Make Ink

Make Ink are collective who specialise in arts based branding project

Their latest project is a spoof Adidas campaign highlighting the heritage and history of the 'brand with three stripes'

In their own words-

Project Origins
'Project Origins' is a concept created by us at Make Ink to test the online environment. We specialise in the subversion of branding through art.................. and like everybody else, we love dinosaurs"
Nick Hussey - Director of Make Ink
"Like everybody, we love dinosaurs!"
By relating established messages to these aesthetically pleasing 
terrestrial vertebrates we add wit and strengthen the brand in the 
mind of consumers.

The campaign instills, and plays on the heritage of the brand whilst 
adding an interesting angle. This is sure to attract attention from 
existing market segments as well as attracting a new, more visually 
aware, creative audience.

As well as standard online advertising utilising social networking 
routes by inviting users to befriend these extinct animals adds 
another avenue for promotion... It creates an element of fun and 
interaction with this subversion of the Adidas brand through art.

Introducing- Alkr

We Love the design and thought behind these new gadget accessories from new brand- Alkr

Sold exclusively at The Hideout and Oi Polloi in the UK and at Grand in Zurich, Switzerland along with the Alkr website- www.alkr.com  

Alkr aims to bring laptop sleeves and iPhone cases that live up to the same design standards of the technology we use everyday. In their own words-

We are not only designers, marketing guys and gadget freaks, but most 

importantly we are in love with our gadgets like Macbooks and iPhones.

We use them every day for work, and we travel the globe with them. 

But, at some point, we realized that something was missing in all those 

lounges, conference rooms, war rooms, coffee shops, and edit suits. 

As much as we love the gadgets, we didn´t like the stuff that was made 

to protect them. It all felt too dull. Why should we hide an amazing piece 

of technology in something that did´t excite us as much as the gadget 

itself? 

We did´t find laptop sleeves or iPhone cases that lived up to the same 

design standards we saw in front of us when we bought the gadgets. 

So in 2009 we made a decision, and alkr® was founded. The 2009 year 

may not be the best economical decision, but it’s a great year to take 

chances and try new things.

Our colorful and stylish laptop sleeves and iPhone cases are designed 

by a small team of people who have traveled throughout the world. 

They all live up to the highest standards and will never let you down. 

alkr® products are designed to cheer you up and make travel more fun.

Coming in at 30 GBP/Euro a sleeve and in both 13" and 15" sleeve varieties, Alkr bring a very reasonably priced well designed colourful product to a dull sterile gadget accessory market.

Alkr laptop sleeves will be launched on the 21st of November with the iphone cases to be released in the new year. The Alkr web-shop is already taking pre-orders www.alkr.com

DEAD FLIES

Bloody marvelous .

Apologies for the lack of posts recently. Its Andy's fault. He has a real job.

Bikes, Boatshoes, Chambrays, Sweatshirts..

...cuffed Jeans. 

The Beatles styling it. 

Kubrick & leica

Self portrait of Kubrick as a youngster using a leica.

It's been on a million other blogs but used here as we bloody well love it.

Pacino, Brando, Coppola

Images from The Godfather A Family Album.

RUBBISH FILM - ACE POSTER

With thanks to Union.