Creepy Yet Gorgeous Condom Ads Show Real Couples Vacuum Packed in Plastic

"Preserve the love. Wear a condom."

Sounds like a perfectly acceptable tagline for ads promoting safe sex, right? Well, what if you were literally preserved like a slab of beef? Sounds a bit claustrophobic, no?

Condomania and Ogilvy and Mather Tokyo have binded forces to bring us some of the weirdest prophylactic ads to date. The Japanese artist known as Photographer Hal, who shot the work, finds "interesting couples" in bars and invites them into his studio to photograph them vacuum packed in plastic futon storage bags.

In the mini-documentary below, he explains his concept. "Human beings aren't completed if they're just by themselves," he says. "It's when they come together, when they come really close that they're finally completed. That's why I pack them together."

Imagine if Photographer Hal had shot John and Yoko instead of Annie Leibowitz.

See the print work after the jump. Via Adeevee.

CREDITS
Client: Condomania
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Tokyo
CCO: Ajab Samrai
CD: Ricardo Adolfo, Federico García
CW: Ricardo Adolfo, Federico García
AD: Paul Matheson, Junkichi Tatsuki
Typographer: Junkichi Tatsuki
Photographer: Photographer Hal
Director: Ken Arima
Editor: Ken Arima
DoP: Daichi Oka
Producer: Atsuko Keino
Account: Hisashi Kitajima, Koichi Maeda




Struggling Supermarket Chain Projects Ad on Angel of the North

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Marketers; always up to something. Struggling marketers; always resorting to desperate measures.

You’ve probably never heard of the Angel of the North. It’s a large structure of a 66 foot tall angel with wings that are 177 feet across. It’s located in Gateshead England. It was created by Antony Gormley in 1998 and was created to celebrate the work of coal miners and signify a transition from the industrial age to the information age.

Morrisons, the fourth largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom, thought it would be really cool to project a 177 foot wide image of a baguette on the wings of the angel.

Gormley is not pleased and said, with resignation,”I’d rather the Angel is not used for such purposes, but it’s out there.”

Those against the move took to Twitter calling the stunt “cultural vandalism” and “philistine and disgraceful.”

Following the outcry, Morrisons issued an apology saying, “We’re sorry if you thought we got carried away by shining a baguette on the Angel of the North and apologize unreservedly to those to whom we have caused offense. We were trying something different which was meant to put a smile on peoples faces but clearly it wasn’t to everybody’s tastes. We’re so proud of our northern roots and the last thing we want to do is offend anybody.”

Ingenious stunt or lame-ass idiocy?

‘Mad Men’ Recap: Cosmic Disturbance


On February 5, 1969, ABC premiered a show that was so reviled so fast that it was never seen again. The Cleveland affiliate pulled the plug after the first commercial break and the West Coast didn’t air it at all. That show was “Turn-On,” a sketch comedy that’s been described as “visual, comedic, sensory assault involving animation, videotape, stop-action film, electronic distortion, computer graphics — even people.” The central conceit is that it was written by a computer, perhaps a built-in defense for why the show was unable to connect with humans.

If “Turn-On” was entertainment as made by unfeeling technology, then what does work look like through the same filter? It’s a question that’s on the mind of “Mad Men” this season. In last week’s episode, we saw Jim Cutler realize the agency is falling behind rivals in the technological arms race. In this week’s — which appears to take place less than a month later — Sterling Cooper & Partners is in the process of receiving a new IBM 360. What exactly it will do is unclear besides, of course, serving as a shiny lure for clients. It’s installed in a prominent place, behind glass and, just so you make no mistake about the symbolic import, the blue machine replaces the creatives’ lounge.

At first, this feels heavy-handed, this notion that an ad agency in 1969 would replace creatives with computers. (See last week’s recap for detail on the history of computers and ad agencies.) But by episode’s end, it’s clear the real theme here is not man’s struggle against technology but man’s struggle against an obsolescence that can and will come in any number of ways, a story told through Don Draper’s continued attempts at rehabilitation.

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Lowe’s Wants Your Ideas For Its Next How-To Vine Videos


Lowe’s, already a hit on Vine, is looking to consumers for the next iteration of its “Fix in Six” series.

The home improvement retailer debuted as one of the first marketers on the Twitter platform last spring — unveiling a series of clever six-second videos that tackled common home improvement issues. It’s offered home improvement tips like how to remove a stripped screw, get rust off of knives and use pillowcases to organize sheets.

Stripped screw? No problem, just use a rubber band. #lowesfixinsix #howto https://t.co/zNdoiIvFOi

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Ice Creams Editorial Design

« Gelatology Micro / Macro » est un livre réalisé par Studio Fludd et édité par la maison d’édition italienne Inuits. Sur des double-pages, des glaces sont dessinées avec des cônes qui rappellent des montagnes, des pins et des éruptions sucrées de volcans. Un beau livre et une belle édition à découvrir dans la suite.

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Vibrant Soccer Posters – These 2014 World Cup Posters Depict the Star Players of Each World Cup Team (GALLERY)

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Scandinavian Urban Fashion – HØWL’s Premium Streetwear is Outdoorsy and Effortlessly Cool (GALLERY)

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Pandora Tests New Ad Unit ‘Promoted Stations’ With Taco Bell, Diageo


Pandora is testing a new ad unit in hopes of pumping up revenue: “Promoted Stations.”

On Monday the digital music streaming service will begin a test of the new ads, which allow brands to promote their own stations.

Taco Bell, Diageo’s Crown Royal, Skechers and Sonos are among the ten brands participating in the beta, which will be exposed to 10% of Pandora’s roughly 75 million monthly listeners.

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Lessons of Big TV Sink In at Digital Content Newfronts


If you want to attract TV dollars you have to act like a TV network.

That message has finally been received by the digital players who now annually present themselves as contenders for a slice of TV’s $70 billion bounty at the Digital Content NewFronts.

While there’s a week yet to go of these NewFronts, the biggest players — YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo and AOL — have already laid their cards on the table, and it’s clear they showed up with stronger hands than they’ve had in the past. It’s sunk in that they, too, must spend like a TV network and often produce TV-like content to compete for TV ad dollars.

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Branding Terror. The Logotypes and Iconography of Insurgent Groups and Terrorist Organizations

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Terrorist groups are no different from other organizations in their use of branding to promote their ideas and to distinguish themselves from groups that share similar aims. The branding they employ may contain complex systems of meaning and emotion; it conveys the group’s beliefs and capabilities. Branding Terror is the first comprehensive survey of the visual identity of the world’s major terrorist organizations, from al-Qaeda and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to the Tamil Tigers continue

Surreal Self Portraits Drawings

L’artiste américain Ian Ingram utilise ses propres autoportraits pour créer des dessins surréalistes pleins d’imagination et de mystère. Il fait sa propre autobiographie à travers ses créations en montrant les événements forts de sa vie. Son travail au tracé minutieux est à découvrir en photos dans la suite de l’article.

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Target CEO Resigns in Wake of Data Breach


Target Chief Executive Officer Gregg Steinhafel, dogged by questions over whether the company responded quickly enough to a data breach last year, will step down as chairman, president and CEO.

John Mulligan, Target’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim CEO while the company seeks a permanent replacement, according to a statement. Board member Roxanne Austin will be interim chairwoman.

“The board is confident in the future of this company and views this transition as an opportunity to drive Target’s business forward and accelerate the company’s transformation efforts,” the directors said in the statement.

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Blackrock Puts Media Agency Business into Review


Financial services giant Blackrock has begun a global media agency review, according to people familiar with the matter.

MEC has handled the account for the past five years, since Blackrock acquired a company, iShares, with which MEC had been working. Accenture is supporting the search.

The review shouldn’t affect WPP’s Ogilvy, which handles the company’s creative business.

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Foursquare lança seu ‘spin off’ – é o Swarm, que ajuda a encontrar os amigos

Esqueça o check-in. A nova fase do Foursquare quer que você não precise mais ficar manualmente oferecendo dados para o app, e passe a receber informações ainda mais valiosas. Mas para isso, será preciso radicalizar: o Foursquare vai se dividir em dois aplicativos, com focos diferentes e minimizando ao máximo a necessidade dos usuários darem check-in. O novo app, que será quase como um ‘spin off’ do original, é o Swarm, que deverá ser disponibilizado dentro de alguns meses. Ele irá concentrar uma localização genérica de onde você e os seus amigos se encontram, subdividindo por cidades ou bairros –  o que basicamente dá a dica de por onde você anda, sem precisar passar as coordenadas exatas.

A intenção é criar como se fosse uma grande lista de contatos de um serviço de mensagens instantâneas, só que ao invés de te dizer quem está ‘online e offline’, o Swarm seria capaz de dizer o quão perto de você essas pessoas se encontram. O melhor? Sem precisar fazer check-in, bastará ter seu smartphone por perto.

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Além da chegada do Swarm, o Foursquare também irá passar por uma renovação. O aplicativo terá como principal objetivo fazer as melhores recomendações de locais ao seu redor, usando dados de geolocalização. “A ideia da empresa nunca foi fazer um botão de check-in incrível”, brinca Dennis Crowley, CEO do Foursquare, em entrevista exclusiva ao The Verge. Ele explica que o novo Foursquare não vai ficar implorando por um check-in, mas que vai identificar, baseado nos seus gostos, quais locais da região que valeriam uma visita.

 “Assim como você não precisa tuitar para aproveitar o Twitter, dividir o Foursquare em dois vai ajudar a deixar claro para a audiência que você não precisa fazer um check-in para ter acesso a uma informação valiosa no Foursquare” 

Isso porque depois de coletar mais de 6 bilhões de check-ins, que catalogaram mais de 60 milhões de estabelecimentos, o Foursquare agora consegue identificar, através de sinal de GPS, triangulação de sinal ou até mesmo via Wi-Fi, onde exatamente você se encontra. Com isso, é possível computar as visitas que você fez a bares, por exemplo, mesmo que não tenha feito check-in em cada um deles, e oferecer sugestões relacionadas, com base nas suas preferências, cuidadosamente observadas pela inteligência do app, que foi apelidada de ‘Peregrino’.

Essa pivotagem vai fazer com que o Foursquare dispute mercado com o Yelp – ao invés de recomendar o ‘melhor lugar’, como faz o Yelp, o Foursquare pretende oferecer a dica do ‘melhor lugar de acordo com as suas preferências’, o que pode ser um grande diferencial para o app. “Assim como você não precisa tuitar para aproveitar o Twitter, dividir o Foursquare em dois vai ajudar a deixar claro para a audiência que você não precisa fazer um check-in para ter acesso a uma informação valiosa no Foursquare”, defende Bijan Sabet, um dos mais antigos investidores do aplicativo,  e atualmente membro do conselho da empresa.

Apesar de independentes, os apps estarão conectados um com o outro da mesma forma que o Gmail funciona com o app do Chrome, ou o Facebook faz com o Facebook Messenger – os usuários serão redirecionados de um app para o outro com razoável facilidade.

Tanto a renovação do Foursquare quanto a chegada do Swarm ainda vão demorar algumas semanas. A atualização do Foursquare deverá aparecer na App Store ou na Google Play assim que for disponibilizada, e quem quiser pode se cadastrar em uma listinha para ser convidado para o Swarm assim que ele estrear.

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Who Needs the Client? This Unhelpful, Sarcastic Siri-Like Voice Will Critique Your Designs

UPDATE: The site was working earlier but seems to be having trouble now, making it even more unhelpful! Original item below:

Hearing sarcastic web-design appraisals delivered in dulcet, Siri-esque tones is everyone's idea of big fun. So Ryan McLeod, Grant MacLennan and David Park from Equator, a digital agency in Glasgow, Scotland, created Critique That Shit.

It's a bonnie time waster! Type in a URL and get a none-too-serious (read: totally random) site critique. Its judgment of AdFreak: "I am crying like a little sissy girl, but they are tears of utter joy. Your work is spectacular." Wait, did I say these critiques were random and sarcastic? That sounds spot on to me.

"In digital, everybody has an opinion on creative direction—be it the director, the marketing team, client services or the client—and therefore it's pretty easy to find the quotes," MacLennan tells AdFreak. "It was this we really wanted to have fun with, to take the silly quotes out of the context of their project."

Some other notable quips from the robo critic: "Your negative space is so dope, it should be more like positive space," "You targeted the shit out of that market" and "You are, like, so ahead of the trend."

"The Siri-esque voice just adds to the overall stupidness of the idea," MacLennan says. "It's super deadpan, but at the same time slightly patronizing."

Siri-inspired audio also rocks MacLennan's RapperWisdom.com. The voice reads pretentious Kanye West quotes—such as "I am Warhol … I am Shakespeare in the flesh" and "I am a God. Now what?"—accompanied by a celestial choir and pious "amens."

"I had a look through Kanye's tweet history and realized they are all absolutely amazing," says MacLennan. "I re-styled it as the church, with Kanye bestowing on you his wisdom."

Well, Grant, I think this quip from Critique That Shit sums up my feelings best: "I 100 percent appreciate your design efforts!"

Via Design Taxi.




The Romance in Dance

Ce film créé par Christina Molina de ThinkMol et BalletBoyz Films nous démontre un exemple touchant de l’amour en mouvement. Créé pour Channel 4 au Royaume-Uni, « Dance With Me » capture parfaitement la vie d’un couple, y compris leurs hauts, et leurs bas. Une histoire touchante à découvrir dans la suite.

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Ed Lewis on Growing Essence Magazine Empire From Those First 13 Ad Pages


If it hadn’t been for baseball legend Jackie Robinson, Edward Lewis might not

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Jackie Robinson was Ed’s “hero and idol,” the magazine founder said. “I had the great pleasure to meet him,” and that inspired Ed to make a call to the bank Jackie Robinson helped start, Freedom National, to apply for a $13,000 loan.

Ed had no collateral, and the president of the bank wondered how he would pay it back. But the bank president said he believed in Ed, thought he had character and lent him the money. “If he had not done that, I may not be sitting here talking to you now about starting a magazine for black women,” Ed told me in a video interview a few days before he was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame.

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Snapchat atualiza app e agora tem também troca de vídeos e de mensagens de texto

A mais recente atualização do Snapchat trouxe novas funcionalidades para o app. Além da troca de imagens com tempo de duração pré-determinado, os usuários do aplicativo poderão também trocar mensagens de texto e pequenos trechos de vídeos.

Com isso, a ferramenta se torna uma forma de comunicação em tempo real, mas com a ‘segurança’ das mensagens serem apagadas logo após a conversa – basta sair da janela de chat para perder o histórico. A interação via vídeo também é feita ao vivo, o que evita quaisquer tipos de gravações – basta manter o botão de ‘vídeo ao vivo’ selecionado durante a conversa toda para que a transmissão da imagem aconteça.

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O VentureBeat lembra que o lançamento das novas funcionalidades no Snapchat chega pouco depois do Vine e do Instagram terem apresentado suas opções de mensagens privativas entre os usuários. Com a atualização, o Snapchat também entra para o grupo de aplicativos sociais que também funcionam como chats.

Os teens, no entanto, não parecem felizes com a novidade. Uma enxurrada de tuítes comentava negativamente sobre a atualização que traz as novas formas de conversa, com reclamações que variavam do ‘é confuso’ a ‘ficou feio’.

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Outdoor Canine Beds – The BarkerBag Outdoor Sleeping Bags are Designed for Dogs (GALLERY)

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PopClik Headphones Campaign

Guto Monteiro, un publicitaire d’Y&R/Bravo Miami, a conçu avec son équipe une série d’illustrations pour la nouvelle marque d’écouteurs « PopClik Headphones ». Ces illustrations visuellement riches s’inspirent de la musique issue de la pop-culture telle que Madonna, The Beatles, Iron Maiden et Bob Marley.


The Beatles.

Bob Marley.

Iron Maiden.

Madonna.

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