Gotta love clients

My friends Kate 'n Dave were recently made creative directors of Cubed here in Melbourne. They just posted a very cute collection of Cubisms to their Flickr site. This is my favourite for reasons that I'm sure every creative can understand.

The epitome of style

How beautiful is this packaging? I think it's absolutely stunning. These two are from a fabulous Flickr set of mid 20th century illustrative packaging, advertising and more. I recommend you click here to go take a look - you're sure to be inspired.

Looks familiar

There was much talk in adland a year or two ago about the use of Flickr images in a campaign for Virgin Mobile.

The people behind the ads defended what they had done by arguing that the Flickr pics were available to be used under Creative Commons.

This year's 'borrowed photo' story comes from Czech company Grazie.

Forget Creative Commons. They simply took this hi-res pic which they found on the internet and used it for their ad campaign!


The lady who owns the original pic posted it onto her Facebook as well as a couple of other social media sites. Nothing unusual about that.

By coincidence she has a Facebook friend who lives in the Czech Republic. And it was this friend who spotted the billboard.

Quite how Grazie got hold of the pic is anyone's guess. Stealing it then using it uncredited is pretty poor form though. Don't you think?

Rocking books

This week's email from The Word magazine tipped me off to a very clever and quite lovely Flickr set.

It's basically classic albums re-imagined as Pelican books.

This one for Joy Division's debut is my favourite.

Suffice to say there's sure to be one that you'll love too.

Click here to go browse through the racks.

C30 60 90 Go!

I'll always have a place in my heart for my very first cassette recorder. A Sanyo portable that I got for my 12th birthday.

I used to spend many an hour with the radio on and my fingers poised over the record button waiting to capture my favourite songs.

Which is why a felt a touch of nostalgia for a time long gone when I came across this link to a fantastic Flickr set of cassette inserts and labels.

Well worth a look for anyone who loves music.