“I knew I liked your work from the moment I saw your logo. So we need a logo, can we just use yours, but replace your company name with ours?”
A fantastic anonymous collection of CLIENTS FROM HELL! Follow @clientsfh on twitter. Thanks John for the link! So good…
I just launched a temporary site for my friend and co-conspirator Emily Cartlidge. We are working on developing a full site to showcase her extrordinary work as a fiber artist. You have to be pretty hardcore to have a full-sized loom, and even more hardcore to spend hours meticulously hand-weaving such fantastic scarves. Rumor has it, Emily Cartlidge will be quite popular for the holidays this year. She will soon be selling in Esty as well. My advice? Get to her before she’s too hot for you anymore! The full site should be launched in the coming year. Send her some love.
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Germans celebrated the historic fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th with an elaborate display of public interactive art. 1,000 “dominos” covered in graffiti were arranged along the original path of the Berlin Wall and were ceremoniously toppled to commemorate the 1989 fall. The domino project was headed by the Berlin group Kulturprojekte. Full news coverage of the story is available at MSNBC. This is another of modern Berlin’s displays of public art intended for interativity and commoration. The fantastic and moving Holocaust Memorial takes the idea of “memorial” to a whole new height. With the added layer of community, both from within Germany and abroad, it seems to be the city to watch. When I traveled there several years ago, I was greatly impressed by the city, especially with its art community and how closely that was embraced by the city itself. It seems art as cathersis, as well as rememberance and hope is alive and thriving in the German capitial with such a tragic past.
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Miracle Whip is all about adding spice whether it be to your life or sandwich. Never boring. Never bland. Never blending in. Always on. Always spreading unique flavor. Always ready to bring the zing!
It seems, in my professional experience, there has always been tension, if not out-right hatred, between marketing departments and art departments. I think this relatively recent (6 months ago? Where have I been?) advertising campagin for Miracle Whip speaks to the reason why. Replace Miracle Whip in this video with any life-style product and you’ve got an essential object of coolness, fun, and joie d’vivre that any 20-something must have for a fulfilled, satisfied life. This is where marketing goes sour. It begins to grow hair when left out in the sun, much like mayo. When a demographic is forced on a product, there is often a disconnect. Its such in this particular instance that the contrast between the product and the intended audience is so apparent that it truly stands out (not in a good way). Essentially, this advertisement says: the next time you are going out to cause a ruckus with your friends, don’t bring beer. Bring Miracle Whip! It is so transparently a ploy that it could only be from the marketing department. The art department would have had the good sense to call a spade, a spade and not the Hipster of sandwich dressings.
But, I’m not bitter. I’m just a little sour.
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