Archive for June, 2009

Lost in translation in Bel Air

Dear readers, do you remember “The Fresh Prince” tv-show? I bet all of you can sing the whole opening theme, or at least who is over 21, as Mike suggests. Well, me too. But because my rickety Country even today doesn’t speak that much of English, all the movies and tv-shows were/are dubbed, often including [...]

160over90 Versus

At the hour of 7 of the clock in the land where Libertines hail from a Northerly direction in Penn’s Green Country Towne of Philadelphia, the One Hundred and Sixty over Nine-Zero Table Tennis Battalion will battle wits and forehanded volleys with The Print Liberation Squadron. The victorious party will be the recipient of adulation, [...]

Scroll through history on your iPhone

Some of you may already be familiar with Duke University’s digital collection of vintage advertisements at the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Marketing and Advertising History, which houses around 7,000 images from 20 collections, spanning from the nineteen-teens to WWII-era messaging, and beyond. Up until this point, these advertisements were only available online, but [...]

Happy *Expletive* Birthday

During my lunch travels yesterday I stepped foot into the AIA Bookstore and came across some unexpected birthday, wedding, baby shower, etc. cards. Visit the Offensive+Delightful Website* or go to AIA (1218 Arch Street) to purchase some of these gems.

160over90 is finishing this sentence.

Some of you blog visitor folks might only know us because of our affection for inverted Ford Focuses or our fabled table tennis training regimen, but we, in fact, are an agency. One with a web site, too, that shows some of the work we’ve done with clients from all around this floating marble we [...]

That sinking feeling

OK. I get the US economy is pretty beat up. But when a piece of performance art goes wrong and unintentionally emphasizes the hole we are in you can’t help but wonder if we’ll ever escape all the negative imagery and messaging. See Mike Bouchet’s piece for the Venice Biennale here to see what I [...]

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