Here’s a quick tip for you if you’re a Dribbble user. For a mere $19 USD a year (£12 for us English), you can go pro and have a permanent Hire Me button on the top of your profile and above every shot you upload.

Besides the other advanced features of going Pro, I reckon this small cost may is worth it just for the Hire Me button alone. I think that if, like myself, you want to receive more work from online sources, this profile upgrade could be just the ticket.

If I do land a job via Dribbble, I’ll be posting the project here on AndrewKelsall.com. Be sure to subscribe to my RSS for updates…

You may want to check out my previous article Do you use Dribbble? What do you think of it?

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These crossword-styled Lego ads are great, aren’t they? I’ve always loved Lego…er sorry “my kids do”—and I think this simple set of ads sums up perfectly what the fantastic plastic blocks are all about:

Ads Credits and copyrights © : Advertising Agency: TBWA, Costa Rica / Creative Director: Byron Balmaceda / Art Director: Gabriela Soto / Copywriter: Byron Balmaceda / Illustrator: Gabriela Soto. Via: ibelieveinadv.com & adsoftheworld.com / * Lego® is a registered trademark.

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Yes, I’m sure these painted hands ads have done the rounds before, but I’ve just discovered them and thought I’d share them with you. Using painted hands to advertise AT&T’s worldwide network coverage, these ads and very clever, conform the AIDA and do their job really well:

Credits: Discovered via Fubiz – please visit for more from this set of advertisements. Ads for AT&T / If you know who owns © copyright on these, please let me know so I can attribute the design agency, etc.

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If you liked this post, check out Animal Hand Tattoos over on Design Soak.

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I just love these type of minimal, high-impact ads that are cropping up. Here, we have some recent ads for the “12, 38, 70 percent campaign” by Saatchi & Saatchi that highlight environmental issues for Greenpeace:

38% of the world’s population is suffering from lack of clean water because increasing temperatures alter the natural water cycle. This is global warming.

Credits:  Saatchi & Saatchi, Bucharest, Romania
Discovered via: Ibelieveinadv.com
Visit Greenpeace for more on their organisation.

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I saw these great Ads recently—which are absolutely amazing I reckon. These digital works were designed for Mercedes Benz cars, and are based upon the left/right brain functions:

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Yes, the fourth Ad is a little different, but I still love it.

Images © Copyright / Credits for the design works:

Project: Left Brain Right Brain – Einstein. Client: Mercedes Benz Agency: Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Y&R Interactive

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I have now setup a Design News page here on the Andrew Kelsall Design Blog. You can submit your quality design-related links via the Submit News page.

Why am I doing this?

Well, for three main four reasons:

1. It benefits my readers. When people who read my blog also submit their own posts (those who blog, that is), it helps build a design community.

2. It benefits those who submit their posts. Obviously, it can benefit their sites via page-views and backlinks.

3. It benefits my site. Articles are listed on the main page, with sub-pages also linking to users’ articles. This should be good for SEO.

UPDATE: 4. Newsletter signup. I’ve just added the facility to tick a box if the user wants to receive my upcoming newsletter in the future (when I get around to writing one, that is).

I’ve noticed the popularity of blogs and online magazines that list design links over the past year, so I’ll give it a shot here and see how it goes!

The submit buttons are located in the left sidebar and header link-bar. The actual news page can be accessed in the left sidebar, too…

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I just think [the excellent advert below] is pretty-well structured, meaningful, enticing and above-all, original. I also love to see designs that have a heavy emphasis on typography. I studied for my BA at Coventry University—and the tutors there really drilled typographic knowledge into us…so I suppose that’s one of the reasons why I like this so much.

By the way, if you want to add me to Skype, my user name is andrew-kelsall. What do you think of this email advertisement? Do you think “it works”? Have you been impressed by any other email campaigns?

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