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Cutwater came up with this print work for Ray-Ban. Illustrated by Sebastian Onufszak and Sakke Soini.

I have two last-minute meshU tickets to giveaway. Submit a comment in this post before Apr 1, 2009 for a chance to get a free ticket. MeshU is a one-day event of workshops on design, development, and management that will take place in Toronto, April 6th, 2009. Although I’ve never been to the meshU before, but the speaker/workshop list sounds very interesting. If you want to purchase the event tickets, it is not too late yet. Head over to the meshU website for more details.

Update: This contest is closed and the winners are: 34 and 65. (more…)

Back in the old days, almost every website had a sitemap where they listed out all the pages. The purpose of the sitemap is to help visitors and search engine spiders to find information on the site. Now, a lot of modern websites have dropped the sitemap page, instead they place the sitemap in the footer area. I’m going to review 20 websites (from big corporation to small portfolio sites) who organized their footer cleverly to enhance usability. (more…)

Print campaign for Heinz ketchup made by Leo Burnett Cairo.





Advertising Agency: LEeo Burnett Cairo
Country: Egypt
Executive Creative Director: Mohamed Hamdalla
Creative Director: Hesham Ellabban
Copywriter: Tameem Youness/Yahya Esmaele
Art Director: Tameem Youness/Yahya Esmaele
Photographer: Hussein Shaaban
Illustrator: Ahmed Hefnawy

Here's a new campaign for Puma from Droga5 in New York, which uses projections to show a couple’s journey through life. Directed by Rupert Sanders for MJZ.



The print work is photographed by Nadav Kander.




Agency: Droga5
Creative Chairman: David Droga
Executive Creative Director: Duncan Marshall
Art Director: January Vernon
Copywriter: Scott Ginsberg
Production Company: MJZ
Director: Rupert Sanders

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners made this animated commercial for Emerald Nuts.



Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Creative: Chris Ford, Stefan Copiz, Tony Stern, Tanya Lesieur
Animation: Buddy System Studios
Director: Terry Rietta
Executive Producer: Jan Wieringa
Producer: Susan Applegate
Production Designer: Elizabeth Burhop
Animation Co-Production: Chatrone
Animation Director/Animator: John Harvatine IV, Eric Towner

TBWA Chiat Day New York made this new Skittles commercial. Directed by Randy Krallman for Smuggler.



Agency: TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York
Executive Creative Director: Mark Figliulo
CD/Art Director: Rob Baird
ACD/Copywriter: Alisa Sengel Wixom
ACD/Art Director: Kris Wixom
Production Company: Smuggler
Director: Randy Krallman

As a designer, I think we all have experienced the hard time of finding new ideas and inspirations. That’s why I’ve chosen to talk about this topic in my presentation at the FOWD conference. In this post, I want to do a recap of my slides – Finding Inspiration From Your Environment. Read on to find out how my work habits and environment influence my design. (more…)

Great outdoor work for Fitness First. People waiting on the bench of this bus stop could see their measured weight in the poster space. Made by Marco de Jong, Thijs Bontje and Jurriaan Noij from N=5, Amsterdam.

Guest Post by Webcopyplus

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