Oakbank Easter Racing Carnivale – Thoroughbred Racing SA : Ant

Oakbank Easter Racing Carnivale - Thoroughbred Racing SA : Ant

The world’s biggest picnic race meeting.

Advertising Agency: kwp! Advertising, Adelaide, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Peter Withy
Creative Director: James Rickard
Art Director: Mark Busse
Copywriter: David Ormston
Illustrator: Rowan Dodds
Published: January 2008

Saving Movie Theaters – 3D Films to Become Mainstream?

Internet piracy has made it possible not only to access to free movies, but to access films even before they hit theaters. In order to preserve the business of “going to the movies”, cinemas may have to considering offering all movies in 3D to continue to get patrons to the box office.

“A consorti…

Controversial TV Campaign – Bush is American Psycho (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand has created a controversial campaign to promote the TVNZ premiere of the cult thriller, American Psycho. One of the ads show a close up on American President George W. Bush with a big and clear “American Psycho” printed under it. Another ad shows the American flag crea…

Anti Drinking & Driving: Rope

Anti Drinking & Driving: Rope

It’s like killing yourself. Don’t drink & drive.

Advertising Agency: Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Creative Director: Jon Slater
Art Director / Copywriter: Chris Guinness
Time of publication or release: March 2008

Anti Drinking & Driving: Blood

Anti Drinking & Driving: Blood

It’s like killing yourself. Don’t drink & drive.

Advertising Agency: Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Creative Director: Jon Slater
Art Director / Copywriter: Chris Guinness
Time of publication or release: March 2008

Very Bizarre Online Shopping Ads – Diesel Haiku

(TrendHunter.com) For Diesel’s High Speed Fashion online shopping campaign, they’ve launched print ads featuring an attractive young mother powdering her babies bum while running in skinny jeans and stilettos.

The ad reads, “Haiku: You should buy Diesel / You can run in your jeans and / powder baby’s butt”

The pri…

Anti Drinking & Driving: Gun

Anti Drinking & Driving: Gun

It’s like killing yourself. Don’t drink & drive.

Advertising Agency: Lonsdale Saatchi & Saatchi, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Creative Director: Jon Slater
Art Director / Copywriter: Chris Guinness
Time of publication or release: March 2008

Celebrity Passport Stamps – Creative RAM FM Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the tagline “Even though they have not visited every country, their music has.” this creative ad campaign for RAM FM radio station uses passport stamps to create portraits of four iconic music stars: Bob Marley, The Beatles, Kylie Minogue and Elton John. I love how the artistic rendering of the…

OMD’s Debbie Richman Moves to Lifetime as Ad Sales Head


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Debbie Richman, a prominent media-buying executive who supervised broadcast buying at Omnicom Group's OMD for the last several years, is jumping ship to the selling side. She will become exec VP-ad sales for Lifetime Networks, a role that the female-oriented cable channel has taken several months to fill.

ENBW: Plug

ENBW: Plug

Energy that won’t run out. Geothermal energy.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Elbe, Germany
Executive Creative Director: Wolf Heumann
Creative Directors: Sascha Hanke, Timm Hanebeck
Copywriter: Clemens Sehi
Art Director: Andy Tran
Graphics: Nadya Innamorato

K-fee: Speed bumps

K-fee: Speed bumps

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Elbe, Germany
Creative Directors: Sascha Hanke, Timm Hanebeck
Executive Creative Director: Wolf Heumann
Copywriter: Clemens Sehi
Art Director: Andy Tran
Graphics: Nadya Innamorato

My Own Personal Branding Problem


Yes, I'm a latecomer to Facebook. There was a double-whammy that propelled me into cyber-communing.

Pinar Labaneh Light: Insert

Pinar Labaneh Light: Insert

Advertising Agency: Intermarkets, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director: Ian Rowland Gerry
Copywriter / Art Director: Siddhartha Banerjee
Released: February 2008

Radiant Gym: Twice the man

Radiant Gym: Twice the man

Are you today twice the man you used to be?

Advertising Agency: Publicis Ambience Advertising, Chennai, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Manoj Jacob
Art Director: Manoj K Ouseph
Published: December 2007

Radiant Gym: Sleep

Radiant Gym: Sleep

And inches to go before I sleep.

Advertising Agency: Publicis Ambience Advertising, Chennai, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Manoj Jacob
Art Director: Manoj K Ouseph
Published: December 2007

Radiant Gym: Running

Radiant Gym: Running

Obesity finds it hardest to catch up with those who are running.

Advertising Agency: Publicis Ambience Advertising, Chennai, India
Creative Director / Copywriter: Manoj Jacob
Art Director: Manoj K Ouseph
Published: December 2007

Political Scandals for Cell Phone Marketing – Virgin Mobile Ads Bash Spitzer

(TrendHunter.com) Virgin is known for their cutting edge ads, but they’re also known for stirring up quite a controversy. The latest ads, which will run in a Toronto newspaper, are for Virgin Mobile and were inspired by the Eliot Spitzer scandal.

Using the political mishap to create the shockvertisement, the Virgin…

Canned Clothes – Pants in a Pinch

(TrendHunter.com) Now if only they make some adult sized ones! These $20 ultra compact Pants in a Pinch are any toddler’s mom’s new best friend. The 100% cotton pants come in a palm-sized disc. The pants are available in an assortment of colors for kids aged 3-24 months, and you can have more sizes for special orders…

Next Gen Baby Naming – SMS Language Influences Name Choice

(TrendHunter.com) The mystery of texting has brought with it, a unique language known to the “uncool” as SMS language. This language uses abbreviations for certain sounds and replaces traditional ways of spelling words with more intuitive ones – “y” instead of “i” and “k” instead of “c”. Thus, new ways of spelling ba…

Saving Movie Theaters – 3D Films to Become Mainstream? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Internet piracy has made it possible not only to access to free movies, but to access films even before they hit theaters. In order to preserve the business of “going to the movies”, cinemas may have to considering offering all movies in 3D to continue to get patrons to the box office.

“A consorti…