(TrendHunter.com) In our sex-obsessed world, it’s always good to see nudity used to raise awareness of important issues and causes. Following the recent Amy Winehouse breast cancer nude campaign, the upcoming Cosmopolitan magazine’s Naked Centrefolds Special features a host of sports and TV celebrities in the buff …
(TrendHunter.com) Sex sells big time and I think we all know that by now. Even non-alcoholic beverage companies like Schweppes are using the marketing technique, but often not without criticism.
about the supposedly unnecessary, gratuitous and sensationalistic sex-laden Schweppes “Sensation” TV ads coming out of F…
(TrendHunter.com) Axe’s new commercial is the embodiment of any guy’s dreams. Which is understandably why it might be considered sexist, thanks to a portrayal of women as helpless and sad without a man.
The video shows a cottage with an assortment of hot and attractive girls in bikinis, all solemn and sad because..…
(TrendHunter.com) Mother’s Day is coming up and Napa’s Cleavage Creek Cellars will celebrate this day by releasing the 2006 Reserve Chardonnay and the Secret White wines which are two of their world class wines. The bottles will be sold for $15 instead of the usual $30 to $40 and 10 percent of the gross sales of the …
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re a sucker for 90s dance music, here’s an ad for you. This video, featuring a disco-dancing, nerd glasses-wearing puppet in a powder blue suit, is actually an ad for Drench Spring Water.
The Puppet Brains video from the Thunderbirds is backed by the catchy 90s dance hit, “Rhythm is a Dance…
(TrendHunter.com) I love this campaign for the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery which tries to appeal to the young party crowd. Hey, whatever it takes to promote art is fine with me!
The print ads promote the Original Contemporary Art Party in Toronto with decadent drunk partying and morning after antics that a…
(TrendHunter.com) I am in awe of this new Malaria awareness campaign by Ãfrica Directo. The message that “Nothing and no one takes as many lives as malaria” is ingeniously delivered by drawing portraits of infamous dictators such as Stalin and Hitler, who have the blood of millions on their hands, using hundreds of …
(TrendHunter.com) Samsung Canada has unveiled a brilliant campaign that uses Samsung mobile phones to construct expressive hand gestures. The Playing Samsung: Express Yourself campaign, which was created by Creative Agency Cheil Worldwide, Toronto, consists of print ads, outdoor billboards and TV spots.
The hand ges…
(TrendHunter.com) This Sony campaign illustrates that capturing life’s special moments doesn’t have to be a major production if you have the Sony Handycam DVD. The campaign consists of three print ads: Action Movie, Love Story, and Musical.
While capturing true love can be tricky, and the razzle dazzle of life can b…
(TrendHunter.com) The FLARE is a building facade that allows the exterior of an edifice to “express” itself and interact with its environment, therefore acting as a living skin or membrane. The system consists of a series of tiltable metal flakes supplemented by pneumatic cylinders that can be controlled individually…
(TrendHunter.com) How cute is this campaign by dating site Terra Soulmate? The ads guarantee “The love of your life won’t get away” thanks to their highly trained Cupids!
I love that the typically delicate Cupid angels are being trained in rough military style to illustrate the quality of the dating site. Seeing the…
(TrendHunter.com) This ad for Absolut vodka shows a dissection of a bottle of vodka. What’s special aboutt his ad is that although the glass dissection shown is computer-generated, the water filmed in the ad is the real deal.
A balloon with the same shape as the bottle filled with water was blown up and filmed at 8…
(TrendHunter.com) Frantic Milanese shoppers are being catapulted from their hypnotic states as they witness the reverberation of their reflections projected in front of them. The images are displayed across an interactive sculpture installed in the window of the forthcoming Diesel store in Piazza San Babila, Milan.
…
(TrendHunter.com) House Café, one of Istanbul’s cool restaurants chains, wanted a unique design for their herbal health tea in order to appeal more to their hip, health-conscious customers. They commissioned ad agency TBWA who came up with this witty tea packaging.
The packets feature cut-out images at the end of …
(TrendHunter.com) Trent Reznor and the Nine Inch Nails are not only breaking the rules and challenging the stale record distribution model, they are blowing it all in the face of the record labels and music business! Nine Inch Nails are releasing their complete new album, The Slip for free.
This comes hot on the he…
(TrendHunter.com) Gorgeous flowers open up to reveal Samsung’s cell phones in this creative Mother’s Day ad by AT & T. The flowers look like a mixture of glass and real flowers. They are just stunning. The song in the ad written by Lupe Fiasco is called Daydreamin’ and is performed by Jill Scott.
Kudos to 1stAveMac…
(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful, bronze heart pendants are elegantly contrasted by glittering gems embedded inside small hoops which dangle off each pendant. The creative talent behind this line of jewelry is Karyn Chopik, a Vancouver artist who truly understands how to ignite the senses.
The entire line is stunn…
(TrendHunter.com) Anticipation is rising in Beijing for the Summer 2008 Olympic Games, and that excitement has translated into some pretty unique art. Song of Sand 2008, shown in the above video, is a really creative project that celebrates Chinese art forms and symbolism in conjunction with the Olympic brand.
Trad…
(TrendHunter.com) How ingenious is this year’s “Time 100” cover? Rather than use the face of the #1 position as usual, the cover depicts one face constructed from thin horizontal image strips of each of the 100 most influential people profiled inside the issue.
The cover is one of five finalists, which include desig…
(TrendHunter.com) Want to have a glimpse of what our world would be like if frogs were to become extinct? Well, judging by the new ad campaign from Vancouver Aquarium, you will have an outbreak of bugs and insects everywhere, and that includes inside your kitchen, bathroom and your living room.
According to the Vanc…
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
