Brand Bites: End of Summer Blowout!

Posted by Abe Sauer on August 27, 2010 01:00 PM

* Space-time continuum suffers massive tear as preposterous memes from two different decades collide (above).

* Calling the child in all art directors and the art director in all children: Name that Crayola color.

* Evil Emperor George Lucas sues Jedis for trademark infringement.

* Zynga promotes its social games, upsets everyone.

* Successful BMW product placement you've likely never heard of.

* Comic icon Stan Lee is looking for a new superhero… to design a logo for his foundation.

* Hands Across America returns with twice the Internet and 1,000 times the Red Vines.

* Do ants "deserve a break today?" One artist intends to find out.

* London Fog co-opts rage for all things Mad Men by signing Christina Hendricks as new spokesmodel. In other news, men everywhere find themselves in a London Fog.

* This is by far the weirdest Lindsay Lohan legal story you will read today. Headline: "This is By Far the Weirdest Lindsay Lohan Legal Story You Will Read Today."

* Gozer introduces world destroying product.

* Is Verizon's new torture-mocking art director Lindsay England?

* Poorly worded Summer's Eve feminine hygiene magazine tie-in inspires even worse attention-whoring blog headline.

* After the Nike McFly sneaker, Nike moves ever closer to its Back to the Future self.

* Heeb's brand of Jewish hip, now online only.