(TrendHunter.com) Leggie-legs are the brand new fashion item inspired by an odd combination of 1960’s bell bottoms and 1980’s leg warmers. The designers spin these major trends from these eras together while giving them a funky and modern twist.
Leggie-legs are featured on Ilaniowear.com, a site with nine different…
(TrendHunter.com) Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban will launch a new fashion line called Evie and Hank, their all too cute nicknames for each other. I guess Nick and KiKi wasn’t acceptable.
Urban had sold Hank and Evie tees on his website, but now the married celebrity couple thinks their fame will bring them new fort…
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban will launch a new fashion line called Evie and Hank, their all too cute nicknames for each other. I guess Nick and KiKi wasn’t acceptable.
Urban had sold Hank and Evie tees on his website, but now the married celebrity couple thinks their fame will bring them new fort…
Check out Bob Garfield’s Monday morning lead:
And advertising people wonder why the public views them with contempt.
The industry’s annual showcase Sunday featured commercials that peddled soft porn, sold soda pop as a drug, trivialized charitable causes, ridiculed ethnic Americans, terrified small children and contemplated running over a sissy with a car.
Garfield makes me laugh, even though the cluelessness he points out isn’t all that funny.
In other Super Bowl news, USA TODAY assembled 234 adult volunteers in Chicago and McLean, Va., to measure their reactions to ads on handheld meters. They liked A-B’s dog and pony show best and the Doritos American Idol imitation least.
(TrendHunter.com) I have to be honest, until I discovered an article touting Adele as the next big thing in music, I had no idea who the UK singer was.
Adele Adkins is a young Londoner with a gorgeous jazz-meets-soul voice very unexpected of a 19 year old. Reuters called her “the hot new talent for 2008,” after new…
This Super Bowl ad recap by the Miller High Life Guy is well-taken: The ads were entertaining, but not always logical. Why would you eat Doritos, after all, if doing so invited the prospect of getting beaten half to death by a giant rat? And CareerBuilder isn’t sending the right message, either — pledging to drop a giant slogan on our building after making our hearts explode won’t get us to their pyramid-scheme-laden Web site any faster. Unfortunately, High Life Guy left out GoDaddy’s ad sending people online to see another ad — a tepid play on the Britney/Paris flashing phenomenon that was too lame, excuse me, too “hot†for prime time.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
(TrendHunter.com) Erohina Yulia has designed a functional chair that enables you to store your coat and bag/luggage inside the chair itself. This chair may be very useful in resturants and Cafe’s where you can conveniently hang your coat and put your bag inside the chair you are sitting on.
(TrendHunter.com) Campers at this years Glastonbury Festival will be forced to use pegs made out of potatoes. It comes after cows were injured by metal pegs that were left behind on the farm in previous years. The event organiser, Michael Eavis, has a skip full of metal tent pegs from last year alone. The potato pegs…
Fed up with destructive economic theories, a growing number of economists are forging a new path for our monetary future.
Talk about timely, funny and well-played – the Miller High Life guy is back and this time he’s trying to deliver common sense to Super Bowl advertisers. Well done, Miller. Well done indeed.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The Patriots suck! Go Giants, woo-hoo! Former Pats QBs Steve Grogan and Drew Bledsoe—both winless as Super Bowl starters—probably woke up this morning with wry smiles on their faces. (And if they woke up together, it’s really none of my business.) The Boston Globe ran a 24-page section on Monday that was meant to celebrate a perfect season, but canceled plans for a book called 19-0. Noted Globe editor Marty Baron: “There is nothing more for us to do. It’s over.†At least he can recycle that line when New York Times Co. money runs dry and the Globe closes its doors.
P.S. Hey Marty, AdFreak made me write this. They’re monsters. Do you need a blogger? Go, Pats! Yay!
P.P.S. Hey Punch, does the Times have a Giants book in the works? I’m available if you need a writer for a quick turnaround. Go Giants, woo-hoo!
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Everything I would have said about last night’s Superbowl spots, and especially Stewie, Underdog and Charlie Brown, has already been said as well or better…
To celebrate the first birthday of Louisiana’s Smoke-Free Air Act (Act 815), New Orleans-based Trumpet created this ad, which appeared in newspapers throughout the state.
Here’s a creepy twist on the American Psycho premise.
You’re in the Chinese laundry. Some hotshot white executive walks in and starts heckling the pitiable Asian owner in front of his family.
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve all heard that cell phone waves can be harmful to the body, but some great news for mobile addicts was made public today; it turns out, cell phones may not be cancerous after all.
The finding comes from an Australian study dedicated to debunking popular myths, including if drinking coffee, g…
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — During an earnings conference call today with Wendy's International, analysts didn't stick to asking about profits — they also prodded the fast-food chain about its changing ad direction.
It’s hardly been three days, and already the shoving match between Google and Microsoft.
AOL just now released its results for the top-ranked ads in its 6th Annual AOL Super Sunday Ad Poll, sponsored by Verizon. Here’s the top five:
It seems like Abercrombie & Fitch gets in some kind of legal trouble every few months, so the timing was spot-on for police removing “obscene†ads from its store in Virginia Beach. The ads in question showed a topless girl whose nipples were the only things covered and a group of men going commando under their jeans. Honestly, I’ve seen worse from other stores—and from Abercrombie, come to think of it—so I almost feel obligated to defend them. Then again, this is the same company that made unfunny, racist T-shirts for clueless white kids and thongs for preteens. So, screw ’em.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Here’s a contemporary homage to the classic Volkswagen ads created by Doyle Dane Bernbach, NY. This version was put together by DDB, Paris.
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