Customizable Cooper Car Wraps – 5,000,000 DIY Design Dreams Made Real by MINI Motoring Graphics (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) MINI Motoring Graphics, a partnership between MINI and Colorado-based Original Wraps, Inc., boasts 5,000,000 possible combinations of art that you can use to customize your Mini Cooper with removable,…

McPhotoshopping – McDonalds Gets Creative With Digitally Modified Ad Campaigns (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) McDonalds has always been a huge fan of creative ads and they don’t shy away from creative billboards, photoshopped faces and unique product placement.

The ads featured in the gallery above are some…

Hilarious Bulb Burnouts – Missing Letter Makes for Funny Neon Signs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wherever you go in this world, you will always see funny neon signs with burned-out letters. Here are 10 such signs that make this phenomenon hilarious. From “Danals” becoming “anals” to ”Hotel Cass” becoming…

Stupid Store Signs – From Unfortunate Acronyms to Accidental Innuendos (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These ridiculous signs will have you exclaiming, “What the hell were they thinking?!” From slogans like “Pump’n’Munch” to Beaver Cleaners businesses, there’s no shortage of companies and individuals that…

Top 27 Billboard and Outdoor Ad Trends in 2009

(TrendHunter.com) This clever outdoor ads and billboards topped our list for the first half of 2009. From crowdsourced billboards to fake painting, this gallery showcases unique concepts sure to get your attention.

If…

Crowdsourcing Billboards – American Apparel Wants You to Vote on Storefront Sign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) American Apparel loves fleshy young ads, and now American Apparel is turning to crowd sourcing to determine what the retailer will display on the front of its Harlem store.

Choose from the slideshow…

Optical Illusion Sportsvertising – Mammoth Mountain Ski Uses Bill(snow)boarding For Attention (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Those with their hands on the advertising budget in Mammoth Mountain, California, have discovered the marketing genius in 3D illusionary billboards. The faux half-pipe wall, complete with a suspended snowboarder…

Scantily-Clad Celebuspouse Photoshoots – David Victoria Joint Emporio Armani Underwear Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen their separate campaigns before, but now we get to see David amp; Victoria Beckham posing together in the Emporio Armani underwear Spring 2009 ad campaign.

The David amp; Victoria joint ad was unveiled…

Guerrilla Adbusting – Street Artists FTW-Crew Add Photoshop Toolbox to Subway Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The cheeky street artists known as FTW-Crew took on the three lovely A-listers whose album promo posters appeared in a Berlin subway by engaging in a little guerrilla adbusting, Photoshop-style. FTW-Crew–Mr.…

Banvertisements – 10 Over-the-Top Ads Banned Worldwide (This is Why We Love the Web) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In the past, banned ads, let’s call them banvertisements, never saw the light of day outside the agencies in which their were conceived. With the internet, however, this has changed. The ads above, for…

Billboards Made of Money – Chevrolet Aveo Penny Billboard Disappears in Minutes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Credit-crunched Londoners grabbed pocketfuls of pennies today at the launch of a 20-foot billboard advert made entirely from one-pence coins. The unique installation – made using over 20,000 pennies…

Political Fusion Portraits II – Obama-Lincoln Now in Color (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Just in time for the 4th of July, Agitprop specialist Ron English created large-scale, colorized versions of his controversial Obama-Lincoln fusion portrait and splattered them across Boston. The oversized…

Using Live Pigeons in Billboards – MSN Live Search ‘Hutch’ Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Now this is what I call a unique outdoor advertisement! MSN Search India unveiled this awesome billboard a few months ago to celebrate its integration with Indian mobile network, Hutch.

Here’s the twist:…

Defaced Film Posters – Dark Knight Promo Posters (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is the latest poster for the The Dark Knight movie due for theatrical release in the USA on July 18th. The amount of viral publicity created for this film in the form of posters, trailers, videos,…

Awesome Outdoor Ads – 9 Not So Boring Billboards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This selection of outdoor billboards demonstrates that great creativity can flow from the highway of small town to the blogosphere, where it can generate millions of additional views, thus leading to incredible…

Remixing Billboards – ‘Army Wives’ Turned into ‘Iraq Wives’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There is currently an outbreak of sabotage targeting outdoor ads and billboards as a form of artistic entertainment . The “artists” transform the messages of the ads by painting on them and modifying their…

25 Awesome McDonald’s Ads – From Billboards to TV Spots (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Innovation and creativity are not words I usually associate with McDonald’s and its unhealthy food and ‘super size me’ attitude. However, over the past few months of my time as a Trend Hunter, I have come…

Ads That Can Only Be Read At Night – McDonald’s Creative Night Adshell

(TrendHunter.com) As part of their campaign to announce that McDonald’s restaurants are open all night, DDB Sydney designed a creative outdoor ad that could only be read at night.

During the day, it displays the reverse…

Giant Flip Flop Flower Beds – Guerrilla Havaianas Ad

(TrendHunter.com) Funky flip flop maker, Havaianas, is an incredible generator of creative ideas, not just in their footwear design, but in their advertising too. One of their most recent guerrilla stunt was a giant sculpture,…

Hungry Kids in Your Shopping Cart – Feed South Africa Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I don’t usually like intrusive advertising, but when it’s for a good cause such as Feed South Africa, I am all for it.

This clever Feed SA campaign by TBWAHuntLascaris, Johannesburg, reaches out to…