(TrendHunter.com) A recent article in the Telegraph notes that London’s top plastic surgeons are busier than ever, operating on ‘alpha males’! The surgeons attribute the rise in male plastic surgery to French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The reason: Sarkozy is successful, charismatic, and… oh yah, he married form…
It’s gonna get very touchy.
Art Director / Copywriter / Photographer: Lee
Released: 2008
It’s gonna get very touchy.
Art Director / Copywriter / Photographer: Lee
Released: 2008
It’s gonna get very touchy.
Art Director / Copywriter / Photographer: Lee
Released: 2008
LONDON – Burnett Works has developed a fundraising campaign for children’s charity Barnardo’s to launch its 2008 Big Toddle event.
Advertising Agency: Everest Brand Solutions, Mumbai, India
National Creative Director: N. Padmakumar
Creative Directors: Rupesh Kashyap, Devesh Desai
Art Director: Nikhil Patkar
Copywriters: Rupesh Kashyap, C. Sricharan
Other additional credits: Cyrus
Released: March 2008
Advertising Agency: Longplay 360, Brazil
Creative Director: Fernando Luna
Art Director: Eduardo Basque
Copywriters: Marcel Petroff, Luiz Mazucatto
Photographer: Ale Torres
Other additional credits: Enzo Jaune
LONDON – Home Corp, the commercials production company, has signed the award-winning directors Baillie Walsh, Bruce Hunt and Tomas Leach to its roster.
Fallon has released its first campaign for Budweiser lager since winning the account last year.
NEW YORK – Google and Salesforce.com have confirmed that they are teaming up to offer a new product that integrates Google’s AdWords into customer relationship management software.
LONDON – Direct marketing budgets have suffered their most widespread cuts in the Bellwether survey’s eight-year history.
LONDON – Coffee shop chain Coffee Republic is to launch free WiFi to customers following a successful month-long trial earlier this year.
(TrendHunter.com) The incredible Delta bed by designer Nicola Bern is currently being shown at Salone Del Mobile 2008.
According to the designer, the bed utilizes fiberglass reinforced plastic tubes that can be telescoped in order to be adaptable to different sizes of the mattress. The angled frames can be arranged …
Volkswagen’s talk-show campaign, hosted by an actual VW, is a concept I’d like to see more often. Granted, we already have inanimate objects hosting talk shows (Leno), but if Craig Ferguson can get a show on late night, Max the 1964 Beetle deserves a chance, too. Hopefully a real show in this vein would have better guests than David Hasselhoff, but the house band appears to have stolen Lenny Kravitz’s old drummer, so they’re off to a decent start. This isn’€™t the kind of Hoff car commercial we were expecting, but it will have to do.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Golden Palace Lady, what hast thou wrought? James Burns (shown here) of St. Albans, W. Va., is taking a nod from the cash-strapped mom and auctioning off his head as ad space … to combat rising gas prices. If we didn’t know better, we’d say he hasn’t quite thought this idea through. In fact, he has an intricate plan. He says he will put the proceeds from his eBay auction into buying a more fuel-friendly vehicle than his Subaru. Which isn’t a terrible idea—it’s just an awfully roundabout way to do it, especially when the cost is branding himself with a corporate logo. Maybe he should stick with his original idea: a tattoo “making a statement against how high gas prices have gotten.â€
—Posted by David Kiefaber
Hapa Sushi in Boulder, Colo., has introduced a “Happy Hour Code of Responsibility” via local agency TDA. Three print ads illustrate the dangers of behaving badly. If you don’t dance responsibly, you risk a wardrobe malfunction. As for irresponsible flirts, well, they could end up red faced in more ways than one. (Ouch! Those slaps sting. That’s what I hear, anyway.) And, as seen here, a painful form of myopia can result from using chopsticks in a less than responsible manner. (See that full ad here.) Frankly, happy hour with a bunch of krumping horny cyclopses sounds pretty cool, so I’d avoid Hapa altogether, where they’ve got way too many rules and really know how to cut a guy’s buzz. Besides, who would trust the sushi in Boulder?
—Posted by David Gianatasio
“Rub against me and I’ll expose you.” Ah, if I had a dime for every time I’ve heard that in Boston’s subway system. Today, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officially unveils a campaign aimed at combating sexual harassment on the T. The ads use provocative headlines. Frankly, the way they herd us in like proverbial cattle most days, it’s pretty tough to avoid some degree of unwanted human contact. Usually it’s an elbow or briefcase in the face. Some guy once smacked me in the nose with his cellphone. If it had been an iPhone, I wouldn’t have minded. It was a Samsung. There’s one sure way I know to deal with sexual harassment on a packed Boston commuter train. If someone’s hands stray where they shouldn’t, just point at him or her and scream, “Yankee fan! Yankee fan!†They won’t give you any more trouble after that.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Advertising Agency: Longplay 360, Brazil
Creative Director: Fernando Luna
Art Director / Illustrator: Eduardo Basque
Copywriters: Marcel Petroff, Luiz Mazucatto
VENICE – Facebook has admitted that it made big mistakes in launching its Beacon ad serving system last year.
LONDON – WPP Group has bought a stake in a Scottish software company that specialises in developing videogames, including the Bafta-winning driving action game ‘Crackdown’.
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