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Art Director: Chinmoy Bhowmik
Copywriter: Aditya Gupta
City: New Delhi, India  
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Want to Successfully Target Boomers? Aim for the Head


"Health from the neck up" is the new catchphrase, and the minute you stop to think about it you realize: Of course! Why did we spend so much time worrying about our thighs instead of our eyes?

Media Guy’s Pop Pick: ‘Man on Wire’ on DVD


Leading up to Oscar Sunday, I didn't have a lot of horses in the race, except for "Man on Wire," the best-doc nominee that, in my book, was the overall best film of 2008.

We Hate You! The Year’s Most Despised Celeb Brands So Far


Lately, we've seen a number of celebrities do major damage to their brands in ways that seem irredeemable — that no degree of publicist-driven spin can reverse.

Self-Regulation Shouldn’t Be Advertising’s Best-Kept Secret


As if you needed another sign that times are tough, here's a fairly reliable measure: The number of cases handled by the advertising industry's best-kept secret — self-regulation — are on the rise.

How One Agency Is Doing More for Jobless


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After seeing advertising job losses mount in its home city of Toronto, an independent agency is trying to mitigate the devastating effects of the recession in Adland.

Big Spenders Force Shops, Media to Wait for Payment

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — General Motors and Anheuser-Busch InBev are among the major marketers that are asking advertising and media outlets to wait as long as 120 days to be reimbursed for production costs and media outlays, putting a painful burden on some shops

McD’s Opened Dialogue to Turn Itself Around


LONDON (AdAge.com) — McDonald's in the U.K. has just had its best ever year and despite — or perhaps because of — the economic climate, its chief marketing officer for U.K. and Northern Europe, Jill McDonald, is in a bullish mood: She's expecting to come out of the recession serving more customers than going in.

Why the Click Is the Wrong Metric for Online Ads

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In the past several months, there has been increasing evidence that the most easily measured metric on the web, the click, is not the right metric to use for many advertisers. And that's good news for publishers struggling to monetize their content with online ads.

Marketers Adapt as Social Networks Attract Older Users


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Social networking is no longer a youth phenomenon. As Facebook marches toward 52 million U.S. users (170 million worldwide), the site is beginning to look like, well, America.

Newsstand Suffers as Readers Skip the Store



NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — If magazines' recent, atrocious newsstand sales are any indication, this may not be the best time to ask people to pay for new kinds of content. They're already tapped out on established buys such as magazines.

Guess Which Medium Is as Effective as Ever: TV

BATAVIA, Ohio (AdAge.com) — A funny thing is emerging from the smoldering ruins of what may be the ugliest quarter TV has ever encountered financially: a growing body of evidence which suggests not only that TV advertising still works, but that it may be working better than ever.

Marketers Demanding Ratings for Each TV Ad

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — At a time when the web is revealing so much specific information about the relationship of consumers and their reactions to ads, marketers feel TV ought to do the same.

Making the Case for Micropayments in News


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Aspen Institute President-CEO and former Time Editor Walter Isaacson says simple subscription or micropayment models could and should still be introduced today — and not just for newspapers.

Despite Recent Events, the American Magazine Is Not an Endangered Species


As someone who's been in the magazine business through several of these cycles, I vividly recall how each downturn was the worst ever and how recovery invariably required a miracle. In fact, the next downturn is always the worst, and some of the recoveries have been spectacular.

Amnesty launches anti-rape campaign

LONDON – Amnesty International is launching a print and poster campaign highlighting the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

Book Review – Digital by Design: Crafting Technology for Products and Environments

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‘Digital By Design’ is a wide-ranging survey that considers the work of those visionaries who are reimagining the relationship between technology, design products, immersive environments and human interaction for the twenty-first century. The result is a captivating assessment of pioneering approaches in art and design that encompasses a broad spectrum of humanist values, humor, magic and sensory experiences continue

Using Sympathy for Awareness – UK Cervical Cancer Screenings Spike Following Jane Goody’s Fame (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Optimists believe that even the darkest storm cloud has a silver lining, and it looks like the silver lining that surrounds Jane Goody’s terminal cervical cancer is an increased awareness of the disease.…

Folding Supercars – The Striking BRB Evolution Can Fold in Half to Snag a Parking Spot (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fed up with nonexistent parking spaces? If only we could get our hands on the keys of a BRB Evolution. The stunning concept is a hybrid car that runs both on electricity and on hydrogen. Yet its best quality…

Meltin’pot: Nightmares

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“This summer abandon your nightmares”

Advertising Agency: Armando Testa, Turin, italy
Creative Director: Michele Mariani
Project leader / Vice Creative Director: Luca Cortesini
Art Directors: Luca Cortesini, Laura Sironi
Copywriter: Luca Cortesini, Laura Sironi
Photographer: Vincent Dixon