"I never read The Economist"

Now these iconic lines are available to buy as prints. Humorous and well written they are part of a range of hugely successful print / outdoor ads by Abbot Mead Vickers that I absolutely loved. However successful they are just as words, some of the other successful ones weren't just typography based... (pause while I search for some of the others that tickled my fancy and see below).

Ink Kisses Paper.

Okay so this is really quite old now, and I don't necessarily like the design (I'm not really a minimalist in my tastes), but I just love the title copy. It's a book that "demonstrates Print Library's philosophy and absolute command of printing" (what they said). There's just something beautiful about that phrase that makes printing seem anything but mundane; more magical and romantic. Sublime!

Nikki Jackson is: Cheap.

Nikki is a friend of a friend, and I only met her the once but Myspace is a fickle place, so that means we are "friends" too. But I'm very glad. I love her work, she has a folder on Facebook entitled "Oodles of Doodles". And that's exactly what they are; usually accompanied by whimsical, and sometimes nonsensical hand-written copy. She also has a real knack for getting across her observational humour for the mundane - she also likes to attribute personalities of those she has observed, to that of animals - who can't love that?!

Her and her mates seem to have started a magazine called "Cheap" - I think I'll keep my eye on that one.

www.myspace.com/poochy

Blood sweat and tears.

This is an ad I found in Creative Review. These people design packaging and claim to be able provide a solution for any packaging requirement. The copy on the image is what really makes it for me (the tiny stuff that you unfortunately can't really see). A nice idea that I'd love to rob and use as a gimmicky CV. Sigh.