AMNEWTON21: Flavia

AMNEWTON21: Flavia

Fed to the Client everyday.
Have been crucified for 16 years. Immediately Saint.

Advertising Agency: AMNEWTON21, Rome, Italy
Creative Directors: G. Ambrosio, L. Maoloni
Art Director: Emanuela Morabito
Copywriter: Paolo Di Maio
Photographer: Vieri Ciccarone
Published: April 2008

Wheaton: Barack Obama Building a Cult?

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: When it comes to building a brand, Obama and his team are leaving the competition in the dust. But there's a fine line between establishing a corps of brand ambassadors and building a cult.

AMNEWTON21: Paolo

AMNEWTON21: Paolo

Pined to the chair by dozens of projects.
Have been crucified for 16 years. Immediately Saint.

Advertising Agency: AMNEWTON21, Rome, Italy
Creative Directors: G. Ambrosio, L. Maoloni
Art Director: Emanuela Morabito
Copywriter: Paolo Di Maio
Photographer: Vieri Ciccarone
Published: April 2008

Killing Animals For Oil – Toyota Prius Awareness Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Toyota Prius campaign depicts a stark truth: draining fuel from mother earth is like taking life away. Use less fuel and you have more life.

The message is delivered with simple illustrations, by…

Human Mirror

The always smart guys of Improv Everywhere have done it again.

What do you get when you put a whole bunch of identical twins across from each other?.

A Human Mirror.

Via: Core77.

Ticking DM pharma ad bombs. No, like in getting the bomb squad called over, bombs.

Aqua TeenThis one is too good to be true – a pal tips us to a “direct mail that bombed ” (pun!)

The ticking noise that brought a bomb squad to a Carmel Valley medical building Monday turned out to be a small battery in a greeting card.

The card, from a pharmaceutical company promoting its products, said “Your time is up” on the cover, San Diego fire spokesman Maurice Luque said.

A receptionist at Children’s Medical Group office in the three-story building on El Camino Real heard ticking coming from a mailbox in the hallway about 4 p.m. She called 911 and security officers evacuated the building.

HA! You’d think they’d learn after a few ‘bomb scares’ as ads, like the LED billboards for Adult Swim which caused havoc in Boston last year. When are you US ad folks going to learn? Everything changed after “9/11”, man. Nobody has a sense of humor anymore (but somebody knows who mailed the anthrax – do you?)

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Out of work: Egyptian team, 2

Out of work: Egyptian team, 2

Photographer: Hussein Shabban
Published: July 2008

Out of work: Egyptian team, 1

Out of work: Egyptian team, 1

Photographer: Hussein Shabban
Published: July 2008

Men Are Spending More to Improve Their Self-Worth. Don’t Be Dumb, Cash In Early

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Earlier today, Gay List Daily sent its (mostly male) subscribers an invitation to try John Allan beauty products.

‘Goodfellas,’ ‘Peanuts’ Used to Promote…

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Goodfellas Peanuts!

Torture Fashion – 10 Tied Up Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Torture and fetish-inspired designs are slowly creeping into mainstream fashion. Such designs are not limited to high fashion and eccentric designer runways. Nowadays, we are seeing more and more of this…

Human Mirrors on Subways – Improv Everywhere Puts 16 Twins on Subway

Improv Everywhere, perhaps the most well-known improvisation and impromptu stunt agencies, unleashed 16 sets of twins to behave as human mirrors. Each twin set dressed alike and, moving in sync with one…

“Unsexy” Size 6 – Charlize Theron In Elle UK + Hancock (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) “Hancock” was a smash over the weekend, pulling in over $100 million, and no doubt much of the appeal was Charlize Theron. Theron has been stunning people at red carpet entries, and now she graces…

Risque Supermodel Editorials – ‘There’s only one Naomi’ in Italian Vogue

In addition to having four different covers for its July 2008 black issue, Vogue Italia featured two of the cover models, Naomi Campbell and Sessilee Lopez, in two editorials.

Photographed by Steven Meisel,…

Man with a Plan

See PickensPlan.com for more.

[via Todd Dominey]

Rotary Phone Dial Interface for iPhone

objectgraph via idealist

Inviting Customers to Report on Fashion – H & M’s Tokyo Next Contest

(TrendHunter.com) H & M is giving away a free trip to Japan’s luxury district to one lucky individual through its “Tokyo next” contest.

The winning vibrant personality will report the hottest happenings in the…

Casino Giant Harrah’s Splits With TracyLocke


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Gaming giant Harrah's Entertainment and its longtime ad agency, Omnicom Group's TracyLocke, are parting ways after the marketer and shop failed to resolve differences relating to compensation, TracyLocke said.

Sour Patch Kids Turn to MTV Networks to Try Out I-TV


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Interactive TV, the technology that gives TV shows and commercials web-like functionality, is gaining some serious traction among networks and marketers. Witness MTV Networks' tween-centric network, The N, which will debut its first ad-supported i-TV campaign this Friday during the premiere of its new reality series "Queen Bees," exclusively in Dish Network households.

Make Spoof Pages With A Line of Code

Web spoofs made easy! Open up any page, then copy the line of code below in the browser’s address field. This makes the page “editable” locally so you can modify its content like you would in a text editor.

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0

Besides its obvious entertainment value, this little experiment shows how easy web editing and publishing should really be.

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