Mein Gott! I’ve never seen such beautiful and yet useful infographics before! Column Five Media creates infographics that summarises everything that we ever need to know about the web, Yahoo!, FedEx and life in general.
Give them some love at http://www.columnfivemedia.com/category/infographics/ if you can.
Typography can a graphic maketh.
After all, plain ol’ words – even in Helvetica – is rather boring on its own. I’m not an expert (Zedy at Hipbip.com is a better design resource), but these ads make creative fun of words.
HongKiat.com has a whole lot to say about using Typography in ads. I loved its breakdown on Visual Puns (reproduced below)
Anatomy of a visual pun:
- Take words such as "bad credit," "taxes," and "bills."
- Take the shape of prison bars.
- Combine the two by making the bars out of the words.
- Add a subtitle, such as "Don’t be a prisoner to your finances."
More uses on Typography in ads over at HongKiat.com.
Damn fine list of commercials over at Yahoo!.
I like Old Spice, Betty White, Kevin Bacon, Ken Jeong, and this amazing wear your seatbelt ad that doesn’t rely on scare tactics.
What’s your favourite ad of the year?
…of kids with nubile eyebrows that act like caterpillars on speed? Amazing isn’t it?
It did so well that Cadbury took it to the streets in 2009 and hauled up bystanders to mimic the kids with nubile eyebrows.
One of the bystanders turned out to be a friend, Preman Rajalingam, who was waylaid at Shaw Cinema’s underpass and made to wriggle eyebrows for milk chocolate.
By all counts, he acquitted himself pretty well. I just hope that he didn’t sprain an eyebrow in the process. Personally I think ordinary people should stay away from eyebrow calisthenics…
