Advertising Is Good For You

Hamburger ice cream is gross

Some Carl's Jr. locations are offering a new Ice Cream Brrrger.

Actually, it's an ice cream sandwich made to look like a hamburger.

Yuck.

Where's the beef?

Found this on Facebook, unattributed. If anyone knows where it's from, please let me know.

Luxury fast food

ACCESS Agency answers the question, what would luxury fast food look like?

Click here to see the answer to another question relating to brands.

Via Pursuitist

McDonald's reflective billboard is a truly inspired idea

To remind people that it's open all night, McDonald's created a reflective billboard that could only be read at night when activated by car headlights.

I wish this had been my idea.

Click here to see a :37 video that shows how the McDonald's reflective billboard works.

McDonald's tattoo

Eat all the fast food you want and still be buff.

Click here to see four luxury brand tattoos.

Via We Know Awesome

Ronald McDonald as you've never seen him

According to the youtube description, this short film was made over a weekend five years ago. It includes a sinister, zombie-like Ronald McDonald. The title is: The End of Neoliberalism, Happy Meal.

Click here to see the two-minute film.

Inadvertent advertising for McDonald's Dollar Menu?

French artists Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien Ides have altered a series of U.S. one dollar bills.

Click here to see more of their work.

Starbucks digital print by lilopie

The Starbucks print by lilopie is available for purchase at Deviant Art.

Click here to see Starbucks cups with sketches by Johanna Basford.

Redeye Roasters: another chapter in the life of a former ad guy

Yesterday was the official opening of the Redeye Roasters Coffee & Espresso Lounge, located on the harbor, at 3 Otis Street, in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Owner Bob Weeks is a former advertising creative guy who left the business five years ago to start a coffee roasting business.

Here's Bob with his wife, Jamieson Weeks, a senior art director with whom I work.

This is the coffee roaster that used to be in Bob and Jamieson's house, vented through their living room. Its new home is in the new Redeye Roasters shop.

Redeye Roasters is an airy, inviting place with a beautiful view of Hingham Harbor. The decor is unique, with a counter and display cases made from re-purposed wood by the Weeks' friend, artisan Rich Dunbrack, owner of The Thieving Magpie.

 

The coffee, made from freshly-roasted beans that Bob discovers during his trips abroad, is amazing and well worth the trip.

If you can't make it to Hingham, you can order freshly roasted coffee from the Redeye Roasters website.

Starbucks employees dish about what it's like to keep the coffee chain's bathrooms clean

“I have personally cleaned up almost every humanly fluid and plenty that didn’t seem human.”

“I am continually amazed by what people will do when given a few square feet of privacy.”

“Why do you want to have sex in a bathroom? I think the toilet would be kind of a mood killer.”

Via New York Times

Starbucks cups with sketches by Johanna Basford

Click here to see more of Johanna Basford's work.

Click here to see what a jewelry artist created with Starbucks gift cards.

Via Andrew Kelsall

I have a stomach ache just looking at this

These photos are from this week's San Diego Fair. There's more about the fair at Rue the Day.

Who else wants to kill this douche bag?

Click here to watch the McDonald's Chicken McNuggets commercial featuring the insufferable Gen Yer.