“Take back your state for your kids and start the contract again. There are lots of places you can start, for example, building a transportation system that won’t enslave you for two decades as their chauffeur, instead of raising fares and cutting routes in a deadly helix of mediocrity. Lots. Get to work.”
Message is applicable to residents of Jakarta as well
A letter to students from a Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
Three days ago I saw a tweet pointing out the work that Ogilvy Jakarta had done for UPS. I have to say it ’s a very nice job, conveys all about speedy delivery and got me impressed. Few campaigns by Indonesian agencies impress me but this one was really smart and distinctive.
Unfortunately there was a similar work by New York artist Ryan Johnson from 2007. Similar is probably not quite right, they’re identical except for the colors and the package each UPS sculpture was carrying.
Now, Ogilvy Worldwide has issued an official statement saying the team in Jakarta had no knowledge of Ryan Johnson’s work. As a friend and acquaintance of some of the team members, I’d like to believe that statement very much but if I didn’t know them, I’d be very skeptical just like Co.Design editor Cliff Kuang in the piece I linked to.
On the other hand, in retrospect, it’s easy to understand how the Ogilvy team came about with that work without seeing Johnson’s sculpture. Lines are identical with speed and it’s only natural to convey the message for UPS in the way that they did.
I don’t know if any of the team member is familiar with Johnson’s work and who came up with the idea. I’ve never heard of the artist but then I’m not in the creative industry, nor do I hang out at Ffffound (did they really have to make it that difficult to spell?)
I can only imagine the flurry of correspondence between the parties involved and the facepalming across the globe. Hope things work out for you guys.
Why working at home is both awesome and horrible – The Oatmeal
My daily routine. Perfectly presented in comic form.
Illustrated Internet of the Day: French artist Renaud Forestié’s wistful take on Sad Keanu.
I wouldn’t mind it if this were adapted into a full-length animated feature. Pixar, I’m looking in your direction.
[thanks kness!]
Akinori Ito, the CEO of Blest, a Japanese company, has somewhat of a panacea. If plastic is just oil, why don’t we simply turn it back into what it was, he pondered. So the guy made a machine to do it. His solution is safe, eco-friendly and efficient.
This falls under, “how the fuck did this happen?” and how the hell are they coping? I mean, what the fuck, 9 days stuck on the road? Have they walked home? How about going to the toilet? Shower? Eat?
Holy crap!
I love what these guys do and it looks like they have plenty of things coming up that will make homescreen.me a much better website/vanity board 😉
I’m collecting clips of music videos that were shot on iPhones as I discover them across YouTube. I’m accepting submissions of iPhone video clips that may be noteworthy, so if you know any that’s not yet listed, shout me out and pass me the link on my YouTube account or via Twitter @aulia
BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels (by françois vautier)
One hell of a project. 60K by 60K image with a moving virtual camera.
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