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Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland, New Zealand
Via: Kuteev

Ciclos d’Racco Anti-Age

ByVivas, Curitiba, Brazil
Creative Director: Marcos Steffens
Art Director: Ricardo Madeira Peroza Copywriter: Fernando Baibich
Illustrator: Studio M
Published: February 2008

LONDON – Carphone Warehouse is to separate its landline and broadbrand division TalkTalk from the rest of its retail and distribution business.

(TrendHunter.com) Toronto has really basic, yet eye-catching, signs all around the city to promote a community clean-Up. Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, Mayor David Miller is hoping people will be inspired to pitch in on April 18 to make the city a greener place.

The 20-Minute Toronto Makeover takes place th…

(TrendHunter.com) Fighting the drawbacks of aging? Why leave the brain behind. Nintendo has released the second version of its immensely popular game called Brain Age.

According to Nintendo, all it takes is a few minutes a day to increase your brain power and alertness. The games help exercise the brain with activit…

(TrendHunter.com) The Harpejji is a hybrid musical instrument that was invented by a math professor by the name of Jorn Starret. The musical instrument, which has 24 strings on 24 frets, is the offspring of a union between the guitar and the piano.

I’m looking at this strange-looking new guitar/piano fusion and I’m …

Meat Loaf has always been comfortable with his flavor of bombastic self-parody, but this commercial for the AT&T GoPhone takes it to Shatner-esque proportions. I’m honestly of two minds about this ad. On the one hand, it’s as awful as anything associated with Meat Loaf’s music would be. On the other hand, he and his fake family (including Tiffany, playing Mom) look like they’re having the time of their lives singing part of “Paradise By the Dashboard Light” together. Maybe this duality was all a clever plan to keep me from wondering how the GoPhone actually works.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

In the season finale of Lost

Advertising Agency: Creativity, Chile
Creative Director: Tomas C.
Copywriters: Cristobal A., Tomas C.
Art Director: Cristobal A.

Not sure what to make of this exactly, does Mercedes Benz want to kill their customers by whiplash, or are traffic jams so common where this billboard exists that there is simply nothing else to do but ponder their copy? Either way Colenso BBDO, Auckland decided to get all philosophical on a billboard in New Zealand when launching their new Mercedes-Benz campaign. Fascinating. 😉

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Here’s an old Apple ad with Jeff Goldblum that’s been slowed down to the point where he seems wasted. Maybe the same thing happened to Ellen Feiss. Via Cynical-C.

—Posted by Tim Nudd