Memes

In our lesson today a few of us in the class were having a informal discussion with our tutor Frank about the advertising industry and his personal experiences with in industry and as he was talking to us he came across 'Memes' and amoungst other things I found this to be really interesting.

A Meme is something that can be passed onto society through good advertising and he used the example of 'Simples' from the meerkat adverts... and I have noticed this happening before, but I never knew that there was an actual word or phrase to describe it.

Type Matters!

Ive just had a great lecture from one of my tutors about all of the different aspects of typography, its early days yet but I can see that im going to really take a great interest in typography. There is alot more to it than youd expect, not just in advertising but in other design areas.

Ive been asked to look at the work of the late Maggie Lewis who was a well know typographer in the 1980s.

Our tutor also asked us to have a look at TedTalks which are a numerous amount of talks by many people heres the link to the design section, looks like hours of intriguing talks on here!

http://www.ted.com/talks?tagid=26

I love to design when ever I get the chance.

These 4 images are of my own bedroom. In March of this year I redecorated it... or should I say re-designed it. From floor to ceiling it changed from a teenagers room to a young adults. As you can see on these photographs, it looks like a completly different room.

Even though I am doing a degree in Advertisng, I still show a great interest in interior design, and I always will do.

If you know what you want, you can transform any room from 1* to 5*

If I get stressed out I watch this :D

Quite possibly the most hilarious video online!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGeKSiCQkPw


ENJOY.

My first project of year 2: MAGRITTE at the Tate Northern

For my first project of second year I have to create ads that promote the Rene Magritte exhibition at the Tate Northen in Liverpool. In my research I found that Magrittes work is influenced primarily by surrealism.. and its fantastic!!!
I love how witty and enjoyable his work is...


This is probably one of the most recognisable pieces of Magrittes work... Its wonderfully weird




  I think its great how he obviously didnt care how people would react to some of his work. Even though some of his work is crude and some may consider it to be immature, I think its a good thing that he felt so free to literally create anything he wanted, even if people would find it hard to make any sense of.

Typography that makes me smile.

I think, any advertisement given the best possible typography will do well, even if its the most simple design it can be critical to the success of the campaign. There are hundreds of great examples of clever typography out there. 
These are a few examples of typography that I like, they are all from a wide variety of campaigns which I found on http://bestphotoshoptutorials.net/2009/03/19/40-examples-of-beautiful-typography-in-advertising-design/

This is fantastic, I love how Promotional posters, Album art work,  & Band photoshoots have been used to show the genre of music which is being advertised.

Warburtons & Hovis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3D-kftCsEg - Warburtons - this is hilarious most of you will remember this!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHxjRHX8TxE&feature=related
 - Hovis - this is fantastic, and it has the perfect line "As good today as its always been"

iPod: Nano Chromatic campaign... Its Bold and Brilliant!

I studied this campaign when I was doing my A-level Media project, and I still think its one of the best Apple have done. I think its great how bold it is...

The TV ad is so simple and it does the job of briefly taking the focus off the fact theyre music players; and showing that they are now available in any of these great colours!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxZ-0KbHq4E 

Virgin Atlantic; 25 years, still red hot!

"See a TV campaign marking the airline's 25th birthday with classic 1980s images such as yuppies, Asteroids and a Rubik's cube. It was created by ad agency RKCR"



I love this ad.. I could watch it over and over, its more like a music video. Im adding this because I think it represents just how critical music can be to a particular ad. I dont think this would have done anywhere near as well as it has on Youtube without the audio input.

Currently; 236,251 views!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cM4EOeJzHA

Also available on http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan/05/virgin-atlantic-ad this tells you about the whole campaign.

Dior Ad - with CGI Marilyn Monroe & other 'Old Hollywood' stars; Amazing!

     

I saw this a few days ago, and I thought it was a fantastic idea to use these old Hollywood stars. I think it helps continue Diors classy reputation. Its unbelieveable how perfect they have her mannerisms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlXGz2bFNL4