Red Pepper Flakes. A blog by Imelda Suriato

Squeaky shows Love For The Cup!

World Cup 2010 is finally on! South Africa vs. Mexico to kickoff this world event. I am so excited. Everyone at Squeaky is excited, especially since we are a company comprised of soccer-lovers  from Italy, Mexico, Australia, Jamaica, Cuba, Taiwan, Bangladesh and Indonesia (me!).

Heck, we’ve been so excited for weeks now we did something to show our love for World Cup. Check out Love For The Cup, a Twitter visualization of live World Cup matches.

So go, show your country color. Show your love for the cup!

Beautiful branding portfolio

Very nice portfolio of branding work by Denis Olenik. Superb study on branding, logo design, color palettes, textures. The portfolio images look so good I want to caress my screen.

Dry-Erase Paint for your wall

Don’t tell me you never thought of using a marker to doodle on a wall or just wonder how you can get a giant dry-erase board for your office. Well, that’s basically the idea behind IdeaPaint‘s dry-erase paint.

I like it! Plus, the website is pretty cool with ideas for your home, work or school. Browse through the gallery and blog for inspiration.

So….ccer Crazy!

World Cup 2010 is feverishly descending allover the web. Checkout PUMAcity coming to South Street Seaport — June 11 to July 11. Then we have Louis Vuitton Journeys with soccer’s legendary greats: Pelé, Maradona and Zidane.

The microsite allows you to post connect via Facebook and see your profile photo being signed by Pele or Maradone. (It is kinda odd, though. Shouldn’t they be signing their photographs instead of yours?) You also get to watch them play foosball and post your “shouts” by country.

Umbro is doing their thing with all their football prowess, showcasing their World Champion collections, supported by interesting blog posts, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter presence.

And to get close and personal, rough-housing with other World Cup fans, go check out PlayBeautiful, a pop-up match-viewing hub in NYC starting from June 11. It could pop-up anywhere: bars, restaurants, soccer fields… But on June 20, it’ll set up a brick-and-mortar shop at OpenHouse Gallery on Mulberry St (NoLIta). Go reserve your spot!

Meanwhile, Squeaky is working on some World Cup flavor on our own so stay tuned!

Information Ninja library card

I want this library card!

Brilliant branding and campaign by Edmonton Public Library, utilizing guerrilla campaign of great copy on stickers as well as the Edmonton Improv group to help Spread The Words.

This effort is just excellent. I love it! It’s not only because I spent a lot of time in stuffy old libraries and book stores growing up (free stuff to read!).

p.s.: Yes, chicks do dig big brains.