Happy Birthday to the wonderful singer, model, mother and fashion lover: @victoriabeckham.

— C&A (@ca_europe) April 17, 2013

Photoshop brushed up files (see website) are by nature no confidence-building measure but bad decision making in marketing German premium brands.

How irreconcilably the website acts toward the brand, may become obvious to Porsche decision makers, when evaluating the current ad for the Mercedes A class.

How disadvantageously and chumming up it is for German premium brands to be after a younger audience! Good brands attract their audience like light attracts moths, useless to be running after anyone or anything, and to leave marketing up to sales has proven a bad idea with GM Opel/Vauxhall.

Two website have drawn my attention, provide orientation, and work hard on brand building:

1. VW Beetle (best car web)
2. Lit Motors (our new car has two wheels)

In the new year some 160 new cars will be launched.

On March 2, the new Cayman becomes available at German car dealers, come spring you can get yours in the US as well.

Munich’s Gorgeous subway stations

View Kyle VanHemert entry for CoDesign here. See more photos by Nick Frank here.

And even greater experience for web designers and content curators.

Daughter Elizabeth saw them in concert in Scotland and poked me with Bat for Lashes some time ago, when I wasn’t quite ready for it, as is the case every so often.

Thank you, Gareth Kay and Neil Perkin for the pointer. This is great.

Laura – Bat for Lashes

265 words: A Cheeseburger talks back

I’d go buy the magazine as long as it has the ad inside.

On the web images and ads in motion are nauseating, even to those who created them.

Sitting there motionless with no distraction for the reader interested in an article, that’s what web ads must come to behave like.

Sitting motionless waiting for discovery is an behaviour people can approve of and will be grateful for.

A young radical would do just that and oppose the nauseating noise we are surrounded by.

And no, I am not mistaking motion for dynamism. The best design disolves into behaviour.

Good behaviour on part of the advertiser is to trust a good ad being discovered just as a good product will be discovered.

Bring on your dirndl pins from around the world

German Lufthansa flight attendants are wearing Blaudruck Dirnd for the time of the Munich October fest on flights to Singapore, Hong Kong and Chicago.

A tradition carried on by the German carrier since 1957.

We would like you to become a steward for the Dirndl and pin your dirndl photos onto the World Dirndl board here.

A lovely article by Max Chafkin on Pinterest’s CEO Ben Silbermann.

The astounding power of Pinterest.

Spending too much time with the wife?

Via AdWeek.

Agency: Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne, Australia.

Loewe + The Sartorialist from The Sartorialist on Vimeo.

Scott Schuman

The Sartorialist

At a time when the fashion system is celebrating real people and personal style, it comes at no surprise that Scott Schuman’s publication The Sartorialist is a smash hit, scoring millions of page views per months. Roaming the streets with his keen eye, Mr. Schuman can spot the perfect double cuff or trilby hat from miles away. Not surprisingly, the blogger himself is a decidedly stylish man who knows how to blend his camels, silks and polka dots into sartorial glory.

Via Fantastic Man