A Car For Big Hair
Monday, May 19th, 2008
We’ve seen ad campaigns with big cartoon hair before, and here is another one, for the Mini Cooper Cabrio.
(from Ads of the World)
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Steven De Rie
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Flemish cartoonist Steven De Rie created this poster for the 20th edition of the Wilrijk Comics Festival. Try and find all references to characters and comics-related news items.
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Branding adds to playability, for once
Friday, March 21st, 2008
I’m not much of a gamer - my favorite games are those little ditties that I can grasp in no time, that don’t take hours to boot up and configure, and that I can play whenever I have like five minutes. Lately, I’ve become quite addicted to Lazrhog’s iZoo, which is essentially a Bejeweled or Zoo Keeper clone for the Iphone and Ipod Touch. Gameplay is simple : just line up three animals and they disappear; a level is complete when you’ve made a specific number of animals disappear.
A nice touch to this game is the fact that it’s skinnable. So far, skins have been published using elements from similar games, like Chuzzle and the aforementioned Bejeweled, next to the original one (which is shown above on the left and, in all honesty, is a plain Zoo Keeper clone). They all follow the same path, with gamepieces that are easily identifyable by color and shape.
The Simpsons skin (shown on the right) is another matter - normally you would expect a typically branded skin of a good game not to add anything to gameplay. However, thanks to the fact that all Simpsons characters very much look alike (they are all yellow, they all have big eyes), finding three similar shapes in a row becomes just that nice little bit trickier
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League of Extraordinary Freelancers
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Yesterday on The Simpsons : Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore and Dan Clowes appear at a cooler comics store than Comic Book Guy’s. More pictures at scans_daily.
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Filler time - Cartoon women in dove campaign
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
About a year ago, Dove ran a campaign featuring cartoon women like Jane Jetson and Marge Simpson, showing the benefits of Anti Frizz Creme, Volumizing Mousse, Define & Style Control Gel and Precision Volume Hairspray (the branding gurus had a day off when they thought of those names). It met with mixed reactions, and personally, I can’t say I’m overwhelmed by the idea, nor by the execution of it…
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