Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Harper Collins is using a digital outdoor campaign to promote a new children’s book by comedian David Walliams.

When you work at Kraft Foods and your boss tells you Kool-Aid is better than freshly squeezed orange juice, he’s trying to get you to “drink the Kool-Aid.” When an agency called The Glue Society makes an incredibly esoteric spot for the most generic of products (vodka—aka, pure alcohol mixed with water), and they tell you (in the inane tagline) they did it “Because we can,” are they trying to get us to “sniff the glue”? The marketers at 42 Below, a New Zealand vodka, must have been high when they approved this ad. It can’t be enjoyed any other way. Take my word for it, and sniff some of this Elmer’s—it smells like roses.

—Posted by Jeremy Greenfield

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Advertising Agency: John Doe Worldwide, Stockholm, Sweden
Creative Director: Fredrik Blomberg
Art Director: Emil Jonsson
Copywriter: Christoffer Lundström
Photographer: Bohman & Sjöstrand
Published: October 2008

(TrendHunter.com) It seems that the credit crunch has not only affected retail fashion trends, it has now even found its way into fashion design.

A comment on these turbulent financial times, this clever hack of the iconic…

Advertising Agency: Armando Testa, Turin, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Michele Mariani
Art Directors: Luca Cortesini, Laura Sironi
Copywriters: Daniele Bona, Dario Digeronimo
Photographer: Emilio Tini
Published: October 2008

Advertising Agency: Armando Testa, Turin, Italy
Executive Creative Director: Michele Mariani
Art Directors: Luca Cortesini, Laura Sironi
Copywriters: Daniele Bona, Dario Digeronimo
Photographer: Emilio Tini
Published: October 2008

Advertising Agency: Desyatka, Kyiv, Ukraine
Creative Director: Yuriy Horbachevskyy
Copywriters: Olga Rumyantseva, Pavel Fedenko
Published: October 2008

Advertising Agency: Desyatka, Kyiv, Ukraine
Creative Director: Yuriy Horbachevskyy
Copywriters: Olga Rumyantseva, Pavel Fedenko
Published: October 2008

Advertising Agency: Grey Argentina
Executive Creative Directors: Pablo Gil, Sebastián Garín
Creative Directors: Diego Rubio, Coco Olivera
Art Director: Federico Braga
Copywriter: Lucas Gutierrez

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Budapest, Hungary
Creative Director: Peter Tordai
Executive creative director: Vilmos Farkas
Art Directors: Miklos Voros, Matyas Kobor
Copywriter: Linda Zador
Client services director: Bela Szabo
Account Director: Marta Dorgai
Account Executives: Aniko Koger, Brigitta Szabo
Account Assistant: Marton Harsanyi