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The Best & Worst logo designs of 2008. Click here. 

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One interesting thing about the design is that the whole header of the Yahoo page becomes a Flash element. It cannot be manipulated whilst the advert is running, but afterwords, whilst still being Flash, it works like the standard page, with all the links/search functions working as you would expect, and linking to standard Yahoo pages.

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This is a TED talk by Stefan Sagmeister that is definitely worth a look. I watched it a year or so ago but thought I’d look it up again and decided to post it here.

Heres a nice design blog themed around Halloween, “I Dig Cereal Killers”, worth a look.

This is an interesting way to create animation that I haven’t seen before, they just use tape to create the sequences on a large empty wall space. They people behind it also created tape figures around New York of all the firefighters, plane passengers and office workers that dies on September 11th.

This is the new Bravia spot that follows the balls and paint spots. I really like it, it seems to take a step back towards the balls ad which was much more playful than paint and I think this is a good thing as for me it made it entertaining to watch and added more emotion than paint, which was more of a spectacle to watch than a thing to engage with on an emotional level. The soundtrack is also worth noting for its appropriateness with regards to colour and also the feeling of light-hearted relaxation that it creates in the listener. It will be interesting to see if the response is similar to that of the previous spots.

Below is the Egyptian/Middle East Bravia advert which less people may have seen, still quite interesting but for me it lacks the playfulness of the Rabbits or Balls spots, but then again I’m not the target audience.

A nice promotion for a 2 Disc Jungle Book DVD, that ties the medium in with the product nicely.

These adverts aren’t really anything special but they use structural elements more than most ads to emphasise the message. They make use of the image content, light and shade, and positioning of the objects and copy to emphasise the message that the a womans figure in Fayreform lingerie will attract your attention from a scene when even the strangest things are in it.