Pizza, Bea Arthur and Mountains

Yep, that’s it, just Pizza, Bea Arthur and Moutains. Interesting blog in the vein of Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. Somehow seemed appropriate for a Friday.

A poochstache

It’s not unusual to show up at Sukle to a gaggle of hairy four-leggeds. Folks like to bring their dogs on occasion to hang w/ us whilst we work away on our favorite clients. They seem to enjoy roaming the premises, and we get much enjoyment having them around. However, I believe we could get a lot more enjoyment from them if they all had rather large handlebar mustaches. Que drum roll: Humunga Stache dog toy.

America!

As if we didn’t already love the Heads of State, now we want to have their babies. Kidding, but we stumbled across their travel poster series and just love ‘em. These guys rock!

YES!

Whoever thought of this: you are my hero. I am about to institute this immediately.

Animals with lightsabres.

I love it when animals break out their Star Wars skills on each other and unsuspecting, and very deserving, humans. Animals with Lightsabres.

How many billboards project

Oh leave it to LA to mix the artwork with the advertising, you pioneers, you. The How Many Billboards show is based on the philosophical proposition: art should occupy a visible position in the cacophony of mediated images in the city, and it should do so without merely adding to the visual noise. The thought is that art periodically displace advertisement in the urban environment.

Billboards are a dominant feature of the landscape in Los Angeles. Thousands line the city’s thoroughfares, delivering high-end commercial messages to a repeat audience. Given outdoor advertising’s strong presence in public space, it seems reasonable and exciting to set up the possibility for art to be present in this field. The sudden existence of artistic speech mixed in with commercial speech provides a refreshing change of pace. Commercial messaging tells you to buy; artistic messaging encourages you to look and to think.

The artist’s work will be up until the end of March.

Plate of, well, stuff that looks like food.

These shots of faux food by David Sykes are really great. I think I’ll be heading out for some fish and chips tonight. Check ‘em here.

I dunno, maybe it’s called a “cark”?

Ok, I don’t have a cat, but if I did, it’d surely be sporting this little contraption. Buy your cat one on etsy.

Poster Porn

Was surfing around on Grain Edit and found a cool post about a poster show by Polish design unit Homework. I found the modern posters to be very nice. Nice to stumble upon these.

New post its

Post it notes line the pages of our Advertising and Design annuals. We constantly cruise these books of greatness and stick labels on pages we like, which means they get pretty darn full of random notes and papers. These grass blade versions of the ol’ standby would be a great improvement, and I know somehow there’s a great idea in them for our client, Denver Water. We focus a lot of our energy on trying to educate people about watering their grass properly, as outdoor watering accounts for 50% of total household water use. These guys could play into that in some sort of a guerrilla advertising sort of way. Maybe you’ll see them in our next campaign? Check them out here.

Great print

A really nice print made from all the ingredients in a ham and cheese Hot Pocket. Good stuff. Check it out here, by Justin Perricone

Feltron does it again.

Nicholas Felton has released his Annual Report for ’09. Each one is an amazing piece of design, but more impressive is his dedication to keeping track of his daily encounters, meals, drinks, etc. Amazing stuff, and we’re guessing he’s quite the OCD case. I believe they are avail to purchase if you’d like a print of one of these beauties, but you can check the graphics here on his site if you want to, and I recommend you do.

3-d desktop activity

I just downloaded Bumptop and I have to say, on first impression, I’m liking it. I watched a demo of a 3-d desktop on ted.com recently, and was amazed by the functionality and fun of it all. Surprisingly, almost all the features shown by the featured speaker on ted are included in this free mac 3-d desktop application. Watch the vid on the site, you’ll see how you can use all four walls and floor for storage, as well as stacking of files. Quite neato.

PS- just discovered in preferences that you can change the wallpaper for all walls and floor. Check in prefs, which you get to from icon on top bar in finder.

Great if you have hot coworkers

More good humor from DDB, Chicago.

Awkward stock photos

Those of us who work in advertising spend a good bit of time surfing stock photo sites for images to use in creative presentations and even for final production of work on occasion. We spend many hours pouring through pages and pages of images, looking for just what we need. And yes, occasionally you come across something so odd that it provides that moment of entertainment you were needing to make your fruitless search a little less painful. Well, now someone has taken that moment of levity and multiplied it into a whole website chock full o’ odd stock photos. Take a peek at awkward stock photos for yourself.