September 24, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
This post seems rather fitting considering the fact that I just posted about The United States of McDonald’s. Anyway, here are some examples of the clock made of McDonald’s foods that DDB (The Philippines) created which ended up increasing sales in the area by 13.9% vs the same period the previous year. The billboards were put along the roads to entice people to go eat McDonald’s no matter what time it is. Pretty, eh?
September 24, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Stephen Von Worley over at Weather Sealed created this amazing visualization of McDonald’s locations in the United States after going on a road trip this past summer. He wanted to see how far he could get from the franchise establishment in any location in the contiguous United States. His research led to this image which shows that no matter where you are in the US, a McDonald’s restaurant really isn’t that far away.
He says:
As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.
For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
Great work Steve!
August 21, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
A new report from UBS puts the average wage of an employee in 73 cities into perspective by showing us how long one would have to work in each city to purchase a McDonald’s Big Mac. If you love Big Macs, Nairobi is not the place for you to be living; Chicago on the other hand is lovely!
Thanks Caleb!
August 10, 2009 @ 11:04 am
Norman shared this image of a very creative advertisement for McDonald’s created by DDB Denmark.
July 22, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
McDonald’s Versus from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
This is pretty darn realistic. I wonder if it’s cheaper to create food on the computer than to have a food stylist work hours to make it look perfect. I wonder which person would work less hours. [via]
June 30, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
Click image to see larger version (via)
This here is the wooden handiwork of artist Lee Stoetzel who recently exhibited at Mixed Green Gallery in Chelsea (NYC) back in April and May (2009).
If you like this work, you can purchase it for $1500.
