Angst of Prom 2008 Reduced – MyPromStyle.com Aims At Teens

(TrendHunter.com) All over the U.S. teenage girls are txting and IMing about the prom and having giggling fits as well as real angst. Hearst Digital Media wants them online. MyPromStyle.com is a new site with fashion, quizzes, slideshows, to help them be confident about their style CosmoGIRL, Seventeen and TEEN are c…

Year of the Rat – Mouse Invades Runway via Vivienne Tam (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Rats on the runway! Very appropriate that Vivienne Tam’s Fall 2008 collection paid homage to the Chinese calendar Year of the Rat by putting Minni Mouse on one her creations. It’s a sell out because Tam works with Disneyland Hong Kong and helped with their campaign to get tourists from mainland Chi…

Diamond Studded Toy for Charity – $140,000 Hot Wheels Bling

(TrendHunter.com) Commemorating its 40th year, Hot Wheels has created a $140,000 coupe designed by jeweler, Jason, of Beverly Hills, CA. The 18k white gold car is encrusted with 2,700 diamonds weighing 23 Carats. The car will be auctioned off sometime this year with proceeds going to Big Brothers Big Sisters.

International Design & Architecture Winner – Cape Town House J (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) House J is now the proud winner of the WAN house of the Year award – designed by South African architect Kevin Fellingham – and recognises the stunning characterisitics of this Simonstown house in Cape Town. The house sits attractively beside the nature conservation area of the Table Mountain natio…

Juice salon, India, uses creative escalator advertising


Finally! I can’t even recall how many emails we’ve gotten from people who sell the “new” media space of escalator advertising (meh, I did some in -94, get a grip) where they show off annoying handrails simply decorated with brand-logos on them or something equally boring. But here Rediffusion DY&R in Mumbai, India finally does something creative with advertising on an escalator, using it to show a man with different haircuts for Juice Salon. Ten points!

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Record-Setting Intense Laser – HERCULES

(TrendHunter.com) The University of Michigan has developed a record-setting intense laser, HERCULES, that could help scientists develop better proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer and explore new frontiers in science. This intensity is about two orders of magnitude higher than any other laser i…

Shocking PETA Ads – Kentucky Fried Cruelty (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This makes you think twice before hitting up a KFC. PETA tried to run three Superbowl ads that are critical of fast-food chain KFC’s (Kentucky Fried Cruelty) abuse of chickens, but Fox Channel turned down $4.2 million from PETA and sent the following statement: “As a general rule, time will not be s…

Over the Top Fashion – Garb That Can’t Be Serious (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fashion designers have a sense of humor. They must have to create these outfits and put them on the catwalk. Or maybe the cat was the inspiration when it hocked up a hairball. At any rate, these out of this world creations are real, they did show at a recent major event, and be sure to check out the…

Updating Futuristic Architecture – Disney’s New House of the Future

(TrendHunter.com) Millions visited Disney’s “House of the Future” 50 years ago when it opened in 1957.

What they witnessed in the pod-shaped plastic dwelling were cordless phones, wall-sized TV’s, electronic razors for men, plastic chairs, electronic toothbrushes and hands-free phones. The house closed a decade lat…

Web Image Searching – Piclens take image searching to a whole new dimension

(TrendHunter.com) Amazing cool 3-D picture viewer add-on for Firefox browser. It works with Google, Flickr, DeviantArt and many others including some social networking sites like Facebook. Ive started typing random words into Google image search just so I can browse the beautiful images this software generates. I don…

Post-It Note Animation – Russian Animators Create New Use For Post-Its (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Between the animations and the well-selected music, this video was pretty mesmerizing! For those of you old enough to remember, this style of animation reminds me of an old syndicated program named “Night Flight” that was on the USA cable network back in the 1980’s.

Unfortunately, I don’t speak Ru…

Orange: The toys for grown-ups

Orange: The toys for grown-ups

Advertising Agency: WAM/Publicis, France
Creatives: Frederic Rroyer, Olivier Camensuli
Agency Producer: Muriel Allegrini
Production Company : WANDA Productions
Producer: Patrick Barbier
Director: Philippe André
Director of Photography: Adam Kimel
Post-production House: Buf Cie
Editor (&co.): Nicolas Waymann Harris
Music: A marshmallow World – Frank Sinatra
Aired: December 2007

Renault Clio: Bel Air

Renault Clio: Bel Air

Advertising Agency : WAM/Publicis, France
Creatives: Fabrice Dubois, Pascale Gayraud
Agency Producer: Damien Fournier Perret
Production Company : WANDA Productions
Producer: Patrick Barbier
Director: Philippe André
Director of Photography: Alex Larmarque
Post-production House: Buf Cie
Editor (&co.): Nicholas Waymann Harris
Location(s): Los Angeles
Music: WAM
Aired: January 2008

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: Light-bulb

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: Light-bulb

Advertising School: Chicago Portfolio School, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Director: Jed Moriarity
Copywriter: Dan Catterson

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: Bible

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: Bible

Advertising School: Chicago Portfolio School, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Director: Jed Moriarity
Copywriter: Dan Catterson

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: America

Bushmills Irish Whiskey: America

Advertising School: Chicago Portfolio School, Chicago, IL, USA
Art Director: Jed Moriarity
Copywriter: Dan Catterson

Smart Pillbox – MIT’s uBox-uPhone Project Saves Lives

According to scientists at MIT, “Tuberculosis has long been eradicated from the world’s industrialized nations but continues to take a terrible toll in a few poor, rural regions of Asia and Africa. Every year, 10 million new cases are diagnosed and two million people die of the disease.” As a re…

CEO in the Spotlight: Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini is an appealing spokesperson for social networking. The Stanford MBA and former financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs is now working with Netscape founder Marc Andreessen on Ning, a service provider that enables one to build soc nets around any interest.

So far, 170,000 people or groups have chosen to do so.

Here’s the one that motivated me to join.

Hot Girls Dress & Act Like Guys To Sell Men’s Underwear – JBS Underwear

JBS mens underwear new campaign employs the slogan “Men do not want to look at naked men”. So what do they do? They use partially-nude hot females in a super naughty, super provocative maxim-like shoot that borders on softcore porn. I doubt men will argue with JBS’ choice. Well straight men at least…

Ali G Asked to Sell Out

London is an expensive place to live and work. It is home to daily congestion and long commuter times. The city of Adelaide in South Australia recently launched an ad claiming that the commuter town of Staines (home of the character Ali G) is reason enough to move to Adelaide. The ad reads “Screw working in Staines, hello Adelaide.” The promotion could evolve to actually include Ali G as the messenger. Brand Republic reports that ” Bill Muirhead, the agent general for South Australia, has approached comedian Sacha Baron Cohen asking him to reprise his role as Ali G for  TV and cinema campaign encouraging young professionals to move to Adelaide”

If you’ve ever watched the Ali G Show on HBO or bootleg DVD you’d know that he places a high emphasis on “keeping it real.” It would seem out of character for Ali G to “rep anova city.” Cohen has not committed himself to this project or any other project. He has previously mentioned that the Ali G and Borat characters are retired. The South Australian Tourism Commission got some decent PR time by asking, but I don’t know if they will get the yes they’re looking for. You don’t ask people to sell out publicly, not even if they’re are fictional people.