Nissan 370z Webpage

As I have state before I am a car hobbyist and all around gear head in general. This is the title web page for building a 2010 Nissan 370z. I have scrolled through many car web pages and the designs of most of them are more interactive than this one. Generally the ads have a lot cleaner set ups than this website does. I like the use of the yellow 370z with a rather plain background. It makes the car the center of attention, which it needs to be. The text is all rather plain though, as well as the menu options. If you're showcasing one of your sports cars you would think you would want your web page to reflect what the sports car is, in the form of a website. I do not feel Nissan has accomplished this at all. I just feel the website is very plain and a leftover site in the sense that it doesn't look very new or updated for this new car. As I said before, the website should reflect the idea of an open road, fast, sexy, sleek but, it does not and this is why I feel the website fails as an advertisement for selling this car.

3-D Billboards

I have a thing for 3-d billboard advertisements. This is the second one I have found and I think that they are fantastic. You can use simple colors and no backgrounds and if they are 3-d they are more eye catching than 2-d ones. This billboard for instance is a picture of a man biting off a section of the billboard itself. There is no background, no flashy eye popping colors. There is just a man and a white background and yet I still feel this is more distracting (in a good way) than perhaps a bright red billboard. As I have stated before I feel that humans or at least Americans can be bored with generic visual advertisements. It has been around for a long time and we have all seen everything that anyone can try. I thoroughly enjoy when advertisers break out of the mundane normal shell and create works of 3-d art to capture our attention, it is truely phenomenal.

Ultra Modern Sinks

The first glance of these pictres you may just want to keep staring and try to figure out what they are. It took me a few seconds to realize actually what I was looking at. If you haven't figured it out by now these are all ultra modern styled sinks designed by Bagno Bandini designs. I ,for one, am a fan of modern designs. I find them almost timeless. A lot of modern designs seem to be stemmed from designs of the 60s, because they are very curvacious and have basic solid colors. Some of these designs are referred to as retrofuturistic looks. Although aesthetically more pleasing than most sinks, the functionality of these sinks seems to be very limited. The shallow depth of the sinks seem as if they wouldn't keep higher pressure water from splashing out very well. I enjoy the looks of modern furniture as well as appliances and house wares but I enjoy function over form also. These sinks do look good but, I would be sure to try to test them before buying, in the event that there is more than one set and they are being sold to consumers. I have not found a pricetag for a set of sinks like the ones mentioned above but I'm assuming that they are going to be more for show than purpose anyway, considering those that could afford sinks like this, generally would put them in a bathroom not used for everyday needs. I'd give an A for design and a C for function.

I found these sinks here http://dornob.com/brilliant-curved-basins-and-super-smooth-sink-surfaces/

J. Bannon

This piece of artwork is titled "Jane Doe" it is by the artist Jacob Bannon. Jacob Bannon has been an artist since he was 13 years old and has designed and created many works of art for album covers and webpages for many bands. He is also the lead singer and founder of the band "Converge." More information on Jacob Bannon can be found on www.jacobbannon.com.

This piece of work is probably one of my favorite piece by Jacob Bannon. I love his use of many layers. I enjoy the dull color schemes behind the main focus of the image, which is the girl in the middle of the picture. Much of his art is comprised of many many layers of silk screens. This particular image is the cover of Converge's CD titled "Jane Doe." The best part of his artwork is that he manages to use many layers without the images looking cluttered, unless it is intentional. The style this image was created in makes it seem almost like an ancient picture. It almost looks like there is a sun behind her head. You notice design elements from perhaps ancient Egyptian era and styles. I encourage you to look at more of his designs because they are truly remarkable.

Tattoo Ads.

When you think about tattoos you simply think about works of art or memorials that have a symbolic meaning to the person that is getting the tattoo. How often do you think about permanent advertisements as tattoos? For me it was not at all, however, I do recall earlier in the decade people were starting to sell parts of their bodies on ebay for businesses to tattoo ads on them. I have researched a little bit and found websites like www.leaseyourbody.com who puts temporary tattoos on your for money and this article on "walking billboards" on msnbc http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21979076/.

The pictures I posted may not necessarily look like a traditional tattooed advertisement. It looks legitimately like a work of art that someone would have gotten tattooed on them because they could be in love with Volkswagen beetles. In all reality it is an ad for lo/jack. The security company that installs GPS devices on items to help track and find them. Usually used for automobiles. http://www.lojack.com/ is the website you can find out more information on them. They are taking advertising into a whole new level by not just creating a beautiful ad but, also by stepping over boundaries as where you can advertise. It is truly unique. They are one of the only mainstream companies I have seen with very artistic tattoos and all out great designs and that are utilizing the walking billboard. Dunlop tires also had a promotion that if you got a logo of their "D" tattooed on your body you would get a free set of tires. I'm not sure how much those that have the lo/jack tattoos were compensated for their "billboard space" but, I'm sure it was more than a set of new tires. Some people just love tattoos for the sake of having them and if you can get a free tattoo and some money out of it and do not really care what the tattoo is then why not?

The design itself I feel is beautiful, I am are car hobbyist so any type of artistic rendering of an automobile I usually love. I also enjoy tattoos and see most of them as works of art, at least custom drawn ones. I like the simplicity of just using a gray scale and not using any colors. I feel it stands out more that way rather than fading out.