Pentax: Bank

Pentax: Bank

When every millisecond counts.

Advertising Agency: DDB Düsseldorf, Germany
Creative Directors: Thomas Schwarz, Tim Jacobs
Art Director: Thomas Schwarz
Via: Coloribus

Schwarzkopf: Ebony

Schwarzkopf: Ebony

Naturally beautiful hair.

Advertising Agency: Kempertrautmann, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Directors: Jens Theil, Gerrit Zinke
Art Director: Gerrit Zinke

Carrefour Malaysia: Low prices storewide

Carrefour Malaysia: Low prices storewide

Advertising Agency: O&M Malaysia
Creative Directors: Daniel Comar, Brian Capel
Art Directors: Tan Chee Keong, Jarrod Reginald
Copywriter: Donevan Chew
Via: bestadsontv

International Human Rights Day: Biscuit

International Human Rights Day: Biscuit

Is there only one use for this rope?
Unfasten the prisoner and support abolishing the death penalty.

Advertising Agency: Grey, Hong Kong
Executive Creative Director: Keith Ho
Creative Directors: Danny Chan, Ivy Lee
Art Directors: Kato Tsang, Ivy Lee
Copywriter: Danny Chan
Illustrator: Kato Tsang

SAB Miller – Hansa Beer: Parachute

SAB Miller - Hansa Beer: Parachute

Advertising Agency: Lowe Bull, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Kirk Gainsford, Alistair Morgan
Copywriters: Simon Lotze, Alistair Morgan
Additional credits: Sonovision Studios
Published: May 2008

SAB Miller – Hansa Beer: Ordinary Lager Disposal Unit

SAB Miller - Hansa Beer: Ordinary Lager Disposal Unit

Advertising Agency: Lowe Bull, Cape Town, South Africa
Creative Directors: Kirk Gainsford, Alistair Morgan
Copywriters: Simon Lotze, Alistair Morgan
Additional credits: Sonovision Studios
Published: May 2008

Satirical Jewelry – Crude Barrel Necklace Reveals Price of Oil (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I find this quaint and quirky jewelry created by Design Glut very intriguing. The Crude Jewelry collection, which is manufactured in monthly batches, is engraved with the date and the price of a barre…

McDonald’s: Spot the original

McDonald's: Spot the original

Advertising Agency: DDB, Stockholm, Sweden
Copywriter: Magnus Jakobsson
Art Director: Fredrik simonsson
Creative Director: Andreas Dahlqvist

Saphir: Buffalo

Saphir: Buffalo

It keeps leather young.

Advertising Agency: Callegari Berville Grey, Paris, France
Creative Director: Andrea Stillacci
Art Director: Caroline Pauleau
Copywriter: Baptiste Thiery
Photographer: Corbis
Art Buyer: Elena Mazzanti Houel
Published: April 2008

Timex Wants Us To “Return to the Outdoors”

Return to the Outdoors is a campaign from Timex, in support of the watchmaker’s Expedition brand. I don’t know if Patagonia CEO, Yvon Chouinard, wears a Timex or not, but it would hard to find a better spokesman for the outdoors lifestyle.

“NO, MY NAME ISN’T ED.”

You make the call after the jump:
Is this a well-done ad for a network television show
(in this case, MGM’s American Gladiators on NBC),
or a sly PSA on the possible side effects of steroid use?

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Video Game Handcuffs – Sony PSP Ad

This is one of those ads that is so original, witty and funny, that it left a wide grin on my face.

The Sony PSP ‘Lamp Post’ ad shows a typical action scenario, a police car parked to the side with one policeman calling for back-up while another is guarding the suspect who appears to be handcuffed…

Terrace Farming – Urban Gardens Boom in NYC

(TrendHunter.com) In the past when I’ve stayed with friends in New York, they – and it seems everyone else they know – eat out for every meal. That’s all changing though. With the soaring cost of food prices, urban veg…

Unlimited Plastic Surgery Packages – Hamptons Luxury Recovery For Just $500K

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve considered going under the knife for multiple surgeries, consider that half a million dollars could get you an unlimited number of plastic surgeries. Stephen Greenburg, a Park Avenue surge…

In This Year’s Upfront, It’s All About Branded Entertainment


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — A new deal-making process is grabbing attention during the biggest buying time of the TV season: Branded-entertainment conversations are taking precedence over large-volume prime-time bookings this upfront.

Grand Canyon Climbing Robots – Panasonic Evolta PR Stunt

On May 24 Panasonic performed a robotic publicity stunt to promote Evolta. Specifically the stunt was to demonstrate the endurance of the AA alkaline dry-cell batteries.

The stunt had a 17-centimeter tall, 130-gram Panasonic Robot powered by a pair Evolta batteries scale a 500-meter cliff at the …

Escalator Legs – Venus Razor Guerrilla Ads

In order to show that Venus gives you “seriously smooth legs,” BBDO Philippines came up with this guerrilla campaign that turned an escalator at Dhoby Ghaut, one of the busiest stations in the country with over 1.4 million daily visitors, into long sexy legs.

As you can see by the look on people’s …

Heat-Sensitive Wallpaper – Shi Yuan Walls (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wallpaper may have become an interior design don’t, but an innovative new heat-sensitive wallpaper could help it make a comeback.

When the walls are exposed to heat, like that of a radiator, or th…

Beach Reading for Brainiacs

Renny is getting his Ling on.

“The continual need to be social, to greet, to interact, to converse and to carry out parting rituals obviates the need for the totemically-based rituals. We are, in effect [through mobile communications] continually recharging the symbolic value of our social links” (p.66)

Amazon link: New Tech, New Ties

Race Car Furniture – ARC NASCAR Desks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Now hard core NASCAR fans don’t have to wait for the weekend to get their fix. The kids have always had race car beds, but it’s time for the adults to have some fun too. Portland-based company A.R.C…