Category Archives: promotion

Do Stuff for Money

By tone | Published: July 2, 2009
PayPal has a new site and found a new way to make money. Do Stuff for Money. This is a crazy idea, but it has legs. You can ask a friend to do crazy stuff, say like eat worms or anything your warped mind can come up with. Most challenges are not cashed but fun [...]
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Levis For Little Toughies

By tone | Published: June 16, 2009
Levis is starting a new campaign with their line of kid jeans with fairy tale modern versions of the old classics. Advertising for kids can be fun if envisioned the right way. Levis has a winner here as created by BBH Asia Pacific for the Asian market. See more ads at Super-Punch.
Also posted in Advertising, Art, kids | Tagged fairy tales, jeans, kids, levis | Comments closed

Wedding Invites

By tone | Published: June 15, 2009
When it comes to wedding invites, couples would like to think that their invite is so unique that it stands above all. Well folks nobody has one on this beauty. It’s a story within a story of bliss and miss. With wedding season already full force, Jill and Matt really thought out their wedding. I [...]
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Charlie Chocks Vitamins

By tone | Published: June 14, 2009
Chock treatment! Charlie Chocks is perhaps one of the lamest spokesperson cartoon character for a vitamin brand devised by Miles Laboratories, the creators of Alka Seltzer. They created the first chewable vitamin for children in 1960 and made parents very upset with commercials on Saturday morning cartoons. Miles introduced Flintstone Chewable Vitamins in 1968, [...]
Also posted in Advertising, Animation, Art, Comics, kid books, kids | Tagged Alka Seltzer, Bugs Bunny Multiple vitamins, Charlie Chocks Vitamins, Flintstone Chewable Vitamins | Comments closed

Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising With Character

By tone | Published: April 9, 2009
Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising With Character is a study of  North American culture icons in advertising.  For many years companies have created characters to sell their products. Where did the ideas come from and how many have disappeared in limbo since their inceptions. Many are still with us today, some changed and others are still [...]
Also posted in Art, Books, TV, toys | Tagged ad boy, Advertising, cartoon, Character, marketing, Masud Husain, today, vintage, Warren Dotz | Comments closed

Spider-Man Meets the Dallas Cowboys

By tone | Published: January 20, 2009
Marvel Comics has never shied away from riding the wave of the latest craze. Spidey has had cross promotions with about just everything under the sun. The latest ploy is an Obama appearance that was lifted from Erik Larson of Savage Dragon fame. When the Dallas Cowboys were hot, [...]
Also posted in Art, Comics, weird | Tagged Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Times Herald, Marvel Comics, spider-man, Super Bowl | Comments closed

The Flintstones, Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry Insight Mini-Classic Books

By tone | Published: November 9, 2008
Insight Mini-Classic Jerry Beck is the foremost quintessential chronicler of animation history. He delves into the foundation of every subject,tackles and sheds some interesting light into his subjects. Animation is more than cels and paint,there is the whole human aspect of the process. He dissects the politics of animation studios to give us the human side of the funny business for [...]
Also posted in Animation, Books | Tagged Classic, Doo, Flintstones, Insight, Jerry, Mini, Scooby, Tom | Comments closed

Bat-Manga

By tone | Published: October 29, 2008
Batman can transcend into any culture and Japan is no different. Besides baseball, comics was the best thing that United States offered Japan and they spun a pop culture that churns billions each year around the world. Batman was a manga character in the 60’s at the [...]
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Indie Fonts: Digital Type from Independent Foundries

By tone | Published: October 22, 2008
Indie Fonts Fonts distinguish the look and feel of any project. Getting the right font is a tricky thing at times. Sure there are oodles of fonts out there on the net for free. Indie Fonts is a collection of books that can grace any serious [...]
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The Elements of Style: 50th Anniversary Edition

By tone | Published: October 15, 2008
The Elements of Style is celebrating 50 years this October. Well blogging has shuffled that book to the side. Somebody should read them their Miranda rights for breaking linguistic etiquette. This is the bible for any serious writer out there. With lagging newspaper sales and the melting pot of new [...]
Also posted in Books, Cartoons | Tagged Anniversary, bible, Book, Cornell, E. B. White, Edition, English, etiquette, Miranda, newspaper, October, Oliver Strunk, Professor Strunk, side, Somebody, style, time, William Strunk, writer, writing | Comments closed