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Beautiful photography for the British Airways’ outdoor ad campaign
Very nice photography for British Airways but what’s the point when BA’s staff can’t hold their shit together, eh? But great photography nonetheless from a team of about five photographers — see the other images here.

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Artsy bar codes!
Designed bar codes can be a good, even powerful, idea for branding — someone should do it soon! I already have a massive number of ideas and executions in my head after seeing this.

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…and John McCain is a courier pigeon.
American Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates as communication gadgets: Barack Obama as an iPhone, Joe Biden as a Blackberry, Sarah Palin as a Fischer-Price toy phone and John McCain as a carrier pigeon

See more of this ‘Candidate = ‘ in this Flickr set. It’s all pretty funny (I am still laughing at the ‘McCain = Courier Pigeon’), but it is a bit disturbing when people start using material things to identify with people.

[Via Wired]

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Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special.

›› Harvard Business School

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Though not visually exciting, Jane’s Fun With Brands is an extremely interesting idea.

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