Advertising

Waterstone Law Group Brand Identity & Website

It started with giving this law firm an actual name, not just a long list of partners' names.

Insane street soccer

Soccer meets martial arts – a great combo. This is a commercial or promo vid for Fifa Street 3 video game, check it out. Someone wondered if it uses CG but I’d rather believe in good old fashion skill and lots of practice.

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, October 20th, 2008

Categories: Advertising | No Comments »

Blank is like Blank

Fill in the blank has never really been that fun for me until I stumbled on “Blank is like Blank” a blog by copywriter Justin Feinstein. You might remember him from his “If Taglines were Honest” post a few years back [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, August 1st, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun | No Comments »

Charlie’s 15 minutes of Flame

We just sent our summer newsletter and all the prime cuts are going fast. Hopefully you have a copy of the newsletter in your inbox but if you don’t you can view it online, or contact us to be added for the next blast.

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | No Comments »

It’s all part of the plan.

Keeping up with the craze over the new Batman movie, I thought I’d add to the hype by posting this nicely designed poster. The chorus of ‘hahaha’s’ written to form the bat symbol is a neat detail. Props to Warner Bro [...]

Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, July 18th, 2008

Categories: Art, Design, Movie, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »

Is design honest?

I’d totally wear this t-shirt, if only to dare strangers to start a dialogue and perhaps debate whether design really any more honest than advertising. Would you? Is design really honest?

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, June 16th, 2008

Categories: Design, Fun | No Comments »

Creative Juicing

  So, just how do you get a really great creative idea for that next DM piece? Juice it. But is it organic? (via Liquid Treat)

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 6th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Design, Fun | No Comments »

Land of the Free

Rachael Ray has in recent months been the face of Dunkin Doughnuts promoting the brand in different campaigns. Recently one of her online ads came under fire and has been removed under pressure from conservative bloggers. Why you ask? Becau [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 30th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »

How much wiggle room you got?

A bunch of funny commercials for a car dealership that may, unfortunately ring a little too true for anyone who’s been car shopping anytime over the last, say, thirty years. And yeah, so we love exploiting small furry animals for mark [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

HEMA: a retailer who isn’t overly serious

It is so seldom I see a corporate or retailer website that makes me laugh anymore. Everyone seems to take themselves so seriously these days. Not HEMA apparently. HEMA is a Dutch department store first opened in 1926 in Amsterdam (maybe tha [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »

Do the Test

This ad isn’t something that hasn’t been done before, but is quite effective nonetheless. As design professionals, you’d think we’re either hyper aware, or so jaded we don’t see anything and this just reminded [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 14th, 2008

Categories: Advertising | No Comments »

Code Branding

I’ve blogged about Code commenting before. I like it. It makes me smile. Sometimes people leave jokes, or witty comments their code which brings amusement to an otherwise dry topic. Around the office we’ve been checking out Logo [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Interactive, Technology | No Comments »

Faceblocking

Much has been made of Facebook Privacy lately. Basically Facebook owns has access to all your personal information and rights to use, sell or otherwise make profit from worldwide, for ever. Is this a problem? Do you care? There are plenty o [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

Terrific Viral Campaign for Breaking Bad

My friend Colin sent me a link to this website with a post title “Mark Busse is a slacker”. My first thought was, “Busted — someone’s on to me.” until I realized it was a clever online viral campaign to promo [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | 2 Comments »

Homer no function beer well without.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave or without your daily internets (heaven forbid!), you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing, Vancouver | No Comments »