Arrogance And Humility

A Brief Message is a website that ” features design opinions expressed in short (no more than 200 words) form” usually written by people that know what they’re talking about. This design story is great. Simple, clear yet it shouts in your head to STFU if you’re of  the people that love to endlessly discuss design but actually know squat about it. This particular story was written by Clay Shirk and it goes as it follows:

There’s Plenty More Fish in The Sea. Right?

We’ve seen ads by Republic of Everyone before and if those didn’t strike you, nothing will. It was just a matter of time before an artist made an installation to raise the awareness of a growing problem. ”The Catch” was made by a British artist Julia Lohmann during her stay in Sapporo, Japan. Problem: 80% of the bluefin tuna caught in the Mediterranean is sold in Japan. Lohmann made a wooden structure to carry 500 fishing crates with the help of fishing wire that holds everything in place.

“The Mediterranean is at the point that if bluefin stocks are not actually collapsing, they are approaching collapse,”

/carry on reading sushi lovers

WWF | Give a Hand to Wildlife Ads

These beautiful ads were done by the swiss Saatchi&Saatchi Simko advertising agency for the WWF with an escorting message ”Give a hand to wildlife’. They are works of art of a bodypainter Guido Daniele that imitate a tiger, an elephant, a snake, a zebra, an eagle and a toukan. This concept isn’t completely new but nevertheless the works are amazing. The ads were notminated at Cannes 2007 and ended up on the shortlist.

/check out the rest of the ads after the jump