Monthly Archive for June, 2007

Safari 3… The fastest browser on Windows!

It is fast… Since it doesn’t render most of the text! Including the application’s menu. Released yesterday and already people are having the same issue (Probably like me, using a 3rd party font manager.)

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Top ad-tricks in Tokyo’s train stations

Credits go mostly to PingMag.

Thought I’d post this as an addition to Dave’s contribution earlier.

It just goes to show how creative you can be, even if we everyday functions such as riding the train, or going up an escalator.

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Decorated handle in a subway advertising for a loan company

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Mega Sticker Covers Train Entrance Floor

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Tea bottles inside Shinjuku station which look as if they are holding up the roof

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Chip Advertisement, Yes and the chips are actually real. Not fake.

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These are more advertisements inside the train. Stunning work. Cant do this in NYC, no one has any respect for the trains already.

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This is a goodie poster. People get to take a small goodie off a wall. As each one gets taken away, the advertisement underneath becomes revealed. This was a cannon advertisement.

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May look normal , but if you look on the front you can see a small advertisement for a magazine. Everywhere there are advertisements.

The next are special…

An interesting handrail ad model inside Nogizaka station in Tokyo: these handrails lists all sorts of brief information about shops, restaurants and attractions around the area. People can easily scan the matching QR-code to receive more information of a certain place of interest on their mobile phone while more information slowly “drives by”.

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Old Factory conversion…

By the Islington Canal again. This is an old factory being converted into lofts.
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Interesting Find…

While waiting for our bus back home in Camden (#31), I spotted an interesting sign on the side of the building across the street…

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i (heart) photomerge…

Panorama from Islington, London. Taken by the Canal.

Islington Panorama

Used photomerge to stitch. But no Blending to keep the original images size.

Flabergasted!

i still can’t believe Adweek headline. The French teaching internet strategies to the US.

read about the new French president internet strategy and how it could influence the democrats (if not the republicans)

inappropriate use of the colour pink

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London 2012 and 1 idea

okay, the bashing started right away the second the presentation was finished. so far 90% of people hates it.
I keep reading the brand arguments and descriptors and it still look like a hard sell. Whoever sold this logo is prety damn good at selling to a committee. I can see the lack of shapes and or different shapes to be relating to diversity and “everybody’s game” somehow , but really, i can’t sell magenta to telecom people (except t-Mobile people) how can they sell magenta to the olympics. It is Euro/British design (meaning, not everything need to be justified, especially shape and colors) for sure as combed as a Punk Rock Hair cut from a Soho back street in the wee hour of the night. I was getting bored with the Beijin Logo already, i can’t wait for the official Mascot…

nice ad

nice unexpected use of space…
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