Post 7 - 02/28/08

I found this group of ads in the billboard book that gives a meaning to a picture even though they are in another language...I think German, but you still get the point of the product...

I think that it is overall kind of funny...especially garlic lady!

E.C. Post

I found this image in my e-mail the other day for a promotion for Buick. It really got my attention becuase it just has that look. It is kind of funny that they took the presidential seal and made the buick logo really seem as if it suppost to be there. Most of the time when I see something like this, where they use the presidential seal for jokes, it does not look well done. This one did a good job of it. If you look close enough, you can almost tell what effects they used on it in Photoshop.

Post 6 - for 02/21/08

Going along with all the billboards that I have scanned into the computer, I found this series in the book that are something that really gets your face in a knot just looking at them.

I believe that the goal of the advertising in this image is to sell the product and they did a great job at it. It is both funny and to the point. What really got me is that instead of just one billboard they did multiples of it! Probably different ones posted all around the cities where they were assigned to. I like to think of how fun it must have been to do something like that and have it posted all over.

If you also look at all of these, there is different packaging for each billboard to advertise a different flavor of their product.

Another thing that is very prominit is the people that they chose for the images. A young girl, what looks to be a piolet, a musician, comedian, and candidates for an election. They all like the product!

Isn't this guy off of a movie?

Moneys?

Post 5 02/14/08

Well today I went back to the library to find some more fresh images for the blog and I came across a Billboards book. For the next few posts there will be a lot of art that came from this one book. It is called Gotcha! The art of Billboard.

For this one, I found a pretty birdy staring at you. Overall, after seeing this image, and knowing that it was along a road somewhere makes mew want to see that bird and other animals there as well. I really like how they used the word CHEEP to get your attention as well. Although cheep does not portray what that particular bird would sound like. To me I think that bird would be more like a SWUAK...but cheep work because it is cheap to go to the zoo.

The graphic design element of this image is quite good. I really enjoy how the feathers of the wings are uniform and all seem to stand out quite well in the background, while the head with the eyes and beak seem to protrude in the foreground. The beak does a good job at focusing my attention down to the lettering and what they billboard is wanting to tell us. This billboard is very creative, but simple. That is what makes some of the best bilboardds