Who’s your_______

This is pretty funny, right? Talk about targeting college kids for your marketing campaign…

Weekly tunage

While surfing the Coudal site and reading up on layer tennis (cool), I navigated to one of the layer tennis guy’s sites, and thru a link there found this site. It’s some folks’ blog-type deal where you can get a weekly mix of mp3s to listen to. Personally, I am just bout to try my first mix, so I can’t currently report on the content of the material (hoping for slim amounts of death metal), but what I CAN tell you is the site is designed oh-so-nicely. And we like this.

Just lampin’

So, this lamp is pretty radical. Guess, like us, this artist also liked G.I. Joe growing up. Anyway, it’s a bunch of action figures glued together, and we all know action figures are cool whether you have them battling, posing or just making interesting home furnishings. Check out the post on boing boing here.

How we make it thru the day at Sukle:

We love fake eyeball stickers to put on your eyelids. Naps abound here at Sukle while Mike thinks we’re all just wired awake and working furiously. It’s genius.

Superblow

We just wanted to say that a few of us Sukloids gathered for the big game to inhale trans fat items and beer, and to watch the game/ads. The superbowl is always a bit of a bittersweet event: it’s the championship, but also the LAST football game for months. So, it’s always sad realizing there’ll be no more weekends of gluttonous TV watching. But, the upside is that you usually see some pretty groundbreaking and entertaining commercials. Seeing as how we like to make ads, this is a big day for us, this Superbowl Sunday.

Well, this year, ad-wise, we rank it a C-. And that’s being nice. The game was great (love seeing Brady eat turf), but the ads let us down. Hardly any were worth remembering, and very few were even funny. For all the millions spent and HUGE agency participation, we were expecting much more. Weak sauce, adworld, weak sauce.

We like positive reviews:

We were sent this link from a librarian’s blog, and we found it pretty cool. Yes, it’s more praise for our Denver Water Use Only What You Need work. Yes, it’s on another blog. We weren’t sharing to pat ourselves on the back again, but merely because we found it cool that someone in another market and another industry all together “got it” enough to write about it on their blog (and in a really informed way).

Makes us feel good when our work really is doing what it should- working.

O master of timesheets,  timeliest of timely timesheeting timesheeter. Congrats to Matt for really staying present on his timesheets and showing us all how it should be done. We’ve hereby nominated, and voted him in, as employee of the month (first ever distinction at Sukle). Not because he’s one of the most wicked retouch-master-pixel-wranglers in the west, but because he shames us with his neatness and precision timesheet skills.

Go Matt.

Sukle love Christmas

Well, it’s that time of year: the one where people put on sweaters, drink some strange egg-based booze concoctions, eat cookies and attend company and friend gatherings. Well, once again Michon has outdone herself preparing a festive event in the House of Sukle: the Third Annual Sukle party to honor employees, clients, friends of Suklites, cohorts, cronies, posse members and pals is slated to go off on Friday. We here in Sukleville are always looking forward to what silly happenings will go on at the party. Last year Mike wore a full length fur and pranced about….this year we’re pulling for elf tights. We are having DJ AdaPT spin some tunes, and we’re all really looking forward to the fun. And the ho, ho, hos (sorry, couldn’t resisit).

Would you rather…

fight mike tyson or talk like him?

toughie, right?

Another rebrand.

Yet another logo revamp. This one is surely minor as well as the NFL one we showed in earlier posts, but again a seemingly impoved mark. Seems a little more whimsical and playful (it IS a toy store after all) now, and the colors are nicer now, too. Seems improved…..but can’t help to wonder how to get some of these uber-large corps to start having us at Sukle do some of these rebrands. They seem to be major high visibility jobs, prob packing great budgets, and seemingly easier tasks, design-wise. To me, it seems much simpler to move a few elements around on a logo than to try to invent the wheel.

So, for all you big logo re-design needers out there: we’re interested.

Egotastic.

They’re not new, but they’re up. The Denver Egotist has featured our Wyoming Meth spots today, even tho we did ‘em last year, and love that they did. We enjoy the ads, and had a ball making them. The Meth is bad stuff, and we over here were appalled at what the ingredients actually were (gasoline, bleach, battery acid, etc), and how horribly it aged/affected your body. No likey The Meth. Hopefully these ads make the difference we intended, and help keep some folks from mething it up.

ARRRRGH, I LOVE Snickers.

This commercial makes me laugh out loud. Silly, but memorable.

Going Guerrilla

I guess someone sent over a link to this blog that deals with guerilla mktg/ads/design since our toilet stunt was on there. But, aside from enjoying seeing something we did on a cool blog, we really liked what we saw on this blog, and got me thinking: One of our recent revelations over at Sukle is that THIS is the future of Advertising and Design. No longer can you just go about your biz creating standard clever print, tv, outdoor and design…..now, you need to find new ways to engage the viewer. In this age of MILLIONS of messages cluttering your day to day lives, things need to now use the medium to help convey the message, and to also elevate entertainment value. We absolutely love this concept, and have been trying to incorporate it into our way of thinking, and into our executions for a while now, and are really excited to see where it takes us and the whole creative industry as a whole.

Cut paper is much better than paper cuts.

Umm, this is f*%@ing amazing stuff. If you haven’t even checked out Peter Callesen’s cut paper art, wow, you should. This guy takes paper sculpture to the absolute next level, and it all comes from one sheet. You won’t believe this…

Living green doesn’t just mean wearing burlap.

We found some cool sites using green/enviro friendly materials to make stuff that’s actually cool.

Scrapile is a company in Brooklyn that gathers scraps from most furniture producers in their areas, then laminates the scraps together and makes really cool furniture.

Mioculture has cool home accessories. check it.