Fake Editorials – Secret Diary of a Call Girl Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The new ads for Secret Diary of a Call Girl, a British television show based on the blogs of London call girl, Belle de Jour, look more like an editorial photo shoot from a high-fashion magazine than ads for a TV show. The magazine even features fine print descriptions of the clothes and accessories…

Fake Urban Holes – HP Guerrilla Photopaper Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In one of the most innovative ads we’ve featured, HP organized a guerrilla marketing campaign for its photo paper.

The urban installations were created by Publicis of Malaysia and were comprised of “holes” in the city. Each black hole was made of paper and strategically placed around the city to f…

Freeconomics of Music – Coldplay’s Next Single is Free

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve mentioned that freeconomics will play a major factor in future business and will be come crucial, especially in the entertainment industry, for those who want to excel. Coldplay may have been inspired by artists like Prince who gave away free CDs in the Sunday paper last year.

While Coldplay…

Supermodel Bookmarks – Vlada’s Style.com Lookbook (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vlada Roslyakova, known best for her distinctive, backward-leaning runway strut, has created a public look-book of all of her favourite Style.com beauty and fashions looks.

Essentially, this gives fans a sneak peak into the mind of the 20-year-old Russian model and gives the public an idea of the s…

Trapped in Self-Service Machines – Jobsintown Guerrilla Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “Life’s too short for the wrong job,” Isn’t that so true? That’s the tag line for these motivational career ads by German job search site, Jobsintown.de.

The visuals for the guerrilla ads are even more clever than the text! They campaign features a series of machines that perform automated service…

Faux Strip Shows for Real Estate – Window Dancers to Sell LA Apartments (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The mortgage crisis in the USA has created a very depressed housing market and as a consequence, sellers are having a hard time finding buyers. A new apartment complex in Los Angeles is using a very unorthodox method to find interested buyers for its apartment units: gyrating, sexy window dancers. T…

First Person Advertising – Guy Richie’s Nike Ad Takes It To The Next Level (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Famous director Guy Ritchie brings his unique style to the latest film advertisement for Nike, starring Wenger, Fabregas, Gallas, Ronaldo and Rooney.

The minute long film entitled, Take It To The Next Level, combines a football match with glimpses into behind the scenes of the players’ life.

The…

Fitness Beer – Drinking Carlsberg Lite for Health? (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Carlsberg tries to appeal to the health-conscious consumer with this TV spot for Carlsberg Lite. Naturally, since we’re talking about guys, any approach won’t just cut it. It must feature lots and lots of attractive girls.

Entitled “Fitness Centre”, the ad follows three men going to a dream fitness…

Rush Hour Thought Balloons – Renault Inflatables Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Renault has come up with this fun ad to display make believe scenarios of what people would prefer to be doing rather than being stuck in traffic.

Initially some of the drivers stuck in rush hour seem a little frustrated, sticking their heads out their windows and looking quite aggravated. A few s…

Stripping Celebs of Youth – Miley Cyrus for Controversial Vanity Fair Spread (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Miley Cyrus, the 15-year-old Hannah Montana star and a face of the Disney empire, says she regrets posing for a risque photo shoot in an upcoming issue of Vanity Fair. The photos were shot by famed photographer Annie Leibowitz for the June issue of the magazine. Miley, who was accompanied by her fat…

Collaborative Hotel Designs – 20 Graffiti Artists Design Habita Hotel

(TrendHunter.com) The Habita Hotel, a design hotel in Polanco, Mexico City, recently covered a four story wall entirely in graffiti art. The purpose of the project was not only create a unique architectural facade but to support the street art so prominently displayed through the city.

The entire project took three…

Too Close Up Ads – 2 Funny Binoculars Campaigns (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Two new campaigns for Olympus and Bynolyt illustrate the power of their binoculars in two fun, but totally different ways.

Bynolyt goes for the distance with its Eskimo ad that shows an attractive girl in her underwear slapping a guy who was spying on her with his Bynolyt binoculars. The creative …

Fashion Collages for Brand Exposure – Space Mermaid on Polyvore (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has told you about Polyvore before, a website that allows you to make photo collages by hand picking the hautest fashions from a huge collection of websites, from Style.com to Bluefly.com. Not only is it great exposure for bigger online fashion stores, but it’s also an exceptional way t…

Color Coded Homes – Rainbow Bookshelf (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A lot of people make fun of me for going crazy with highlights and color coding, but the Rainbow Bookshelf takes organization but hue to an extreme.

Chotda organized his extensive library by jacket color, putting all red books, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple together, in the order of the r…

Green Guerrilla Ads – Nothing Left To Weep For Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) The United Arab Emirates government reached out to the “more intelligent inhabitants of this planet” with a creative guerrilla campaign celebrating Earth Day 2008. The campaign reminds us that there will be nothing left “to weep for” if we do not act responsibly and try to save Mother Earth in every…

Torture Couture III – Ashton Kutcher’s Ass Kicking in Details (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Ashton Kutcher will appear in the May issue of Details Magazine and already it’s generated controversy as some of the rather violent photos were already leaked online, making their rounds in the blogosphere. The cover of the magazine shows a very hip-looking Kutcher with the caption, “Ashton Kutcher…

Eco-Friendly Sailing Wine – Languedoc Wine Carried by Sailboats (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This month, 60,000 bottles of wine from the southern Languedoc region of France being to Dublin, Ireland in a 19th-century barque, saving 8.324 kg (18,375 lb) of carbon, an estimated 140 grams (4.9 oz) of carbon per bottle, compared to the regular mode of shipment.

The 52-metre (170-feet), three-m…

Mutant Humans as a Social Message – The Beacon’s Reversing Evolution Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In celebration of the recent earth day on April 22th, the Beacon organization released a creative and powerful campaign entitled Evolution.

The campaign asks you the following question: “Ready to go back where we came from?” The question is accompanied by an illustration of the long-term consequen…

Ecofriendly Animation – Startmotions Trashy Characters (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Startmotions Animation Studio claims to be the first Earth Friendly animation studio. All of the actors and scenes created by the studio are made out of recycled material.

Startmotions does animations for all ages and languages. The stars of the movies often animals look quirky and sometimes pret…

Sexual Favors to Support a Cause – Charitable Idea or The End of Decency? (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Belgian beauty Tanya Devereaux is no stranger to unconventional campaigns. Last year, Tanya promised 40,000 “jobs” (wink, wink) during her campaign as a NEE party senate candidate in Belgium. Although she was pretty popular, she did not win the senate seat. However, you can not keep a girl with a bi…