Category: media
Louis Vuitton / Super Flat First Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaXxSBZTZc&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0] While I was uploading my Louis Vuitton/Solari video on Youtube for an earlier post, I discovered a series of anime by Takashi Murakami that involves the LV trademark monogram. The anime are all breezy, magical, and cute. Last year, the Brooklyn Museum put on a retrosepctive show of Takashi Murakami’s work. The show…
Louis Vuitton / Solari di Udine
We went to see the christmas tree at Rockerfellar Center and the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue a few nights ago. As we passed Louis Vuitton’s New York flagship store on the corner of Fifth Ave and 57th Street, I noticed something flickering in the shop windows. What caught my eye was the flipping of rows…
The Different Values of HSBC
“Different Values” is a series of print ads created by JWT for HSBC in 2008. They were seen at US airports, mostly inside a ramp. I love its relativistic, Rashomon-like qualities. In the examples above, they had three different images and one word, or three different words and same image; a fourth panel shows the HSBC…
Jet Lag / Lost In A Moment
I am reading “Pattern Recognition” – a sci-fi-ish fiction by William Gibson. His style in describing all things near-futuristic can sometimes be abstract, to say the least. But it surely beats something that reads like a fanboy’s wish lists of next-generation gadgets. The main character is a media consultant who is psychologically “allergic” to certain…