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Same same, but differentNovember 19

“Same same, but different!” Anyone who has travelled to Thailand heard that short sentence dozens of times. It is what the sellers in the street shops will tell you to explain that what they are selling is the same thing as what’s in the next shop (which is obvious), but a little better.

This sentence has become a kind of ongoing joke for tourists and thai people themselves, there is even t-shirts printed with that slogan. This short story could just sound like a funny anecdote, but to me it reveals something about the advertising industry: big brands tend to act just like these street shop owners.

Don’t you ever get the feeling that ads are all the same? By ads, don’t understand the cool ads that bloggers put in their creative commercials lists to hit the front page on Digg, I am talking about 98% of commercials that are thrown at you everywhere on daily basis. The overall impression I get when walking in the streets, looking at ads or reading print ads, is that advertisers are all yelling at me: “Same same, but different”.

Do you also get that feeling? What do you think of the general level of advertising?

Example: The car industry is one of the best to demonstrate my point. Almost every car ad I ever saw was trying to show me some (pick the appropriate word): excitment, power, success, speed, romance, toughness, adventure.

Following are some ads showing some speed and trying to add a natural, adventurous, powerful feel to

23 designs you’ll loveNovember 16

As a result of Designer Daily’s first Group Writing Project, I’ve collected a bunch of interesting design links that people liked. It was really interesting to see what people came up with and to discover some new blogs or rediscover something about the other bloggers tastes and centers of interest.

Urban messenger bag, by Peter Bihr.

Not only this bag looks good, but it’s made with recycled components such as tubes and seatbelt straps.

The art of Andy Warhol by Pixel Pixie.

Pixel Pixie shares the experience of a trip at the museum, and an encounter with “Red Lenin”, one of Andy Warhol’s artworks.

Winners of the “Design you Love” Group Writing ProjectNovember 16

The “Design you Love” group writing project is now over and I’d like to thank all the participants for their great posts on the designs they loved. A blog post with every design and links will be published right after this one. Congratulations to the winners, I hope that you’ll all enjoy your prizes, sorry for the others. Everyone still has the opportunity to participate to the great group writing project at Blog Design Studio.

Thanks also to the sponsors who made this more fun and attractive: Templates Factory, DirJournal, The Group Writing Project blog, ThemeForest, FlashDen, Rockable Press, Uprinting and Premium Themes Now.

A special thanks too to Jacob Share who has been spreading the word about the contest on the Group Writing Project blog, he is taking part in the Blogging Idol so help him out by subscribing to his RSS feed. This way y

Design links for the weekNovember 16

World food programme, creative ad for the United Nations.

If you don’t want to miss any of the links shared, you can of course follow me on my Tumblelog if you are a Tumblr user.

Street spirit - Belgrade CityScapesNovember 15

We communicate everyday with the street publics: design and architecture objects around us, our neighbours,  signs on the tops of the buildings in downtown of the city, department stores, city facades, or small billboards on bus stations in the form of ads. I find that street design in the form of typography that we see on the buildings, window shops, billboards, walls, road signs are very important part of city life as an analogue medium that sends the message to the passengers. As being someone who is researching and exploring digital performances in online world, my  “design I love” examples are randomly chosen on the streets in downtown of Belgrade, Serbia.

Street typography involves not only advertising goal in the message but also aesthetics and design in the context of that message. It can be static with an information (e.g. a poster, caution sign) or dynamic that changes habitus of everyday city consumers (e.g. billboards, window shops).What is common to them is variety of design graphic, typography styles (most of them are Cyrillic) and the message. So let’s go outdoors and explore Serbian street scene in this context.

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