Category: photos

  • Celebrity fragrance commercials – part 1

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlF22oSslNM&fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0] Justin Timberlake for Givenchy Play Continuing with the theme of fragrance marketing, I saw a bunch of TV commercials just before Christmas on UK channels and noticed many pop and even movie celebrities playing the lead in these 30-45 seconds clips.  Most movie celebrities do not let their TV commercials show in US territory

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  • Waste in five languages

    A few months ago, I blogged about a graphic element (a “cursor”) that is deployed by Swiss in all their cabin print materials, check out my earlier post Minimalist Graphics. Our flight back from Antalya, Turkey to Zurich was by Swiss.  I could not resist snapping a picture of their waste bag in the pocket

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  • Wonderwood by Comme des Garçon

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxtjoH–GbA&fs=1&hl=en_US] Comme des Garçon’s video for their new fragrance is done by The Brothers Quay.  It’s gotta be one of the creepier perfume advertisement out there. Yet the video matches the brand.  Comme des Garçon’s line of fragrances are unconventional and always interesting. This is an interesting covergence.  I like  “2” by Comme des Garçon.  It

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  • Moving In: Lausanne

    Here are a few snapshots taken on the two days in mid-July when our stuff from the US was delivered to and unpacked in our apartment.  We had been separated from our possessions for more than 6 months and could barely remember what we have in these boxes (more than 200 !).  Through this process,

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