Four Design Links: August 6, 2009
This week's theme for Four Links is marketing and design humor.
1. The Cheap Ingredients Behind High Tech Products
If you remember the comics magazine Cracked from back in the day (it was similar to Mad Magazine), you may be surprised to see that Cracked.com is completely different. The internet-age incarnation now lampoons strange and unusual facts.
For instance, this recent article (NSFW) reveals that there’s not much to common “high tech” products except good marketing:
HeadOn, as it turns out, is almost completely made from wax, with a small amount of extra crap–small as in parts per trillion–added in. That means it is, effectively, just wax.
2. Business Guys on Business Trips
This comic blog is a recent find for me. If you’re in the marketing and design biz, you’ll recognize some all-too-familiar frustrations here.
3. Things Marketing People Love
If these are some of your favorite sayings or ideas, you just might be a marketer.
4. Billboards That Don’t Belong Next To Each Other
Forgive the spammy nature of this post, but these are some pretty good juxtapositions (some NSFW). It’s funny to see two strong marketing messages, oblivious of context, crash and burn together.
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