Hasta La Creative!

The holidays — shopping, senile relatives, stuffing with raisins and endless variations on the nativity — aren’t for everyone.

(TrendHunter.com) This Palintastic update is to celebrate that our Sarah Palin ‘Hot Vice Presidents’ article officially hit 1,000,000 views AND the blogosphere conversations that there will be a Sarah Palin TV show.

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We are not all the same. Beauty is a matter of skins.

Art Director: Sergio Spaccavento
Copywriter: Janos Boka
Photographer: Armando Rebatto
Published: August 2008

We embrace all races, colors, and faiths. We get picky only when it comes to skins.

Art Director: Sergio Spaccavento
Copywriter: Janos Boka
Photographer: Armando Rebatto
Published: August 2008

Not even the best effort of mud can stop it.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Argentina
Copywriter: Dauquen Chabeldin
Art Director: Diego Salas
Creative Directors: Sebastian Olivieri, Pablo Capara
Photographer: Martin Sigal

See turtles.
Sea turtles like never before.

Advertising Agency: Mullen, Wenham, USA
Executive Creative Director: Mark Wenneker
Creative Directors: Jim Amadeo, Edward Jendrysik
Art Director: Bo Deng
Copywriter: Sarah Sumner
Designer: Chris Pinkham
Photographer: Getty Images
Image Retouching: David Onessimo
Post Production: Mark Danish
To be published: December 2008

Public-health posters like this one (see a larger version here), promoting Minnesota’s effort to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, serve two good purposes. The obvious one: They raise awareness among people who have or are especially at risk of getting a particular disease. The less obvious one: They put life in more cheerful perspective for people who don’t have the ailment and believe they’re unlikely to get it. The first function is more urgent, of course, but the second—which often affects a larger number of people, depending on the disease—is not to be sneezed at in these troubled times. You may be feeling down about the economy, your shaky job, whatever. But at least pertinent body parts don’t feel like they’re being stung by bees when you urinate. Give thanks to Minneapolis-based agency Russell Herder for having brightened your day in this manner.

—Posted by Mark Dolliver

Advertising Agency: RitterSlagman, Hamburg, Germany
Art Director: Thomas Putnings
Copywriter: Christian Kutscheid
Published: November 2008

Advertising Agency: RitterSlagman, Hamburg, Germany
Art Director: Thomas Putnings
Copywriter: Christian Kutscheid
Published: November 2008

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter favorite, Iranian artist Ashkan Sahihi, is never one to have a boring or typical art direction for his photography projects. From kissing strangers to aggressive screaming, to say that the…