Symantec: Throw your laptop away

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)

Design Fail Weekend

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 [...]

Unobvious catalog system fail.

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 [...]

This pose means only one thing. And You know it.

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).

Yahoo announces 10% jobs cut (business model about to fail?)

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 [...]

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I can not “Enroll Now”: I am driving

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 [...]

For sale sign fail.

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).

Adobe HQ: what’s cooking?

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.

Microsoft: no Walls, just Windows

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. [...]