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Possibly the greatest advert ever made. It drills into your ears and eye sockets so deep that viewers can't resist it's catchy song.

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Genius.

Milky Way - The red car and the blue car had a race!

Amazing! Milky Way have brought back a classic! I remember the days when this used to be on. Great stuff!

If you look closely and compare the latest release of this advert you can spot some interesting changes. The marketing profs have obviously decided it's not a good plan to promote snacking between meals as in the 1989 version of the Milky Way advert. You can see that the cars are racing between Lunchville and Dinner Town, whereas the new version shows the cars burning rubber between Playville and Light Town.

Thank you for smoking

ILLUSTRATIONS COURTESY OF D.J. STOUT

Just found this set of cigarette packs on Pentagram's website. Great idea! If I were a smoker I'd definately be up for getting meself a pack or two. Death is definately in right now.

The Food and Drug Administra-tion will soon have sweeping pow-ers to regulate the making and market-ing of tobacco. With that in mind, Times graphics and multimedia director Chris Kozlowski called a colleague, D.J. Stout, a partner at the global design fi rm Penta-gram, which focuses on “identity design, branding, packaging,” and asked him to sketch out some new packaging he might suggest if Marlboro were to come calling: “Our marketing advice to cigarette compa-nies in the new heavily regulated era is to fully accept the new aggressive antismok-ing restrictions and to wallow in the gov-ernment’s apocalyptic health warnings. Don’t make excuses or dance around the stepped-up marketing regulations, just transform the whole cigarette pack into a three-dimensional warning label.”

D.J. Stout’s expertise encom-passes the design and rede-sign of a variety of publications including magazines, books and catalogs. He and his team also specialize in identity design, branding, packag-ing, exhibitions and website design. His work has been widely published and has won many design awards.

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2D Goggles

Will they indeed?

This web comic was taken from the 2D Goggles blog, I've just recently discovered the wonder of Babbage, Ada and the Difference Machine! Check it out, you won't be disappointed!

Olympic 50p designs... What happens next?

To anyone out there feeling a little unrested by the quietness of the competition trail, fear not. The judging is currently being undertaken and the wait is on until November 2009. All winners will be notified by email and announced. If you don't hear anything - I'm afraid the hard truth will have to be realised!

Visit www.royalmintcompetition.co.uk to find out more, or go to The Royal Mint's main website - www.royalmint.com - regularly for news and latest updates about the National 50p design competition.