the ads were designed for an upcoming media seminar with the overall theme of 'what's new today, is old tomorrow', so they retro stylized Facebook, Youtube and Skype (and Twitter, not in English).
Brazilian artists Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (also known as 'Os Gemeos') and graffiti legend Futura have just completed an 80-feet-high mural on the wall of a New York school.
The project was driven by New York-based creative studio AKANYC and street art website 12ozProphet with support from Nike (tying in with its World Basketball Festival) and paint company MTN Colors.
The mural is on the west-facing wall of P.S. 11, William T. Harris elementary school, in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. Work began on the afternoon of Friday, August 6, and was completed today, August 13.
The overall theme, we are told, is a message of international unity. Os Gemeos' iconic yellow character (sometimes referred to as as 'the giant' or ʻgiganteʼ) is adorned with flags representing countries around the globe. Of the design, Os Gemeos says, 'We are using different flags painted with non-traditional colours. The idea is 'one world one voice', no borders, no separation, just everything and everyone working together for a single cause that is a better world.' Seems like they did the bulk of the work, with Futura adding details within the overall scheme.
AKANYC creative director Allen Benedikt hopes 'to create a regular mural series that we believe will inspire and enrich the creative communities throughout the city'.
All images courtesy AKANYC
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Designed by Bangkok advertising agency CreativeJuice for plastic model kit giant Tamiya, the letters in this card can be popped out and snapped together to build a robot, a plane, a boat, or a car. [via NOTCOT]
Retargeter has an interesting infographic on online advertising (click for the large version):
Google has released a tool which lets you preview and live-edit fonts which are part of the Google Font API. It’s called Google Font Previewer and features fonts like Vollkorn, Lobster, Cardo and Reanie Beanie. Once you’re done tweaking a font, you can copy the HTML snippet Google shows into your own page.
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Font Previewer | Comments]
Perhaps bad news for the traffic of dictionary sites, which often don’t show the actual word definition in the search engine snippets: Google now has a onebox of their own immediately offering the definition(s) for certain words you’re searching for. Try enter e.g. pleasant into Google.com and the top will read: “pleas·ant/ˈplezənt/Adjective ... 1. Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment. ... 2. (of a person or their manner) Friendly and considerate; likable.”
Not too long ago, Google used to link words to Answers.com in the right hand side; before that, Dictionary.com. They later switched to their own definitions page, but then had that link removed completely (it was somewhat useful to check if you were writing a word correctly, though). Now a dictionary is back for certain words – I suppose words people often want to look up in a dictionary, per Google’s usage stats – and more immediate, too. Note entering e.g. define:pleasant still works, too, and triggers a bit of a more extensive page.
[Thanks Drtimofey!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google With Direct Dictionary Result | Comments]
