social-creature

Writing about the aftermath of the public outcry against Tropicana’s packaging redesign earlier this year, which ultimately led to the OJ cartons reverting back to the original art, I mentioned Mountain Dew’s “Dewmocracy” campaign — an interactive, story-based online game which resulted in 3 new Dew flavors designed and developed virtually entirely by fans.

Tropicana, I [...]

Back in February, in the aftermath of the public outcry against Tropicana’s packaging redesign which ultimately led to the cartons reverting back to the original art, I suggested that Tropicana had the opportunity to do something completely different with orange juice:

Now that there’s a buzz about Tropicana’s openness to fan-feedback in general, and about [...]

In April 2007, Italian Vogue featured an editorial spread by photographer Steven Meisel, entitled “The Greatest Show On Earth,” which featured members of L.A. circus troupe, Lucent Dossier:

The current, September 2009,  issue of Italian Vogue features an editorial spread by Steven Meisel entitled “Performance,” and involving a gaggle of cross-dressed models done up in decidedly [...]

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Also awesome: wonderful and wondrous large-scale art creations shown happening absolut-ly anywhere but the desert.
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“Last Supper” by David Myrick:

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Talkin’ bout the love at Lucent L’amour, the big Valentine’s music festival I was directing the marketing for at the beginning of the year, on Vimby:

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In case you happen to have missed it, Tropicana changed the design on their cartons last month, and in the process discovered that “Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging,” as Stuart Elliott writes in the New York Times:

PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure Premium [...]

This is tripping me out. I was just going to write a quick post about how terrifically lame I think the outdoor ads for The Day The Earth Stood Still are. It’s basically just a stock-photo image of the Earth’s curvature, against a black outer-space backdrop, with big, block-y, white letters that read: “THEY’RE HERE. [...]

This is currently the billboard on the corner of La Brea and 3rd. The bottom part is from an ad for Death Race which came out this Summer. The top, I’m guessing, is from some alcohol ad, no doubt. The result is so awesome, I’m having a hard time believing this is could just happen [...]

Just came across a great article in Fast Company about Obscura last night. Many of the Do LaB’s collaborators and friends from the El Circo collective work with this San Francisco multimedia design lab that Fast Company likens to “an alternate universe dreamed up by someone who’s been mainlining Pixy Stix.”
[Obscura] create[s] visual spaces and [...]