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It's Awards Time In Advertising: See The Top Winners From The One Show
Ad awards season is in full swing and one of the industry’s top shows, The One Show, handed out its citations in New York last night. Among the winners, one person stood way above the rest. Because she’s 25-feet tall. Little Marina , the animatronic blogging giantess, nabbed Best of Show honors for Target and agency Mother New York at One Club 's award show, which celebrates the year’s best offerings in creative advertising. Marina was created as part of a Fashion Week promo for the Missoni collection at Target. "She" was a giant, fashion-obsessed doll who recorded her thoughts about style on a blog .Rob Dyrdek's Cousin Apologizes to Hells Angels Sorry I Jacked Your Logo! Exclusive Rob Dyrdek 's cousin -- the guy behind the " Young & Reckless " clothing label -- rues the day he accidentally ripped off the infamous Hells Angels death logo for his t-shirt line ... telling us, he's deeply sorry for the mix-up. TMZ broke the story ... The Hells Angels sued MTV and Rob Dyrdek's company -- claiming Dyrdek was behind the shameless logo jacking -- but last night outside Boa Steakhouse, the MTV star set the record straight ... insisting he has NOTHING to do with the "Young & Reckless" clothing line. Dyrdek then throws his cousin Chris "Drama" Pfaff under the bus -- claiming Y&R is 100% owned by him ... so "if you need to stomp anyone out, stomp this guy out."
Rob Dyrdek's Cousin Apologizes to Hells Angels -- Sorry I Ripped Off Your Logo!
Money as Art: Dollar Origami by Won Park
By Mike Payne Artist Won Park has developed a hobby fraught with existential conflict. When faced with the choice of making money or making art, Park chose both.
Rube Goldberg Machines complete a simple task in the most inefficient way possible.
Watch A Tiny Rube Goldberg Machine That Makes Postcards
Music videos have come a long, long way since back when The Buggles and their new wave aesthetic killed the radio star. SSENSE , a luxury retail company based out of Montreal, has recently introduced what they’re billing as the “world’s first interactive shoppable music video.” And yup, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. I Think She Ready features Diplo, FKi, and Iggy Azalea all decked out and styled in brands and items carried by the site, while WireWax technology, which enables users to tag videos in essentially the same way they would a Facebook post, makes the "interactive shoppable" part possible. After pressing play, navigating the video is an exercise in trackpad (or mouse) adeptness. Certain ensembles are tagged with text boxes that appear alerting--or imploring--you to “Shop This Look.”
Watch The World's First Shoppable Music Video
Lunar Rethinks Rock Climbing Walls, Making Them Slicker And Smarter
Few things say filthy rich more succinctly than an indoor rock-climbing wall.
Posted by hipstomp | 30 Apr 2012 | Comments (6) Last month I did a rendering gig for a client that involved blending their design with elements from photos of a competitor's design and dropping the whole thing into a photorealistic environment. Pretty standard stuff, and I always use Photoshop for these types of jobs.
New Photoshop CS6 "Content-Aware" Feature Will Destroy My Billable Hours
New York photographer William Miller thought he scored big when he snapped up an old Polaroid SX-70 at a yard sale for $20.
A Broken Polaroid Camera Spits Out Amazing Abstract Art
Make Your Name Into A Jingle With Music Box Business Cards
The business card has already seen its heyday--and that heyday was likely linked to a bunch of CEOs scraping girthy, celebratory lines of cocaine off a boardroom table following a stock tip on some exciting new company called Enron. Color printing couldn’t save it. Vertical orientation couldn’t save it.
50 Photoshop Tricks for a Fast-Paced Work Environment
Are you a designer on a deadline? If you are, then I’m sure you can recall the last time you thought to yourself, “if I had a little more time, I could…” what? Polish that button? Find a better hero image?Some games come out of nowhere and grab you, shake you around and then vanish. While longevity in a gaming app is a great thing, we can't help but reminisce about those fleeting apps that bring a little moment of magic into a quiet evening. Today's App of the Day might be one of those apps.