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Written Portraits, or The Real Facebook

March 30th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Each year CPNB (Collective Promotion Dutch Literature) organises the Dutch Book Week to promote Dutch literature. And every year a specific genre is being profiled. This year the(auto) biography is featured. This is translated in the theme ‘Geschreven Portretten’, which translates in Written Portraits’. Van Wanten Etcet era created the campaign, which show the different faces behind the (auto) biographies. Anne Frank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdollah (writer of the biographic Book Week give away). Souverein made the artwork and did an amazing job creating realistic images. Even original book pages were used for the text inside the portraits to get right structure for each portrait.

So instead of wasting your time on Facebook get the real Facebook – you can even sleep with your favorite author put next to you on a pillow!

Anne Frank

Kader Abdolah

Vincent Van Gogh

Louis Van Gaal

Advertising Agency: Van Wanten Etcetera, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Creative Directors: Markus Ravenhorst, Maarten Reynen | Art Directors: Maarten Reynen | Copywriters: Markus Ravenhorst | Illustrator: Souverein

Each year CPNB (Collective Promotion Dutch Literature) organises the Dutch Book Week to promote Dutchliterature. And every year a specific genre is being profiled. This year the(auto) biography is featured. This is translated in the theme ‘GeschrevenPortretten’, which translates in Written Portraits’. Van Wanten Etcet era created the campaign, which show the different faces behind the (auto) biographies. AnneFrank, Vincent van Gogh, Louis van Gaal and Kader Abdollah (writer of thebiographic Book Week give away). Souverein made the artwork and did an amazingjob creating realistic images. Even original book pages were used for the textinside the portraits to get right structure for each portrait.

Advertising Agency: Van Wanten Etcetera, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creative Directors: Markus Ravenhorst, Maarten Reynen
Art Directors: Maarten Reynen
Copywriters: Markus Ravenhorst
Illustrator: Souverein
Published: March 2011

Written Portraits, or The Real Facebook originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 30, 2011.

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Future-Predicting Postcards From Around 1900

March 29th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Not so many years ago, ideas like flying machines (planes) or broadcasting of moving pictures (television), seemed to be just some weird and hardly possible future predictions by science-fiction lovers.

People were always fascinated about the future, so they’ve tried to picture all those cool inventions the future is about to bring. Jules Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel in the late 19th-century before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. Not to mention Leonardo Da Vinci who has conceptualized a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power and a calculator in c. 1500.

Every generation has it’s own image of the future world, and the best part is of course seeing it come true. That’s why we want to show you a collection of future-predicting postcards made around 1900 by Hildebrands company, a leading German chocolate manufacturer. These lovely drawings depicted how people will live in the year 2000. They probably failed at predicting the fashion trends, but let’s see how accurate they were in predicting the technology.

Broadcasting

Needless to say, we have TV and Radio everywhere, even in our cell phones.

A Quick Stroll On The Water

We probably don’t use balloons, but sure we do have water skis, and water motorcycles.

House Moving By Train

There are over 35,000 trailer parks in the United States ranging in size from 5 to over 1,000 home sites. ^[1]

Personal Flying Machines

We already have a commercial Jetpack sold for $75000.^[2]

Personal Airships

Combined Ship And Railway Locomotive

Probably constructing a railway on the bottom of the sea isn’t such a great idea after all, but we do have amphibious vehicles.

Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine

We have surveillance cameras everywhere.

Weather Control Machine

It has been already shown to be possible at some degree by Russians and Chinese, but this might be more like the prediction of 2100.

Summer Holidays At The North Pole

Definitely possible if you have some extra money.

The Moving Pavement

These are mainly used in airports, but also can be seen in some zoos and museums.

Roofed Cities

Not really sure about this one, but I believe this could be compared to our malls.

Undersea Tourist Boats

We have pretty advanced tourist submarines available for paying passengers.

Future-Predicting Postcards From Around 1900 originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 29, 2011.

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Maps They Didn’t Teach You In School

March 24th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Ever wondered how your penis or breast size compares to the rest of the world? Which countries smile and which countries don’t? How smart are your fellow countrymen compared to the other nations? And nobody taught you that in school? Well, we collected a list of offbeat and fun maps that will answer your questions!

World Map of The Penis Size Worldwide

Data: everyoneweb .com

The Breast Cup Size Worldwide

Data: targetmap .com

World Map of Happiness

The Gallup researchers found evidence of what many have long suspected: money does buy happiness–at least a certain kind of it. In a related report, they studied the reasons why countries with high gross domestic products won out for well-being, and found an association between life satisfaction and income. Data: Gallup World Poll (full table of The World’s Happiest Countries)

World Map of Social Networks

Nuclear Power Plants Worldwide

Data: nuclearinfo .net

World Map of National IQ Scores

The intelligence scores came from work carried out earlier this decade by Richard Lynn, a British psychologist, and Tatu Vanhanen, a Finnish political scientist, who analysed IQ studies from 113 countries, and from subsequent work by Jelte Wicherts, a Dutch psychologist. (Data: photius .com)

Maps They Didn’t Teach You In School originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 24, 2011.

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21 Creative Double Page Magazine Ads

March 23rd, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Today, let’s take a closer look at magazine advertising. You can consider it as more focused, therefore more expensive, alternative to newspaper advertising. Magazine advertising not only allows you to reach highly targeted audiences, as you can choose magazines that specializes in topics of interest to your audience but also tends to have a higher reader involvement which means that more attention is being paid to your advertisement.

Also, you shouldn’t forget to make use of a better print quality, which is more suitable when advertising premium products. Finally, magazines have a much longer life compared to newspapers which are usually thrown away the same day they are bought. However, long lead times means you have to make plans weeks or months in advance. The slower lead time also increase the risk of your ad getting overtaken by events, and is also considered to be bad for rebates.

Today, when a single person sees about 3000 ads each day, and we are becoming more and more blind to advertising, companies must find new and creative ways to catch consumer’s attention. If you are having a hard time coming up with new ideas, or you are just a bored panda looking for some inspiration this collection of 21 Creative Double Page Magazine Ads should really help you!

1. Greenpeace: Tree

“Deforestation continues with the turn of a page” (Advertising Agency: LINKSUS, Beijing, China)

2. Adidas: Forever Sport

Advertising Agency: unknown

3. Macboook Pro

“Ultra Thin” (Advertising School: SVA New York, USA)

4. Wonderbra: Magazine

Advertising Agency: unknown

5. DHL International Courier Service

Advertising Agency: Shanghai J&J Advertising Co., China

6. Arcor: Bubble Gum

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Sao Paulo, Brazil

7. Depilatory Strips: EPILDOU

Advertising Agency: Lg2, Quebec, Canada

8. SulAmerica Health Insurance

“SulAmerica prevents you from doing the same with the resources of your company.” (Advertising Agency: MPM Advertising, Brazil)

9. Hawaiian Tropic: Enjoy The Sun

Advertising Agency: Grey, Stockholm, Sweden

10. Clinique: Lashes

Advertising Agency: WE Marketing Group, Shanghai, China

11. Ikea: Sliding Wardrobe

Advertising Agency: 303, Perth, Australia

12. Repromed: Don’t Waste Your Sperm

Jamshop has created a cheeky DM piece to complement their existing national print and online campaign in an effort to recruit sperm donors for Repromed, Australia’s leading infertility clinic. Unsuspecting potential candidates received the popular men’s magazine FHM, only to discover that some pages appeared stuck together. Blokes were lured into pulling the sticky pages apart, revealing a full page pic of an attractive lingerie model and a message. An interactive website linking back to Repromed challenged the men to see if they had the “goods” to become an eligible sperm donor. (Advertising Agency: Jamshop, Adelaide, Australia)

13. Garmastan: Nipple

It’s a print ad for maternity magazine. The double splead portrays a breastfeeding woman and her baby. Two pages are glued together. One you tear them off of each other, the baby’s mouth tears off the nipple, thus demostrating how painful breastfeeding can be, unless you can use Garmastan lotion. (Advertising Agency: Milk, Lithuania)

14. Tide: Put Stains Back Where They Belong

Post it glue was used to give the impression that icecream and tomato sauce from a hotdog had stuck to the shirts of people on the opposite page. By the time the page was opened however the stains were back on the icecream and hotdog. (Advertising agency: Leo Burnett Mumbai)

15. Styx Underwear

STYX underwear: only time Styx Underwear for men has a special character –offers a unique design that ensures that no part of the cloth will get entangled, in the middle of a man?s rear end (buttocks).

16. Project: AHON

The project shows how a donation for building homes for typhoon victims also helps the advertiser through Project AHON. Media owners gave discounted rates for ad spaces, advertisers paid full price, and the difference was given to Red Cross. (Advertising Agency: BBDO Guerrero \ Proximity, Philippines)

17. Hombre Magazine

The double page spread was glued together and had to be forced apart to see the ad. (Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

18. WMF Knives

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Bangkok, Thailand

19. NHA Xinh Furniture

Advertising Agency: Grey Group, Hochiminh City, Vietnam

20. Miradent Dental Floss

Advertising Agency: Philipp und Keuntje, Hamburg, Germany

21. Brazilian Bikinis: Ribbon

Advertising Agency: FNL Communications, Sydney, Australia

21 Creative Double Page Magazine Ads originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 23, 2011.

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Funny and Creative Flower Pots by GOOD!

March 21st, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Kazakhstan-based advertising agency GOOD! was already well known for creating some really fun and inspiring stuff in the past, and now once again they proved to have a really good sense of humor by introducing these face-pots.

However, as cool as they look, the idea isn’t quite new, and the guys from GOOD! don’t deny it.

“We do not claim this is a novelty idea (there are advertising campaigns based on the effect of combining plant and a human face), but we wanted to implement this technique in the form of a specific object. The trick is that we liked that flower pot and a person’s face have a similar shape, which contributes to their visual association, the effect is complete and pretty funny” – says GOOD! on their website.

And like Jeff from CraziestGadgets has pointed out, the concept is simple enough that anyone with a flowerpot, a closeup portrait photo, some scissors and glue can easily replicate this in their own home. With the right combination of plants and facial expressions, the results can be hilariously awesome.

Website: Good.kz

P.S.: if anyone do it at home, don’t forget to share your picture with other pandas as well

Funny and Creative Flower Pots by GOOD! originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 21, 2011.

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Extreme Close-Ups of the Human Eye

March 17th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Don’t know about you guys, but we just love looking at things really close up! Some of you probably remember Looking at the World through a Microscope (Part I) and 20 Incredible Eye Macros, however this time let’s take a look at extreme close-ups of the human eye.

An Armenian physics teacher Suren Manvelyan used his friends, colleagues and pupils as models to make these amazing ocular portraits. He never thought he would see anything like that – when viewed really close up our eyes look like some dramatic surfaces of far and unknown planets.

“It is quite natural when you shoot macro shots of insects and plants, but to try to make a picture of the eye? I did not expect these results,” says Suren.

“I was not aware they are of such complicated appearance. Everyday we see hundreds of eyes but do not even suspect they have such beautiful structure, like surfaces of unknown planets.” ^[1]

Website: behance.net/paronsuren

P.S.: Whoever told you “your eyes are beautiful” simply never looked at them close enough.

Extreme Close-Ups of the Human Eye originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 17, 2011.

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3D Screw Portraits By Andrew Myers

March 14th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Andrew Myers must be one of the most patient artists around – he creates stunning 3-dimensional portraits by drilling 8,000 to 10,000 individual screws into a plywood panel, then paints over the head of each screw to enhance the 3D effect.

Born in Germany and raised in Spain, since his early childhood, Andrew Myers has been artistically influenced by european life and culture. At the age of 20, he applied to the Art Institute of Southern California (now known as the Laguna College of Art and Design); with no previous art training, Myers was accepted based upon the natural talent his application portfolio evidenced.

Many of his works have been highly acclaimed nationwide, but he’s probably most famous for his 3D Screw Portraits. What’s best is that Myers doesn’t rely on any computer software while drilling in the screws, he figures it out as he goes along. “For me, I consider this a traditional sculpture and all my screws are at different depths,” says the artist.

Website: andrewmyersart.com

3D Screw Portraits By Andrew Myers originally appeared on Bored Panda on March 14, 2011.

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TheDot Get Dirty

March 10th, 2011 by Owen | No Comments | Filed in Design

Tags: 50 fps, paint, slow motion

Another 10 Living Paintings by Alexa Meade

March 9th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Alexa Meade seems to be really busy faking new paintings, so we thought it’s time to update our previous collection of her Fake Painting Photographs.

As we’ve already mentioned in our previous article, what you are about to see, are not paintings on canvas! Alexa Meade paints with acrylics directly on human flesh creating the illusion of painterly portraits.

“Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.

Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.” (from her BIO)

Website: alexameade.com