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The Hipmunk chipmunk

My new favorite brand mascot — the Hipmunk chipmunk is the symbol for the online travel planning site.

The only other brand mascots that even approach this level of cuteness are the Porter Airlines raccoons.

New logo for this year's Marblehead Festival of the Arts

Alicia Hall created the logo for the 2013 Marblehead Festival of the Arts, a 4th of July weekend-long celebration just North of Boston. 

 

This is sarcasm

Poster by Graham Smith.

The text below the headline reads:

This poster uses sarcasm as the basis for communication.

Sarcasm is the highest form of wit. Therefore the deisnger of the poster is a highly intelligent and creative individual.

Educational poster designed by Graham Smith — imjustcreative.com.

Homages to luxury

Louis Vuitton-inspired cake:

Burberry-inspired house of artist Jens Werner:

Custom Gucci upholstery in a Ford Explorer:

DIY Chanel quilted bag:

Unfortunate logo placement for UK Olympian

Whose idea was it to write 'British Gas' over Olympic diver Tom Daley's ass?

The Singapore water polo team had a similar problem with their trunks a couple of years ago. Click here to see.

Via BuzzFeed

Marshalls has some Olympics fun

Today's Facebook post from Marshalls:

My first thought was, "Cool."

My second thought was, "Why isn't every brand on Facebook doing something like this?"

Then I remembered how viciously the Olympic Games copyright lawyers defend anything to do with the Olympics, including the rings logo.

Lawyers take the fun out of everything.

Click here to see how lawyers took the fun out of tag line.

Warning: graphic imagery from London

Best tweet you'll ever read about an Olympic logo.

Click here to see another suggestive logo.

Via Nicole Berard,who's always the first to know cool stuff

Never noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo. Until now.

It was Toxel that pointed out to me the arrow in the negative space between the E and the X.

Click here to see the Lacoste logo gone wild.

Twitter bird shaves head, is elated with result

Twitter redesigned its bird mascot. Here is the before & after.

Click here to see a funny tweet from Milla Jovovich.

Via AdFreak

Someone got drunk and passed out in the cookie aisle

 Click here to see Oreos from Argentina.

Via Buzzfeed

Now that's a cow with attitude

Nice logo for the Brewer's Cow.

Though I'm not sold on the idea of a six-pack of beer-infused ice cream.

Click here to see another beer-related logo.

Via Laughing Squid

Celebrity Saturday: Dita Von Teese introduces her signature fragrance

Click here to see Dita Von Teese promoting Virgin Atlantic.

Via The Dieline

 

Joël Penkman paints brand names

Click here to see more of Joël Penkman's work.

Those are bees living in a lion's corpse on the Lyle's Golden Syrup logo. If you don't believe me, click here for the whole story.