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In partnership with Norman Walsh, a British sports shoe brand, McCann London has created the Herbrand Seven-Eleven, a pair of sneakers inspired by the agency’s own art-deco-style building at 7-11 Herbrand Street. 

The limited-edition shoes, manufactured by hand in Norman Walsh’s factory in Bolton—where the brand’s been based since 1961—bear the distinctive white and green colors of the McCann building. They went live Wednesday at an agency exhibit celebrating Norman Walsh’s history.

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It’s a shame when a person introduces herself as “a human” and it actually seems necessary.

A new video, titled “Meet a Muslim,” aims to mitigate some of the fear and misperception currently pervading the American dialogue—by putting the camera on a diverse cross-section of U.S. citizens who share the Islamic faith. 

There’s a pediatrician, a mom and a handful of adorable kids. There’s a woman who calls herself the “naughty Muslim,” a couple of parents who call their family “smiley Muslims,” and a man (who also—gasp!—drinks) married to another man. 

There’s also a white dude. And a young, Ohio-born woman who wears a floral hijab and describes herself as a “foodie.” They all share a little about themselves, then offer reflections—uniformly warm, sometimes baffled, often heartbreakingly insightful—about why they face so much animus from people who don’t know them. 

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About one in six Romanian women get cancer each year. Understandably, depression can run high among those who lose their hair during treatment. As one survivor puts it in the video below, “All of a sudden, you’re not you. You have a label: cancer.” 

For most Romanians, wigs are prohibitively expensive, and there are no government subsidies to help. So, cancer charity Funda?ia Rena?terea and McCann Bucharest developed a novel campaign to convince women to cut their hair and donate it for wig production.

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Apple’s “Shot on iPhone 6” print and outdoor ads, featuring real photos taken by real iPhone 6 users, has been very popular since its launch in early 2015, even picking up a Grand Prix award at Cannes. But of course, not every photo taken with an iPhone, or any smartphone, looks quite as perfect as that campaign would suggest.

Lens & Shutter, a three-location photography store chain in Canada, specializing in DSLR cameras, reminds its target market of the limitations of smartphone cameras in a fun parody of the Apple campaign—featuring the line “Shot on a phone.”

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After 13 years playing for the Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz will retire at the end of the 2016 baseball season. And he’s contemplating some unusual plans for his next career. 

In a thank-you ad from Red Sox sponsor JetBlue, the designated hitter and nine-time All Star finds work at different children’s birthday parties—whacking the literal stuffing out of their piñatas. 

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The sheer lunacy of our current election cycle is frightening, but it’s also very watchable. The same could be said for HBO’s Veep, a show that many Washington, D.C., insiders have reportedly called the most realistic portrayal of politics.

It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that the marketing gurus at HBO decided that New Hampshire voters would appreciate an ad for the show’s most-hated character and his current campaign for a congressional seat. (Obviously if you’re not caught up on the current season, this post will have light spoilers.) 

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The wireless wars have been getting notoriously dirty, and now Sprint has come up with the most deviously clever attack yet—signing up Paul Marcarelli, who worked for years as Verizon’s “Can you hear me now?” guy, as its own spokesman.

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If you believe nothing is good enough to give Dad on Father’s Day, Century 21 has the perfect gift idea for you: Why not give the big guy a parcel of land in Nothing, Ariz.?

After all, he’s got plenty of sweaters, ties and cologne already. And when you ask Dad what he wants for his big day, the dude always makes with the awe-shucks routine and mumbles, “Nothing.” So getting stuck with a piece of bone-dry, ghost-town real estate in a sweltering desert, 120 miles from Phoenix, would serve him right! 

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Boy, Elizabeth Banks can sure get inside your head.

The actress returns for a self-consciously wacky house party in Pereira & O’Dell New York’s latest work for Realtor.com. In new ads, she invades the homeowner fantasies of prospective buyers, to tout the client’s site. 

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In an infinitely classy and gracious move, Lucasfilm took out an ad in the Irish Examiner to thank the communities of Crookhaven, Goleen and the Brow Head peninsula, where parts of the upcoming Star Wars movie (Episode VIII) were shot, for putting up with them.

The ad references the “tireless commitment of our Irish crew” in glowing terms, and states that “the enthusiasm and support of all the people of West Cork have made our Irish adventure one we will always treasure.” 

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