"Most smart people ignore most advertising because most advertising ignores smart people."

—Bill Bernbach, the legendary 'B' in DDB.

The UPA were TIME TRAVELLERS. There, I said it.

Posted: March 13th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Social Graphics | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

In researching an illustration project, I made an incredible discovery I now offer to the world. Did you ever notice how much Gerald McBoing-Boing and his concerned family look like an RSS icon? Allow me to demonstrate:

GeraldMcRSS

That’s crazy! There’s no way the artists at UPA could have known about RSS back in the 18th century!


Platform Wars

Posted: March 10th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Social Graphics, Social Media Platforms | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Who will dominate location-based status? The Big Blue Boot stomps Gowalla & Foursquare into ‘roo & d0u¢hebag soup. Illustration available creative commons-style on Flickr for all your bloggy uses.

LocalBoot


Before Tweeting got local…

Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Social Graphics | Tags: , , , | Comments Off

You may have felt like this.

Peeing-Into-the-Ocean