Respectively introduced in the year 1886 and 1903, both Coca-Cola and Pepsi were rivals each other trying to dominate the carbonated soft drink market. Both brands were undergoing global advertisement war through print ads and video ads, trying to stay on top of each other.

This weekend, we take a look into some interesting advertisements by these 2 companies. Let’s put the ethical issue aside and enjoy the creativity.

Video Advertisements

A classic Pepsi ad.

Coke – Catch the wave

When a Coke worker meets a Pepsi worker. You can share anything, but not the cola.

Parady of The Godfather? Only funnier.

Pepsi Vanilla, a direct challenge to Vanilla Coke.

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Joy of Pepsi #1

Joy of Pepsi #2

Joy of Pepsi #3
Pepsi’s confession? Or just an April fool’s joke.

Fan Art

Here’s a collection of some interesting photos, created by cola fans around the world.

Coke’s polar bear decides to go for Pepsi?

Coca Cola takes the 2nd floor of this building for their Sales & Marketing office and puts up a hoarding. A couple days later Pepsi puts up the other board just for fun.

Vending machine of Coke and Pepsi, in harmony.

Pepsi vs Coca-Cola in front of the National Museum in Yerevan-Armenia.

Billy Goat Tavern: No Pepsi.. Coke

Coke murdered by gang of Pepsi.

And Coca Cola made a come back.

Most of us probably got our Internet connection somewhere 10 years back. It was also around that time we seen the sudden boom on Internet, thanks to Marc Andreessen and Netscape Communicator. Now that we are almost at the end of 2008, we thought it’s pretty interesting to look back at how some of the trend setters and the most trafficked websites were like 10 years back.

Here are some of the top-tier brands of the tech industries and their websites have stayed on the Internet for more than a decade. Let’s take a look at how these websites look like 10 years ago, comparing with that it is now.

Amazon

Clear-cut navigation is very important for any e-commerce site and we believe Amazon handles this pretty well. The site has not been changing over the pass decade in terms of the amount of content they put forward on the first page. The most obvious change over
the pass ten years in Amazon is perhaps swapping the horizontal tab navigation to a left sidebar drop down and bringing their search box to the top.

Amazon 1998

Amazon 2008

 

Apple

We always like how folks at Apple design their website. They’ve always been the trend setter and their designed inspired a lot of the Web 2.0 design out there. That said, have you seen how their website looks like 10 years ago?

Apple 1998

Apple 2008

Google

Google was still in beta ten years ago. These guys believed in simplicity and there’s no exception whether it’s 1998 or 2008.

Google 1998

Google 2008

Hotmail

Most of us start playing with e-mailing on a free account when we were introduced to the Internet, and when it comes to free email Hotmail is amongst the hottest. Here’s how the web interface looks like before Microsoft decided to turn call it the Windows Live Hotmail.

Hotmail 1998

Hotmail 2008

Microsoft

Microsoft had done tremendous changes to their web frontend over
the pass ten years. The old one lacks of graphics and the current definetely has a very strong corporate look.

Microsoft 1998

Microsoft 2008

PCWorld

Ten years ago, PCWorld was using a 3-column display. You can imagine the site to be really congested, considering the fact that most of us (if you already started surfing) were still on monitor resolution 800×600 and below. But over
the pass decade, the site has been much more better. Content arrangement is neat, well-organized and the red header with white background definetely make the entire display looks clean.

PCWorld 1998

PCWorld 2008

Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems in 1998 totally recalled us how a typical Geocities and Tripod free template were like.

Sun Microsystems 1998

Sun Microsystems 2008

Time

Time maintained their 3-column display over
the pass ten years. Only difference is, they’ve managed to make it way cleaner and neater, even though contents on the website is like 5x more.

Time 1998

Time 2008

Wired Magazine

Wired ten years ago was too text-based and we think the left navigation looks odd with titles in red background and listings in light green. It’s hard to imagine the website to be what they are now, because it totally rocks.

Wired 1998

Wired 2008

Yahoo!

Comparing to what we’ve seen ten years ago and now, Yahoo had undergone quite a significant change in terms of their business model and that totally reflects their web front end. The search-engine based company used to be very ’search engine focused’ but it’s looks more like a information portal now.

Yahoo 1998

Yahoo 2008

It’s quite true about the saying – There’s no second chance at making a good first impression. Advertisement, regardlessly online or offline, if they don’t catch your attention within seconds they are considered failed. Agencies and big corporations do not believe in ‘cool factors’ in advertisement anymore. Instead, to really stand out of the crowd, the idea has to be really out of the box, something that makes you laugh, talks about it or at least make you look twice.

FedEx Kinkos – Office Products now at fedexkinkos.com

The Naval Museum of Alberta

Nothing can replace a tree.

FedEx

Australia Post - If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter.

Australia Post – Personalized your post

 

Starwars III – Return of the Sith

The Fitness Company

Sprite Ice Blue

Condomshop.ch – Don’t be stupid, protect yourself.

Eurostar.com – London for lovers

Clorets – Eliminate bad breath

Mini Cooper

Porsche

3M – 3M Security Glass

Sharpie permanent markers

Denver Water – Use only what you need.

Bergmann funeral service – Come a litle closer.

Domino’s Pizza – Hole

Duracell – Last longer, much longer

WWF – save the world with a few coins

Freshlife – Start a fresh life.

Pepsi Twist

WWF – Don’t cut the rain forest.

Mr. Hot Pepper

M&M – Communication just got sweeter

Orion telescope

Nike – Just do it

Kill Bill 2

Glassex cleaner

Guiness – Road signs. The more you drink, the slow you react.

Heineken DraughtKeg – Made to entertain.

Heineken Jammin Festival, Venice.

Land Rover UK – More pull

Nestle

McDonald’s bus stop

Part of the campaign to announce that they are now opening at night.

McDonald’s – Rock ‘n’ Fries

Playstation 2 bus stop

WMF knives – Cutting board

Nivea Beauté – Calcium Power

World No Tobacco Day – Non Smoking Area

Duracell Escalator

Motor Magazine – Speed tracks

Wonderbra bus stop

TAC – If you drive on drugs, you’re out of your mind.

Rubik’s Cube – 25th Aniversary

UNICEF Mickey – The children can’t die.

UNICEF – Don’t ignore me

MSNBC – A Fuller Spectrum of News

Sony PSP – Handcuffed

New York Fries – Real fries in a fake world.

Snickers – 50% Extra!

Nivea – Goodbye Cellulite Sofa

Volkswagen Beetle – The new beetle

Hard Rock Cafe – Don’t know the lyrics?

Credits: These advertisement were collected from various sources, including AdsOfTheWorld, Toxel, JustCreativeDesign, Hemmy, and more.

When it comes to online publishing, most of us are firm believers of the same old rule – Content is king. We’d like to argue a point that, even with the greatest blog that constantly pumps great contents, it’s not to overlook the importance of interface design. This includes overall color matching, the typography, attractive logo, proper text and paragraph alignment, clear navigation, etc. Another way to look at things is when you put an image and a row of text side by side, image is where the eyeballs are while the text plays a supporting role.

We spent weeks going through hundreds and hundreds of blogs in the blogosphere, looking for blogs with nice and interesting design. We marked down those with great interface, graphically beautiful, unique personalities and styles. Here we bring you – 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design. You might learn something or perhaps inspired by these designs.  

Freelance Web Designer in Cardiff

31Three – Creative services for the design-challenged developer

aNieto2k

Vikiworks Studio

Aaron Mentele

aiAlex – Artificially Intelligent Life

Alex buga – Webdesign Superstar

Zinaz

Artypapers – An Experiment Gone Useful

Start Cooking

Art Culture

Bart-Jan Verhoef

Personified

Big Sweater Design

Missy – Great Blog In My Jeans

Cause/Effect

Spoon Graphics

Blogsolid – Ideas for better blogging

Robert Beerworth – Business Solution Blog Business Idea

Carsonified

Cheaper Than Therapy

Circle Six Blog

Country Music Articles

Blog Web Design Blog

Cult-foo

Darkmotion – Animation and Illustration

david hellmann – Graphic and Webdesign

Design Disese

Design Intellection

Design Reviver

Design*Sponge

AvalonStar

Dollarshort

Eleven3

Elitist Snob – Mac snobbery and such

Elliot jay Stocks

Simply Fried

FreelanceSwitch – Freelance Advice and Freelance Jobs

Freelenz

GrantMX Design

Great Design

GZ Web Design Blog

I Am Neato – The Online Portfolio of Emilio Cavazos

I am Finch

IceBeat

Jesus Rodriguez Velasco

Josh Spear

Kimberly Coles Illustration Blog

Kohette WebDesign

Kulturbanause

Larissa Meek

Laura alter

Lucy Blackmore

Matthew Inman – Marketing & Design

Moderno Prometeo

Mutado

Narfstuff – WordPress Development, Web and Graphic Design

Oaktree Creative

Olliekav – All things design, music and more

Papel Continuo

PhillRyu

Ploink! Brothers

Refreshing Content

Revota

Rikcat – The art of rik catlow

Rob Goodlatte

Schneeballschl8

Search Engine Optimization Edmonton

SimpleBits

Sparklette

Squawk

Sr28 Web Design

Natalie Jost – Standards for Life

Superawesome

TehCPeng

NorthxEast – Weekly Articles About Blogging

The Big Noob

The Rissington Podcast

TheHotSeat

This Is American Soccer

Tj Mapes

TNTpixel

I Love Typography

Veerle – Webdesign, XHTML, CSS, Graphic Design

We Are Not Freelancers

Viget Labs

Web Designer Wall – Design Trends and Tutorials

Komodomedia

Ribbons of Red Web & Graphic Design

ISO50 – The Visual Work of Scott Hansen

Bonsai Studios

Paintbits – Life in Colors

GoMediaZine

Matt Mullenweg

Matt Brett

Studio Racket

{e} House Studio

Lorelei Web Design

The Yawkey Way

NemStudio Blog Developement Web

Mountain View California, US

Located at 1600 Amphitheater Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, this is the headquater for Google. Google Map.

 

New York, US

New York office is Google’s largest software engineering center outside of headquarter
Mountain View. According to GoogleSystemstrong>:

Google opened their new NY offices 5 months ago (from Feb 2007) and already has around 500 employees who work on print ads, Google Finance, Google Spreadsheets, Checkout and more.

Read more at Google System.

Santa Monica Arizona, US

One of the largest development centers in the United States, where engineers work on some of Google’s hardest problems, in realms such as Search Quality, YouTube, Ads, Video and Photos.

Chicago, US

Moscow, Russia

Birthplace of co-founder Sergey Brin, Google Moscow is a research and development office.

Wii Golf at the Google Moscow office

Google Moscow Engineering Open House

Zurich, Switzerland

The Zurich office is fun, or probably weird. More photos here.

Beijing, China

Located near Tsinghua University, Google Beijing too has a
mountain view like the US headquater.

Credit: Gaoyuan

Credit: Gaoyuan

Credit: Gaoyuan

Credit: Gaoyuan

Taipei, Taiwan

Google Taiwan is located at one of the world tallest skycrappers Taipei 101, from 37th floor to 73 floor.

Amsterdam, Netherland

At Google Amsterdam, the main activities here will be selling ads and suggesting keywords to clients.

If you want to know, there’s 10 ‘o’ in total.

Outside view of the Google office.

The lobby

London, England

Located near Victoria Station, this is a home for more than 200 Google employees. According to silicon.com, this will be the base for the search giant’s next European engineering centre.

Tokyo, Japan

iGoogle Art Cafe

Inside view of iGoogle Art Cafe

Sydney, Australia

TheAustralia headquater for Google, Sydney office will be responsible for local
research and development.

Paris, France

The Paris office has around 100 employees who mainly works on Google advertising and industry partnerships.

Madrid, Spain

About 10 years ago, we didn’t really expect the 1.4mb 3.5 inch floppy to evolve into flash drives 10x smaller with storage capacity as big as 32gb. The interesting thing about technology is; it’s just going to get more and more high-end but the size, is just going to get smaller and slimmer.

These concept gadgets you see before you today, have extremely high chance of getting into production anywhere in the future. For example, Microsoft’s Surface Computing Technology certainly tells us they are for real. Here’s some really cool concept gadgets, just concepts for now but we really hope it’ll be implemented, that inspires. If we happened to missed something impressive, please let us know in comment.  

B-membrane Laptop/Desktop

Concept computer designed by Korean designer Won-Seok Lee. No bulky monitors, just a UFO shape system that displays screen like a projector. [via yankodesign]

Nokia Aeon Full Screen Concept Phone

The most prominent design feature of aeon is a touchscreen that stretches over the full surface area of the phone. [via engadget mobile]

Napkin PC

The Napkin PC is a multi-user, multi-interface, modular computer designed for creative professionals to collaborate and bring their greatest ideas to life. [via yankodesign]

Cellphone Code

This phone uses haptic technology to provide physical feedback for making a call. To turn it on…twist a section, to dial a number…twist a bunch of sections, to make an international call…break your wrist! [via yankodesign]

Virtual Goggles

Designed and conceived by Franz Steiner, he wondered what the personal assistant might look like in
the future. [Blutsbrueder Design via Gizmodo]

New dSLR?

Concept of a digital camera which can be used in one hand. [perezprada via yankodesign]

Future Internet Search

All you need to do is point the tablet at any object and you should get search results as good as Google’s, just more interactivity. [petitinvention via behance.net]

Sunshine Pillow

We arent sure if it’s warm enough, but it’s good to own one. [Rei Gallery via gizmodo]

Capsule Radio Clock

Not rocket science, but definetely cool to get one. [sequoia-studio via tuvie]

Info-Live Watch

INFO Live is an data organizer for connected internet world. It is able to transfer data information to any hardware and person any moment in time of need. [via nextgendesigncomp]

Jive for the elderly

Jive is a range of 3 products that were designed to get elderly technophobes connected to their friends and family. [jive via tuvie]

LifeMap

Touch screen digital photo storing and organization product. [via tuvie]

Microsoft Arc Mouse

When you go advanced in all your computer equipments, the next best thing is to get a futuristic mouse. [via geekandhype]

Pebble Key Port

Designed with many slots so that user can easily group their keys into categories such as car keys, home keys or office keys. [via tuvie]

Pixel Perfect Hour Glass

Title says it all. A perfect gadget anyone wants to own, I suppose? [Pavel Balykin via yankodesign]

Calliper Style Radio

Like a precision calliper tool, 08 Radio by Mikael Silvanto lets you precisely find the station you want by sliding the entire radio unit up and down the scale. [via yankodesign]

Whenever you flipped through a tech related magazine, how often you stopped and stare at a tech ad for more than 3 seconds. Chance are most of us will ignore them. The problem with tech ads are just like the others, they have to very clever and really creative in order to catch some attention. Here are some really cool technology related advertisement from notable companies like Sony, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, etc that do not suck.

 

AOL Mega Mailbox

Apple iPhone Photo

Apple iPod Touch

Apple Mighty Mouse: Lucifer

Comcast

High-Speed Internet -Blimp

Digicape Apple Discount

Hewlette Packard

HP Computer skin

Kingston Technology: Stick

Things seem smaller when you have 8GB.

Microsoft Balloons

Microsoft Hardware. Happy 25th.

Motorola Razr: Blood

Norton Systemworks: Mower

Olympus: Tripod white

m700 with image stabilisation

Palm Pilot

Panasonic: Wide Angle

RCA Music

Samsung

Samsung ultra slim cell phone

Samsung Plasma TV

Sony cotton stick

Anti-distortion HiFi. For a cleaner sound.

Sony Vaio

Sony Vault

Sony Widescreen TV

Sony Walkman

Sympatico/MSN

WWF