19 Mar Bottle Cap Mosaics Featured in Microsoft Home Magazine

A while back I got an email: I was sourcing images recently on the net and saw photos of your bottle cap mosaic fish – which are amazing!… We might need to edit them slightly to fit the space, but they would not be altered in any other way…. It’s a nice gig because I didn’t have to create anything new for them, just allow the use of existing images…. There’s also some banner advertising out there somewhere that uses the fish but I haven’t seen it yet…. I have to admit, the most interesting part of this for me was trying to figure how the fish were going to be used… I was racking my brains trying to come up with a connection between software and bottle cap mosaics!

A while back I got an email:

I was sourcing images recently on the net and saw photos of your bottle cap mosaic fish – which are amazing! I’m writing to ask if we could use the images in an interactive marketing campaign we’re doing for a client. We might need to edit them slightly to fit the space, but they would not be altered in any other way.

The client turned out to be Microsoft Canada. Cool. One more thing my buddy Hugh MacLeod and I have in common. It’s a nice gig because I didn’t have to create anything new for them, just allow the use of existing images. Kind of a new take on recycling. It was also nice to be paid well for images that were originally intended as documentation of art, rather than art themselves.

This is how the fish were used for a page in Microsoft Home Magazine. There’s also some banner advertising out there somewhere that uses the fish but I haven’t seen it yet. If you happen to notice one, drop me a line so I can go check it out.

I have to admit, the most interesting part of this for me was trying to figure how the fish were going to be used… I was racking my brains trying to come up with a connection between software and bottle cap mosaics!

While we’re talking MS, I really like Hugh’s new cartoon for them: