Paul Smith Rabbit Lights Up for Scraps

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@dabitch and @leighhouse graced our morningtime desks with this rabbit rubbish bin.

Tissue Tree Bears Silky Relief to Spontaneous Sneezers

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In time for allergy season — which not only stimulates sneezes but generates spontaneous instances of tear-duct leakage — Kleenex has erected a Tissue Tree, swathed in silk, no less, beside Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.

Blessed with a Superglue Account, We’d Defy Gravity, Too

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StrawberryFrog Brazil demonstrates the strength of Loctite Super Bonder by suspending the cast of reality TV show Big Brother Brazil 65 feet overhead — with the glue itself.

Waging War Hurts the Wagers, Says Peace Coalition

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The Global Coalition for Peace wraps its convictions around telephone poles and street lamps with “What Goes Around Comes Around.”

Luggage-Confined Woman Brings Sex Traffic to Top of Mind

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Probably one of the scariest things about human trafficking is that it’s kinda like objectification brought to the lowest common denominator: you’re not just eyeballing someone like a slab of meat; you’re actually treating the person like an item on which you can impose your will.

No, It’s Not Mime Disease, It’s Brand Interaction.

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At Piccadilly Circus in London, McDonald’s has a dynamic billboard that stimulates both engagement and viral behaviour.

It Was Like Woodstock, But Rated PG.

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Half of Adrants is Asian, which means we were irreparably traumatized by karaoke from an early age. But there’s a contagious warmth to this effort by T-Mobile — which can only be described as the Ultimate Karaoke Gangbang.

Samsung Unleashes Spore on Streets of Austria

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Samsung is doing something weird in Austria.

Ergonomically Pleasing Furniture Descends on Volatile Ville

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For all that la vie en rose talk, the Upright Citizens of Paris aren’t exactly known for their social placidity — particularly now that the global crise has made everyone tenser than usual.

Here’s a Clever Way to Never Be Tapped to Pitch Again.

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Look ironic, stingy and unprofessional — all at the same time!

Heineken Lady Cider, Visa Superfreaks, Edible Business Cards

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– Amsterdam’s Pink & Poodle takes women on for Heineken cider brand Jillz.

Homer Simpson Invades French Rail System

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On April Fool’s Day, patrons of France’s SNCF train service were greeted by the voice of Homer Simpson, who spouted frothy inanities in lieu of the feminine voice that normally makes arrival/departure announcements.

Swiss Elevator Riders Get Unexpected Skydive Experience

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Swiss Skydive, a skydiving school in Switzerland, commissioned Wirz/BBDO to outfit high-traffic elevators with, well, vertigo.

KFC Mascot Gets Community Service-Savvy

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When we first heard that KFC Colonels were circulating Louisville and filling in potholes, we had this horrible mental image of street cavities being retrofitted into giant buckets of fried chicken.

Havaianas Blooms, Kevin Spacey for AA, ATL Goes Intramural

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– Ex-Ofsted chief proposes that kids learn social media skills — Wikipedia, blogging, podcasting, Twitter — in primary school, alongside other communication skills like handwriting and keyboarding.

Windex Cleans, PSFK Gets Newsy, G4 Gets Spankvertising

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“It’s so clean you can’t even see it.” That or it’s some really good post-production work.

Whatever Happened to Progressively Smaller Handsets?

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Riding Ad Land’s current obsession with breaking into Guinness, Cricket has just produced the world’s largest cell phone — a gigantosaur Samsung Messager composed of “wood, metal, lights, wizardry, and love.”

Testicular Awareness Goes Right for the Balls

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You gotta forgive the quality of the imagery at left, but we couldn’t leave this one alone.

Need a Scarf? Go to Seattle. They’re Everywhere!

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Adrants reader Andre Malvensen was impressed with a Wexley School For Girls campaign for the Seattle Sounders and wrote…

MoMA Shafts happycorp for ECD’s Sins

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MoMA cut ties with happycorp after ECD/founder Doug Jaeger (kind of) admitted to enabling ad renegade Poster Boy to “vandalize” one of its subway print installations.