High Gloss Mini Cans – Coke Slims

(TrendHunter.com) Coke has released their Coke Slim cans all over UK. The Coke Slim is being directly targeting at young women, the idea being the design being that it can easily fit inside the purse. Women don’t want to sacrifice the space they would store their makeup, gadgets and other essentials, but they’re also…

Logo-Branded Blankets 2 – Corporate Security Blankets (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Writer/artist Douglas Coupland has put a visual, tactile and a very creative spin on a topic that sometimes wanders into the realm of the abstract and the surreal when discussed in public forums. That topic is fear and apprehension about the state of our economy and the bleak prospects prognosticate…

Free Magazines 3 – V Magazine Goes Digital, FREE (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) V Magazine, one of the biggest and most influential fashion magazines, embraces the future of media by going fully digital, for FREE.

That’s right, all content of the magazine is now available to you at the click of a mouse. The browsing system allows you to explore the issue by content, by page t…

Death of Pinball – Is it Gameover? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is something pretty disturbing which I saw while hunting for trends. Although trendhunter.com tends to look at the future and upbeat finds, I just had to give this a mention. According to the New York Times, there is only one company left that mass produces the Pinball machine. Stern Pinball In…

Your Face on a Bottle – Grand Marnier Grand Moments

(TrendHunter.com) Would you like to appear on a bottle of Grand Marnier? How about having your name up in lights in NYC, Vegas and La? Then you should enter Grand Marnier’s Grand Moments contest!

If you’ve had a fantastic memory that had a bottle of Grand Marnier to thank, you’re the ideal candidate. Just snap a pho…

Raining Gadgetery – The Sony Tumble Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot on the heels of its recent Foam City viral, Sony Electronics has launched a new marketing campaign for its DSLR cameras and camcorders. The multi-platform campaign, which features Sony cameras “tumbling” from a mountain top, will launch on print, TV, street billboards, subways, in-theater, a…

Motorcycle Tow Trucks – Honda Goldwings Coming Through (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish firm Coming Through has employed specially modified Honda Goldwing motorcycles to quickly travel through traffic and rescue stranded vehicles.

The specially designed bike takes little over a minute to convert to its towing glory, powerful enough to haul most passenger cars. The foldable br…

Cultural Handvertising – AT&T;Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) AT&T;has created a multi-cultural print campaign using painted hands. Each image is very colorful, light, and artistic, in a cartoonish kind of way, making it eye catching and very fun to look at. My favorite is the one with the Great Wall of China gloves. Very creative.

They feature painted hands…

Citroen Design Competition – Citroen Sledge Wins C-Design Contest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) French auto makers Citroen ran the C-Design competition to see what designers could come up with using nothing but Citroen car parts and their logo in the design.

The winner was Ognyan Bozhilov who designed the Citroen sledge, the main image featured in the gallery. It uses car parts which include…

Retro Icons in New Ads – James Dean, Marlon Brando, Lucille Ball & Dean Martin for Armstrong Floors (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In order to promote their realistic-looking laminate floors, Armstrong has come up with this witty “It only looks like the real thing” campaign.

The campaign utilizes great photography and art direction for a realistic portrayal of dead icons in new images. Four print ads feature James Dean, Marlo…

Wal-Mart Gets Cool? – Young Hollywood Open Road Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In a bid to reach out to the cool young crowd, Wal-Mart utilized the hippest names in young Hollywood to promote the Brand Ocean Pacific (Op) spring/summer 2008 line. The line will launch next month exclusively in Wal-Mart stores and its online store.

The hip marketing campaign features seven risin…

Sharp Replica Sculptures – WMF Knives Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love these artsy ads! This is a print commercial for WMF Knives which is a German-based company that has been manufacturing table and kitchenware products for over 150 years.

The ads are supposed to highlight just how sharp WMF’s knives are by showcasing sculpted mini replicas of various famous …

Green Hangers – 100% Recycled Cardboard Coat Hanger (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Green Hanger was born as a bid to resolve the ever-increasing problem of wire and plastic hangers ending up in landfills each year. When you choose Green Hanger, you are using a product that is attractive, functional and most importantly environmentally sound.

“The Green Hanger is a fully recy…

Peel Off Your Fat – Dermasolutions Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What a creative advertising campaign that lets you experience what the product does hands-on.

Dermasolutions wanted to show you that “When there’s excess, get rid of it”, using their fat-reducing patches. In order to open the mail, you have to “peel off” the unattractive lovehandle, resulting in a …

Different Business Cards Each Day – Be the Change You Want to See (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why settle for a boring business card with one design when you can have a different look for each day of the year?

With a slogan of “Be the change you want to see in the world”, this limited edition Y.O.C Box contains 365 unique and surreal business cards, one for each day of the year. Each card is…

Interactive Guantanamo – Second Life Gone Gitmo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A virtual simulation of Guantanamo in Second Lifewas designed by Nonny de la Peña, a journalist and filmmaker and Peggy Weil, an assistant professor in the interactive-media division of the U.S.C. film school. The game is called Gone Gitmo.

De la Peña and Weil say they created the virtual tortur…

Quadruple Magazine Covers II – reFRESH 50th Edition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Multiple magazine covers are becoming an increasingly used marketing niche to sell more magazines by tempting readers with multiple options. However, in the case of the new issue of reFRESH magazine, it is well justified.

As a celebration of their 50th issue landmark, reFRESH magazine is treating t…

Puzzle Billboards – McDonald’s Sort Your Head Out Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) McDonald’s has been on a roll with some very creative campaigns recently. The latest is an outdoor billboard that invites you to “sort your head out” with their 1 Euro large coffee.

The billboard is actually a puzzle that allows you to shuffle the pieces around to sort out the model’s head. The em…

Golf Ball Painting – Tiger Woods Paints Buick “Art Rivera” Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The talented Tiger Woods stars in this new artistic “Art Rivera” spot for car maker Buick.

Woods carefully shoots color-filled golf balls at a white canvas. The campaign highlights the attention to details, thought and care coming together to create something beautiful: in Wood’s case an artistic p…

Tribal Fashion – A|X Escapes to Ibiza (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The new Armani Exchange Spring Summer 2008 campaign “Style Tribe” exudes an intense mood of sensuality and style with a theme of escapism to exotic locations with your friends or “tribe”.

Shot in Ibiza, the campaign was shot by fashion photographer Tom Munro and styled by Victoria Bartlett. The…