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Trend: Patterns in Advertising




When you consider the advertising industry at large, it’s simply a means to sell many messages. Regardless of the need versus want factor, it’s interesting to follow the creative thinking behind various campaigns. At least, from a trends perspective.

This Kobe Bryant portrait for Turkish Airlines highlights the brand’s unlimited amenities (flat beds, realtime entertainment, chef services) through the technical mechanism of an info graphic. Infusing similar texture into a more journalistic illustration, this New York Times pie chart assesses college debt through the lens of perception and worth.

Keeping in tune with the graphic nature of these layouts, Diane von Furstenberg’s recently launched home collection highlights the brand’s coveted archival duvet covers- a partnership recently launched with Bloomingdales. Sharing a similar color palette and graphic layout, Adobe’s Touch for the iPad app gets playful with tiger-striped typography.

Since we’re sharing the softer side of tech in today’s round up, it seems relevant to showcase GE’s Imagination at Work campaign, highlighting the microscopic organisms that lead to innovation. The palette mimics this vintage American Express Departures cover in a global-fabric kind of way.

 

Event: Vintage Cut & Paste




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It’s Pattern Pulp’s last opportunity to jump on the band wagon.  Nearly everyone and their (design-minded) mother has forwarded me a link to the geeked-out graphic competition hosted by Cut&Paste this weekend. If not for out-of-state plans, I would be cheering along in the crowd of over-zealous artists, watching three wacom pens vigorously draw fifteen minute vignettes on projected screens.  Cut&Paste is a traveling competition that pits up and coming designers against each other in a festive and competitive environment. I figured I’d celebrate the occasion by posting the graphic I scrambled to make for Cut & Paste’s pre-competition in Boerum Hill two years ago.  My paper dolls made the first cut, but were sadly axed by the final round.  Check out the show online if you can’t make it to Webster Hall this Saturday.

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