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American Apparel Successfully Swallows Its Ad Spoofer – Ad Remixes – Gawker
American Apparel Successfully Swallows Its Ad Spoofer – Ad Remixes – Gawker All subversive things in our culture must eventually be co-opted by the very things that they subvert. It’s the American way. The American Apparel ad spoofer—who had a months-long run of fame for creating super-porny ripoffs of AA ad posters (which eventually turned out to be Photoshop fakes by…
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Ideal Woman: 36-24-26 on First Friday!
Cultural Event Opportunity eMAD MFA student Allie Pohl invited you to “Ideal Woman: 36-24-36 First Friday! ” on Friday, April 2 at 6:00pm. Event: Ideal Woman: 36-24-36 First Friday! What: OpeningStart Time: Friday, April 2 at 6:00pmEnd Time: Friday, April 2 at 9:00pmWhere: Hinterland at 3254 Walnut Street in the RiNo Art District, Denver, Colorado. To…
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on curation
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators by ROBERT SCOBLE on MARCH 27, 2010 I keep hearing people throw around the word “curation” at various conferences, most recently at SXSW. The thing is most of the time when I dig into what they are saying they usually have no clue about what curation really is or…
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AIGA CO Presents: Paprika’s Louis Gagnon
AIGA CO Presents: Paprika’s Louis Gagnon Join us for a night of “taste”-ful design “When it comes to building an image today, thinking big is the only way to go. Your visual reference has to be planetary in scope because the world is your market and the competition in everywhere.” Paprika Louis Gagnon founded the…
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Post Advertising – ADVERTISING IS DEAD
Post Advertising – ADVERTISING IS DEAD What’s this all about? We at Story Worldwide believe the Interruption Age—the time for traditional ads—is over. ThePost-Advertising Age is what’s now and next: Great content driving deep consumer engagement; less and less money wasted on expensive traditional media (like TV) as free media take over. It’s inevitable, it’s a good thing, and…
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American Apparel critiqued
O, American Apparel! Whenever will the “culture jammers” solve the dilemma as to whether it is okay to shop there? Anyway, the above billboard, spotted in Soho, purports to be an American Apparel ad depicting the backside of a naked woman leaning over to display her ass while rubbing her privates from behind. Tasteful! Well,…
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American Apparel
Stereotypical hipster brand American Apparel has always walked the fine line between sexiness and porn with its ads (like the one pictured). Or gone over the line, depending on your perspective. But now the anonymous prankster that earlier posted a fake finger-in-the-butt AA billboard has struck again, helping the company along its inevitable path to…
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MoMA acquires “@” symbol
MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design has acquired the @ symbol into its collection. It is a momentous, elating acquisition that makes us all proud. But what does it mean, both in conceptual and in practical terms? Contemporary art, architecture, and design can take on unexpected manifestations, from digital codes to Internet addresses and sets…
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AdobeTV | Learn Illustrator CS4
AdobeTV | Learn Illustrator CS4