Advertising Is Good For You

Ad campaign for Sherwin Williams paints

The paper sculpture was created by Matthew Sporzynski. Don't know for sure who created the birdhouse.

Found at How About Orange

FAIL BETTER

Poster from Leslie and Pea. Find out where to purchase it at Design Sponge.

A zealot blessed with an arresting design sense

This guy, not so much... Interesting concept, though.

Found at Found!!!

ADDENDUM

My husband the artist says the first image is an example of Russian Constructivist.

Del's: worth traveling to Rhode Island for

Del's is the frozen lemonade of my childhood.

It's really an Italian ice made from real fruit. And it's a Rhode Island institution.

Del's is also an integral part of any air show at Quonset Point, as seen here during Sunday's show.

Look at that peach of a logo.

Okay, it's a lemon, but you know what I mean. 

To anyone who's ever spent a summer in Rhode Island, the sight of that logo triggers happy memories and a craving for something cold, tart and sweet.

To be fair, Del's now has locations in about a dozen states. But if you want the real Del's experience, go to Rhode Island.

Good design makes the world so much nicer

Photo: jon starbuck

World Cup-inspired ad campaign for Bebe

Click images to enlarge.

Source: Fashiontography

Inspiration from Will Varner

Click here to see more of Will Varner's work.

Found at Jannike Viveka

Nice score, WestJet

If only all spontaneous, unsolicited brand endorsements were this much fun.

Celebrity Saturday: Mariah Carey's Lollipop Bling fragrances

Apparently, when Nick Cannon proposed to Mariah Carey, he hid the engagement ring in a ring pop. Which inspired her most recent fragrance line, Lollipop Bling, which includes the fragrances Honey, Mine Again and Ribbon.

Click here to read more about Mariah Carey's Lollipop Bling fragrances.

Am I the only one who thinks it would be more appropriate for a preteen rather than a 40-year-old woman to be launching this fragrance line?

Evidently, more adult women than I would have ever guessed are drawn to... well... childish branding.

DKNY has a very popular fragrance line called Delicious Candy Apples. Delicious Candy Apple fragrances have names like Sweet Caramel, Ripe Raspberry and Juicy Berry.

 

Gwen Stafani's Harajuku Lovers line is also popular.

Lollipop Bling, Delicious Candy Apples and Harajuku Lovers certainly don't have the creepy pedophilic undertones of the Love's Baby Soft line of the 1970s, but they do make me wonder why an adult woman would want to smell like a child.

Poster for tomorrow's 2nd annual Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition

The GSS Jell-O Mold Competition, held at 166 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY, will "explore the resilient properties of Jell-O as a design medium, cultural phenomenon, and food that just won't quit."

Click here to read all about tomorrow's GSS Jell-O Mold Competition. 

Hey, that Belgian kid's been pissing on the camel all this time and I never noticed

How did I get to be this old without ever having noticed Manneken Pis on the Camel pack?

Found at Moi Illussions

Interesting perfume bottles: La Praire's Life Threads

The Orangina commercial that was banned in France

This Orangina commercial, with its gay overtones, was banned from French TV for being too "polemic."

Click here to watch the Orangina TV spot that was banned in France.