
Happy Halloween.
Love this hat and love the other cool things Atypyk designs.
This weekly, and sometimes daily, column showcases fresh, colourful, innovative musings, with a focus on design, marketing and culture to inspire thought-leaders.
It has been more than 3 years since Hurricane Katrina. I just got bad from a week's trip. I saw the good the bad and the ugly.
The United States of America has never been more ignorant or blind to their own in justice.People are still living in FEMA trailors, neighbourhoods are still abandoned, people have abandoned their homes or have had them taken away. People are homeless and heartbroken. New Orleans, Louisiana still need a lot of help. Years and billions of dollars of help.
These spray paints on the walls are badges of honour and for some heartbreaking reminders:
North quadrant is the date the house was checked.
East quadrant is code for hazards.
South quandrant is for the number of bodies they found in the house. Sometimes you'll see the death count for house pets.
West is the unit/squad that did the search.
The second one made me laugh out loud... but is it because it's super funny, or because (you never know) it may be my fate one day (although I would need to be in my mid 30s and have a kid). The truth hurts, but is bloody funny.
Combining the free-spirited, artistic rebelliousness of the bohemian beatnik or
hippie with the worldly ambitions of their bourgeois corporate forefathers, the
Bobo is a comfortable contortion of caring capitalism. 'It's not about making
money,' writes Brooks, 'it's about doing something you love. Life should be an
extended hobby. It's all about working for a company as cool as you are.' '
It's been happening since the dawn of human civilization, people realizing
amazing productivity and creativity gains when they agglomerate. What my work
tries to do is link this phenomenon to specific demographic indicators and
economic trends.
I HEART NYC is the first example of city branding that comes to my mind. I like it because its simple, clean, emotional and still fun.
It was commissioned in 1977, by William S. Doyle, the Deputy of the New York State Department of Commerce. He hired advertising agency Wells Rich Greene to develop a marketing campaign for New York State. Doyle also recruited Milton Glacer, a graphic designer, to work on the campaign, and created the design based on Wells Rich Greene's advertising campaign. Something they thought would only last a few short months has become a badge of recognition, honour and spoofing.
Fashion flexing was abound at the Saturday night wedding: narrow lapels, tie clips, skinny and fat ties, slim trousers. I loved ever second of it.
You see, I work in an office where golf shirts and khaki pants are the norm and the pink shirt is considered fashion forward, so hopefully you can appreciate my enthusiams for the 'styled' gentlemen last evening.
For more fun inspiration check out GQs Trad and True (traditional and true...that too me a bit to figure out). And for a daily dose of fashion fun visit The Sartorialist.
p.s. That's a cord suit in the top picture. Daring, but certainly dapper."Today's ruling is not about counterfeits. Today's ruling is about an attempt by LVMH to protect uncompetitive commercial practices at the expense of consumer choice and the livelihood of law-abiding sellers that eBay empowers every day."
Is it the end of free enterprise and the start of uncompetitive practices? or is it the essence of the brand taking a stand and saying... stop adding milk, we like it strong.
p.s. poster comes from http://www.johngodfrey.net/. come on... send me one : )
"It makes you laugh, make you cry, makes you wanna change your life.
And these are 3 reasons I'll be rapping 'till I die.
I am a hip hop fanatic,
microphone addict, its my purpose on the planet and
I just gotta get at
it. "