Getty images have just released a new version of their website for users to preview. The new site will launch fully over the next few weeks.
At first glance it looks like they’ve made significant improvements to their search interface. Allowing you to filter searches based on dynamic criteria based upon your search results, a popular technique employed by larger e-commerce sites. Getty hope the new interface will enable you to find images faster, broaden your search criteria for more image results and instantly access similar images that are tagged with related keywords.
I think it’s a step in the right direction from a traditional stock library facing increasing competition from the swarm of royalty free image libraries that are emerging every day.
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SPAM emails collection by Panda on August 15th, 2007 Tao starts to collecting anonnying SPAM emails on his personal blog, and wants to share his collection with all of you
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Google changes its favicon by andy on June 18th, 2008 When you are a large multinational company like Google, the slightest changes in your identity will quickly be noticed.
Slate have posted an excellent article that explores Donald Gunn’s theory that all great advertising used one of 12 formats.
“In 1978, Donald Gunn was a creative director for the advertising agency Leo Burnett. Though his position implied expertise, Gunn felt he was often just throwing darts—relying on inspiration and luck (instead of proven formulas) to make great ads. So, he decided to inject some analytical rigor into the process: He took a yearlong sabbatical, studied the best TV ads he could find, and looked for elemental patterns.”
Example from the sixth format, ‘benefit causes story’. Here we follow a series of events caused by the product’s benefits…
“In this Lynx ad, we see a series of attractive women forgiving a guy’s uncouth behavior. (It’s OK that you’re late, it’s OK that you forgot my birthday, it’s OK that you cheated on me, and so forth.) In the payoff, it’s revealed that the guy has been using Lynx body spray. The product’s benefit—beguiling women to the point of dementia—creates the story.”
View Slade’s interpretation of the 12 formats in their slideshow.
The student finalists and winners were honoured by Adobe and the community during an awards gala and gallery on August 2, 2007 in the de Young Museum in San Francisco. Continue Reading »
It must be the best compliment to any brand or creative agency to have a spoof ad made for your advert or product. There have been many spoof ads over the years and some really great ones recently, here’s my top 10 with a couple of bonus clips at the end of this post.
Starting with this classic, the oldest spoof example I could find…
1.MasterCard
Fox's biscuits launches 'danda' TV ad by andy on June 19th, 2008 [youtube wP0mXUCqOCc nolink]
Biscuit maker Fox's is to launch a TV campaign fronted by an animated character dubbed a "danda", a cross between a dog and a panda.
A simple technique achieves an almost hypnotic effect when opening the packaging of this Widex hearing aid.
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Google changes its favicon by andy on June 18th, 2008 When you are a large multinational company like Google, the slightest changes in your identity will quickly be noticed.
The London based publisher is said to be recruiting in the north for it’s Manchester version of the Timeout magazine.
After their increasing success with the timeout.com/manchester website and the release of the Manchester Shortlist it’s looking more likely that we’ll see the 2nd edition on our shelves very soon.
Mike Barnett, media and communications manager at the Library Theatre in Manchester said “We as a group of theatre media folk discuss Time Out Manchester’s progress every time we meet. There is in my view, definitely a market for a print/what’s on title.”
Kissing Chair by ed on July 25th, 2007 I love this - I think we should get some for around the office.
Missold payment protection insurance (ppi) by andy on June 19th, 2008 Following on from the bank charges scandal (which I think most people would have heard about by now), there is another consumer rebellion in the finance industry that I’ve noticed; mis-sold PPI reclaims.
I went to see this exhibition at the weekend and I must say I was impressed! A stunning eclectic mix of outfits from her eighties ‘I should be so lucky’ break to the most recent Showgirl tour, many designed by Dolce & Gabbana. Not to mention those famous gold hot pants!
There’s a huge array of photography on show too – every album and single cover shot to date was on show.
Get a little closer to Kylie and go and see the show in Manchester while it’s on until September 2nd. If you can’t make it you can get a taster of the collections online here…
Escher’s Relativity, Immortalised in LEGO by ed on September 5th, 2007 Being a huge fan of LEGO myself – this is probably the most impressive work of art I’ve seen created entirely with LEGO!
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Intelligent image resizing by ed on August 22nd, 2007 If you've ever had problems scaling or cropping images to multiple format and work spaces, this will amaze you!
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