Limeshot Logo Design & Branding Sydney

Little type illustration done when brain airing was required.

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If you read this blog before you’ll know I’m a fan of Annie Leibovitz. I also happen to love Angelina Jolie for a whole lot of reasons. I’m not into the whole Louis Vuitton “brand yourself as middle class by hanging a bag that spells its label on your shoulder” kind of thing, but that’s irrelevant: they are at this point in time the world’s biggest luxury brand, ahead of Hermes.

And yet, despite this formidable partnership comes a floppy campaign, based on a lie, bad Photoshopping and a complete disconnect between the brand values and the said campaign.
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I found Dana Tanamachi’s work a while back via Dribbble – she’s pure magic with the cheapest of materials: chalk. Photos a video after the jump, and make sure you head over to her wonderful chalk lettering website fore more beautiful illustrations.

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Lactobar Retro-Bistro is a new and very popular restaurant in Oradea, Romania (Lactobar means milk bar, in Romanian). Obviously, the drink of choice is not milk, but bear, however what’s interesting about this joint is the outlandish, crazy, cool and perfectly kitsch decor.

From an old Romanian car embedded into the wall to doilies, old newspapers, tapes, dolls and vacuum cleaners, this place reuses all the odds and ends one usually finds in one’s attic or grandmother’s house – and mashes them into a highly polished, friendly collage.

Sheer genius, it reminds me a bit of the Kitsch Museum, opened in Bucharest sometime during the early 00s. Anyway, lots of images – and a video – after the jump!
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So I spent most of May and a good part of June travelling Europe with my husband – it was a wonderful, wonderful vacation: we ate our way through loads of good food; we drank too much and walked 10-12 hours a day. We visited Paris, London, Florence, Rome and finally my city of birth, Bucharest. We came back thin, exhausted, enthralled and with some 3000+ photographs, which I’ll now have to sort out. Only fair, I took most of them. New camera. Couldn’t help myself.

Anyways, while making full use of my new zoom lens I took more than 100 photos of lions, all around Europe. I don’t think I ever appreciated how important the lion is in the art and heraldry of Europe until I started noticing it everywhere.
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I woke up this morning to an interesting story: Markets for Change and GetUp have put together a controversial ad about Harvey Norman (Australian furniture retailer) contributing to Australian deforestation by their timber sourcing policies. The ad was subsequently banned, and an irate George Harvey came on television to say he’s getting aggressive emails from his customers threatening to never buy again.

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A while back I published an article about a Haagen Dazs campaign for the bees of United States. Well, since then the bee problem has spread to the rest of the world, and while the phenomenon seems to be in decline in America according to Time Magazine, it has become a problem Europe has to reckon with.
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Gary LeMaster is a NewZealand born, US educated linguist, with a PhD in Spanish from the University of Iowa and who speaks five or six languages and is colourblind. NOT your usual Art grad. He’s witty, articulate and funny, and his eggshell art is downright unbelievable.
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