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December 11, 2009
Tis’ the holiday season here again and Tattoo would like to share with all of you a holiday commercial we produced for Sheetz. The commercial was illustrated by Tattoo very own Laith Bahrani. So, stop into your local Sheetz and get yourself a free coffee this Christmas and New Years Day!
December 9, 2009
Did you ever question the power of internet searches and social networks? Well the government got quite curious, and what they devised was the Darpa treasure hunt. Here’s how it goes, the government hid 10 weather balloons in secret locations across the United States, and would give $40,000 to the team that can find all 10 balloons within 9 days.
Now here is what they didn’t expect, a team from MIT would find all 10 balloons in only a few hours, while only using the internet and social networks. Maybe it’s not so surprising, because Social Networks are powerful tools.
December 8, 2009
The crew at Tattoo Advertising got up close and personal with a classic 1970 BSA A65 Lightning, that was customized by creative partner Rudy Banny. Rudy was present to creative direct the event, while Jess, Marcus and Fuzzy got down to business setting up the studio and shooting some kick-ass photos of the machine. Look for more custom rides and photoshoots in the future from the team at Tattoo. Damn, Jess is a bitchin’ shooter.
December 7, 2009
We have received a 2009 best of business award, from the Small Business Commerce Association, for the best tattoo parlor in Charlotte!!! Even though we leave lasting and permanent impressions on people, Tattoo Advertising has never picked up an actual tattoo gun. We are really thankful for the award, because we like awards over here at Tattoo.
Sometimes we get the occasional call or walk in customer who is ready for that tattoo they have been thinking about, sorry everyone but we are merely in the business of tattooing your brains.
December 4, 2009
Hoover Vacuums has hired Tattoo for production and creative development on up-and-coming projects. More specifically, Tattoo will be working on creative and production for the T-series and Linx cordless vacuum series. Everyone at Tattoo is excited to have Hoover as a client and look forward to working with them in the near future.
December 3, 2009
Recently, the internet service provider American Online has decided to overhaul its brand identity in order to separate itself from Time Warner. The new series of logos showcase what looks to be common stock images with the “AOL” type in lower case San Serif.
According to Tim Armstrong, Chairman and CEO of Aol:
“Our new identity is uniquely dynamic. Our business is focused on creating world-class experiences for consumers and AOL is centered on creative and talented people – employees, partners, and advertisers.”
It’s hard to say whether this is a step forward or back for Aol, design-wise. Visually, the logos leave more to be desired.
December 1, 2009
In the advertising industry, it is only natural that you run into clients who don’t see eye to eye with you.
Clients from Hell is a website compiled of various horror stories of dealing with unruly clients. Clients who have ridiculous deadlines, insurmountable requests, and clients who just don’t clue of what they want. Here are a couple gems that were submitted:
—“That photograph looks too unrealistic, can you add more reality?”
—We were building a website for a client that has a preschool and sells curriculum. Just before we went live, they called up and asked us to remove the word “school” from all the page titles and URLs. I asked why. They responded: “We heard if the gays find out we have a preschool, they can force us to teach the children to be gay. We think its safest if nobody can see that we’re a school. And we don’t want to come up on any Google searches dealing with ‘school.’” —Trying to wrap up a design for a client, he asked how big the graphical header was. “700 pixels wide” I replied.“It’s too small. Can we make it a half pixel bigger?”
I roll my eyes epically on my end and them send him the exact same comp image back. “Here you go”
“Perfect!”.
—“I don’t want to pay for the red words on my website, can you use less red so that I can get a discount?”
—”I knew I liked your work from the moment I saw your logo. So we need a logo, can we just use yours, but replace your company name with ours?
—I know you said it would take three weeks but I’ve just looked at my budget and I can’t pay you after today – so you need to finish everything by 5pm
—We’re not happy with the concept you sent over, as a result we don’t feel we should have to pay for it. Can you please send over the design so far as a word document so we can change it ourselves.
via Clientsfromhell
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