Satirical Jewelry - Crude Barrel Necklace Reveals Price of Oil (GALLERY)

I find this quaint and quirky jewelry created by Design Glut very intriguing. The Crude Jewelry collection, which is manufactured in monthly batches, is engraved with the date and the price of a barrel of oil on the day the jewelry was made. So far so good. Then there is an annoying and very inconvenient concept in economics called volatility. With oil prices changing with such frequency, wouldn’t Crude Jewelry be rendered obsolete almost immediately? I’m just asking.

Here are a few more crude oil awareness campaigns:

Crude Oil Awareness Pots - Oil Can Tea Set

With crude oil prices now well over $100 per barrel, filling that gas guzzling SUV is really hurting the pocket. If that’s not enough, perhaps you need another reminder of the diminishing supplies and voracious global demand. This tea set is designed by Designkommando (Germany) with a gold finish, o… [More]

Crude Imagery for Awareness - Blood of Earth on Your Mouth (GALLERY)

Going for a variation of “having the blood of someone on your hand,” this new campaign for Brita water filtration pitchers and Nalgene refillable bottles warns us that we are murdering our planet and that we have its blood (oil) on our mouths… The ads depict people with unpleasant-looking cr… [More]

Spray on Crude Oil - Cory Ingram’s Crude Cologne

”Crude” by Cory Ingram is definitely a gift for the person who has everything” says the ad. This is a bottle of real 50 ml of crude oil packaged in a perfume or cologne bottle. This is a limited edition of 50 bottles which have been “uniquely packaged”. The price of this small bottle of crude oil … [More]