A future where the continuity of history has broken off, a world of enormous ruins that continues endlessly. Oceans and continents have vanished, existing only within the archives brought up from the remains. Ura works in the Archive Excavation Department, which restores and analyzes the data left behind. One day, he finds a disturbing visual record…
Note: This is not your regular anime. It has a deep message embedded that ties with the state of humanity and the environment. I’m impressed with how the medium was used to convey such a serious message. Love your Earth, folks.
Advertising Agency: JWT, Hong Kong
Creative Directors: Steven Lee, Kwong Chi Kit, Barbara Fu
Art Directors: Fei Leung, Arthur Tse
Copywriters: Babara Fu, Jesse Wong
Other additional credits: Nick Leung, Serena Tsang
This is a nice site that lets you make that little icon used in bookmarks/favorites. You should give it a shot and make one for _dreams. Also posted if anyone else is interested.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — How long does it take to remake an icon? Try five months.
That’s the amount of time Pepsi took to revamp its famous logo, after top executives Indra Nooyi and Massimo d’Amore called for a “quantum leap” forward in transforming the soft-drink category and defining Pepsi as a cultural leader, said Frank Cooper, Pepsi’s VP-portfolio brands.
“We felt like, as we move out of this traditional mass marketing and mass distribution era into today’s culture, there’s an opportunity to bring humanity back, both in terms of the design but also in the way we engage consumers,” he said. “By making the logo more dynamic and more alive … [it is] absolutely a huge step in the right direction.”
And a costly one. Pepsi would not discuss what it’s paying for the revamp, but experts estimate the cost for a top firm to work five months at north of $1 million. But that’s just the beginning. The real cost, said an expert, is in removing the old logo everywhere it appears and putting new material up. For Coke or Pepsi, when you add up all the trucks, vending machines, stadium signage, point-of-sale materials and more around the world, it could easily tally several hundred million dollars, the expert said.
The new logo is a white band in the middle of Pepsi’s circle that loosely forms a series of smiles: A smile will characterize brand Pepsi, while a grin is used for Diet Pepsi and a laugh is used for Pepsi Max. The new logo is Pepsi’s 11th in its 110-year history. Five logos have been introduced in the past 21 years, with the last update in 2002.
Sadly, there are actually no vocalizing snacks. Banksy’s statements, like much of his pranksterish oeuvre, should be taken with a grain of salt. But there’s no denying the show’s attention to comically pointed detail. -NYT
i decided to’upgrade’ the header by making it random. Would love to get submissions from you guys, just e-mail me your own designs. Here’s the rules:
1. Spell the word dreams. Can be in other languages.
2. Dimensions are 250×80
3. Submit as many as you want
4. Nothing NSFW please.
5. Files should be exported to jpeg.
Anything goes! E-mail them to me at neonspice@gmail.com with subject “dreams header”.
Marshall McLuhan argues in The Medium is the Massagethat the dominant communication media of our time will shape the way humans think, act, and ultimately perceive the world around them. Technologies—from clothing to the wheel to the book, and beyond—are the messages themselves, not the content of the medium. In essence, The Medium is the Massage is a graphical and creative representation of his ‘medium is the message’ thesis seen in Understanding Media.
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