adgrunt purplesimon just nudged me over to the Worth 1000 Vintage Ads series, where new products appear in old style ads – or as they explain it (so much better) “Modern products in a vintage light”.
I haven’t had time to go through all of these yet but some of them are hilarious, which ones are your favorite? 🙂
Sean Carton muses over the death of Firebrand in Wake up! Consumers don’t like to watch ads! – he almost nails it. I don’t think firebrand failed only because most normal people aren’t as ad-addicted as we are – there are plenty of long-term adgrunts around here who don’t work in advertising and do like ads. The execution had a lot to do with it, all flash, no content, big fanfare and all will set anyone up for a big fall. That, and, well they forgot to call me.
Jesus christ, I can’t stop laughing at The mass ritual suicide of Cadbury eggs in mousetraps, which according to the Guardian took 23 hours to set up but just nine seconds to shoot. Look at them goo! Hehe. Laughing this hard isn’t good for my heart.
There’s a new blog in town, shoot the blog from photoshelter with posts written by Rachel Hulin and where photo reps and photo buyers weigh in as contributors, yours truly is one of them.
Modernista! no longer has a site, just a clever way of redirecting the visitor, so they’re using what everyone else said about Modernista! on the web as their site instead of wasting time building their own. (Hmm, I wonder if this mention will make our site end up as part of Modernista!’s site… Time will tell). What do you think about that kids? Humble? Pretentious? Clever way of getting rid of their big old server and replacing it with someones iPhone? Kidding. Hat Tip Brandon Barr with the ever growing beard.
Speaking of sexy facial hair, moustache me is one of those places that encourages you to mess with advertising which is taking over the pubic space. They reckon it’ll be fun if we all carried pre-printed moustaches to stick on all those smiling models everywhere. Stickers, yeah. “What that ad needs is a good moustaching”. Seen it before, except these guys print special stickers that’ll cost you three bucks or more.
That’s all for today folks, sorry I didn’t have time to post anything but there was a fun (work) booklaunch today. At least I have a good reason for going MIA, I had lunch with whatshisname Husk Mit Navn. And now, I must sleep. Night! 😉
The new Abercrombie & Fitch children’s hospital they got name it in exchange for a $10 million donation.
“It is troubling that a children’s hospital would name its emergency room after a company that routinely relies on highly sexualized marketing to target teens and preteens,†the members of the coalition wrote in a letter that was sent on Tuesday to the hospital’s office in Columbus, Ohio.
“The Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Department and Trauma Center marries the Abercrombie brand to your reputation,†said the letter, addressed to five senior officers of the hospital. “A company with a long history of undermining children’s well-being is now linked with healing.â€
Hat tip Leslie at BAP
Werbeblogger notes that blackberry owns iphone.de. wtf?
Who needs a movie could quite possibly be the worst video ever produced, evah in the whole wide world. The irony is of course that they are selling their ability to produce videos. Hat tip metachat
There’s a wikibased Ad Dictionary on the web now, where you can add words like photox and Copysloth. more words that our ad dictionary gathered during the years (contributions in that are mine and Claymore’s).
Ad agencies are like “American Idol” now – where one major agency in the states recently collected staffers into two different rooms. 60-odd people in one room were told that they were fired, the other room was “safe” (for now..). Oh, that’s nice.
Bob Garfield gets really angry at bloggers in his… wait for it… blog.
Fine fine, I’ll post a link to the dumb beatboxing dog that everyone but me adores. Why do I hate that suave dog so much? Because that’s my cellphone provider, and the deal they offer with this dog is so much sweeter than the deal I got and am stuck with for another 24 months. My bills are so salty, I think I’m paying for this dog single handedly. So enjoy it kids, I bought you a beat boxing beagle.
These links brought to you by “Beggin’ – Frankie Vallie – Pilowski edit” just ‘cuz I’ve fancied him ever since I saw Grease at the age of five. Five times. With five different dates. Yes, start young girls. Never mind that two of the dates were my brother and father, there were slim pickings of cute boys in my kindergarden. Btw, Hi Freddy! I won’t go steady with you now stop calling..
Stuart Elliot reports that “Firebrand Burns Out”. Basically, they ran out of money. With the sums they were spending, I’m not surprised; “Firebrand was led by John A. Lack, a veteran of television networks like MTV, and Román Viñoly. Mr. Lack said last September that the company would spend $30 million by the time the television version of Firebrand began on Ion.”
A spokesman for NBC Universal, Cory Shields, said on Tuesday afternoon, “we are not putting any additional capital into the company.â€
Mr. Shields responded to a question from a reporter who was told by an executive of Firebrand that the company had shut down, effective immediately. The executive was not authorized to discuss the status of the company and as such declined to be identified.
An update on that frickin’ chicken thing, one half of WordsandPictures emailed to say:
Did a little looking online and found out the people making the complaint picketed the opening of the Civil War Museum with a banner reading “Proof America Condones Sodomyâ€. I don’t even GET that, but then I’m not crazy. 😉
2008 looks to be full with more shiny “2.0” logo’s, with a dash of waves (the new swooshes), a pinch of transparency, a hint of rainbows, and some extra underground typography thrown in for good measure.
See Logoorange Logo Design Trends 2008.
L33t Text in color folks! #C0FFEE ROCKS #DECAFF SUCKS, what a fun way to #deface a page!
Yesterday was the 366th day of the year, Feb 29 – a.k.a the day that women can propose which may explain why my boyfriend was out all day. ;P It was also the day that the brand agency once known as applebrandsource completed their transformation and was re-launched as READY366.
“The consumer and brand landscape is changing dramatically. Consumers are more savvy, they have a much bigger say, and they want brands that deliver smarter packaging, which means better functionality in how they actually use the product in their lives, more environmentally-friendly, and more consistent with what the brand stands for,†notes Palombo. “We think it’s important for marketers to recognize this ‘new day’, particularly as they look for new avenues to create greater and more authentic brand relevance and differentiation.â€
Ironic Sans has invented a new typography term that I swear I already thought existed. It’s also available as a T-shirt. Keming!
How much do you make? SEMPO SEM Agency Salary Survey wants to know.
Agency Spy wants to know how many women work at your agency, so they’ve created this handy three question survey. Sadly there’s an option of “0” women in the creative department and the higher “5-10”. So my creative dept with 12 creatives (not counting the CD’s) and three women only is hard to explain on that survey. It’s not even a small agency, 225 people in total.
Ideas on ideas has redesgned and introduce the new ideas on ideas here. I always had a soft spot for the old design, but nothing lasts forever especially not on the web. Unless you don’t want it to, then it’ll be sent around in perpetuity.
originally from http://www.brentter.com/gq-france-the-ideal-man-commercial/
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DDB, Paris just released their first commercial for the soon to be published French version of popular Men’s magazine GQ. In it they give us a checklist for what being the “ideal man†would entail. Pretty funny. From the exaggerated running form in “Graceful†to my personal favorite transition being “Sensual†to “Likes Animals†to “A bit like De Niro.†The ad ends letting us all know that sorry ladies, “The perfect man doesn’t exist…His magazine, Maybe. GQâ€
All in all this is probably the best spot for a men’s magazine i’ve seen to date. It appeals to both crowds in its clever usage of humor and wit. I will say this though, the spot doesn’t have any of the feel of the actual magazine (yes I’ll admit I subscribe to GQ), but then again, who cares, it’s fun to watch.
The spot was created by DDB, Paris and directed by Les Minis Vegas (MiniVegas).
Alexandre Hervé and Sylvain Thirache were the CDs with both Sophie Megrous and Julie Mathiot producing this piece (Fabien Teichner was the copywriter). La Pac, Paris was the production company used for this spot.
Not sure if this can be considered advertising, but it kinda shows Jesus in a bad light. This image was found on flickr.
Venture Capital wear has a T-shirt that reads Your mom is not a valid test market.
The NYT: celebrating the semicolon
One of the school system’s most notorious graduates, David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the press with rambling handwritten notes, was, as the columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote, the only murderer he ever encountered who could wield a semicolon just as well as a revolver. (Mr. Berkowitz, by the way, is now serving an even longer sentence.)
The La Comunidad’s Mollá brothers (José and JoaquÃn) are featured in Mens Vogue this month, posing on their cool boat down in sunny Miami no less.
Ideas on Ideas says fuck style, and by that they pity the fools who think that style is “design”.
AdHack a “DIY advertising community” who probably have no idea how apt their name is, have created this chocolate love ad for Valentines day which gets extra goooeeeey at the end. Man that’s perverse. 😉
I admit that I feel a little sorry for Derek Powazek here, since he has the awesome trackrecord being one of the founders of JPG Magazine.
His new toy, Pixish isn’t receiving the rave reviews one might expect. Why not? Because it smells like spec work and spec work is shit as we all know. Even if Powazek doesn’t think it really is spec.
If you didn’t realize spec was bad for you (and me, and everyone else) here’s ten reasons to ponder over at No Spec! which we’ve shown you y’all before.
PDN Pulse sums it up with “Will Work For Prizes”
What’s really scary is that young, tech-savvy artists are being groomed to think they are contestants reaching for a prize, rather than creative professionals with valuable talents.
Beckley works says “I beg to differ. Pixish is work on Spec”.
The whole “contest†concept is the problem. If the winner gets paid it doesn’t mean the many others who submitted work didn’t waste their precious time, and undermine their field. The only party guaranteed payment in this scenario is Pixish.
From – Everything’s Better With Brentter : Louis Vuitton – A Journey
New :90 second Louis Vuitton ad done by Ogilvy Paris featuring award winning director Bruno Aveilla with score composed by famous movie composer Gustavo Santaolalla.They plan on airing the piece in 13 different languages in select cinemas, cable and satellite channels throughout 2008. Keep in mind this is the first TV commercial ever produced for luxury brand Louis Vuitton.
This truly terrifying ad for the NSPCC with the line “Don’t lose control” found via AdFreak “Uk Child abuse ads don’t skip on gore”. Don’t know when (or even if but we assume) these ran. AdFreak found them via Mark’s Arthole on flickr. I don’t know about you but this image makes me cringe and want to hug puppies, look at rainbows and lock out the bad bad world. Go away!
Ralph have done another TV show tailored viral, this time it’s for a show called Breaking Bad where a mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher unexpectedly adopts a criminal new lifestyle when he finds out that he has cancer – he opens a Meth lab in a a trailer. In the viral, Walter White – our meek high school chemistry teacher – dishes out advice that I should get off the computer and live life now. I think I will. Sounds like it’ll be a good show too – course Walter’s advice to stop watching too much TV becomes rather ironic when it is for a TV show.
BREAKING BAD is created by highly acclaimed writer, producer and director Vince Gilligan (“The X-Filesâ€), executive produced by Oscar® winner Mark Johnson (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Notebook, Donnie Brasco), with the pilot episode photographed by two-time Oscar-winning cinematographer John Toll (Braveheart, Legends of the Fall, The Last Samurai).
Today’s really difficult timewaster: Labyrinth spin the black circle Flash game… If you get past level eleven let me know. I suspect it’s impossible.
OK, this may or may not have been plan from the very beginning, after all when we talk about Superbowl ads past how often doesn’t mainstream media mention GoDaddy and Hilton hotels? Flopping spectacularly might be a ticket into repeating Superbowl fame, at least until something worse comes along.
The New York Times resident ad columnist Stuart Elliot reports in “An Ad With Talking Pandas, Maybe, but Not With Chinese Accents” that the chairman and chief executive of InfoUSA in Omaha, Vinod Gupta, says he is sorry about the Salesgenie ads offending people, and promises to stop running one of them.
This was the second year in a row that Salesgenie advertised in the Super Bowl with animated spots written by Mr. Gupta rather than an outside agency. This time, an outside agency, Creative Mint in San Francisco, handled production for the animation.
Am I misreading this? Were the spots in 2007 animated as well? Lets check our 36 years super bowl commercials archive shall we? Nope, the Salesgenie ad of 2007 wasn’t animated, just ugly.
The web ads are ‘scary-smart’ because they figure out when and where to insert extra ad content, and for who.
“Microsoft Corp.’s online advertising researchers will spend this year teaching computers to be smart about sticking ads into video clips, and to be even smarter about targeting ads to specific Web surfers.
Microsoft showed off a handful of early-stage advertising projects at its headquarters Tuesday that may or may not turn up as part of Microsoft’s Web advertising platform.”
Obama buys buys a (Boston) Super Bowl ad. Which doesn’t come with a 3 million dollar pricetag. But still. Did you see the Speak up article “The Hardest Working Presidential Candidate Logo “ btw?
Stefan Sagmeister talks to ideasonideas about everything from celebrity to bad plums.
Badland in India, Sunil wonders if that Cannes award-winning tv commercial for New Zealand Telecom could be the “inspiration” for the Airtel ad currently being aired on the Indian airwaves. Maybe. Either way, cute ads both of them.
The Zag Blog does a mini interview with us about the super bowl. I admit I only ever watch the ads. Quelle surprise, right?
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