Posts filed under 'environment'
Interesting online crowd sourcing competition running at the moment over at logomyway.com. For those of you who haven’t heard of it before, it’s a design crowd sourcing (freelancer) site similar to 99designs.com.
Anyway, back to the competition at hand. The folks at logomyway.com have posted a job to redesign the BP (Beyond Petroleum) logo, in light of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The key concepts the logo should communicate are given as:
#1 Oil spill disaster – Toxic
#2 Death of wildlife
#3 Incompetence
The prize awarded to the winner will be $200 and so far 163 designs have been submitted. The contest will be open for another 8 days and some of my favourites so far are:
Simply change to the existing logo, but sums it up nicely.
This one is a great adaptation of the existing logo. And nicely visualises how the ocean will need to have the oil 'wrung' out of it.
This logo is fitting given the 13% collapse in the market capitalisation of BP. Will the company crumble as a result of this?
I don't think BP is evil, but I like this logo 
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P.S. For anyone interested, you can view live video feeds of the underwater operations on the BP website.
20th June 2010
Tristan
You love my puns! You know you do.
Do you ever feel like you’re living a dream because your surroundings are so ridiculous? Let me give you an example, ads. Yes, advertisements. Like Catherine Deveny has pointed out before, you can say the word ’sex’ on prime-time television, in education and even in religious class, but for some reason the word must be censored on a billboard. Go figure. Here’s some more stupidity…
Last week I was walking down Smith Street and noticed some stencils on the footpath. No big deal. Campaigns from selling Lily Allen’s debut album to plugging psychic hotlines have used this medium in Melbourne to advertise in the past. But if there’s one establishment that has a strong stance against graffiti, claiming that there is no distinction between so-called vandalism and so-called street art, it’s the government. And granted that it’s usually local or state government rather than federal, but I thought it was rather curious that nonetheless, the federal government had chosen stencil sprayed on the footpath to advertise their anti-drugs campaign. I understand that they’re trying to reach their target audience, an audience that mainstream media industries find almost impossible to reach, but I can’t help but smell a whiff of hypocrisy. Well, it might not stop the graffiti, but at least kids will stop taking ecstasy, right?
Before I step down from my soapbox, here’s another: I was walking home from work, right outside the commission flats in Collingwood, and noticed this advertisement…
Another great campaign, reaching the appropriate audience 
EDIT (at the risk of violating blogosphere ethics here, thought I’d edit this, rather than comment, so our audience (Charles?) can see another fine example of hypocrisy I snapped when in Hong Kong).
26th May 2009
Sim & Tris
Why is it that the United States is still so opposed to global consensus regarding climate change targets.
See this article
If all other developed countries including Germany, which is amongst the top 5 biggest economies in the world, can agree to standards and targets, why so much opposition from the US of A?
The Bush administration’s focus is on technology, they say that technological innovation should lead the way in reducing the negative impacts of modern societies on the environment. Well Sir., I think everyone agrees there. However, as most of us acknowledge, with specific targets in place, clear motivation will exist for government policy and industry to innovate. A process which can be costly and therfore without incentives, will be carried out at a much slower rate.
So, as Australians, let’s all vote for labour since they have stated that they will ratify the Kyoto protocol and will also – hopefully – stop our tagging along with US policy in this critical area.
EDIT: A final note, China is expected to take over the US this year as the largest emmitter of green house gases in the world. It would be nice if the US had been leading the charge for emission controls and in doing so setting a good example to China for responsible behaviour of the worlds largest polluter.
26th May 2007
Tristan
From the same people that brought you the Space X Prize – won by SpaceShipOne of Scaled Composites, we have The Automotive X Prize. The goal;
“(to) design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy”
Should be an interesting one to keep an eye on, if the quality is anything like that of SpaceShipOne, it should result in a fantastic vehicle.
7th April 2007
Tristan
