Creative Self Promotion – Innovative Business Cards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are some of the really nice and creative business cards I found in a blog I like. There was a very wide selection so picking just five was difficult. These are the cards I enjoyed the most with a very brief description.

The first one in the gallery is an oblivious dog tag card. I find the se…

Bringing Refugee Camps Into Focus – Google Earth Maps Refugee Crises (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Google Inc. unveiled a new feature today for its popular mapping programs that will spotlight the movement of refugees around the world. Users with Google Earth, UNHCR will have access refugee information. The maps were developed to aid humanitarian operations and help inform the public about the mi…

Shaving Ads – Philips Arcitecs’ Hairy Apple (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hairy Apple is an ad Philips is running in Bucharest Romania. It says, “The new Philips Arcitec has a shaving head that pivots with a full range of motion to give a perfectly close shave. Even on the most difficult to reach parts of your neck.

The images: the Elvis, Punk, and Afro.

Tattoo Shaving…

Advertising with Zombies – Zune’s Piece of Me, Piece of You (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Zune’s new ad came out a couple of days ago and it is not lacking in creativity and, um zombies. “Very Tim Burton”, says adrants. Indeed. The ad is somewhat reminiscent of Burton’s quirky and often dark style but the aptly titled Piece of Me, Piece of You manages to be very cheerful and totally cool…

Counterculture Biographies – Home Sweet Home is About Banksy’s Bristol (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Home Sweet Home is a book about Banksy, who is arguably the best-known graffiti artist in the world. Banksy is also very shifty, clandestine and surreptitious. Nobody seems to know a whole lot about the Bristol, England native. And whoever knows something is not talking. Anyway, “Home Sweet Home”, s…

Fairytale Commercials – Toma Leche Milk Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Toma Leche campaign was produced by Grupo Gallegos. “Toma leche” is Spanish for “drink milk” and apparently, if you do just that, and you are a butt-ugly, nasty-ass “bruja” or witch, you will turn into a beautiful, regular chick.

Cute fairytale-influenced commercial. Very cute.

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Green Rentals – Enterprise Rent-A-Car Launches Hydrid Car Fleet (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Another step towards eco rehab. In response to consumer demand, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, on Wednesday, launched four new “green branches” in Atlanta. With gas prices due to hit $4.00 gallon by summer hybrids or other fuel-efficient vehicles will make up 60 percent of their inventory. “At the end of th…

Celebrity Social Networks – Radiohead W.A.S.T.E.

(TrendHunter.com) As if we didn’t have proof enough of Radiohead’s forward thinking embrace of modern technology and marketing (see their Pay What You Want release of new album In Rainbows recently), the ever innovative band has created a social networking site called W.A.S.T.E built by interactive developers Nin…

Disturbing Anti-Drug Ads – Montana Meth Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montana Meth Project has a powerful anti-Meth campaign that gives you a glimpse of how Meth (and drugs in general, really) can transform you into something awful, doing things that no normal person would do.

The most powerful shot for me is a young woman having sex for money with a blank dead look …

Defamatory Ads – Controversial Goatboy Princess Diana Shirt

(TrendHunter.com) Australian T-Shirt brand Goatboy knows that one of the best ways to create a buzz about a product, any product, is to surround it with juicy controversy. Madonna has been doing that for years with tremendous success. But I digress.

Goatboy is launching an online store and in order to call attentio…

Write An Essay About Pet Love And Win A Mansion In Florida

(TrendHunter.com) Clementia Marie Giovanetti is a woman with a difficult task. She’s been trying to sell her mansion for a cool $1.25 million bucks. But in today’s depressed economic times, who has a million and a quarter bucks laying around? So Clementia (a published author) has decided to hold an essay-writing cont…

Senior Nudevertising – Happy Naked Couple Club Cola Ads

(TrendHunter.com) Club Cola claims responsibility for this German ad which shows two old folks cavorting butt-naked without a care in the world while they live up to Club Cola’s motto which is “For a Happy Life.” The couple seems to be going skinny dipping and I say more power to them!

Futuristic Fantasy Cars – Cosmic Motors by Daniel Simon (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Daniel Simon is an internationally established former Bugatti and Lamborghini designer who has worked on futuristic vehicle concepts. Simon wrote a sci-fi 176 page book called Cosmic Motors where he engages the readers in a futuristic escapade of visionary and fantastic vehicles in a world many cent…

Water Graffiti – Vindict Wine Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Vindict, an Amsterdam wine company, has come up with a really fun campaign featuring water graffiti.

The striking reversed-graffiti is not only an eye catching promotion, but it’s also environmentally-friendly, and a great way to showcase innovative Dutch design. The campaign was launched this mont…

Scented Downloads – Mobile Fragrance Communications

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine if you could download “his” cologne fragrance when you’re engaged in pillow talk with him… or that baby smell when talking about your new granddaughter.

Japanese cell phone users will test a service that will allow cell phone users to download fragrances. From major telecommunications co…

Faking Naughty II – 5 More Ads That Made You Look Twice (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sex will always sell ,but making erotic images with the mundane and ordinary is truly clever.

Geared to the male psyche, these ads invoke images that stir the imagination. They feature optical illusions of desire like beer and sweaty female thighs, inviting you to “Lust for Kingfisher lager”, orang…

Funky Barcodes – D-Barcode Spices Up Packaging (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who knew that barcodes could be so much fun? Barcodes are the machine-readable representation of information most of us are familiar with.

A Japanese firm named D-Barcode has been “decorating” these codes and their products are now used all over Japan. Great, fun concept.

Mobile Show Rooms – Ikea Designed Kobe Portliner Monorail (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Kobe Portliner Monorail in Japan has been decked out in all things Ikea, creating a very Swedish, mobile showroom.

Ikea, known for its affordable, flat-pack furniture, is using the train as an advertising gimmic as the exposure it will get from traveling across Japan will be immense.

It look…

Road Trip Ads – Ralph Wild Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ralph Lauren has been coming up with some really creative ad campaigns, from the Rugby ones we’ve featured previously, to the recently launched Ralph Wild fragrance campaign.

The new women’s scent, which is geared at those between 15 and 25, is being hyped with a road trip theme. In additional to …

Open Campaigns – Greenpeace Believes Even Bush is Entitled to an Opinion (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Greenpeace wants you to know that “Everyone’s entitled to an opinion” and that you can voice yours at forum.greenpeace.org.

In order to illustrate this, the campaign shows that even Bush is entitled to an opinion. Although the Bush’s opinions they show are a satirical jab at his environmental and g…