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Its Big Mac time
McDonald's Marketing has been relentless and, looking back, hilarious over time, cross-marketing not only in all media, but all countries and all ages. I can't imagine anyone being oblivious to McDonald's existence. With over 30,000 restaurants (mostly franchises) in more than 119 countries, servin ...
Typographic Portrait of Steve Jobs
This is the work of Dylan Roscover. A portrait of Steve Jobs entitled "Steven Paul Jobs". A typographic portrait of the man behind Apple using fonts used in Apple Mac computers and Apple products.
This is a typeface-driven design based on the "Here's to the crazy ones" ad campaign from Apple in th ...
Web Design | From a Robots Perspective
Everyone knows by now that creating a website requires great skills in several areas depending on what kind of website you are looking to create. A lot of hours is put in to a project and more than often the client oversees the actually work and instead focus entirely on the end product. For them th ...
Designer gone Street Artist
I found it interesting that Dave Kinsey, a young artist from Southern California, was trained as a designer, designed to be able to afford to paint and now shows his work internationally in gallery s and city streets alike. His hands-on training as a graphic designer, allows him to know how to work ...
Sticky Notes With A Twist
The yellow pad that you write on and stick to things to help you remember stuff has been given a new life. Imagine being able to create origami art as well?
While sticky notes are a pretty darn useful piece of kit in our lives, nobody could argue that they are terribly exciting. These origami ...
Who’s On First? | Typography
Every now and then I stumble over something that I just can't keep myself from posting here on Bit Rebels. This time it's one of histories most legendary comic performances. It's even been featured in several movies throughout the years. The biggest one being "Rain Man" starring Tom Cruise and Dusti ...
Hotel des Arts
Located in the french quarter of San Francisco, Hotel des Arts offers a unique experience of 'living in art'. Highlighting contemporary local artists such as Sam Flores, Vinyl Killer, Jeremyville and more, the hotel offers a variety of painted rooms as well as all the traditional services. Each of ...
Art Installation by Kumi Yamashita
Installation art describes an artistic genre of site-specific, three-dimensional works designed to transform the perception of a space.
Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however the boundaries between these terms overlap. ...
Cool Notebook Sleeve
The best thing about the product is the convenience of having a stand and a sleeve for your computer in one. Two Fold Notebook Stand and Sleeve The idea: The notebook stand that's going places. Now there's a notebook stand that gives you comfort coming and going. The Kensington TwoFold Notebook Stan ...
Have You Tried Seadragon? Demo It Here!
On the main page of the Seadragon website they say it all, "The aim of Seadragon is nothing less than to change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays all the way down to cell phones..." From what I have seen, they may very well succeed. I was introduced to Seadragon through, of all thin ...
Design Your Own Flip Flops
Havaianas makes a splash with this year's Make Your Own Havaianas (MYOH). With more straps, soles and pins to choose from, there are endless ways to personalize your flip-flops. The only limitation is your imagination.
This year's MYOH goes POP ART with pin designs ranging from lomo cameras, vint ...
Color me pretty | Les Paul Guitars
With the passing of Les Paul, Rock 'n Roll's legend and creator of the Les Paul brand of Gibson guitars, I want to share the colorful side of Paul's famous guitars. We have a well kept secret here in Seattle, a Gibson studio, tucked away in the Pioneer Square neighborhood, south of downtown. The stu ...
Insane Illustration
Not a day goes by when I don't spend a little time browsing through my RSS Feed. Presidia Creative caught my eye with post dedicated to an illustrator called Dan Dos Santos. The title of the post was 54 Incredible Illustrations by Dan Dos Santos.
Surely there couldn't be 54 "incredible" illust ...
How the Apple Logo Came to Be!?
Have you ever wondered how the Apple logo came to be? Found some funny videos on how the Apple logo was "supposedly" developed.
I really find it amazing how people can be so creatively funny. And not only that, creating the videos might have taken them a lot of time to produce considering the ...
Awesome Animation!
So I was flicking through the recent edition of Computer Arts and their Graduate Showcase 2009, its a great chance for graduates to get noticed as they enter the world of work.
There were some genius guys featured and in recognition of their work I thought I would give them a little shout out.
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