Around 1980, I was running a public art gallery in North Vancouver (Presentation House) whose mandate I had changed to one of photography. In the early days, I brought to it, two exhibitions of work by Ansel Adams. I love his photography and it seemed like a good fit for our mountainous region of Canada, [...]
Category Archives: Art & Commerce
She’s Only With Him for His Biscuits
Friday, July 2, 2010
“She’s only with him for his biscuits.”
Advertising Agency: CLM BBDO, Boulogne Billancourt, France
Creative Directors: Gilles Fichteberg, Jean-François Sacco
Art Director: Lucie Vallotton
Copywriter: Julien Perrard
Photographer: Clive Stewart
Art buyer : Sylvie Etchemaite
Post-Production : Clive Stewart/Picto
Published: March 2010
From “I Believe in Advertising.” Link.
Top 10 Most Expensive Photos In The World Ever Sold
Friday, July 2, 2010
You’ll be surprised. I know I was. This is No. 10, by Robert Mapplethorpe. Link.
Good Design in Bad Taste
Saturday, June 26, 2010
This campaign had to have been done by young people. I wonder how many and who was responsible for this because it is so incredibly tasteless (to me anyway).
Thanks to The Daily Dish.
Design Ideas + The Internet
Saturday, June 26, 2010
One day, you come across something really unique on the web that speaks to me as a visual thinker. Time passes and then one day you discover another artist has riffed on the same idea. Then you see another and then someone sends you an email because they know about your interests, and they ask, [...]
Oh MY God, I Am on YouTube
Friday, June 18, 2010
I thought this filming was destined for the University website where I teach. it may be there too. But it is on YouTube. Me. Mr. No Cell Phone. Me. Mr. No Facebook, Mr. No Twitter. Me. Mr. Old World Forever. Mr. Technophobe. I am on Youtube.
Penis (Shadow) Goes Mainstream
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Advertising has hit a new high low, depending on your point of view. The ad is for a dating service in Miami Living Magazine. This image is off the Huffington Post website and they drew the circle and added the arrow. Link.
Clever Ad
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
“Free wi-fi Coils” is an advertisement developed by the DDB Agency in Sydney, Australia. Via The Hub Magazine.
Yulia Brodskaya, graphic artist
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Yulia Brodskaya was born in Russia (Moscow); prior to moving to the UK in 2004 she was interested in diverse creative practices ranging from Textile Painting, Origami and Collage to more traditional Fine Art practices. Following an MA in Graphic Communication (2006, University of Hertfordshire) she continued to experiment and explore ways of bringing together [...]