This is New York City

New York City’s New Tourism Commercial. Featuring “Take the A-Train” performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington, as remixed by Mint Royale.

(via designobserver)

3 Comments leave a comment below

  1. WOW – thats a great commercial

  2. Here’s my commentary from my blog – posted a few hours before Design Observer, I might add.

    http://www.perezfox.com/2007/10/16/new-york-city-the-new-toontown/

  3. Creative Review have an excellent overview of the whole NYC branding effort here:
    http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/branding-nyc/

    I particularly like the New York Times’ series of critiques regarding the new NYC Taxi branding:
    http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/nyc-taxi-logo/