Posted on October 30, 2008 by DF
Symantec came up with fresh idea to advertise their Norton software outdoors:
The guy throwing away his laptop – this means to me the “speed of throwing laptop away”. Actually this is precisely my case a month ago.. (the rest is here)
Filed under: Design Idea Fail | Tagged: advertisement, anti virus, banner ad, billboard, design, Design Fail, it, outdoor ad, programming, security, software, Symantec | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 27, 2008 by DF
I don’t care if regular “Pepsi” now branded as “Diet Coca” or even “Clorox” as long the price is “as advertised”. I do not like surprises at the register like “Oops! Your Pepsi is $8.99; $7.99 is the price for Diet Coke”.
This toy could be useful for some dads with some special fantasies:
Not too much [...]
Filed under: Design Idea Fail, General Design Fail, General Idea Fail, fun | Tagged: adult toy, car, coca cola, design, Design Fail, driving, espresso, fireware, hdd, pepsi, toy | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 27, 2008 by 7macaw
San Jose city library has a huge collection of foreign language books. Clearly they can’t just drop them on the shelves randomly, books must be arranged in alphabetical order by the author’s name. But there’s a problem: many foreign languages are written in non-English letters, and some aren’t even using letters at all…
As we have [...]
Filed under: implementation fail | Tagged: foreign languages, library, software, unicode | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 24, 2008 by DF
Nike makes interesting statement to advertise Triax Speed 100 sports watch:
IMO, this ad image has great “Photoshop-ready” potential (with “middle finger up” for instance).
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Posted on October 24, 2008 by DF
Some of Yahoo folks who are most likely among these “10%” asked me to draw something very simple and quick about the lay off. Well, I wrote similar thing about Yahoo before, so, here is one more:
Sorry folks. Everything will be OK. Good luck!
To the remaining 90% of Yahoo guys: this is just a parody, [...]
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by DF
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Posted on October 23, 2008 by DF
Yet another dumb application of web-like advertisement to the road ad billboards. Check this out: “Enroll Now”:
My first impression was: “damn, I can not enroll now, even if I wish to enroll. I am driving”.
I took the picture from the best visible spot of the billboard. The billboard stands in a place from which only [...]
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Posted on October 22, 2008 by 7macaw
Have a car for sale… check. Post a “for sale” sign… check. Why nobody’s calling to buy the vehicle?
(Or probably this car is intended for psychics (or detectives) only – they’d find out the number to call themselves).
Filed under: implementation fail | Tagged: car for sale, for sale, signs | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 21, 2008 by DF
Hopefully this is just BBQ for Adobe top management on the roof, not someone’s torture (a bowl with boiling oil and someone inside who, say, missed deadline):
There were no fire trucks around, no sirens, etc.
Filed under: fun | Tagged: Adobe, Adobe HQ, design, Photoshop | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2008 by DF
This Microsoft’s billboard stands in San Francisco downtown, right at the entrance of Bay Bridge (Hwy 80 East):
Actually I personally have issues with living “without walls”: I do not want my naked ass to be exposed to the entire neighborhood when I am in the shower. I like my privacy, I need my walls.
IMO, Apple [...]
Filed under: Design Idea Fail, General Idea Fail | Tagged: advertisement, apple, billboard, design, Design Fail, designfail, life without walls, macbook, microsoft, naked ass, windows | 7 Comments »