via 81M80

In London in letzter Zeit taetig, brutales Adbusting. Mir wird schlecht :S

via: ekosystem

“When better than Christmas to make a point about hyper-consumerism?”

The US-Artsist Packard Jenkins designed an Anarchist Action Figure and

placed it in different Wal-Mart Stores in San Francisco.

via: ekosystem

Sobald hier eine neue Kampagne plakatiert wird, zieht der misterioese De-brander mit schwarzer Spuehdose durch die ganze Stadt. Die Aktionen haben offenbar einen religoesen Hintergrund und diesmal konnte ich zum ersten Mal eine seiner Botschaften entdecken. Spannend! Und, ich finde, sehr aesthetisch.

via: rebel:art / Jason Salavon

Field Guide to Style & Color 2007

374 page book

This piece is a fullsize reproduction of the entire 2007 IKEA catalogue, leaving only color and structure.

With an estimated 175 million copies distributed in 2006, the IKEA catalogue is thought to have surpassed the Bible as the most published print-work in the world. This group of three projects (374 Farben, Field Guide to Style & Color, and Catalogue) transforms that ubiquity of design into varied pure color arrangements.

via yatzer

Zevs’s work primarily plays with and explores visual effects. Re-painting the logos in their own colours, the artist pours paint over them, liquidating one logo after another. Through the parallel lines of the drips, the logos dissolve in front of the viewers eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognizable and omnipresent trademark as illustrated above. By doing so, Zevs investigates the logo’s visual power.

Laura Keeble, via who killed bambi?

Die Deutsche Telekom hat beim Europäisches Patent- und Markenbüro die Farbe Magenta registrieren lassen. Nun möchte die Telekom in den Niederlanden durchsetzen, das ausschließlich sie diese wunderbare Farbe auf Briefpapier, in Kompagnien und dergleichen verwenden darf. Doch der Niederländer leistet Widerstand !-) Und zwar nicht nur auf juristische Art und Weise, sondern auch noch mit Witz und Grafik! Sehr schön. Es lebe das Land der Grafik! Hier gucken und versuchen Holländisch zu verstehen.

Nachtrag (4.4.2008):

“Blogger rebellieren gegen Magenta-Monopol der Telekom” auf spiegel online.

“Deutsche Telekom / T-Mobile demands Engadget Mobile discontinue using the color magenta” auf engadget.com

(@ Klaus: Danke für die Links)

Bis zum 27. November kann man abstimmen!

Via nymag

10/31/07

Perhaps you’ve seen a memorable Louis Vuitton ad in the back of New York and other magazines: a pensive Mikhail Gorbachev being driven in a limo past the remains of the Berlin Wall, his only companion a trusty piece of LV luggage with some reading material sticking out. Well, we just now happened to take a closer look at that material, and Ho … lee … crap. It’s a Russian book or magazine, strategically posed so that the title is upside-down but readable: “Litvinenko’s Murder — They Wanted to Give Up a Suspect for $7,000.” Litvinenko, of course, is the Russian ex-spy whose death — by polonium-laced sushi — has been widely attributed to Putin’s goons. We have no idea what the business with the $7,000 is (maybe it’s the price of the bag?), and nor do we want to know! The very fact of Litvinenko’s name in the middle of the meticulously composed Annie Leibovitz shot is enough of a jaw-dropper. Is Gorby sending the world secret messages through luggage ads? —Michael Idov