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It's the Weekly What? for Friday, January 27th.
It's a glorious hodge-podge this week!We've spent some time working on crafting the perfect introduction to this week's timewast- er, I mean newsletter. That can be difficult when the quality of each entry speaks for itself. Why, any formal introduction would be a mere shadow, disappearing immediately in the blazing brilliance of fantastic links and their pithy, amusing introductions. So we won't even bother. In fact, focus group studies have shown that a vast majority of our readers (that's about about 5) don't even read this stuff up here. Even if you're not reading this, we're contractually obliged to invite you to visit our Facebook page and see all the other amazing stuff we didn't shoehorn into this email. Additionally, please answer the Weekly What? question: "What is your idea of misery?" We'll see you there! 
Coffee fit to be hung on the wallThese swirls and designs in the foam on top of lattes are pretty amazing. We have to wonder how long these take to make? "Grr, where's my coffee? I'm an important businessperson and I'm in a perpetual hurry!" "Woah, chill dude. I'm almost done with your Winne The Pooh." Slurp! Oh, woe. Art is so fleeting... You've got the coffee, now jump in the carNot only were the original VW Beetles cool, they were sold with some pretty cool advertising. Here's a fun gallery of mostly VW ads with a few Saab, Dodge, and Ford ads thrown in for good measure. Gee willikers, print ads for cars sure looked like a lot of fun way back then, huh? Slug bug! >> Are there any Beavis and Butthead fans in the house?We were hoping for a chorus of "No" from you all. How unfortunate. Well, go take a look but don't blame us if you have nightmares. What if Beavis and Butthead were flesh and blood? >> Can there be such a thing as too much advertising?Google thinks so. If you lard up your website with advertising, you can expect to suffer in search results compared to sites that favor useful content over obnoxious blinky ads promising free FREE iPad 2's. FREE IPAD 2 CLICK HERE!!!! >> Looking to extend your brand? Two questions you need to ask.Oh good grief, more work-related stuff! Brand-talk? Really? Can't we just do something fun? Maybe. Brand extensions can be fun if managed properly. Say you have a carpet-cleaning business "Zazzy Doo Carpet Cleaning." Will "Zazzy Doo Mobile Dog Wash" have any appeal for customers? Sometimes, being zazzy just isn't enough >> Okay, playtime!Oh yay! Branding stuff is done with. So, who wants to make some slime? Yeah, who doesn't love slime! This is an awesome, easy-to-do recipe that will allow you to birth globs of slime in a pool of primeval muck. Awesome! It crawls! It creeps! >> Sousaphones On A TrainThis gallery of old photos is appropriately titled "50 Unexplainable Black & White Photos." Yup. That pretty much sums it up. There's really nothing else we can add except maybe to note that posing little children with dangerous implements seemed to be a good idea a long time ago. If anyone can explainify any of these pictures, please share! WE SHOULD WORRY >> "Data communications"? Huh? What's that?In 1963 that was a hot question that many top level executives were having to face. Bell Systems commissioned Jim Henson to make a video with an innocuous little robot to explain the coming change in a non-threatening way. Plus the robot farts at one point, so what's not to love? VAST...OCEANS...OF INFORMATION An now something completely zazzy.This is a really fantastic gallery of vintage advertising juxtaposed with ads and illustration inspired by vintage material. Lot of fun stuff to look at. Smiling camper van: yay! Weiner being cut with a fork: nay! I wake up screaming! >> These are "Bent Objects"Take some everyday objects, add in some bent wire and mix it all up with the slightly twisted imagination of photographer Terry Border and this is what you get. You just have to see for yourself: "Sleeping pills." Get it? >> INTERMISSION Blow stuff up! Kaboom! INTERMISSIONWhy is the Helvetica typeface so awesome?Because it's awesome. And Swiss. There's a little more to the story of Helvetica's ubiquity and it's actually quite interesting. Not at all boring and arty. (Maybe a little.) Helvetica even has it's own movie. Take that Times! A big change is coming to Facebook. (Again.) Are you ready?Facebook is going to radically change the way it looks (and the way you can handle your information) really soon. It's called "Timeline." If you haven't made the change yet, you should look into it. However, it's a case of "jump or be pushed" so you can be proactive or just laze around and enjoy the fun of seeing almost every Facebook user complaining about how they can't find this or that or how much they hate the new look. But it's not really all that bad. You need a logo and have only $42 to spend. What can you get?Don't worry, we're not going to get all snippy and throw an artiste-tantrum. In this fascinating story a couple of designers go deep undercover to explore the sordid underworld of cheap logo design. The results they get for their money are... interesting. To their everlasting credit, the authors wrap up by offering some insightful analysis without taking the easy way out and dismissing the cheap logos with deliciously snarky comments. (No, really, they don't.) SPOILER ALERT: You really do get what you pay for. Share the fun with a friend! It's easy, just click the "Forward email" link below. They'll be glad you did! |
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