Advertisers love Melbourne’s trams – the provide a giant rolling billboard to splash their message across the city.
However in designing their advertisements, design agencies often forget one important feature of a tram – opening windows.
Which one is creepier – swarthy salesman minus his nose?
Or teen prettyboy without eyes?
Do you and Daniel Bowen have some sort of cartel arrangement to synchronise your blog posts or something? 🙂
Normally I schedule my serious blog posts early in the week and the fun ones on Fridays – my blog robot automatically posting each new entry at 7.30am so people have something to read on the way to work. 😛
By far the best example of this type of fail was from the other side of the world during the Scottish independence referendum campaign a few months ago.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gPvuGx_ZVCY/Td6iRhIMlVI/AAAAAAAACQM/sXls1cx7WsE/s400/Lying%2BScotsman.jpg
I remember seeing that one as well – turns out the missing ‘F’ was real, but the addition of Alex Salmond was all photoshop:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/that-alex-salmond-lying-scotsman-train-photo-is-fake
New conspiracy theory. Air conditioned trams are replacing opening window trams mainly so advertisers do not get embarrassed.
It is very annoying at night or when you are looking for a stop as it makes it harder to see where to get off with all the stuff on the windows.
Even daylight from the wrong angle makes looking outside impossible:
yes hate that you cant really see outside with all that digidot going on.