones for you!
I am sure you will all enjoy it as much as I do.