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Standard Time Los Angeles, not your standard small agency.

Paragraph type: Text & HTML You might not have heard of Standard Time, the L.A.
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King and Country Creates Bold and Iconic Logo for History Channel’s Epic “Vikings” Series

Earlier this month, "Vikings,” History Channel's first full-length, scripted series premiered, arriving on the heels of the massively succes
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Ballantine's - The T-shirt OS / The wearable, shareable, programmable t-shirt - (2012)

The t-shirt was the status update before the status update
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Is adidas racist or stupid?

Everybody's favorite German shoe company, adidas, decided the pair of JS Round House Mids with shackles would be just the thing to attract the hi

Coke creates iconic "hands" image as a new twist on classic ribbon, Hong Kong

Jonathan Mak Long created a tribute to Steve Jobs that went viral, which landed him the gig of creating another iconic image for Cooke.
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The Associated Press took the wraps off a new visual identity and logo today.

The Associated Press took the wraps off a new visual identity today, including a new logo.
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Urban outfitters carbon copy of Truche's United world of Love design

The other day, when my way too cool for school teenage niece asked me if I liked Urban Outfitters, I bit my tongue not to roll into a Badland tirade.

Dadibos looks like Adidas

United/Continental new logo is uniting everyone in hating it.

Alissa Walker at Fast Company has taken note - and ripped apart - the new United & Continental logo mashup.
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Radostar announces winners of Milan Zona Tortona trip. Dabitch is one of them.

Radostar announced the winners of the Zona Tortona trip, and here's the shocker (for me) - I'm one of them - winning for my Cosmonaut wall p

An ode to those olympic stick figure dudes

The New York Times has a really nice history of Olympic pictograms.
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Medal Paints - Underwear, Gun, Karate Belt - South Africa

As any Art director (and designer) will tell you, color matters.

Manchester United turns into Indonesia united #indonesiaunite

Great ideas exist everywhere. Even your mom has them. Advertising and design ideas are different.

Burger King copy Resident Evil shirt with their own creepy ZOMBIE. Badland.

What the? Ok, fine, fair enough - people have been calling that creepy masked Burger King King-dude creepy pretty much since he first appeared.
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Brains! Zombie must eat Brains! Resident Evil shirt turn you into monster.

Oh hello, KYOOT idea Deezie's Blog shows off new Resident Evil shirts, that double as brain-eating Zombie halloween masks.
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Adland interrupts this broadcast to show you our new test card pattern.

Over at Design By Hümans (oh god, the stupid use of a silent umlaut) there's a test pattern "creatures" T-shirt.
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NY Times: Super Bowl Logos

The New York Times has a nice compilation of Super Bowl logos from 1 - 43.
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The D&AD Annual as designed by Neville Brody = hawt.

This is a sneak peek on the 2008 D&AD annual as designed by Neville Brody. See what he's done there? See the pencil shapes?
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Alex White - "Advertising design and typography" - the new bible book for budding designers.

When I first spotted this book, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
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The Royal Mint jigsaw coin design

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Graphic Design as a Second Language: Bob Gill (Hands on Graphics)

This publication is part of the Handson Graphics series - an exciting and unique collection exploring the work of respected and highly talented intern
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Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design: Including the Ones in this Book

Bob Gill is a genius when it comes to graphic design, and this book is the proof of it.
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LogoMania

The quick-hit format gives designers easy access to creative ideas.

Hut Weber Hats - Hitler vs Chaplin "It's the hat"

The clothing really does make the man, even if they have strange taste in facial hair.
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Total Beverage gets a Total Rehaul created by Suckle

Total Beverage is a super-huge, enourmous, gigantic, really really big liquor store in Westminister Colorado.
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Rich Silverstein distills eight years of history into three posters.

Arianna Huffington of the Huffingtonpost asked Rich Silverstein of Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners fame if he might have some ideas on how to help t
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HP corners the cookie-cutter design markets, rolls out TV ads for Logoworks.

There were many who weren't pleased when Paula Scher will design your letterhead for free via HP.
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The Guardians colourful campaign by W+K, UK, previously Olvietti ads?

Man, that recent campaign for The Guardian is just yummy looking isn't it? But have we seen it before...? Oh we might have..........
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Logo Design (Midi Series)

What's your sign?
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Designing Brand Identity: A Complete Guide to Creating, Building, and Maintaining Strong Brands

This innovative approach -- blending practicality and creativity -- is now in full-color!

Gyro and Lightborne team up for Lee Cooper Jeans ad campaign

Paragraph type: Text & HTML Motion design and production collective Lightborne recently created a multi-pronged campaign for Lee Cooper Jeans
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Troika Design Group Establishes Brand Identity for The CW Network

Come this September 20th, a new primetime TV network will hit the air (the first in 10 years!) with a logo, tagline, aesthetic, and on-air identity cr
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Nando's Limited Coca Cola Bottle for Freedom Day

Freedom Day, celebrated April 27th in South Africa, provided the perfect opportunity for Cross Colours to develop a collector's Coke bottle for t

The Comic Sans Candidate

“I’m Pete Ricketts and I believe in kids, America, apple pie and fun fonts!” Well, I’m Tom Nemitz and I believe when a congressional candidate uses
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Coca Cola tries to be exclusive

Armchair Media has created some funky new bottles for Coca Cola.
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Logo Twins, Quarks new look is Scottish Arts Council's old look.

Uh-oh! Quark express has decided to get a new look - the only problem is that someone else is already wearing it, the Scottish Arts Council.
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Nike is paying homage to... Or plagiarising?

Minor Theft - over at Pitchforkmedia one can see comparisons between Minor Threats cover art and a current Nike poster.
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Logo twins mean very different things

It's The Font, Stupid

An op-ed piece in The New York Times (registration required) examines the design and typography of the U.S. presidential candidates' logos.
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Elite Designers against Ikea campaign

Elite Designers against Ikea The big blue place is odious, its affordable design is sickeningly shallow and we loathe it even more than we loathe f
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Grafill - Visueltkonkurransen Visual award in Norway stunning

Grafill award has just had a great year, the lines between illustration and design have blurred, the bar been raised and the only problem really is th
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New Colors - "Toning Down The Colors Of Benetton"

In the revamped Colors, the magazine owned by the Italian apparel company Benetton that arrives on newsstands today, emotion and mayhem charge through
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Big ideas in small logos - twice.

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Trimming the Christmas bush

Another ad makes use of pubic hair - remember the ingenious Remington ad earlier this year that wrote the bodycopy in the illustrations pubic hair?
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Remember Auschwitz souvenirs spark controversy.

Here's some controversy about clothing. According to Yahoo!
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Unspecial effects for graphic designers - Bob Gill

Graphic designer says: to hell with special effects.
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Target - Philippe Starck (2002) - 0:30 (USA)

Philippe Starck designed items for Target, where you can get design for less. 
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72 dpi - anime - Adland Haiku Challenge - Win the book.

Die Gestalten Verlag has published a most delish collection of animations from the web hottest artists in 72dpi-Anime .

Wall Street Journal Redux

On April 9, the Wall Street Journal went to the newsstands with a new redesign.

Randall Cosco gets Adbusters shown on CNN

Vancouver based photographer Randell Cosco has burned a few bridges and flags in his life, but he wasn't quite prepared for the hoopla his image

Sony Playstation - Can / Play - print (2001) Hungary

 Alex Szénássy did pretty much everything wit this ad, but when you get a visual idea, why not just roll with it. 

Illum Department Store - Door Mats / Cat - print (2001) Denmark

When the gorgeous new interior design items and furniture arrive at Illum, so you want to keep your new living room pristine.
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Gill sans special effects

Bob Gill has finally crammed some of his best work into one book for the ultimate drool tool.

Target - Beautiful World - Red (2001) - 0:30 (USA)

Target - Wonderful Place - Blue (2001) - 0:30 (USA)

Exhibition of Gill's sense

The publication of Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers will coincide with a major exhibition of Gill's design and illustration.
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A Communicator's Credo

The big idea will always be what great advertising is all about
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Logo A Go Go

Adobe Systems, the company whose software touches so many our lives, appears to be softly launching a new brand image.

Chanel - Red Ridinghood Wolf- (1999) 0:60 (France)

A new beautifully designed fashion twist on an old fairytale.

Old Navy - Track Pants (CA classic) - 0:30 (USA)

Ethan Allen - Chairs - Listen (1998) 30 sec advert USA

Ethan Allen - Chairs - Listen (1998) 30 sec advert USA

Pepsi "Cool Cans" printad 1990

In 1990 Pepsi released a series of limited-edition art cans.

'Tate by Tube' - tube poster UK

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Genesse Beer - Box (regional) (1986) - 0:10 (USA)

Why buy a twelve-pack that is a rip-off?

St. Ivel Gold - Chop - (1984) 0:20 (UK)

K-Tel international - Break-Master (early 1980s classic) 0:30 (USA)

HOW TO: set up your own competitions

"Sony International Logotype Design Contest" - top three - 1981, printad

This ad was printed in a 1981 issue of Time, it's how Sony ended a crowdsourcing logo design competition.

Kotex - Be John's wife. Be Kathy's mother. Be your own woman. (1972) print

"Be John's wife. Be Kathy's mother. Be your own woman. But be sure"

"Scroll along in panty hose by Berkshire" (1970) printad

"the leg goes for a Scroll in Berkshire's sheer, sandalfoot panty hose of Actionwear."

Kotex "be new, be natural, be now and forever" - 1970 print

Anthony Muto designed the funky flower power gown in this advert.

American Airlines - You won't believe you're on an Airplane - printad, 1970

This airplane is so hip, you wouldn't even know it was an airplane!

Braniff International Airlines - Souvenir hunting granny - (1969)

With the redesign of the airline, Braniff soon found that people were taking a lot of souvenirs from the airplanes.

True Two - Smart filter Menthol and Blue (1968) print USA

Making smoking menthol's hip, Vince Cullers advertising agency created a modern fashionable pattern out of the logo on the pack, possibly startin

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