Paper Round (15 September) – Which clients are advertising in the national press?

Travel companies are targeting those dismayed by the September weather forecast in today’s papers with several campaigns aimed at the off-peak holiday crowd.

Silly Psychedelic Sketches – The Fun and Quirky Artwork of Micah Joseph Dunlop (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Micah Joseph Dunlop is an American illustrator whose inventive work is quickly gaining popularity in the digital world. Using only the most modest mediums, Micah Joseph Dunlop is sketching his way into…

Ids boss James Wildman joins Yahoo! as managing director

Yahoo! has appointed James Wildman as managing director and vice-president of sales for Yahoo! UK & Ireland, replacing Mark Rabe who leaves at the end of the year.

X Magazine a ‘genuine alternative’ for upmarket women

Natasha Sundharawipata, publishing director of X Magazine at Fremantle Media Enterprises, tells Media Week why the new weekly X Factor spin-off will compete in the most lucrative part of the magazine market

New Twitter version video presentation

Twitter has released a new version today, including video and more features.

have a look on this official video presentation.

Advertiser: Twitter

Dr. Seuss Homesteads – The Stamberg Aferiat House is Topsy-Turvy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Appearing as though this architectural anomaly is a result of skewing, stretching and colorfiling a classic modern home design, the Stamberg Aferiat house is an outlandish New York residential project…

Lloyds is most complained-about banking group

Lloyds Bank has come top of the list of financial businesses complained about in the first half of 2010, according to a report released by the Financial Ombudsman Service today.

Hiltl Vegetarian Restaurant: Tiger, Panther, Lion

“Sure to make everyone enjoy vegetarian food. Hiltl Vegetarian Restaurant.”

Advertising Agency: Ruf Lanz, Zurich, Switzerland
Creative Directors: Markus Ruf, Danielle Lanz
Art Director: Marcel Schläfle, Lorenz Clormann
Copywriter: Maas Torsten


Lego loses battle to trademark its brick

The Lego group has lost an 11-year legal battle to register its eight-stud brick as a trademark, after a ruling by the European Court of Justice.

Pescariu SportsSpa: Body Dresser

Advertising Agency: DRAFTFCB, Bucharest, Romania
Creative Director: Dragos Radulescu
Copywriter: Dan Bondrea
Art Director: Wanda Hutira


Nabs appoints trustees from Google and AMV

Mark Howe, Google UK sales director, and Ian Pearman, AMV BBDO’s managing director, have become the latest trustees of Nabs, the advertising industry charity.

Asda wins tussle with Tesco over price statistics

Tesco has been rapped by the advertising watchdog after Asda contested the reliability of its rival’s TV ad that claimed its products were cheaper than theirs.

Lay’s: Chocolates Cards, Ice Cream Cards, Popcorn Cards, Sardines Cards, Shish Kebab Cards, Sushi Cards

Advertising Agency: BBDO, Warsaw, Poland
Creative Director: Przemek Bogdanowicz
Art Director: Magdalena Kramer
Copywriter: Katarzyna Owczarek
Photographer: Przemek Bednarczyk
Published: September 2010


Breathe Easy

Bangalore in the last few years has seen such rapid development that its roads have become clogged and the traffic situation is frustrating. Concern India, an NGO in association with The Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation [KSRTC] started an initiative “Breathe Easy” to encourage Bangaloreans to travel by bus to ease the situation.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Bangalore, India
Creative Directors: Vipul Thakkar, Shamik Sengupta
Art Directors: Febyn Roy, Ajesh N
Copywriters: Devaiah Bopanna, Kunj Shah
Illustrator: Nitin Rao Kumblekar

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Kindle vs. iPad at the swimming pool viral video

Kindle is attacking the iPad in this viral video.

A nice babe is using a Kindle under the sunshine while a guy is having trouble to read his iPad thanks to the sun reflection.

Advertiser: Kindle Amazon

Women’s Refuge: Invitation to the 2010 Women’s Refuge Appeal Week Launch

To help invitees understand what it’s like to live in fear of domestic violence, we provoked another fear in them with which they were familiar. Invitees came home to find a key in their front door. This instantly made them afraid that someone they didn’t know had access to their home. Attendance at the launch rose by 60% on previous years, and the invitation gained national media coverage.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington, New Zealand
Creative Directors: Scott Henderson, Tony Haigh
Art Director: Phoebe Smith
Copywriter: Samantha Jukes
Account Services: Claire Dooney, Dawn Marrs
Published: July 2010


Nocturnal Naturetography – Tim Simmons Manages to Capture Vivid Landscapes at Night (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tim Simmons is an extremely talented photographer from London, UK. As a landscape photographer, Tim Simmons rises above the rest.

Simmons manages to create exciting, vivid photographs of city, forest…

What Ad People Can Learn From Teachers

I think we ad people could learn something from schoolteachers. Creative directors, CEOs, and even clients might be better directors of creative work if we were to look at our talent pool the same way a good teacher can look over a sea of students and recognize their array of strengths and weaknesses.

Twitter revela “o novo Twitter”

New Twitter

O Twitter passou as últimas semanas dizendo a noite do dia 14 de setembro seria a “big night”, e ela veio em forma de anúncio de redesign do site.

E a coisa toda não é só perfumaria, mas também com a integração de conteúdo multimídia na timeline. YouTube, Flickr, DeviantART, TwitPic, TwitVid, USTREAM, Vimeo, entre outros, são alguns dos formatos suportados.

Segundo Evan Willians, CEO do Twitter, a versão web (Twitter.com) sempre foi a forma mais popular de acesso a ferramenta. 78% dos usuários, nos últimos 30 dias, tuitaram através do site.

No vídeo abaixo, eles mostram a novidade:


Twitter Unveils New Features for Users and Advertisers

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — Twitter made some major changes to its long-neglected web site, including the ability to post and view photos and video, to increase the amount of time its 160 million users spend at Twitter.com. "You can click on a tweet and get a richer, faster, more detailed experience and get related content," said CEO Even Williams.