Streetsblog.org has announced that Citi Band will sponsor New York’s bike share program beginning in July. Those guys are no dopes. It’s a great lifestyle brand extension for them. Good for the city. Good for people and quality of life. Good for business. Ka’ching!!
Advertising
April 17, 2012
Vintage stationary with architectural vignettes
By SinclairBibliOdyssey has a post displaying fantastic samples from Columbia University’s collection of commercial stationary.
January 24, 2012
Uline stickies pallet
By SinclairAwww, how cute is that? (Yes, I placed a quarter there for scale. So?)
December 16, 2011
Coke and Pepsi race to be first to replace teeth with plant based plastic. Wait, what?
By SinclairCoke and Pepsi race to be first to replace teeth with plant based plastic. Wait, what?
August 27, 2011
Mid Bronx Haulage
By SinclairMid Bronx is a commercial garbage collection company that I found up by the job I’m on and they’ve been doing weekly collections from my site. Super nice guys and I really love the type treatment on their truck. It’s a classic industrial logo type. And they have great shirts to match. I managed to [...]
July 22, 2011
Scope Outlast packaging fail
By SinclairOk, so I am SUPER late to the party on this one, but I just saw the Scope Outlast bottle in the store and was really taken aback. I got four words: gypsy cab air freshener.
July 21, 2011
Albert Exergian TV posters
By SinclairI missed the boat on this ages ago but my buddy JMR posted them on Facebook and they’re great. Art director Albert Exergian‘s super reduced modernist posters for popular tv shows as reported in the Guardian (Jan 2010). Being a man drawn to the simple nature of things and clever solutions, I have a particular [...]
July 19, 2011
Alex Steinweiss– RIP
By SinclairSteven Heller wrote a lovely obituary for the late and great Alex Steinweiss in today’s New York TImes. I had never heard of Steinweiss and I’m sorry because his contribution was huge. As advertising manager for Columbia Records he essentially introduced original artwork to the record sleeve. If you consider a time before records used [...]
May 11, 2011
Sinclair Oil memorabilia
By SinclairMy lady saw this and sent it to me. Presumably it’s an antique (delivery?) bicycle branded with ad space for the Sinclair gas and oil company. I would have thought oil companies would have wanted to destroy bicycles the way they destroyed the street car industry. Maybe not. Anyway, I want it. I also want [...]
March 27, 2011
Nice hand drawn type
By SinclairThis should have gone up here ages ago as indicated by the date on it but better late than never. There’s nothing new about nostalgic poster art, particularly the wood cut banner style of the 19th cent American West, and particularly if you live in Brooklyn in the early 21st cent as I do [...]