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Ritmix Creative Project (2005)

The 2005 Ritmix Creative Project competition took place from April 18-July 15. A total of 182 graphic design projects were submitted in three different categories. Bilkent Department of Graphic Design fourth-year student Gonenc Uyanik took first place in the design category with his poster "Deney." (Ritmix is a fruit flavoured non-alcoholic drink).

Touching Public Service Ads Design

In this poster, I am going to talk about the a kind of special ads, Public service ads. Public service advertising is the use of commercial advertising techniques for non-commercial purposes. Typical topics for public service advertising include public health/public safety issues, emergency preparedness instructions, environment and animal protection, and other topics of broad interest.


Toady’s topic is mainly focusing on animal and environment.

1. Where is Home Series

Droste Effect: magic happens when math meet image…

The Droste effect is a Dutch term for a specific kind of recursive picture. An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration exponentially reduces the picture’s size.

The images displayed in this poster are made by Josh Sommers. As he said, all the images are created using the Escher Droste effect formula and the software are called Mathmap and the GIMP.

Here is the link of Droste Effect Tutorial, provided by Josh Sommers. If you are interested, you can try to see the magics when math meets image. Of course, click here to see more work of Josh Sommers

Heineken Advertisement

This outdoor campaign from Heineken is an example of how an innovative idea can have a huge impact in a traditional approach.

Creative Advertising Has a Long Tail

Businesses should always be looking for interesting and creative ways to advertise and market, both online and offline.

Clever ads have a long reach. Not only are they attention grabbing in the actual location, clever ads gets spread around via newspapers, magazines (maybe a TV spot), as well as online, via blogs, forums and social bookmarking sites. If it’s videotaped, as the one below was, you have potential YouTube virality. Brand awareness, baby.

Here’s a creative approach from India . An escalator advertises a hair salon. As each step comes down, a new hairstyle is attached to the model. (Run the video in the salon window and you have recognition reinforcement.)

McDonalds in Newspaper