Today at Flavorpill, we browsed the shelves at the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street — which recently started its own public readings series. We tried to imagine coming across this giant Lego man while walking along a beach in Florida. We decided that this clever (and fully-functioning!) Nikon camera getup is definitely the most impressive Halloween costume idea we’ve seen so far this year. We were thrilled to hear that the animator behind the unofficial Tintin credits was invited to the film’s premiere and got a job offer from Steven Spielberg. We learned how toothpaste gets made alongside Mr. Rogers. We were happy that AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a third season. We listened to Patti Smith do a cover of U2′s “Until the End of the World.” We were a tad bit concerned by Burger King’s “all the Whoppers you can eat in 30 minutes” deal in Japan — can you imagine if they did that here in the US? And finally, we printed out a Ron Swanson mask, just to randomly wear it around the office.
How much of a brand’s visual identity is shaped by its biggest competitor? And how much does having someone to publicly play off of benefit them both? Those are the questions we’ve got on the brain after checking out the fantastic work in Stefan Asafti’s fascinating design project The Greatest Brandversations. The concept is simple, but effective; Asafti created new company logos for well-known brands like Apple and Coca Cola using the design elements directly associated with their rivals. “It is surprising how logos can influence other logos,” he writes. “The truth is that each pair of rivals has something in common, that something which has helped them to build one identity upon the other, this way becoming the biggest brands.” Click through to see the proof.
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Arabidopsis thaliana, Photo credit: Heiti Paves
Nikon’s annual Small World competition celebrates the world of photomicrography — the tiny photographs that result when you cross a microscope with a camera. This year’s winner is above; channel middle school science class and check out more tiny award-winning wonders after the jump. [via NewScientist]
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