lolz.

Welp that might have been the most touching ad I’ve seen in a while. So well done.

“Chinese New Year is always a time for reunion. Whatever differences we may have as a family, there’s always a way to overcome them. So let’s come together as one family during reunion dinner. After all, family is forever.”

(via – The Denver Egotist )

When artist Tori LaCosnay created a piece of art for the East Atlanta Village the last thing she was expecting is for some major corporation to rip off her work, and then make money off of it, but that’s exactly what H&M has done. They have handled the whole thing with class too!

From: Tori LaConsay
Subject: Copyright infringement by H&M
To: Helen@regretsy.com

The East Atlanta Village is one of the most loving, tight-knit neighborhoods I’ve ever known. The residents are like family.

On December 14, 2008, I painted a love letter to my neighborhood. The sign was located on the main thoroughfare on Flat Shoals Avenue.

On one side of the sign, I painted, “You Look Nice Today” followed by a little heart. This was on the side of the sign that I thought people would see on their way to work. On the other side of the sign (the side I thought people would see the most on their return back to the neighborhood) I painted, “I’m So Happy You’re Here” with another little heart. It was a small gesture that I genuinely hoped would make my neighbors feel good.

It all started with this.

Sometime later her friends began telling her that H&M was selling pillow cases and door mats that to say the least were very similar…

This lead one of her friends to write H&M and let them know that they were using her work…

Their response.

Soon after this friends began flooding the H&M Facebook page with posts, H&M responded in the way a good brand should when dealing with such things, they deleted the posts. All of them. The only shred of evidence of the whole thing was this update from H&M.

The damage from this whole thing could have been avoided, in fact it could have gone in a totally different direction but they chose to dig a hole, and then kept digging. Shame on you H&M.

Tori created another piece for H&M - 

Maya from Regresty created this piece for H&M

What do you think about corporations stealing the work of artists? Is it wrong for them to deny it, is this just a case of 2 people having the same idea at the same time? Fire off in the comments!

( via – Regretsy )

2011 was quite the year for the internet and 2012 is already shaping up to be a pretty crazy year for this set of tubes. This poster created by Peter Jaworoski and Michal Liowski from Ars Thanea showcases 20 of the most memorable moments from the web.

Can you spot them all?

From the site -
Within this illustration (by Peter Jaworowski, Executive Creative Director & Michal Lisowski, Lead Artist @ Ars Thanea) are 20 references to events that took place online in 2011. Although this isn’t a competition we do have a few signed limited edition prints to give away. Follow us on Twitter and tweet a link to the picture using the hashtag #20things. We’ll randomly pick a couple of lucky people each day. To help you along, we’ll release clues over the coming days.

click the poster to visit the site – 20things.syzygy.net

Sometimes advertising can be quite the circle jerk, agencies do spots that are really just made for other advertisers, these ads for Canadian Direct Insurance from Noise Digital and produced by Holiday Films  do both, but in a really great way. Spot on. Made me laugh.

CDI Waiting Room from Noise Digital on Vimeo.

CDI Round Two from Noise Digital on Vimeo.

CDI Final Round from Noise Digital on Vimeo.

(via – The Denver Egotist )

This way Bruce.

Today Nike released a new product the Nike Fuleband, along with it this awesome little spot. Learn more about the Fuleband here www.nike.com/fuelband/

Pedro Josue ( Madkobra ) is a designer / illustrator from the Dominican Republic, his style has a very unique feel to it. Great ideas, awesome executions. He has quite a few shirts on Threadless, and has a collection of work that is a lot of fun to look at.

flickr

behance

Again proving that there is a tumblr for everything. Cooking with Skrillex. who would have thought skrillex was so skilled in the kitchen?

http://cookingwithskrillex.tumblr.com/

( via – LukeG )

I’m loving all these “sh!t someone says” videos. A new one I just came across is “SH!T Project Managers Say” and I have to say, they nailed it! Well done.

enjoy!

I’d like to see a few others -

sh!t developers say

sh!t social media guys say

sh!t the CEO says

sh!t the creative director says

sh!t the intern says