Hasta La Creative!

The people at Greenpeace are none too pleased with Unilever, the makers of Dove beauty products. According to Greenpeace, Unilever is purchasing palm oil from suppliers who are destroying the rainforests in Indonesia. This deforestation is causing all sorts of problems such as climate change as well as the extinction of certain species. So, what is Greenpeace doing about it? Well, on April 21, 2008, they released a bunch of apes (or possibly Orangutans) into London and Merseyside to guilt Unilever into stopping this madness! They also came out with the following video to hopefully raise awareness. I guess the price you sometimes pay to be beautiful may not be worth it after all.

Duval Guillaume, to promote the Waffles & Dinges truck in New York city, painted grates yellow and placed little signs with promotional messaging atop the grates

(TrendHunter.com) V Magazine, one of the biggest and most influential fashion magazines, embraces the future of media by going fully digital, for FREE.

That’s right, all content of the magazine is now available to you at the click of a mouse. The browsing system allows you to explore the issue by content, by page t…

AdFreak’s David Griner twisted my arm on Twitter and made me write about this.

I know this isn’t anything earth-shatteringly new, but this outdoor from London a pretty cool installation piece in my mind, particularly given the timeliness of Earth Day.

While real plants (instead of plastic) would have been awesome (and more “green”), the faux plants probably make it leagues easier to actually put up. Interesting, visual, and simple. Seems appropriate as we wrap up Earth-centric festivities.

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LONDON – Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO has retained the £20 million Lotto business after a closely fought pitch.

(TrendHunter.com) Following its award winning animated Signatures campaign, Amnesty International has come up with an equally creative print campaign illustrating the power of your signature.

The Amnesty International Portrait campaign consists of print ads showing black and white portraits of famous dictators with …

LONDON – Former RDF Media executive Alan Clements is to join STV, one of the two ITV franchises in Scotland, as its director of content, after settling a dispute with his former employer.

LONDON – Brand design consultancy Blue Marlin has appointed John Mathers, chief executive of The Brand Union and former president of the Design Business Association, as chief operating officer.