Alright…let’s start this entry off with a Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote short, easily one of my favorite duo’s in cartoons.
Now that your brain is thinking cartoons, I want to talk about the Art Gallery of Alberta’s Warner Bros. exhibit that opened up last week. While I personally have not had a chance to see the actual exhibit itself, some of the promotional pieces and events promoting the exhibit are definitely creating a lot of excitement and buzz.
AGA commissioned local illustrators Keith-yin Sun and Judi Chan to do a post card series, where they took classic Warner Bros. characters and gave them an awesome retro-minimalist spin. Check some of them out below…
If the beautiful postcard series and an art gallery exhibit about cartoons isn’t enough to entice you, how about a full blown opening gala? On July 10th, AGA will be hosting a Late Night Art Party, part of their Refinery party series. The event will feature performances from Alberta artists and DJs including interactive live drawings by local designer Sarah Jackson and a limited edition graphic novel penned by Josh Holinaty, an Edmonton illustrator. Sounds like it’s going to be a great time! Come hang out with Urban Jungle that night!
Anyone out there sick of seeing animals in ad campaigns?
Telus is apparently “unleashing” something new this week. Let me guess…a lion? Perhaps a tiger or maybe even a bear? Oh my! How original! While Telus’ animal theme is one of the most memorable campaigns in Canadian ad history, after 10 years of the cuteness I now find it all rather boring. It’s time for something new.
GoAuto? Same thing. We get it – dogs. Fido? Ditto. Cute puppies. Very unique.
Playing off animals is such a played out theme, so I was pretty skeptical when I heard that AT&T was going to be jumping on the animal bandwagon. However, after seeing the ads I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised.
They’ve successfully put a new twist on the animal concept which is pretty cool.
Using just hands and a phone, AT&T melds 2 popular ideas of painting hands, along with animals to make a moderately unique campaign. Not only do they incorporate beautiful colors and country specificity, but they maintain a unique style and inject the human element back into the animal theme. Yes! Humans! Go figure.
In the quest for the most magnetic, persuasive, and inspiring marketing strategies ever, Urban Jungle adds four new talented ladies to the ever-growing team.
We are pleased to announce that Priya Bhasin-Singh, Koren Cherkewich, Angeline Stewart and Danna Beatty are bringing their enthusiasm, talents and experience to Urban Jungle and, more importantly, to our clients.
In a world where only the strongest survive, these relationship managers are more than ready to take on the challenging role, doing whatever it takes to meet client needs and achieve ultimate success.
We look forward to sharing the adventure with Priya, Koren, Angeline and Danna.
I’d like to share a little bit of my inspiration process with you today. It’s very easy to look at a singular item and think to ourselves, ‘I like this, I don’t like that’… but pulling together a cohesive brand presence incorporating the look, the energy, the spirit, and the voice across multiple mediums can sometimes feel frustrating and at times even impossible. Especially when you have a myriad of stakeholders and agendas.
One thing I have always tried to maintain in my creative process is to constantly be open what’s going on in other creative outlets. The cool thing is that inspiration can really come from anywhere. For example, the curves and lines of a brochure piece might be inspired by the lines of a clothing design; a color composition for a new corporate identity might be inspired by an abstract painting I saw in an art gallery. Inspiration can essentially come from anywhere. Even the most brutal designs inspire me – I want to do it better.
Almost everything I see and do gets digested (either consciously, subconsciously or superconsciously) and comes out in my work. Designers, like painters, sculptors, writers and musicians, have a distinct way of looking at the world around them and translating what they see into something new and beautiful so that others can learn to appreciate it. Everyday I feel blessed to have the opportunity to explore my creativity through my work, and I don’t think that is something that everyone can say.
Found on VisualComplexity.com, this beautiful but disturbing poster examines global human trafficking.
“It depicts each country’s level of involvement (from Very High to Very Low) as either a country of destination or origin. The project concentrates on the smuggling of people from one country to another – mainly illegally. In many cases these people are forced to do work that is illegal, such as prostitution or child labor.”
The poster was created by Taulant Bushi, the original image can be found at http://tinyurl.com/22jkm9
A few months ago 8 artists gathered in Cape Town, South Africa to paint about the fate of the earth.
Are we doomed? Will the human race persevere? You decide.
Zach Beane had an idea for displaying box office data graphically. Each graph displays trends in the top 25 movies at the box office for each weekend in a year. The color is based on the movie’s debut week. Because of that, long-running movies will gradually start to stand out from newer movies with different colors. This is so absolutely stunning I had to share it.
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