Chicago has a surprising amount of excellent public illustration. Many top illustrators and designers have come out of chicago recently and left thier sticky marks all over the city. From retro signage to these fun and bright subway decorations. If anyone knows the name of the illustrator who did these funky people, please email me at john@illustrae.com.
Now if they only the city could get a few decent bistros.
Add Your CommentsBetter late then never. If you’re a user of Google’s content match network on Adsense, you can now apply a “site exclusion feature.” This allows you to control which of Google’s content partners you’d like your ads to be displayed on.
Up until now I’ve avoided Google’s content match. With the exclusion feature now available however, its time to start experimenting again. I’ll keep you posted on the success.
Bit of a shocking prediction by Rishad Tobaccowala during his keynote at the OMMA conference on Monday. Rishad said:
“At some stage it becomes more expensive to buy Google than to buy network television.”
Tobaccowala predicted that interactive advertising will go up by 20 to 30% a year for several years thanks to things like the rising costs of pay-per-click and the need to make creative more attention-getting.
[via Marketer Today]
Business Week talks about how Baby Bandolier, a small company that makes baby accessories, has benefited from blogs.
Within a day of one of Baby Bandolier’s products appearing on gadget blog Gizmodo, traffic to their website increased dramatically and they sold nearly 60 pieces of the featured product within the next 24 hours, when they had been averaging about 100 per month.”
Mental Note: Pay-Per-Click advertising network FindWhat.com said today they’ll change their name to Miva.
PSFK points to a feature at Graphic Design USA that looks at trends in logo design. Among the 15 trends are stars, leaves, flames, and CMYK color. The trends were observed as part of LogoLounge.com???s Third Annual Visual Trends Report.
The feature also reminds us to visit LogoLounge.com where “you can review trends from the past several years; in real-time, post logo design work; study the work of others; search the database by designer???s name, client type and other attributes; learn from articles and news written expressly for and about logo designers; and much more.”
Online News Squared (a new blog that’s doing a nice job of curating the “news about online news”), points us to a Interactive Advertising Bureau study that shows online advertising revenue totaled $2.8 billion in the first quarter, a 26 percent boost from the same period in 2004.
While these gains are impressive, I think one can safely assume that majority of these revenues are still coming from a select group of very large web advertisers. Particularly those in the travel and automotive sectors. It would be interesting to look at the numbers not as a whole, but rather from some sort of tiered perspective that compared the spending of small, mid and large sized businesses.
CoolHunting did a post today on Kozyndan, the LA-based illustration couple.
The writer of the post, Carol Chung, called their work “witty and serene” and pointed to an illustration they did for Giant Robot Magazine where they “took Hokusai print, The Great Wave, and changed the surf into bunnies.”
You can see Kozy and Dan’s work at www.kozyndan.com.
You may think the Society of Illustrators is all about wine and women, but there are other benefits to being a member. Like the opportunity to pad your gallery resume.
Every year the Society of Illustrators throws “Our Own Show”, an exhibit of art by the members. That means you, champ, if you fork over the membership fee. The artist voted best of show gets a cash prize, while everyone else can write that they hung in the Museum of American Illustration.
“A growing number of companies are stepping softly into the blogosphere, following a path blazed by Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc. and others in the technology field.”
“The Internet journal format, they find, lets businesses expand their reach, generate product buzz and encourage consumer loyalty — while bypassing traditional media.”
