http://www.bj0rn.com The soapbox of Bjorn Borstelmann, a gentleman from Wyoming that likes to create Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:13:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cool beans; Henrik & Tibo & I scored some more notoriety for shaking up the Swedish sales tax system. Thanks YoungGuns! http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/09/some-dudes-get-a-younggun-of-the-month-award/ Don't worry world, there is no need to thank Matt Entin and I for harnessing the technological marvels of cardboard to let you finally take that permanent vacation you've always dreamed about. Just imagine... they'll never even know you're gone! http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/08/need-a-vacation-you-need-a-youtoo/ newcreatives.com awarded newcreation of the month to the project Henrik Düfke & Thibalut Gerard (two dudes for sale) and I created for Le Bureau in Stockholm a couple months ago. Here 'tis: http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/08/some-dudes-make-sales-tax-cooler/ Hold on to your hats folks; I've been lax in my duties around here, so I'm taking advantage of the ability to "correct" the date of a new post, so that I can blast to the past and add a few things that I should've over the past half year. ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/07/we-will-now-be-experiencing-a-bit-of-time-travel/ So... President Obama had a town hall meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina today. He was welcomed by a local cupcake bakery owner, and he bemoaned the fact that she hadn't brought him cupcakes... then he recited the logline from a fake news video I made last February at Miami Ad ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/07/obama-says-cupcakes-are-good-for-your-health/ I just got this print campaign off to the The Show, an advertising award show in Minneapolis: [gallery] Carving up hundreds of Ramen noodle bricks for these letters was the most frustrating typographical experience of my life, with dry noodle bits flying all over the place like shrapnel, and if you put ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/07/ramenomics/ It was a great experiment, but it's finally time to admit that my playful Twitter experiment, Mozart the Lost Sock, has come to an end. The spontaneous story began on January 9th with his first tweet... My name is Mozart. I was an average white and grey crew sock, but it seems ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/04/mozart-my-lost-sock/ [caption id="attachment_193" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Cool typography on a sign at a reststop in the middle of Wyoming"][/caption] http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/03/wyomings-wildlife/ Hot potato, this is one heck of a pizza: Nestled near Miami Ad School in downtown Minneapolis is a pizza place of perfection, for there you will find what my great second-state of Idaho should have done long ago - mashed potato pizza. Pizza Lucé's website says their Baked Potato pizza ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/03/minneapolis-pizza-outdoes-idaho/ It was a glorious battle producing this campaign for the D&AD's open HP brief. First off I have to give a huge thanks to the excellent gentleman James Hatch for spending a silly amount of time perfecting the CAD masterpiece that connects it all together in the middle. The art was a ... http://www.bj0rn.com/2009/03/hp-workstations-make-it-real/