Get stabbed, start an art movement

This is one art students inspirational story about how he made a horrendous life altering event into a positive one, not for himself but for others around him. Lots of us tackled the Create Not Hate D&AD brief a couple of years ago, and this project continues on that theme; how the skills we're learning now can be used in the community to offer others a real chance at getting out of a downward spiral a gangs and violence.

http://www.vimeo.com/11901050

The brand without a brand

You're a customer sick of prices being jacked up on everyday products just because of a logo. So what do you do?? Start your own shop that doesn't sell brands. None. Not a single one. It then turns out that there's millions of people around the world who agree with you, and you make a whole ton of money.

The Japanese shop Muji (there's one in Leeds), literally translates into 'no label'. There's not many shops (or dare I say it... 'brands') that aspire to plainness, but maybe thats one of the reasons Muji's been such a massive success, because it's different. No frills, no messing around, just great value products that people want. Kind of like Primark, just better quality and less sweatshops.

Not your average poster shop

This is one of the coolest shops i've found in a long time. Hidden in the old quarter of Hanoi, it sells prints of old Vietnamese wartime Propaganda posters piled 30 deep on small wooden desks. The work is mainly from the American Vietnam war and focussed largely on maintaining high moral amongst the population, encouraging hard work, and fostering national pride, which in Vietnam is not hard to come by. However there is the odd anti-american poster hidden away, and when the Vietnamese to 'anti-american' they really go for it.
The minimalist but extremely powerful images express a focussed and straight to the point message, and are still often seen painted onto walls up and down the country. The posters in the shop were hand printed with usually only three colours, most often red, black and green or yellow, while using the colour of the stock to good effect. Being a communist country, propaganda is by no means dead in Vietnam, it's just expressed in different ways now there isn't such an obvious enemy dropping bombs on them... for once.

Are you smart enough to join the Swedish Army?

... turns out I'm not. Gutted.

Interesting website though. It uses multi-user interaction to demonstrate one of the core values that the organisation values most.

Water, but not as you know it.

Making water sexy can't be easy, but Ogilvy have given it a good crack for Perrier. It's also a pretty cool interactive website.

http://www.perrierbydita.com/

A great new toy

This would be brilliant for guerrilla advertising, or just to play with.

http://vimeo.com/2109234

A new direction for posters in a 3-D age?

http://saw3dmovie.com/Poster/

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