In the cool but pointless category, Brazilian retailer C&A (Is that the same C&A that used to exist in the UK?) has started displaying the number of likes items of clothing have received on their Facebook page. I was lead to believe that Facebook wasn’t very big in Brazil and they all use Orkut but that’s besides the point.
As the venture beat article points out online shopping is usually based on the images, and pictures don’t tell you how well made an item is or how the fabric feels. Something that looks really nice can feel like it’s made from camel testicles.
I’ve seen this several times before but my Dad just emailed it to me and I thought I’d share it in case anyone hadn’t seen it. The website for Fukitol lists many details about this wonder drug such as the side effects:
New prescribers should be aware that during treatment 99.2% of patients experienced some combination of the following side affects:
Uncontrollable laughter, occasionally resulting in slightly wetted pants
Hallucinations with vivid colors and occasionally talking animals
Dramatic increases in attention from the opposite sex
Frequent spontaneous sexual arousal
Penis or Breast enlargement
Random Travel Hair re-growth
Artificial insemination
Weight Loss
Munchies
No patients stopped taking FUKITOL due to these side effects.
On a completely separate note if you use Zemanta for content recommendations the text for this post results in some disturbing image suggestions… But it also suggests I add this:
This image was tweeted by @iJoyce, the water mark lists “Life Technologies” as the source but I can’t find a link to the image on their site and it may well be that it’s just the first image that is theirs rather than the whole thing.
It is reminiscent of the image I posted in November last year which had a similar theme but with art as the subject.
This is a fairly cool marketing stunt. In order to drum up awareness of the new TV channel TNT Belgium put an innocuous red button on a plinth with a floating sign that said “Press for drama” on it. When people pressed it DRAMA happened…
Apparently in Japan they advertise for recruits to the Special Defense Force (Japan aren’t allowed to have a military due to a clause that was added to their constitution after WWII) using manga. Look at how cute that girl is, she is missing her boyfriend who is away helping people for his country. The above image is from the 2012 campaign below are the 2011 and 2010 posters.
These made me chuckle, and I can see the truth in most of them. They are by someone called Matt Stevenson but I can’t find any link to lead you to him.
I’m not got an artistic bone in my body but I love this PSA Style advert that Team Detroit put together for the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. Make I’d love to see a video version of this in the Style of Samantha Fu’s Discotheque:
It’s 5 Am do you know where your teenager is?
Some say they come looking for Pastels, Water Colours and Pottery?
This is a series of posters by Laura C. Corbilla which revolve around the theme of well known video games to promote DrinkAware.co.uk I like the idea but to be honest they look a little too clean to me. I’m no graphic designer but in order to evoke the true spirit (I’m sorry…) of the subject matter the images should have been pixel art rather than vector graphics.
