Long Live Culture Jamming

Culture jamming, ad busting, or subvertising are three cruddy terms coined when the people who used to put up 48 sheet posters for Nike shoes got pissed off that the kids who would see those posters would barely be able to afford them. So they decided to put up fake ads that would have straplines like 'Just Do Something' and flaccid-looking swooshes.


But since foreign exchange students and rebellious teenagers on Oxford Street started buying those t-shirts with Adihash logos and reading Adbusters magazine felt a bit like you were being told off, we've not seen much that's made us laugh.


So we're pleased to see its return with the 'Taste The Failbow' skittlefisting blog, in response to the 'Interweb the Rainbow' online campaign for Skittles. Take that, adland.

Lightwriting

We've been dazzled by lightwriting lately, even though it's nothing new.

Wikipedia claims it's because 'With the abundance of computer generated special effects and motion graphics this practical approach to stop motion using light sources moving in the frame delights and perhaps confounds the techno-savvy modern viewer'.

We love how strange and unauthoritative that theory is for Wikipedia, so we're not going to disagree with it.

Here's a video from the future by German collective Lichtfaktor.


Forest from LICHTFAKTOR on Vimeo.

Online Resources

You inevitably have to do a lot of macing up as a creative.

We've bookmarked the following sites as ones we've found useful and that speed things up a bit, when you've got to spend some time developing CTS.

COMPFIGHT

Searches images on flickr. You can see loads of images at the same time and find the one you want more quickly.

TinEye

Image search engine that finds higher res versions of a particular image you have.

FFFFOUND!

Art direction inspiration.

Best Brands Of The World

High res logos.

dafont.com

Free fonts to download.

Photoshop Support Centre

Photoshop tutorials by Americans who all seem to have the same voice and speech mannerisms.

youSENDit

Send files up to 100 MB for free.

Spotify

Online jukeboxin'.