Custom Cigarette Packs – Build Your Own Death Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Build Your Own Death Project obviously is an anti-smoking endeavor that adds creative flair and interactivity in their campaign. Launched by a Chilean agency, BYODP offers smokers the chance to create their own customized package of cigarettes using fully downloadable free templates from their websi…

Cross Marketing Cell Phones & Cars – Renault Sandero Nokia (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nokia has collaborated with Renault Brazil on a limited edition 1000 Sandero Nokia cars, a special edition of the Renault Sandero, that features a “complete mobility solution”.

The €17,650 ($27,693) car will come with the high-end Nokia N95 mobile handset, the Nokia CK-20W car kit and Nokia’s LD…

Burners as Hotplates – Sovrappensiero

(TrendHunter.com) Ever wanted to serve your food fresh, piping hot food straight from the stove? Well then this is what you need. The stove designed by Sovrappensiero is unique in that you can actually remove its modular burner units and use them as hot plates while serving the food. Each of the modular units has a r…

Plantvertising to Go Green – Adidas Grün Campaign

(TrendHunter.com) Adidas has gone green with its advertising campaign. The advertisement, which is suspected to be for its Grün range of footwear, is made of bushes with the iconic three stripes placed using three strips of wood.

High Gloss Mini Cans – Coke Slims

(TrendHunter.com) Coke has released their Coke Slim cans all over UK. The Coke Slim is being directly targeting at young women, the idea being the design being that it can easily fit inside the purse. Women don’t want to sacrifice the space they would store their makeup, gadgets and other essentials, but they’re also…

Free Magazines 3 – V Magazine Goes Digital, FREE (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) V Magazine, one of the biggest and most influential fashion magazines, embraces the future of media by going fully digital, for FREE.

That’s right, all content of the magazine is now available to you at the click of a mouse. The browsing system allows you to explore the issue by content, by page t…

Death of Pinball – Is it Gameover? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is something pretty disturbing which I saw while hunting for trends. Although trendhunter.com tends to look at the future and upbeat finds, I just had to give this a mention. According to the New York Times, there is only one company left that mass produces the Pinball machine. Stern Pinball In…

Your Face on a Bottle – Grand Marnier Grand Moments

(TrendHunter.com) Would you like to appear on a bottle of Grand Marnier? How about having your name up in lights in NYC, Vegas and La? Then you should enter Grand Marnier’s Grand Moments contest!

If you’ve had a fantastic memory that had a bottle of Grand Marnier to thank, you’re the ideal candidate. Just snap a pho…

Raining Gadgetery – The Sony Tumble Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot on the heels of its recent Foam City viral, Sony Electronics has launched a new marketing campaign for its DSLR cameras and camcorders. The multi-platform campaign, which features Sony cameras “tumbling” from a mountain top, will launch on print, TV, street billboards, subways, in-theater, a…

Motorcycle Tow Trucks – Honda Goldwings Coming Through (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish firm Coming Through has employed specially modified Honda Goldwing motorcycles to quickly travel through traffic and rescue stranded vehicles.

The specially designed bike takes little over a minute to convert to its towing glory, powerful enough to haul most passenger cars. The foldable br…

Cultural Handvertising – AT&T;Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) AT&T;has created a multi-cultural print campaign using painted hands. Each image is very colorful, light, and artistic, in a cartoonish kind of way, making it eye catching and very fun to look at. My favorite is the one with the Great Wall of China gloves. Very creative.

They feature painted hands…

Citroen Design Competition – Citroen Sledge Wins C-Design Contest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) French auto makers Citroen ran the C-Design competition to see what designers could come up with using nothing but Citroen car parts and their logo in the design.

The winner was Ognyan Bozhilov who designed the Citroen sledge, the main image featured in the gallery. It uses car parts which include…

Retro Icons in New Ads – James Dean, Marlon Brando, Lucille Ball & Dean Martin for Armstrong Floors (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In order to promote their realistic-looking laminate floors, Armstrong has come up with this witty “It only looks like the real thing” campaign.

The campaign utilizes great photography and art direction for a realistic portrayal of dead icons in new images. Four print ads feature James Dean, Marlo…

Wal-Mart Gets Cool? – Young Hollywood Open Road Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In a bid to reach out to the cool young crowd, Wal-Mart utilized the hippest names in young Hollywood to promote the Brand Ocean Pacific (Op) spring/summer 2008 line. The line will launch next month exclusively in Wal-Mart stores and its online store.

The hip marketing campaign features seven risin…

Sharp Replica Sculptures – WMF Knives Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love these artsy ads! This is a print commercial for WMF Knives which is a German-based company that has been manufacturing table and kitchenware products for over 150 years.

The ads are supposed to highlight just how sharp WMF’s knives are by showcasing sculpted mini replicas of various famous …

Peel Off Your Fat – Dermasolutions Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What a creative advertising campaign that lets you experience what the product does hands-on.

Dermasolutions wanted to show you that “When there’s excess, get rid of it”, using their fat-reducing patches. In order to open the mail, you have to “peel off” the unattractive lovehandle, resulting in a …

Different Business Cards Each Day – Be the Change You Want to See (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why settle for a boring business card with one design when you can have a different look for each day of the year?

With a slogan of “Be the change you want to see in the world”, this limited edition Y.O.C Box contains 365 unique and surreal business cards, one for each day of the year. Each card is…

Interactive Guantanamo – Second Life Gone Gitmo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A virtual simulation of Guantanamo in Second Lifewas designed by Nonny de la Peña, a journalist and filmmaker and Peggy Weil, an assistant professor in the interactive-media division of the U.S.C. film school. The game is called Gone Gitmo.

De la Peña and Weil say they created the virtual tortur…

Quadruple Magazine Covers II – reFRESH 50th Edition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Multiple magazine covers are becoming an increasingly used marketing niche to sell more magazines by tempting readers with multiple options. However, in the case of the new issue of reFRESH magazine, it is well justified.

As a celebration of their 50th issue landmark, reFRESH magazine is treating t…

Puzzle Billboards – McDonald’s Sort Your Head Out Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) McDonald’s has been on a roll with some very creative campaigns recently. The latest is an outdoor billboard that invites you to “sort your head out” with their 1 Euro large coffee.

The billboard is actually a puzzle that allows you to shuffle the pieces around to sort out the model’s head. The em…