Brooks goes sabbing

Great little short video about the making of the new Brooks saddles advert that marries anti-fox hunting and cycling. I'm not sure which it makes me want to do, go and sabotage a hunt or buy a new leather saddle, but either way, it's stylishly done.



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Brooks

Rolling news

Much as it maybe painful to look at pictures of Rupert Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, there is something strangely comical about seeing their decapitated heads roll around the screen on this Guardian Twitter gauge. Press play on the timeline and image circles bob about, grow, shrink and crash into each other depending on the amount of tweets sent with the #notw hashtag since last week.



It is a great piece of info graphics. Take a look here. Sorry Apple mobile device users, Flash required.

Bloody graphic design gits

The Artist Taxi Driver

Korma karma harmer

Picture the scene; Claire and I decide on a Sunday night curry. We walk to our nearest take away, order, pay, and go across the road to the pub for a quick pint. Back to the take away 20 minutes later, we pick up curry and go home to enjoy.

But, in unpacking the curry from the brown paper bag, I find this hideous piece of insidious advertising visually mugging me at my own dinner table. It almost put me off my vegetable korma. Not only was I pissed off that our trusted local take away had stooped to such levels of income generation, I was also beside myself in terms of how it was such an inappropriate piece of advertising—it is suggesting that what I am about to eat is going to make my breath repulsive. Not a good advert for the food inside.

And that's before I even start discussing the crap graphics of cartoon vegetables.

I know take away restaurants are struggling at the moment because of the recession and that ad creep has been a common aspect of 21st century capitalist desperation, but this really did take me by surprise.

Art, is this real?

This is Grapevine:



Grapevine is a monthly free gig listing guide found in pubs and venues across East Anglia, (well, Ipswich mostly).


This Is Real Art:

This is Real Art Showreel from This is Real Art on Vimeo.

This Is Real Art are are a design and advertising company based in London who work for such clients as Coca Cola, D&AD, Dept. for Transport, Economist, Manhattan Loft Corporation, MTV, Tate, Waterstones and a host of cultural and social organisations. You can see the sort of stuff from the showreel.

Good, aren't they!


This is a typical spread from Grapevine:



Hmmm, good isn't it.


This is an advert for a web developer that appeared in Grapevine this month (click on image for larger view):



This advert is for This Is Real Art.

This struck me as an odd placement as it caught my attention.

Then I realised it had caught my attention.

This then struck me as a very savvy placement—Ipswich: new University with creative courses; large BT tech outpost up the road in Martlesham; cheaper wage expectancy workforce outside of London; cheap ad rates in Grapevine, and many creatives in the town will leaf through Grapevine to scan what's happening locally gig wise, despite its obvious design acumen. Just as I do every month.


Links:
Grapevine
This Is Real Art