What if modern advertisers invented the stop sign?

I found this video on www.septemberthird.com. It is a pretty funny video about a client giving a brief to an ad agency for the creation of a stop sign.

And then I found this picture that someone sent to the Road Safety Blog wrote about women drivers during Women’s Month (yes, that is now, August): Do [...]

Secret Showcase – Rik Oostenbroek = amazing design

Rik Oostenbroek aka Nkeo is an amazing graphic designer born and bred in the Netherlands.  I came across his artwork yesterday and fell in love with it . It brings tears to my eyes, just like a really emotional song does. I am speechless. What makes his work even more exceptional is the fact that [...]

My new favourite website

I found this website yesterday and I can’t get enough of it. It really satisfies that design urge that I have (and my love of all things symmetrical).
It is called colourlovers.com and you get to choose and name colours, create colour palettes and then use those colour palettes and apply them to patterns.
It is really [...]

What do Paris Hilton, Barack Obama and that McCain dude all have in common?

They are all running for President (well sort of).
Over the last few weeks I have been following the advert campaign war between Obama and McCain.  The adverts are pretty funny when watched from a non-American perspective.
The controversy started when McCain’s campaign advert likened Obama to the vacuous celebrities Paris Hilton and Britney Spears: [...]