"Akbil knows the value of your kuru?" (the Turkish equivalent of pennies), says this ad from Istanbul's transit agency. Photo via ?ETT.
Besides holding more than 12 times as many inhabitants and being way, way bigger, I like to tell people, Istanbul is a lot like my hometown of San Francisco -- geographically, at least. From my neighborhood on the city's European side, I can look across the sparkling waters of the Bosphorus to the industrial shipyards and, above, the greener, more residential hills of the Asian side, a view reminiscent in many ways of that from San Francisco to the Port of O...Read the full story on TreeHuggerPosts Tagged ‘Ad Agency’
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
"Akbil knows the value of your kuru?" (the Turkish equivalent of pennies), says this ad from Istanbul's transit agency. Photo via ?ETT.
Besides holding more than 12 times as many inhabitants and being way, way bigger, I like to tell people, Istanbul is a lot like my hometown of San Francisco -- geographically, at least. From my neighborhood on the city's European side, I can look across the sparkling waters of the Bosphorus to the industrial shipyards and, above, the greener, more residential hills of the Asian side, a view reminiscent in many ways of that from San Francisco to the Port of O...Read the full story on TreeHuggerBelgian Ad Agency Designs Typeface Using a Moving 55 MPG Toyota iQ Microcar
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Font Designed by a Moving Car
A team composed of two typographers, a pro driver, and an interactive artist/programmer has been hired by Toyota and Happiness Brussels (a Belgian ad agency) to pull off a pretty original PR stunt to market the Toyota iQ microcar (see more photos of the 55 MPG iQ here). The goal was to design a typeface by tracking the moving car using special software, and the whole undertaking has been documented with photos and video. You can download the font for free belo...Read the full story on TreeHugger