Public Advertising Anarchy – New York Street Advertising Takeover Axes 120 Billboards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dozens of volunteers whitewashed 120 unregistered public advertisements yesterday as a part of the New York Street Advertising Takeover. The guerrilla movement was organized by Jordan Seiler and the Eastern…

DIY Denim – Jeans Go Haute Couture as Sears and LG Promote Young Designers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Denim fashions are all the rage this year, and Sears Canada and LG are helping this fashion movement grow even further. Creative denim-loving designers between the ages of 18 to 24 were given an opportunity…

Scandalous Superheroines – DC Direct Releases New ‘Women of DC’ Line of Sculptures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) DC Direct, the exclusive collectibles division of DC Comics, has released their latest line in the ‘Women of the DC Universe’ Collectible Busts.

For any DC Comics fanatic, these scandalous sculpts will…

Human Vending Machines – Kit Kat’s Man-Powered Promo at London Victoria (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Japan is famous for its wacky, wonderful and generally amazing vending machines that sell everything from hot meals to ice cream, flowers and beyond. For special products and times, however, human-powered…

Sleazevertising – American Apparel Starts 2009 with a Bang (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) American Apparel clearly answers the question we asked in our recent 50 naughty ads that cross the line cluster. Yes, the excessive use of skin and sex in advertising will go on in 2009. In fact, by the…

Celebrity Parody Infomercials – Be Kanye Tablets for Absolut (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Wannabe Kanye West? You’d better check pick up a pack or two of “Be Kanye” tablets, as seen in the above “Be Kanye” infomercial.

The parody ad is actually part of Absolut Vodka’s ‘In an…

Cut-Out Mustaches – Nike Vintage Shows Love for Retro Facial Hair (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Nike knows consumers think retro is hip, but the sports brand wants to be the one to bring the mustache back. They want to revive the age of sports in which the mustache played an integral role in the…

Google TV Ads – Family Guy Roll-Over Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Family Guy video ads can now show up on any website or blog that uses Google AdSense (including Trend Hunter).  The Google TV ads require no special action by the website or blog owner. Thousands of websites…

Interactive Aquafaces – National Aquarium Ad Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The National Aquarium in Baltimore has a new ad campaign called “More Fun in Every Sense”. Fun is right, the set of five posters, created by advertising agency gkv, also of Baltimore, contain images…

Choose Your Own Adventure Videos – The Secret Location (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Secret Location is an Interactive Media Production company specializing in groundbreaking ideas, online design and content production, among other capabilities. Based in Toronto, the company works with…

Serial Spin-Offs – ‘The Hills’ Star, Whitney Port, Spins Off to New Show (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Hills was a spin-off of Laguna Beach, starring the same reality star, Lauren Conrad in both MTV shows. Now, a spin-off of the spin-off will air, following Whitney Port from The Hills to New York where…

Giant Scale Public Texting – NYC Artist Asks Londoners About Street Crime

(TrendHunter.com) London advertising agency Profero teamed up with New York urban artist Paul Notzold to create two events for Channel 4’s “Disarming Britain” season. The events will show Paul’s work projected onto the…

25 Awesome McDonald’s Ads – From Billboards to TV Spots (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Innovation and creativity are not words I usually associate with McDonald’s and its unhealthy food and ‘super size me’ attitude. However, over the past few months of my time as a Trend Hunter, I have come…

Human Arms in Butcher Shops – Dexter Guerrilla Campaign II

(TrendHunter.com) The promo ads for the series Dexter seem to get more gory by the second. The show is about a hero/antihero, serial killer who murders his victims (he only kills the bad guys) and then chops them up.

As…

Bloody Urinals as Advertising – Dexter Guerrilla Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Public bathrooms are becoming an increasingly popular target for advertising. The latest is a guerrilla bathroom campaign to promote the second season of Dexter on the FX channel in Portugal.

The campaign…

Milk Packaging Design Contests – Future Milk (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What will milk containers look like in the future? Let your mind run wild on this, then consider entering the Future Milk contest.

The competition, being put on by Cravendale & YCN, asks people to contribute…

Personalised Swedish Furniture Name Generator – Blogadilla

(TrendHunter.com) Fans of Ikea will surely love this fun online name generator. The creators of the Blogadilla name generator say “This is the kind of stuff you dream up while waiting around in IKEA for 2 hours.” Just…

Fake Websites 2 – Canadian Competition Bureau Mocks Up Anatomy of an Online Health Scam

(TrendHunter.com) The Canadian Competition Bureau has launched their Project False Hope initiative to educate online consumers and to combat cancer cure frauds. “The fight against cancer is hard enough, don’t let fraud…

Virtual Mixed Media Scrapbooks – Glogster (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sure you blog, but do you Glog? It’s like collages 2.0, like an amalgamation of social network-like photo sharing and blogging with more traditional scrapbooking. Essentially, Glogster is a place you can…

Interactive Fiberoptic Cloud Sculpture – MIT Mobile Experience Lab (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This amazing interactive cloud sculpture consists of 15,371 individual fibers or 65 km of fiber optics. It is the creation of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab – “an organic sculptural landmark that responds…