Mercedes Gets A New W-Class
Well, a new website that is.
Nothing spectacular, almost boring, really, but I like the social counter on the bottom. Interesting ‘live’ facts about the company and it’s culture. Worth checking out.
Music To My Eyes
Poster campaign for the chamber orchestra of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Beautiful.
The ABC of Branding Poster
Beautiful poster by Jason Dean of The Best Part:
Using no ink whatsoever, these 18″x24″ posters are foil stamped and embossed to create an alphabet composed of letters from many of the more famous (and some infamous) logos of all time.
Now in the Einmaleins Workshop thanks to my amazing Trixy.
Audi Already Won BrandBowl
Is it premature to call it?
Audi’s “Game day” commercial about vampires dying in the bright headlights is just brilliant.
All around great spot. They even included a #hashtag at the end: #solongvampires to encourage social conversation beyond the 30 sec. spot.
While you’re on Youtube, check out the Audi brand channel. Youtube is creating really nice brand pages – looks really tight.
Now to complete your adventure, check out the new Audi allroad… man, what a beautiful car. Me wants it!
Where Is Spring?
Here in the Pacific Northwest we don’t often get a snowy winter, and when we do it’s either a light dusting or doesn’t last more than a day or two. But this time we got well over a foot, and to top things off an ice storm and the Governor declaring a state of emergency.
Mike Does Tattly
Coming soon. Mike Monteiro is working on a Tattly design for Swissmiss.
While he also has just gotten his art into Westelm… FTW I say.
Seattle’s First Skyscraper
On auction this month due to foreclosure.
I used to work in that tower for a few months. Beautiful building.
Posters, Redesigned
swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.
Cool Buildings
How about some funky architecture on this brisk Monday Morning?
Man, and there is more…
TED Price 2012
For the first time in the history of the prize, it is being awarded not to an individual, but to an idea. It is an idea upon which our planet’s future depends.
The Winner is: The City 2.0, an idea that is suppose to re-envision the future of what it means to live in a City.
My take: smaller is better.
How To Build An Iglu
Awesome video, swiss precision for playing in the snow.
Hattip Coudal, yet again.
Jobs Inspiration
Nugget out of Isaacson’s biography on Steve Jobs:
It turns out that Job’s masterful use of modern design could have been incubated by growing up in that home, which was built by the father of the California modernist movement, Joseph Eichler.
Love Eichler houses. Not just because of the last name. But that’s how I found out about them.
What An Opportunity
Huge development opportunity in Tumwater, WA. The most iconic property available along the I-5 corridor is the old Olympia Brewery.
Einmaleins TV had the opportunity to take a tour through the buildings. What you see in the video is just a glimpse of the property, and a taste for the opportunity that sits there, waiting for.., waiting for…