Monday, October 31st, 2011
Westlake Ace Hardware, in Omaha, NE is running a zombie preparedness campaign, with videos, flyers and posters aimed at both humans and zombies. They were trying to attract a younger demographic, those who normally shop at a big box store, and came up with this timely tactic. The tone and message were updated to connect with the demographic.
Monday, October 31st, 2011
Wow. This isn’t new to the interwebs, but it seemed like it needed a re-post for Halloween. While long, and somewhat lagging at points, this ad is really creepy at the end. The product obviously works well, as the guy looks non-inked at first. But when they uncover his real skin..SCARY. There’s a reason he goes by Zombie Boy, huh?
Monday, October 31st, 2011
These wonderful bits of creativity seemed extremely poignant for this Hallows Eve. London-based Catherine Martin travelled to Mexico and discovered the beautiful beadwork of the Huichol tribe. She then worked with them to create these designs, and is currently working on her own designs to have the tribe bead with their master bead workers. Check out all the skulls here.
Friday, October 28th, 2011
We love it when we see something we’ve never seen before. This fits that bill. What a great idea this person had: a robot biker. Impressive that the robot puts his feet down when the bike isn’t moving and really pedals. Amazing. I can only imagine the design of this thing will be made slicker and sooner than later you’ll see kids playing with these guys.
Friday, October 28th, 2011
We saw Tebowing earlier this week on the Egotist, and since then it’s spread like wildfire. It’s the new planking.
This thing has all the perfect elements of a great viral stunt. It’s ironic that we ad agencies and creative shops rack our brains for ideas like this, things that will explode on the internet, and this one was done for fun (and partially in jest). It has the appeal of sports fans, the lofty ideals of the religious sector, the tongue-in-cheek factor for humorists and the luxury of being extremely topical. After all, Tim Tebow has had more time as a featured story on sports-related television this year than almost any other NFL player, even though he’s only played in one game. Mix all those ingredients into a digital bowl and voila! You’ve got yourself a viral hit.
We’ve been amazed how much it’s spread. Case in point: a Colorado Rapids player Omar Cummings Tebowing after scoring a goal in last night’s MLS playoff game. Awesome.
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
We love it when we come across local talent that impresses us. Not only did we like the man, Justin Renteria, we were equally impressed with his work. He’s got a very quirky, conceptual style that we were all digging, big-time. You can tell he’s a thinker, and we love those type of creative people. His hands-on style is really nice and we hope to see a whole lot more of it gracing the pages/walls/screens that we look at in the future. Keep up the good work.
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Check out this, ummmm, USB hub?! This is a MOMA product, so it’s most likely considered “high-quality design.” But, I’m wondering if this is a case of when design goes awry? In theory this was a beautiful abstraction of a pea pod, and is simple and elegant. But in reality I’m thinking it looks suspiciously like some other things I’ve seen, that are not peas and are not PC to mention on this blog. What do you think?
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
A lebanese fast food concept called Shawarma Republic, which uses the clever line “united we sandwhich”, is positioning itself as a simple answer to today’s busy lifestyle with quick and quality foods. They called on Shepard Fairey to illustrate their campaign in the iconic Barack Obama style that he’s so well known for. There’s three posters , “Involve”, “Improve” and “Change” featuring a sheep, cow and chicken, that will run as well.
If nothing else, they’re real striking, which is sometimes all it takes to get the job done with reaching your target market.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
If you’ve followed along with this blog over the years, you know we love some quality facial hair. Particularly the ‘stache. And it’s that time of year again: Movember. Yep, time to grow out your moustache in order to raise awareness for men’s health, particularly cancer-related health. So far we’ve got one person on the team, and are hoping to recruit all the men of the office. Please feel free to donate and help us raise money, which will be given to respected men’s health charities, like LiveStrong. If you go Movember.com you can donate to our team! Thanks, and good ‘staching.
PS- if you dontate, we’ll be sure to include pics of the moustaches we create through your sponsoring.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
We’re definitely late to this party, but we just wanted to say we enjoy the new look for Diet Coke cans. Most of us drink the full-strength stuff, so we’ve not had a lot of exposure to the new cans, but a few of them recently showed their shiny little faces in the shop, to much approval amongst the Suklites. Nice work, Turner Duckworth.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Great charity idea going on over at threadless. We’ve always known them as the purveyors of customer-designed T’s, but now they’re getting into some clever charity work as well. The concept for Good shirts is pretty simple: the item pictured on the shirt is what you’re essentially buying when you purchase the shirt, and the cost of the shirt is the cost of said item. The items are all things that are paramount to helping those who are experiencing the famine in the horn of Africa. I, personally, am saving my nickels to get the $300,000 air drop shirt. $2 down, $299,998 to go. See if you can beat me to it.
At Sukle we really relish a good idea. And we think this is a good idea. It’s great to see everyone, even charities, really finding new ways to reach and interest their markets. And above all else: coming up with great ideas.
