THURSDAY: Sketch of the Week
This week’s Thursday Sketch of the Week is brought to you in part by the back side of last Thursday’s Sketch of the Week. I sure wish I had this much energy on Thursdays. Give him a click. He gets bigger.
This week’s Thursday Sketch of the Week is brought to you in part by the back side of last Thursday’s Sketch of the Week. I sure wish I had this much energy on Thursdays. Give him a click. He gets bigger.
The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude
If you only knew how true this was…
Big shout out to RayRay in the BayBay for the link. High-sterical.
We love MGMT – we played their interactive “Electric Feel” video back in May. So we’re going back to the well, especially after hearing the girl in this video, Abby Fuller, a recent UCLA film graduate, and I both went to the same high school in upstate NY, Shaker. We hear MGMT flew Abby and a friend back to NYC to be in another of their videos. Big hat tip Stacy for the update.
I suppose we’ll take a little break from showing all of Dave’s amazing art and I’ll throw one of my own up for this week’s Sketch of the Week. Make no mistake though, we will be back to showing more of Daves personal “vault” work soon. My only intent with this week’s entry was to draw your eye to the image while simultaneously giving you a headache. Mission: Booyah. Status: Achieved. Title: “The Screamer”
Isaac sits at his desk and manically chuckles to himself at various points of the day. I’m not sure if he’s plotting the end of the universe or he just stumbles upon sites like this:
Guys in furry teddy bear heads. That just never gets old. This Teddybears video for “Cobrastyle” by our friends over at Ghost Town Media still cracks us up.
The odds of seeing a De Lorean in person are about the same as seeing a purple unicorn. Only 6,500 remain in existence. If I owned one of these, not sure it would ever leave the garage.
Driving back from my hockey game tonight in Culver City, I spotted this De Lorean on La Cienega, a second before its Flux Capacitor kicked in and it flew off.
XM Satellite Radio has a cool little promotion going on where you can turn yourself or a friend into a Bobblehead. The JPG below won’t bobble – Isaac hadn’t had his morning coffee yet – but it will on the site. I had no idea Isaac was such a big Mets fan. He’s probably just trying to butter me up for a raise, huh?
Here’s a great time killer for our readers stuck in cube farm land.
Colenso BBDO, Auckland, serves up some shear brilliance with their new ReadAtWork.com site, aimed at getting more people to read. They’ve taken several books and short stories, and put them in a fake Windows desktop setting. The books come up in cleverly disguised PowerPoint files. Your boss will never know.
Isaac, don’t even check out this site. Get back to work.
Or so says this life expectancy calculator. How odd would that be if you knew exactly how old you’d live to be? Not sure I’d do anything differently, although if I knew I was going to get run over by a bus next week, maybe I wouldn’t be blogging right now…
Finally got around to seeing “Control” last night. Sam Riley brilliantly invokes the ghost of Ian Curtis, the tortured lead singer of Joy Division, in a startling performance. The film chronicles the singer’s many troubles that led to his suicide at the age of 23. Anton Corbijin directed, using a black-and-white style that makes it feel like 1980 all over again. While Joy Division band members Peter Hook and Stephen Morris, who along with Bernard Sumner went on to form New Order, have questioned the factual accuracies of the movie, “Control” is a fascinating flick and a must-see if you are fan of Joy Division.
Client: Tomi Hair
Industry: Beauty
An exceptionally talented stylist, April Tomi sought out Zookeeper’s help to re-image her brand and build a website with all of the essentials and feature a gallery of her work. She needed a look that would reflect her creativity, vision and precision. And it had to be upscale and cutting-edge since Tomi Hair is located in Beverly Hills, California, on one of the hippest streets in the world, Robertson Boulevard.
After creating her new logo, we designed her new site to be clear and easy to navigate, while completely optimized for search engines for maximum findability. We added some serious style with the custom illustrated adornments along with original wallpaper for a rich, textured look. April was thrilled with the result that includes an extensive showcase of her work and testimonials, while compellingly telling the story of her business.
Visit the Tomi Hair website.
Congratulations to fellow Northwestern alum Jennifer Moss, CEO of BabyNames.com, on her full-page Q&A spread in this month’s Los Angeles magazine, available at newsstands now. Jennifer gives some great advice on picking the right name.
We recently completed the logo redesign for BabyNames.com, which averages more than two million unique visitors a month. That’s a lot.
Best of luck to Jennifer next month as she launches her new book, “The One-in-a-Million Baby Name Book,” the definitive guide to baby names. You can pre-order it at Amazon.
What an inspiring story...this gent has declared his one-man island independent of Scotland. Imagine that, no more taxes, no more regulations, no more national anthems before sporting events!
Today is a special day. It’s special because we’re going to spice up our sketch with an entry by up and coming contemporary artist, Dave Waite. Dave agreed to let this one out of the vault and show it to the world for the first time. There’s no official title for it, but that’s just part of the allure. If he keeps doing work like this, I’ll be out of a job.
Isaac loves to play his tunes in the office. Occasionally, he’ll bust out some dance moves, oddly similar to our new friend Snowball the Cockatoo, below. They both start bopping their heads and making strange noises, although I would say Snowball has better rhythm. Separated at birth? You decide:
Is it Tuesday already? We’re at the point of the year where the days are flying by. Isaac and I, plus our posse of course, are off to see Chomeo DJ a set tonight at Teddy’s at the Roosevelt Hotel just down the street. Here’s one of our fav Chromeo videos, “Fancy Footwork.”
Client: Airborne Images
Industry: Aerial Photography and Productions
“The Hills.” The Super Bowl. The hottest network TV shows. The Final Four. Box office hits. The Academy Awards. The craziest car chases in LA. When the world’s biggest entertainment, sports or news companies need the best aerial photography and images, they call upon Airborne Images of Los Angeles. Shooting primarily from helicopter platforms, the growing company delivers exceptional aerial productions, helicopter services and photography for its clients.
Airborne Images called upon Zookeeper to re-imagine its brand identity. We created this new logo to reflect Airborne Image’s dynamic movement and speed, technical precision and innovative, cinematic eye.
By now I’m sure you’ve noticed the consistently random nature of the Thursday Sketch of the Week. If not, I’d say you’ve been living in a cave or perhaps in a coma for the last month or so. We really strive to sketch up the most bizarre and off-kilter ideas that we possibly can. This week is no exception of course, and to make it even more random and kooky, we’ve gone ahead and posted our sketch on Friday! WOW!
Fail. Fail. Fail. Today’s humor comes to you from Failblog.org. This gets funnier as you get deeper in the site. And it also boosts your own self-esteem. Hat tip to Maine’s Marky Mark.
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So we were asked recently, what does it take to turn Teddy pink? First, you must have a daunting challenge, like being asked to change the mark for a 100-year-old institution that already had an amazing logo, in AT+T’s case, one by legendary designer Saul Bass. Second, your new design is charged with a heavy task, in this instance, leading a company with several negative connotations, like being too corporate, an unfriendly monopoly, etc., to a new, refreshed space. In 2005, when SBS merged with AT&T, Interbrand, a huge corporate ad firm, was charged with designing a new logo for the merger. The result is a brand identity for AT+T that’s softer, friendly and more transparent. The font was changed to a modified Avenir and lowercased. The iconic globe’s stripes were thinned and made translucent, giving the mark a new, 3-D pop. The new logo has served as a breathe of fresh air for AT+T, which is in the process of transforming itself into a true media company. Teddy says bravo and would very much like one of the new AT+T iPhones sent his way for this plug.
