Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success

Sports skills are life skills

Poopface

See the entire series for Huggies here.

Oh yeah!

The Kool-Aid man is back!

"Expanding on last year's “More smiles per gallon” campaign, the new ads focus on Kool-Aid's low price by comparing its drink mix to the higher cost of bottled soda. The ads claim “regular Kool-Aid goes almost three times further than soda,” but of course that is to be expected since soda and Kool-Aid are not the same thing. Despite this, the ads seem to be doing well at time when consumers are cutting back spending on non-essential items like soft drinks."

One of the new TV spots here.

Top 10 from the Dieline

Check out this Top 10 from last weeks collection of packaging from the Dieline. Love the retro Coke cans.

Absolutely awesome

Great limited edition package design for Absolut.

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More great VW print

Courtesy of DDB Germany. Awesome. As always.

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Biggest business mistakes of 2009

Arnell's Tropicana redesign comes it at number two on Forbes Dumbest moments in business 2009. Ouch.

Imagine leaderhip

Nothing short of entirely inspiring.

Social media disorder

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Dear American Airlines

Thought I would share this entertaining (and informative) back and forth between a UX designer and American Airlines. The designer wrote an open letter to AA (here), born from frustration, suggesting a rework of the airlines website; going as far as mocking up some of his ideas. The experiment gets interesting when one of AA's own UX designers responds with a well composed explanation (here) of why their site, well, sucks.

Worth the read.

Miles

Top 10 logo tips

Great top 10...

1. A logo doesn’t need to say what a company does


Restaurant logos don’t need to show food, dentist logos don’t need to show teeth, furniture store logos don’t need to show furniture. Just because it’s relevant, doesn’t mean you can’t do better.

Cont'd

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Strong dog frisbee

Love this piece for Iams 'strong dog' campaign from S&S Sydney. Nice work.

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Launch a Business, Not a Side Project

I think we have a serious problem in our industry.

I believe it generally started when Basecamp became quite successful and 37signals started to talk about their theories on the subject. Their basic mantra was “Don’t quit your day job to build a web app. Build it in your free time and use your day job to pay the bills until your new app brings in enough money to quit your day job.”

I used to agree with this, but now I think I’ve come full circle. Read on...

Design Strategy by Continuum

Resonance from Continuum on Vimeo.

International Society for Human Rights

The Mouse campaign; well done.

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Lights on

lights on from thesystemis on Vimeo.

Very cool, so long as you don't live next door.

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Creative Elegance - The power of incomplete ideas

Good little read. Download here.

Entreprenuers can change the world

Sweet spot for, phone service? After watching this bit I was expecting to be blown away by some new life changing product or service; but an 800 number? Really? Great work nonetheless.

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Straight outta '87

Great spot here promoting the next generation of the ever classic Punch Out.