Hasta La Creative!

In India, every year 1.1 million unborn baby girls die before they are born.
Contract Advertising in Mumbai aim to raise awareness of female foeticide with this detailed ad.

I have yet to be able to read the body copy all the way through.

Kudos:
Ravi Deshpande, Creative Director
Raghu Bhat, Creative Director
Manish Bhatt, Creative Director
Manan Mistry, Art Director
Vimal Singh, Art Director
Anshumani Khanna, Copywriter

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From Almap BBDO São Paulo comes this big bang of colors for Havaianas flip-flops.

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Saatchi & Saatchi in Vietnam did these ads to promote the guided tours of Cu Chi Museum of the Vietnam War.

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The advertising world lost a giant when Paul Arden passed away.

Lürzer’s Archive tips their hat to the man who influenced so many.

Created by Publicis Zurich
Florian Beck (Creative Director)
Jo-Wayne Peacock (Art Director)
Thomas Berger (Art Director)
Mario Nelson (Copywriter)

Agency Venables Bell & Partners sought the expertise of kaboom productions to help transform an empty Manhattan office building into a life-size advertising experience for client iShares – branch of Barclay’s Global Investors, market leader in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

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This campaign from the The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is trying to attract a new audience to the church. As visuals they have both a black Jesus, a female Jesus, a gay couple asking “what would Jesus do?” and a hippie-styled poster with the line “Jesse really digs ya man”

Kudos Ad Agency : TBWA\PHS Helsinki Oy
Mikko Torvinen (Art Director)
Antti Toivonen (Copywriter)
Tommi Laiho (Copywriter)
Ossi Honkanen (Art Director)
Sanna Sipola (Illustrator)
Johanna Paavilainen (Account Supervisor)
Merja Koskinen (Account Supervisor)
Jaana Haapala (Strategy Director)
Minna Helske (Planner)

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Oh my god, I’m so grossed out. These helpful little bins allow you to dispose of your cigarette butts there, while doubling as a really gross image that may indeed turn you off from smoking, at least temporarily. See, part of the X-ray image is transparent allowing for the accumilated butts inside to be part of the visual. Apparently this is a new medium called “adbins”.

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Dan Bergeron (aka fauxreel) has been very busy this past month plastering Canada with 324 seven-foot-tall Vespa Squareheads wheatpastes to promote the new Vespa S in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Vespa’s aren’t just scooters, they’re a fashion statement, an extension of the rider. This is particularly true of the Vespa S re-issue. It’s square headlight and mirrors may seem like subtle differences to some but to those who know, it makes the S, and the people who ride them, a breed unto their own. It’s cool, it’s retro, and so are the people that ride them.
– Glen Hunt, Creative Director, Dentsu Canada.

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Client : Adidas
Agency : Lifelounge, Melbourne
Daniel Pollock (Creative Director)
David Ponce de Leon (Senior Art Director)
Chris Cork (Copywriter)
Dimitri Kalagas (Art Director)

When Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand got the Sanyo Xacti CA65 Underwater Camera brief they decided against using any visual and instead made a billboard that will surely get into the guinness book of records – they produced a text-only poster containing one million words.

The world first, 63m poster showed how much more there is to film with the underwater camera compared with the little you could capture with a regular one. Amongst other things, the poster included the world’s most comprehensive marine species list, histories of major tsunami and shipwrecks, and Moby Dick and 20 000 Leagues Under The Sea in their entirety.

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