Overcoming the rainy day blues with magic street paintings and magic mugs

A group of designers from South Korea have found a way to overcome the doldrums of the monsoon season with the help of Pantone, bringing colour back to the streets of Seoul with vibrant street paintings that only appear when it’s raining.

Titled “Project Monsoon” and inspired by South Korea’s culture of emphasising the importance of the flow of rivers, the paintings use Korea’s natural features to fill every street with color and life throughout the annual monsoon season where it can rain for as long as 3 weeks at a time.

Most businesses would be happy for their marketing campaign to be plastered all over the Internet, but possibly not these companies whose campaigns have made our list of funny – but unfortunate - advertising bloopers.

Here is a list of 5 Funny Printed Advertising Bloopers

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The last thing you want when someone searches for your website is a 404 error. Unfortunately this is something Yahoo couldn’t avoid on this occasion and it was caught on camera!

Babies, beer and wine – not a recommended mix!

Now we all know newborns can be hard work, and this supermarket seems to be taking advantage of that with some unfortunate

Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg received an extra special surprise from Sony for his 26^th birthday recently in the form of a birthday cake with a difference.

Turning 26 on October 24, Sony marked the occasion by sending Kjellberg (possibly YouTube's hottest star right now) a round double-layer cake covered in white frosting, featuring designs for the familiar DualShock buttons and topped with the phrase "Greatness awaits inside" — a play on Sony's marketing tagline for the PS4, "greatness awaits". Etched in icing on the side of the cake was "Happy birthday PewDiePie."

Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg received an extra special surprise

On cutting into the birthday

Are you an avid video game fan? Well if you are then there are certainly some magnificent games lined up this year for Christmas. In the lead up to the launch of these Game titles though, there have certainly been some unexpected promotional merchandise that have been used to promote these games. Among the types of merchandising that have been used to promote video games are certainly these two efforts from Halo 5 & Fallout.

The Halo 5 Guardian Marketing Merchandise

The Halo range of video games have certainly spawned a huge range of toys and collectible items from regular t-shirts to keyrings. However none of that compares

Mismatched socks are always a bit of a chore. Sometimes they've just been paired up wrongly, and as you're scrambling about half blind with sleep in the mornings, matching socks are the last thing on your mind. Other times you're just trying to pair up whatever's left, socks having the the miraculous tendency to go missing; lost somewhere in a jumble of laundry, disappeared into the void of a washer or dryer somewhere, leaving behind their twin who you might just end up pairing with another orphaned sock. It's pretty cool then that a company is selling some colourful, cheerful, cartoonish branded socks, which are not only deliberately mismatched to provide a quirky look, but are also intended to teach some life lessons like a Saturday morning cartoon special.

Big bucks are spent by big companies in creating a new logo, and or modernizing it so that it speaks to its customers. Thanks to Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.com/corporate-logo-changes-2015-10?IR=T) this year alone, 20 top companies around the world have changed their logos to define their brand.  It seems 2015, maybe a year of change?

So what do you think of these 6 new logos and what was your reaction to them?

For the first time in 16 years, Google underwent a significant change to their logo. Google kept its primary colours Blue, Red, Yellow and Green, but did you know they created its own font type? They call it Product Sans.

Popular music streaming service Spotify also updated their logo in June, even though

An elegant business deserves an equally elegant brand identity.  It's a means of marketing, of projecting the name, the style, the idea of a business out there. The colours used, the imagery, the font, the layout. All of these add up to something greater than the sum of its parts and all of these are used to represent a business. A stylish, luxurious, and yet rather uniquely designed restaurant should reflect their identity in their packaging and merchandise. Which is just the case here:

Stylish Restaurant with Stylish Promotional Branding

Sofia Weinstein, a Moscow based art director and graphic designer, in collaboration with a creative studio RADUGA7 created a series of elegant menus, packaging, and business cards for a rather sophisticated and stylish

Typos are an unfortunate and everyday occurrence. Sometimes they’re the result of people having not paid enough attention back in English class and either having poor spelling or an inability to differentiate between homophones. Sometimes, they’re the hilarious and potentially horrible result of auto spelling keyboards on smart phones.  And sometimes they’re just an honest mistake, a slip of a finger or a lapse in concentration. They’re not always too bad, but sometimes they can cost a company millions of dollars. Here are 5 hilarious and entirely disastrous typos.

5 of The Most Expensive Typing Mistakes

The Missing Hypen – NASA and $80 Million Dollars Lost

Coding and Programming requires precision. A lack of precision can lead to failure. And honestly

Promotional products do not get more awesome than this vehicle, designed solely for the Dominoes Pizza chain and made solely to deliver pizza. I have always loved Pizza, but having Pizza delivered from this awesome automobile, takes it to the next level!

Amazing for Marketing

As you can see, this car is not merely just a regular vehicle. For starters the custom colours of this car make it one unmistakable masterpiece of branding and advertising.

Special Features

It is not just looks though, this car is packed with technology and features such as

• A warming oven (no more branded thermal bags which can make your pizza soggy)
• Custom Lock on

Confectionery is popular the world over and why wouldn't it be? People love to indulge in a sweet candy treat, especially when they are unique to look at and a heck of a lot of fun. It's not surprising then that there are some totally kooky custom branded lollipops out there. Check out five of our favourite wtf candy pops below. Be warned though, some of them aren't for the faint of heart!

Unique Lollipops From Around The World

Love the flavour of distilled blue agave but are sick of getting scowls from passersby when you try to chug tequila from the bottle? The solution is in this natty lollipop that not only tastes like a fresh, biting alcoholic drink - it also comes complete with worm!