What does advertising smell like?

I came across this banner on a Russian website. For all of you who don’t know Russian, it says “What does advertising smell like?” For esthetic purposes I haven’t displayed it here… Somewhat gross… I find it funny though. To view the banner click here.

Kiwi refregerator... How about that!

I've talked about Ilnur mansurov and his art, especially car airbrushing, in my previous posts. Today I'm presenting to you a great peace of art. Refrigerator!!! It is definitely a very unique choice. How much fun…

There is no enough of winter in the city of Moscow for a Russian artist Vyacheslav Polunin, who every winter presents a "Snow Show" on the Arbat Street, Moscow. Created from artificial snow, thousands of snowmen take over the city.

CowParade

In 1998 artists of Zurich decorated and led cows to their first parade. The experience had such a great success that it was necessary to repeat it. For the last 7 years the CowParade has shaken the imagination of public in 24 different cities, including London, New-York, Tokyo, Stockholm, Vienna and Prague. This year the even will take place in Moscow.
All the artists and designers are welcome to decorate a cow. The cows to be painted are life-sized, plastic and white.
Painted cows will be located on the streets of Moscow in August - October of 2005. The winners will be sent to the Sotheby's auction. All the money will go to charity.
Here's the official international CowParade site.

Searching...

Searching Ru-net (Russian net) for new recourses I came across a great website www.dirty.ru. (all in Russian) Superior design works perfectly for even greater content. I'm not sure I am able to exactly explain the content, because it's just an intelligent and fascinating hang-out place for Russian public. The website is full of remarkable articles and amusing website links not only from Ru-net.
Here's some of the links that could be used by not Russian community:
Geography games. I had fun with this one.
Their circular life. A GREAT website about... life... Turns on your sound and relax.
Fleacircus. Pay attention, because at first it seems that nothing is going on… It's a fun place.
Dave Nitsche and Splut Photo. Conceptual Art Photography. Two very neat places... I highly recommend...

Jacek Yerka. A genius painter from Poland. No comments, just emotions...

Real Estate Company Website

This is a website of a Russian real estate company. I admire the uniqueness and originality of the website. No flash, nothing fancy but how catchy and distinctive. Here's the English version of the website for your viewing.

St. Petersburg's back yards -- Photography

Few cities can offer so many stunning attractions and intriguing moods as St. Petersburg - City of the Tsars. Created by Peter the Great in 1 703 to be his "window on Europe", St Petersburg combines its fascinating Russian heritage with a distinctly European outlook. Considered the cultural center of Russia, it has more than 140 museums. I might tell about some of them later.
There are so many very fascinating little facts that can be told about St. Petersburg. Like for example that it's built on mainland and 44 islands. Here you can find the history of the city. That's the city that has captured my heart. That's the most beautiful, amazing and loved by me city. Here you will see many gorgeous views of St. Petersburg. It's astonishing.
However, that's not what I'm going to present today...
I found some pictures of the "back yards" of St. Petersburg. No one likes to display their back yard. However I think it is still beautiful. The photographer is Oleg Kuvaev, creator of a very popular Russian Flash cartoon Masyanya, that is going to be talked about here in a near future. Enjoy!

Some flash... not professional, but a lot of fun!!!

The soloist of a famous Russian band "Spleen", Alexander Vasiliev, is not only a great musician. Turns out he is an artist too. It's his song named "Handball" and a flash cartoon that Alexander made himself. You won't understand the words of the song… unless you speak Russian, but you will be fine as long as you enjoy the music and video.
Click here for viewing

Airbrushing - Russian Style 2

Here's another work of Ilnur Mansurov. After I published the previous post someone asked me how much could it cost. I wrote Ilnur a letter and he sent me the prices. Here's a short price summary:
Sketching and research: $500
The whole car airbrushed (including bumpers, roof, handles): $8000-12000
One side of a car: $2000-4000
Hood only: $ 1500

Airbrushing -- Russian Style

Ilnur Mansurov has been professionally airbrushing for 15 years. He started doing cars about 8 years ago. Ilnur says that his desire is to combine the color and design with the car’s style. He tries to create on each car some "intelligent uniqueness"
I think the guy is amazing. I will be posting some of his works.
Today's is called "Sharks' milieu."

Advertising

http://eng.artstyle.ru/
Searching net for new design ides a couple of days ago, I came across a number of sites created by Russian Advertising and Marketing company called ArtStyle Group. The spectrum of their services is extremely wide: marketing research, brand development, advertising campaigns, development and production of advertising carriers of any kind, PR actions organization and conducting and everything that it involves. The company works with a large number of different industries. It’s amazing how the websites that they create reflect the specifics of the particular industry, how different they are.
Here’re just some examples of their websites. Some of them have English versions, others don’t, but graphics don’t need translations…))) It’s a universal language.

- Gosti iz buduschego (Visitors from the Future), musical band (Entertainment Industry and internet companies)
- Hotel “Russija” (travel industry)
- Comandor, business aviation company (travel industry)
- Dalmond, a big trading company (trade and production)
- Chupa-Chups ©, Russian version (trade and production)
- MuzTV (mass media)
- European Center for Modern Languages (Education)

Russian Souvenirs.

One of my first posts was about Russian Matryoshka, one of the most popular souvenirs from Russia. Here's a sweet flashed website about all kinds of Russian souvenirs. Their products are great, located in the most "artistic" city of the world St. Petersburg, and even the website is sweet.…