Friday, December 05, 2008

Gift of Reading Campaign




See what happens when you don't read!

Here's the copy:

"The new advertising campaign for The Gift of Reading®
was designed by bleublancrouge on the basis of the following message:
“When a child doesn't read, imagination disappears.” To convey this
idea to the general public, the different advertisements show fairy
tale characters, such as Cinderella and Peter Pan, slowly fading away
in hospital. These characters represent the imaginary worlds of
children without access to reading, which are likely to disappear over
time."

Not a great fan of scarevertising, but these are pretty cool.

Literacy Foundation

Via: Brandflakes

Monday, December 01, 2008

The Mile Project

"MILE (Metadata Image Library Exploitation) aims to promote European cultural heritage and make digital art more accessible by improving metadata."

An interesting collective headed by the Bridgeman Art Library. Below is a link to a video that gives a little history on the Bridgeman v. Corel case. (Note: embedding was disabled by themileproject's request...I don't know about you, but that seems a bit excessive to me.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbAq2BZW7hY