This is starting to become a habit. Every now and then I find an artist, designer, photographer etc that just blows me away. I crave for a project that gives me the opportunity to call these guys up and work with them.
OwaikeO is such a guy. His real name is Ahmed Al-Refaie, he’s 21 and was born and raised in Kuwait. His style and touch is something else. Don’t you agree!
Nothing impresses me like a company that has found out exactly what they should do to build their brand and then sticks to the formula.
I don’t drive a BMW but I must say these guys from Germany are not far from making me into a customer.
Their brand has been closely connected with innovation for some years now. I first noted the positioning when they associated themselves with the artist Theo Jansen, maker of Kinetic Sculptures back in 2006. Since then I’ve seen tons of great stuff making BMW = Innovation.
This new concept car called Gina is amazing. BMW here I come!
Sometimes you just end up spending time on a site much like when you enter a library. You feel good, spend quite some time eyeing the shelfs for something good to read.
Visiting BibliOdyssey makes me feel just like that. Today I spent about 25 minutes just eye gazing the beautiful “historical” illustrations on the site. The site mixes old and new graphics, but they all share a common style. One of my favorites artists on the site is the work by Vladimir Gvozdev. Vladimir has this wonderful touch to everything he does. I first was amazed by the details in his illustrations like the one above. Then I found more of his work.
Oh how I wish I had a project right now where I could call this guys up and create some killer stuff using his skills. The stuff he does is just stunning.
I spent yesterday looking through tons of ads, some good and some bad when I was doing my job in the jury for Guldeken, a local advertising competition in the south of sweden.
However, the best print ad wasn’t to be found among the contenders. That one was sitting on the desktop of fellow jury member Patrik Spång, CD at Jerlov in Gothenburg.
Great communication is made by people who go their own way. And what’s cool with this latest ad-campaign by Apple for the new iTouch is that they do exactly that.
When everyone around the world go crazy for drop-shadows and reflections (much inspired by Apple) these guys led by Steve Jobs turn 180° and introduce a set of Helmut Crone/60’s style, simplistic, old fashioned, typed copy ads. I love it.
I just love it when people grab old ideas and turn them into new.
At first glance I thought it was an ad for Fritz Hansen and though WOW. But it’s just (I love it) a great poster by Blue Art Studio for you to hang on your wall.
Tina “Swissmiss” Roth Eisenberg got some great posts in her blog. This video about a book called ABCD by Marion Bataille was no exception. I’m buying it today.
Today I got a link from Ya-sin, leading me to a YouTube movie where Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean…with a HUGE white glove.
This is social networking at it’s best.
On May 4th, 2007, the White Glove Tracking team asked internet users to help isolate Michael Jackson’s white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised landmark performance of Billy Jean. 72 hours later 125,000 gloves had been located by fans to the project.
This one will spread all over the place…that’s for sure!
I posted earlier on Stefan Sagmeisters new book Things I’ve learned in my life so far. Now he has followed up the book with a website/blog where he’s asking everyone to contribute.
It’s a smart and innovative way to create an integration with the book idea but also to invite everyone to continue the story. Apart from that I’m impressed with the speed the site let’s you upload a video…whats luring in the backend???
Stefan writes “What have you learned in your life so far? What is it that you are fairly sure about? What is it that you believe in by now?”
This is the blog and website of Johan Ronnestam - Innovative consultant from Sweden with Love. I’m a 37 year old, new media professional, creative director & entrepreneur from Stockholm, Sweden who loves to solve communication problems with ideas, creativity and innovation.
