Dramatic Fashion Campaigns – Rag & Bone: A Saga of Hope, Drama, and Miniskirts (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) For Rag & Bone’s spring collection, the fashion house created a campaign featuring Abby Lee as a young model who looks distraught and on the verge of tears.

The aptly titled “A Saga of Hope, Drama, and Miniskirts” appears on the Barney’s website and features the short story of a beautiful young mo…

Contrommercials – Hanes: Nigg*r, Fagg*t, Pak! (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wow, what a stupid stupid stupid campaign! Hanes thinks you should buy their Original Tagless Comfort underwear “Because the world gives you enough tags.”

A smart idea I must admit, playing on the social tags to promote tagless undies is very creative. But what a stupid delivery! I believe the me…

Naughty Billboards – Miss Universe Wants a Cockatoo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Former Miss Universe Australia, Erin McNaught, has been featured in a series of billboard ads that promote a pretty naughty message.

The advertising campaign, which is also running in print media and on liquor store posters, features captions like, “She loves a cockatoo,” “Who’s a cheeky girl then…

Street Lingerie Models – Marks & Spencer Urban Underwear Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Thank God it was a sunny day, or the poor model would freeze!

As a creative way to promote the launch of their latest Ceriso lingerie collection, Marks & Spencer took their line to the streets of London.

Kristina modeled the lingerie pieces on the street for everyone to see with a big smile on h…

Branded Sunscreen Tattoos – Adi-Block Sprays Adidas Logo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The designers for Adi-block sunblock by Adidas have creatively extended the traditional branding process from packaging and advertising into the delivery mechanism itself.

Utilizing the infamous three stripes trademark symbol of Adidas, designers Jack Godfrey Wood, Tom Ballhatchet and Rui Lui have …

Bearded Children – Ice Station Antarctica Ads

(TrendHunter.com) This ad is clever, in a creepy sort of way. Seeing kids sporting full-blown beards is disconcerting to say the least. The images are part of a campaign that has recently been launched to promote the new Ice Station Antarctica experience at London’s Natural History Museum.

“The family friendly exh…

Celebrity Ice Cream – Eva Longoria for Magnum Mayan Mystica (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Magnum, one of the world’s largest ice cream companies, was able to snag Eva Longoria as the face of the campaign for their new flavor, Magnum Mayan Mystica. The sexy TV spot aired this week in the UK.

“New Magnum ‘Mayan Mystica’ is inspired by the ancient origins of chocolate, the Mayan Indian…

Creative Self Promotion – Innovative Business Cards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are some of the really nice and creative business cards I found in a blog I like. There was a very wide selection so picking just five was difficult. These are the cards I enjoyed the most with a very brief description.

The first one in the gallery is an oblivious dog tag card. I find the se…

Shaving Ads – Philips Arcitecs’ Hairy Apple (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hairy Apple is an ad Philips is running in Bucharest Romania. It says, “The new Philips Arcitec has a shaving head that pivots with a full range of motion to give a perfectly close shave. Even on the most difficult to reach parts of your neck.

The images: the Elvis, Punk, and Afro.

Tattoo Shaving…

Advertising with Zombies – Zune’s Piece of Me, Piece of You (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Zune’s new ad came out a couple of days ago and it is not lacking in creativity and, um zombies. “Very Tim Burton”, says adrants. Indeed. The ad is somewhat reminiscent of Burton’s quirky and often dark style but the aptly titled Piece of Me, Piece of You manages to be very cheerful and totally cool…

Fairytale Commercials – Toma Leche Milk Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Toma Leche campaign was produced by Grupo Gallegos. “Toma leche” is Spanish for “drink milk” and apparently, if you do just that, and you are a butt-ugly, nasty-ass “bruja” or witch, you will turn into a beautiful, regular chick.

Cute fairytale-influenced commercial. Very cute.

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Celebrity Social Networks – Radiohead W.A.S.T.E.

(TrendHunter.com) As if we didn’t have proof enough of Radiohead’s forward thinking embrace of modern technology and marketing (see their Pay What You Want release of new album In Rainbows recently), the ever innovative band has created a social networking site called W.A.S.T.E built by interactive developers Nin…

Disturbing Anti-Drug Ads – Montana Meth Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montana Meth Project has a powerful anti-Meth campaign that gives you a glimpse of how Meth (and drugs in general, really) can transform you into something awful, doing things that no normal person would do.

The most powerful shot for me is a young woman having sex for money with a blank dead look …

Defamatory Ads – Controversial Goatboy Princess Diana Shirt

(TrendHunter.com) Australian T-Shirt brand Goatboy knows that one of the best ways to create a buzz about a product, any product, is to surround it with juicy controversy. Madonna has been doing that for years with tremendous success. But I digress.

Goatboy is launching an online store and in order to call attentio…

Write An Essay About Pet Love And Win A Mansion In Florida

(TrendHunter.com) Clementia Marie Giovanetti is a woman with a difficult task. She’s been trying to sell her mansion for a cool $1.25 million bucks. But in today’s depressed economic times, who has a million and a quarter bucks laying around? So Clementia (a published author) has decided to hold an essay-writing cont…

Senior Nudevertising – Happy Naked Couple Club Cola Ads

(TrendHunter.com) Club Cola claims responsibility for this German ad which shows two old folks cavorting butt-naked without a care in the world while they live up to Club Cola’s motto which is “For a Happy Life.” The couple seems to be going skinny dipping and I say more power to them!

Water Graffiti – Vindict Wine Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Vindict, an Amsterdam wine company, has come up with a really fun campaign featuring water graffiti.

The striking reversed-graffiti is not only an eye catching promotion, but it’s also environmentally-friendly, and a great way to showcase innovative Dutch design. The campaign was launched this mont…

Scented Downloads – Mobile Fragrance Communications

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine if you could download “his” cologne fragrance when you’re engaged in pillow talk with him… or that baby smell when talking about your new granddaughter.

Japanese cell phone users will test a service that will allow cell phone users to download fragrances. From major telecommunications co…

Faking Naughty II – 5 More Ads That Made You Look Twice (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sex will always sell ,but making erotic images with the mundane and ordinary is truly clever.

Geared to the male psyche, these ads invoke images that stir the imagination. They feature optical illusions of desire like beer and sweaty female thighs, inviting you to “Lust for Kingfisher lager”, orang…

Funky Barcodes – D-Barcode Spices Up Packaging (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who knew that barcodes could be so much fun? Barcodes are the machine-readable representation of information most of us are familiar with.

A Japanese firm named D-Barcode has been “decorating” these codes and their products are now used all over Japan. Great, fun concept.