Feelin' lucky punk?

Well do you feel lucky punk? This is one of a series done for the lottery. Simplicity is beautiful and they hit it right on the nose. I love how it reminds us of our boring everyday routines and how we crave to break away, if only we had the extra cash to run off to a private island. This motivates me to invest in the lottery because the reward is well worth the investment, which is exactly what they want you to think so you will pump money into the competition. I'm not sure how much more I can describe this Ad because I think it's pretty self explanatory, which I think is what we all strive for as designers.

Blogging is the future, print has the history.

I thought this ad was funny because I was looking for something to write about in my blog. Print has a past present and future, hopefully. That is why I like this ad. It kind of poking at the fades of the internet and how they seem to come and go. Print was the basis of advertising and is still a huge part of what we do and seems to get the "shit end of the stick" when it comes to innovation because it seems it has all been done before. I disagree. I think people gloss over the print now because clients want to be in the social network rat race. Sure technology is fun and has a lot of possibilities to change the landscape of Advertising but like they say, don't forget your past or you are bound to make the same mistakes in the future.

Its music and I want it now!

Microsoft's new tagging system seems to be catching on everywhere. One place it has begun to pop up in is music. I think this is an awesome way to promote music. Usually when you hear a song you like on the TV or while your walking around downtown you try to remember the song until you can get to your house and look it up, but by then you have forgotten what you were looking for to begin with.  Using tagging is great because the consumer can check out the artist on the spot and then have a saved reminder for later when getting around to looking the song up on Itunes to download it. It is also a great idea for venues where small bands play on a regular basis. When walking by the place someone could scan the tag on the event poster and get streaming video of the bands to play and see exactly what they are all about. No more guessing and seeing crappy shows, you can know exactly what to expect before you ever buy your ticket. 

Gucci Gucci Gucci...Why?

This semester I would like to address a personal branding suicide to start off with. Since I have been hard at work lately to find an identity for myself as a designer and a personal brand, I decided to cruise the internet to see how others were doing the same thing. Jokingly I looked up Gucci Mane, the famous Atl rapper, to see what he had done to make himself so famous. But instead of finding examples of how he bettered his brand, I found a reason for why I think he made one of the worst branding decisions ever. In the picture above you can see he tattooed an ice cream cone on his face. Now he isn't the first rapper to get a tattoo on his face, but I can honestly say he takes the cake for worst idea ever. I don't understand how the tattoo artist agreed to go through with it to begin with, other than the press it was going to receive would put his shop on the map. Also the timing is perfect considering he was just released from a mental facility the day before the tattoo was branded on him forever. I can relate to Gucci in the fact he used a tattoo to brand himself, because I am doing the same, just not on the face man and if your going to get script tattooed, make sure it doesn't look like a 4 year old drew it for you. That is all.