Monday, November 12, 2007

Graphic design humor

Can you believe this!
t-mobile (a big european telecom provider) is actually 'claiming' the color magenta for it's company. No design should contain full magenta, ever!

Check out this protest site by a dutch company called lava:
http://www.freemagenta.nl/

Hilarious.

6 comments:

Julie said...

Whoaaaaaaa. No way!!! Are they seriously trying to claim it???
The website you linked is really hilarious, and I love their t-shirt ideas.

Hannah said...

Magenta sucks, anyways. Haha. That's weird though, how can you "own" a color?? How bizarre...

Julie said...

HEY, I LOVE MAGENTA, HANNAH! :(

Hannah said...

julie, you and i can no longer be friends.

Anonymous said...

Very funny post...this had me cracking up. I thought that your users would like this post about funny graphic design jokes, humor, & parodies - http://allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2007/10/29/funny-graphic-design-jokes-humor-satires-parody-anecdotes/ - I hope you enjoy.

Rachel

Anonymous said...

Hi am am also from the Netherlands, and hopefully soon active on this blog too...
I believe it it a advertising campaign of T-mobile...and Lava is doing a good job there!

Katrien