I really hope this will be going into mass production soon, anything which involves receiving an unsuspecting twenty-five foot sandwich for the odd dollar gets my vote for campaign of the year.

Definition have created a nice piece of viral buzz for Coca Cola. Carrying on with the excellent happiness factory theme, American college students got to experience several 500ml pieces of the happiness and more, in the form of “the happiness machine”. What works so well here is the focus on the students reactions, there is nothing but big smiles and good times had by all. Job done.

More schoolboy bullying tactics against that awful Comic Sans, and done with style thanks to the design talents Nebojsa Cvetkovic, an illustrator from Serbia. Check out some more of his lovely work on Behance. In the meantime I’m going to see if I can initiate myself into the Design Gang…

Nothing beats the start to the week than a good old fashioned piece of advertising controversy.

The video (supposedly promoting the Audi A5 environmental credentials) shows a man driving into an empty car park lot and attempt to commit sucide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Although the ad is very professionally shot, Audi have denied being involved with the making of, and are calling it a fake. The next shot shows the fuel gauge hit empty and the man sitting, appearing to be dead. However, the twist is his suicide failed, waking up with the message “Clean diesel technology, good for the environment, good for you”.

The controversy of it’s authenticity denial has also been accompanied by it’s removal from YouTube.

These poster ads for the Yellow Pages in Dubai caught my eye recently. Lowe Mena have used a really interesting style; the use of minimalistic graphics, letting the brand colours and more importantly the object really jump out from the page.

I’ve got to admit, I absolutely love Lost, and from it’s official podcast I found out about this neat ‘underground’ initiative for an art project based around the TV show as it draws to the last season. The podcast doesn’t really do the artwork justice at all, but if you head over to damoncarltonandapolarbear and lostundergroundartshow you may find yourself pleasantly suprised by the quality and range of styles being used to interpretate the show.

In particular I find the above image by Austrailan illustrator Ken Taylor absolutely breathtaking graphically, with such strong use of colour and composition. Also really enjoying the Locke and Hurley vinyl styled toys. It’s great to see a TV show bringing out such a creative and artisic movement.

What did I get for Christmas you ask? Unfortunately it wasn’t a Mini Cooper in Mini giant packaging…

Some great ambient advertising from the guys at Ubachswisbrunjwt/JWT Amsterdam for Mini Cooper. I’m sticking to my belief though that this isn’t just a witty piece of advertising and instead the people of Holland could actually pick up the cars in giant boxes packaged as gifts.

Happy New Year to anyone visiting The Graphical.

It’s been abit of a lazy period lately but the 4th of January is the official start to the New Year’s and the new decade so I’m making a few New Year’s resolutions to get back on it, with the help of this handy New Year’s resolution generator courtesy of American designer Monina Velarde (really liking the typographic graphic posters btw).

Make you New Year’s Resolutions here.