Apparently the soup can’s fifteen minutes are not up yet.

Campbell’s soup has gotten a Warhol-inspired make-over and will go on sale at Target this weekend. 50 years ago, Andy Warhol created “Campbell’s Soup Cans” and the company is commemorating that anniversary with four pop art cans complete with quotes from the artist.

Just to review: art was created with soup cans as the subject, only to later have those same soup cans imitate the artwork in which they were a subject. It’s this wild, meta, infinite loop of life imitating art imitating life.

photo via Campbell’s Condensed Soup’s Facebook page

Thanks to The Gothamist for the heads-up.

While visiting an antique shop recently, I came upon a small bin of matchbooks. I immediately scooped them up. I don’t care so much about the matches, but as a designer, I love looking at the typefaces and artwork. It’s also a great peek into our American history. Most of the matchbooks I picked up are from California or Reno, NV and I’m guessing many of them are from the 1950s-1960s (phone numbers such as 4541 and FA 9-1483 give it away). These little cardboard pieces of advertising history are such fun to look at. Most every business used to advertise like this, until the 1980s when anti-smoking campaigns, among other things, put a strain on the industry. People still light candles and make fires, right? I say we bring back matchbook advertising! Until then, I’m left to sift through this memorabilia from motor lodges, casinos, and hotels of another time. I can almost hear the piano in the bar, ice clinking against glass, and the delighted cheers of “jackpot!”

Photos taken by budding phillumenist, Maggie Mae Moore.

When I stumbled upon the work of Austin-based ad agency McGarrah Jessee, I immediately liked what I saw. When I further delved into their website, I liked them even more based on the clean and refreshing site design that highlights their innovative and award-winning work.

Check out more of McGarrah Jessee’s work here.

I just came across this project, and seeing as it’s 8:30am, naturally I can now only think about candy. Berlin-based Zeitguised designed and produced a series of Pop-Art inspired idents for MTV, and I think this one is particularly sweet.

images via Zeitguised

Some fictional characters are such prominent figures in pop culture that just a few simple characteristics make them identifiable. That’s what the art directors at German ad agency Jung von Matt had in mind when creating this clever campaign for Lego. Now the question is: can you name them all?

campaign by Jung von Matt, found via Looks Like Good Design