Twitter Tracker on Coco
While Late Night’s replacement Jimmy Fallon is embracing the digital world, taking full advantage of fan involvement through Facebook and Twitter, Conan O’Brien, new host of The Tonight Show, is jumping on the bandwagon with a slightly different attitude:
A lot of sweet time was spent on those graphics.
I am not a Twitter fan. I think it’s self-indulgent nonsense, and this sketch underscores this point. Hooray for Conan
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Just A Friend
Heineken made this genius little commercial.
The pacing of the shots reveals the story nicely. By the end, we find a group of drunk party people in a cab singing along to Biz Markie’s “Just A Friend” with their fellow cabbie. The tagline, “Let A Stranger Drive You Home” makes a beautiful lockup with some interesting attempts at ligatures. Heineken does their bit for responsible drinking with some classy design. Kudos.
The Real San Francisco Treat
THE IT’S IT!!!
Growing up in San Francisco, I never realized that this dessert was particular to the Bay Area. I guess I just assumed they were part of everybody’s childhood. Now that I know it wasn’t, I am doing my part to introduce this amazing ice cream sandwich to as many people as possible.
Turns out the It’s-It has been around since 1928, originally made and sold only at San Francisco’s Playland-At-The-Beach. You can see the illustration along the bottom of the packaging.
I assume they were sold at the “Pie Shop”
Once this funland was demolished in 1972, the It’s It ended with it. But in 1974, a factory was bought to distribute the It’s It and it still exists today right off of the 101 freeway in South San Francisco.
Contents of an It’s It: A scoop of vanilla ice cream smooshed between two large old-fashioned oatmeal cookies and then dipped into dark chocolate. So delicious.
Flavors of It’s It’s: Vanilla, Chocolate, Mint, and Capuccino. All amazing.
How can you resist this goodness?
Now go find one: http://www.itsiticecream.com/find_us/
Prologue Designs Main Titles for OFFF
Ilya Abulhanov kills it.
OH! How hard I try to hate Pepsi
Whenever I ask for a Coke in a restaurant, and the waiter responds with, “Is Pepsi ok?”
I grumble through my teeth, “Fine.”
Coke has always been my soda preference.
So, when I heard that Pepsi was redesigning their logo, I was already going into its critique on the attack.
Before the release of the Refresh Everything campaign, Pepsi’s redesigned logo leaked in the blog world. On its own, the logo seemed tacky, and was clearly attempting to copy the momentum and look of the Obama campaign.
But, when I saw the logo incorporated into billboards and commercials, Pepsi hit their modern audience on the dot. BIG, bold type with neon backgrounds, and using comfortable language significant enough to appeal to these times: xoxo, yo, hope
Just to bring things full circle, Pepsi introduced a new product: Pepsi Throwback, which establishes itself as a retro product. Refreshing the old and the new.
After all this hibbity dibbity, I still only drink Coca Cola. But Pepsi has a newfound respect
This is how we should work together
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Alexander McQueen on FlipGloss
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Bust out the silkscreens
I just bought these on ebay.
But Does It Float?
Brilliant curating by Folkert & Atley: But Does It Float?
Discussion topic: The New Dora?
