Ultra Glam – 80s ‘Pride Glory’ Colorful Fashionshoot for V-Magazine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How brilliantly cool: the 80s revival continues with this amazing photo-fashion-shoot for V Magazine Spring 09, entitled Pride amp; Glory.

The editorial features some of the world’s most gorgeous models…

Fadi doesn’t listen, because ….

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Advertising Agency: Publivision DDB, Syria
Creative Director: Dany Azzi
Photographer: Corbis

It’s 4X4 and it’s a poodle ….

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Advertising Agency: JWT Casablanca, Morocco
Creative Director / Copywriter: Nicolas Geahchan
Art Director: Tino Karam
Illustrator: Najia Moustaid

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Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That

  I will be the first to admit that Twitter is not my fave social site…I understand how it works and what it’s for, and I realize that it is in “real time,” but for me, it is a tad bit…well…boring.  I have followed some Tweets (after some difficulty) and basically have gotten it, well, sort-of figured out. However, I must be in the minority, because Twitter is adding scads of users weekly. So, if you like following tweets like; “just got back from the store” and, “what did you buy”  then,  “nothing”  followed by, “oh” then you will be ecstatic about Twitters latest triumph.

Today marks a historic day…write it down. Today, March 25, 2009, was the first day that Twitter made a profit from advertising revenues! (CNNMoney.com

Twitter, one of the most buzzed-about Internet start-ups, made its first online advertising venture by selling a sponsorship of ExecTweets to Microsoft. This move is in response to criticism in the industry that although popular, Twitter did not have any formula planned for actually making money.  The ExecTweets will basically be a page dedicated to a collection of tweets written by corporate executives and will feature branding from Microsoft. Which, depending on what you are looking for on Twitter, could either be great…or a total bust. I signed up to follow ExecTweets, and let me tell you, this is some exciting stuff! Here are some of the Tweets that you may have been missing:

Ad Age Rolls Out New Commenting System

AdAge.com is overhauling its comment section to make it a little more user-friendly — and a little less likely to get you in trouble with your boss.

‘I Think We’re In A Viral’

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Hilarious! And finally!

MINI | No Fake

Criar através de um vídeo a discussão de aquilo que está sendo mostrado é verdadeiro ou falso, já é uma tática tradicional na hora de fazer aquele “viralzinho”. Será que o jogador chutou mesmo as bolas na trave? Será que pulou mesmo um carro em movimento? Será que dirigiu um F1 com um celular?

A MINI resolveu tirar um sarro de tudo isso, e criou um viral para o seu Clubman assumidamente fake. Ou não.

Adidas : Be Fast

Une série d’affiches pour la marque Adidas par l’école de publicité de Miami et plus précisément Maja Grunwald et Georgios Kouveliotis. Récompensée à la cérémonie 2009 des Andy Awards organisés à New York et traitant de la créativité publicitaire dans le monde.



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Meet the Volkswagen Hotshop That Isn’t Crispin


Volkswagen's ad account is aligned within DDB around the world, but for a few exceptions. One, of course, is Crispin Porter & Bogusky in the U.S. Another is in Mexico, where the automaker decided to assign the hard-sell part of the business — which represents almost 60% of the VW account in the country — to a 2-year-old independent agency called Arrechedera Claverol.

Beattie McGuinness Bungay Gets Set to Open New York Office

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Beattie McGuinness Bungay, the U.K. ad agency founded in 2005 by ex-TBWA creative director Trevor Beattie, is finalizing plans for an office in New York, due to open this summer.

Is Creativity Relevant Online?


I've been thinking about the role of creativity lately, and it has me a little worried. Perhaps what prompted it was a slew of portfolios from interactive art directors, where the work really sucked.

Lost: Anúncios da Dharma circulam pela internet

dharma.jpgNão sou tão fanático por Lost, como alguns colegas meus que só de ouvirem a palavra “Lost” já colocam o fone na orelha, achando que algum spoiler pode estar por vir.

Também não sou um “expert” no assunto. Mas pelo que sei, a Dharma é uma equipe de pesquisa ficcional, criada pela tão aclamada série Lost, de J.J. Abrams.

Uma misteriosa iniciativa que busca investigar os mistérios sobrenaturais da ilha. E na ficção, dizem ter sido criada nos anos 70. Contudo, os primeiros membros da Dharma teriam veiculado anúncios para convocar novos integrantes, e divulgar até produtos e serviços que carregavam seu nome . Hoje, navegando na internet descobri que estes anúncios antigos estão sendo publicados, isoladamente, na rede.

Se você considerar este artigo um spoiler, nem recomendo que você continue a ver o resto. (Ainda não se sabe se estes anúncios são oficiais). O mistério continua!

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::UPDATE::

Se é ou não fake, este é apenas um dos resultados que J.J. Abrams busca: fazer com que as pessoas instiguem todo este mistério, e começem a criar seus próprios conteúdos, referentes à série. Não deixa de ser mais publicidade para o Lost.

Photoshop Fails – Complex Magazine Forgets to Digitally Touch Up Kim Kardashian (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Complex Magazine released its April/May 2009 issue with a double cover featuring hip hop superstar Kanye West as a blue-eyed, silver cyborg along with socialite Kim Kardashian.

Kanye West, however, was…

G2 Spot Comes Off as Insensitive to Unemployed


PepsiCo's Gatorade G2 is attempting to show that "everyone can be an athlete." But the real message that's being communicated is that you're simply not doing your best if you've received a pink slip or can't make a mortgage payment.

Celebs Go Foreign, Rubicon Saves Newspapers, Ad Club Drinks

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While Japander has been highlighting this stuff for years, you can never get enough of the idiocy that is American celebrities doing overseas commercials.

Vincent Gallo Sleeps Around

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From blow jobs to vodka mass retail?

Havaianas Blooms, Kevin Spacey for AA, ATL Goes Intramural

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– Ex-Ofsted chief proposes that kids learn social media skills — Wikipedia, blogging, podcasting, Twitter — in primary school, alongside other communication skills like handwriting and keyboarding.

Playboy TV (Somewhat Feebly) Aims to Improve on Reality

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It’s hard! times! for the world’s most recognizable epicure of biped bunnies.

Nuclear Forum

Une campagne vidéo intelligente et bien conçue, montrant à travers des dessins l’interrogation d’un père de famille autour de la question de l’énergie nucléaire. Le clip a été réalisé par l’association belge du Forum Nucléaire.

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Ch Ch Ch Choices

It’s every adman’s dream, the client provides a budget and says, “You folks know best, develop the campaign and run it by us when you’re done.” After the celebratory lunch you suddenly realize you have all the responsibility, too. The solution: research. Know the client’s market and audience and understand any political issues and executive proclivities and, if you’re any good, you should be fine.

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