Fun
The Ad Generator
The ad generator is a generative artwork that explores how advertising uses and manipulates language. Words and semantic structures from real corporate slogans are remixed and randomized to generate invented slogans. These slogans are then paired with related images from … Read
Hilarious Web 2.0 & Marketing Caricatures :)
Web 2.0 RSS / XML / OPML / What? More at Karzoogle
Arabic AdSense & Body Bags
Interesting, funny, business harming what I just saw on Brand Infection: Arabic Google AdSense listings. I wonder what Google’s algorithm has picked up to display this ad!?
Dilbert: What Sales People (Usually) Do
Web 2.0 Logo Creator
Following the bubbly hype around web 2.0 brands, here’s some fun: the Web 2.0 Logo Creator lets you choose a fancy name, graphical effects and of course, a beta-tag. By the way, if you ever need to come up with … Read
Rrrring. Pick Up Mouse. Hello?
Funky, dumb, cool(?) gadget by Sony in cooperation with Skype: a mouse-phone, eh phone-mouse, hm. The Sony VAIO VN-CX1 functions just like any optical mouse, but when you press a small button on the side it transforms into a VoIP … Read
Simpsons for real
Great work: the intro of the Simpsons. With real people in real cars.
Branded Eggs
It had to happen. Soon after writing about logos on chocolate I found EggFusion, a company producing branded eggs. Marketers will pay for On-Egg messaging in order to put their logo and farmers will get more profit as they get … Read
Your Logo Made Out Of Chocolate
I found this through a Google Ad on my own page and thought it might interest you. There’s a company called Choco Logo that will create custom chocolaterie with your corporate design. Their products range from embossed chocolate bars, sugar … Read
Even more urinals, damn!
When is this gonna stop!? Ok, this time it’s not really an advertisement but I think it would still create an entertaining picture on the toilet. Found in Sofitel Melbourne, Australia
Brands in the Netherlands – Back from Holidays
I’m back from Amsterdam where I spent a relaxing holiday and met interesting people, like Niclas from Reuters. Thanks for the good time! Here are some interesting brand shots I took for you: 1. Brand Beer, a quite tasty beverage … Read
Starbucks – Have you seen my nipples? The Bubble Project
Another picture Starbucks never approved but still is interesting as it shows what The Bubble Project is about: Ji Lee, a critical consumer based in New York has printed 15,000 blank stickers (the bubbles) and put them at various places … Read
Starbucks – Asses get branded
Likely not endorsed by Starbucks (Brand Directory: Starbucks), or any of the other brands in this collection of body art, South Korean body artists Kim-Joon has painted some very nice looking asses with the brand iconography of Adidas, Starbucks and … Read
iMac Chocolate Cigarettes
Found by a boing-boing reader: “On her way back from Day of the Dead in Chiapas, my wife picked up this iMac pack of chocolate cigarettes in the Mexico City airport.” I remember chocolate cigarettes from my childhood and they … Read
