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breakfast from cafe 28 will be no longer.
I read about this really cool site today on slamxhype. Here is the post on it:
“Noah Brier, a brand strategist in New York at Naked Communications, developed a new site/experiment called Brand Tags. Basically, when you go to the site you are shown a brand logo and you type the first word that comes to mind. All the results that people have submitted are then rendered into a tag cloud – much like the ones you see on blogs. The results are interesting and often spot-on. Brier noticed that sometimes you could tell which brand a tag cloud belonged to without seeing the logo. When asked why he started the project, Brier stated: “I had this idea that if you asked enough people what a brand is, and then made it into a tag cloud, that you’d probably have a pretty good peek into what the actual perception of this brand was.” It’s true. See for yourself. You can see a video on it here and try it out here.”
I tested it with a few brands, here are some of my screen shots.
Blackberry
Rolex
Taco Bell
people are really into modifying their toys these days. the other day i came across a blackberry 8800 and iphone owned by Pharrell of the Neptunes/BCC/Ice Cream who encased his two phones in 24k gold. This week I came across this xbox 360 covered in alligator skin, but the crazy part is the power button which was replaced with an eyeball.
I came across these designs by illustrator Pedro Izique today. These were created for an ad campaign for a leading Brazilian business newspaper called Gazeta Mercantil by the São Paulo office of ad agency JWT.
The print ad redesigns the Dollar, Euro and Yen with images of “some of the most important events of the last century.” Pretty cool work.
The other day some banksy-esque pieces were put up on new york walls. Turns out though that the artwork is actually from another UK artist named nick walker. He has used his own stenciling designs, but i must say its very similar to banksy. what do you think?
Uniqlo down on Broadway has redesigned their middle staircase area with a wall-to-wall giant comic book theme. The design is crazy looking and it feels like you’re in a comic book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mttu9M_BuJ0
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