If you ever get bored of your desktop, as I often do, you could do a lot worse than heading over to Design Milk. Each month a different designer designs a Designer Desktop which you're able to download (for nowt) in all shapes and sizes (desktops, iPhones, iPads). The variety is wonderful, and I've yet to be disappointed. I particularly like this months by Henry Madsen of Helmetgirl Illustration and Design.
I always get a bit jealous of men around November because of Movember. I want to be able to grow a nice tache and sport it proudly down the pub, supermarket, and train station. I'd fiddle with the ends constantly (if I had one with pointy ends). However, being of the fine haired variety, my tache would probably be rather pathetic. Regardless of that, being a female of the species means that I will have to make do with writing my bra size or some other crap in my Facebook status.
Grow your taches, boys. Grow 'em proud.
The Old Spice ads are great. They're original, funny and made everyone on the internet get very excited. I believe they even impacted the bottom line, which is quite a feat all things considered. Anyway. This morning I saw the new ad from Johnnie Walker, which immediately seemed more than a tad familar.
Just me?
Old Spice (Wieden + Kennedy) were on to a good thing, and Johnnie Walker knew it. There's no shame in borrowing an idea and making it your own (after all, everything's a remix, right?), but borrowing a global viral phenomenon, slapping a different brand on it, and throwing in your own catchy line (leverage, portfolio, fiduciary) just to make it completely different, well, I can't say it's the best idea. Then again. I could easily be wrong.