It’s a print campaign that ran in maternity magazines. The double spread portrays a breast-feeding woman and her baby. Two pages are glued together. Once you tear them off of each other, the baby’s mouth tears off the nipple, thus demonstrating how painful breast-feeding can be, unless you use “Garmastan” lotion.
Advertising Agency: Milk, Lithuania
(TrendHunter.com) Geeks and gamers can do almost anything with Nintendo products, including propose. This software for the Nintendo DS allows your Peach to solve a puzzle before being prompted with a custom marriage proposal.…
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — What's the way to holiday shoppers' wallets? During a recession, a little tug at the heart strings will go farther than extravagance and jokes. This year, retailers with a mix of emotional branding spots and promotional ads topped the list in a survey of consumers' favorite holiday commercials. The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association survey finds Best Buy, Kohl's, Old Navy and Toys R' Us climbing the ranks this year, with Old Navy and Toys R' Us cracking the top ten.
Was that fun for you? If so, head over to Esquire where Daniel Murphy has complied “The Five Most Terrifying Local TV Christmas Commercials.”
[via Daniel Pink]
(TrendHunter.com) I love bones and these pieces of glass bone art sculptures are the most beautiful examples of bones I have seen for a long time.
They are created by Melli Ink and just totally blow me away; I would love…
(TrendHunter.com) Benny Hill is a classic. The classic part of Benny Hill was the classic addition of Yakkety Sax music over video while Benny Hill performed skits and general buffoonery. Through the magic of the interweb,…
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John Gerzema, Chief Insights Officer for Young & Rubicam, and author of The Brand Bubble: The Looming Crisis in Brand Value and How to Avoid It, appeared live on Bloomberg to argue for brands.
He said, “brand value actually represents one third of the market value of the S&P 500 (up 80% in three decades), so brand value is essentially shareholder value.” He also said the best brands–Nike, Apple, Nordstrom–have achieved “energized differentiation” which allows them to “escape their categories.”
(TrendHunter.com) When people say that the economy has gone down the toilet, I doubt they had the Payday Toilet Seat in mind. Now you can show the economy what you really think by settling onto your brand new throne to…
Unless previously told, you would never fathom that clothes from the Kilakitu Kenyan Cowboy Collection were made from second-hand clothes. The pockets, sleeves, and cuffs are richly detailed in various…
(TrendHunter.com) ‘This is a Secret’ necklaces, by ‘byAMT‘ come as a set of three separate necklaces so you can wear one, two, or three at a time. As you can see from the first photo, the same message can be displayed ambiguously…
(TrendHunter.com) Have you seen your kid hunched forward on the floor, legs crossed, eyes glazed over and one foot from the screen. Then you need to consider the Gamerox chair. It’s a rocker for gamers. It tilts in every…
(TrendHunter.com) “How much do I love thee, let me count the ways…”
I find this kick arse blood set so brilliant, it set me off with a Shakespearean poetry vibe.
This is an awesome Antonio Murado Salome coffee set made…
(TrendHunter.com) Burger King has resorted to inventive marketing strategy recently; undoubtedly as an attempt to capitalize on a credit crunch market that favors cheap and fast food. Combine that with the powerful psychological…
(TrendHunter.com) The name of the chair is the Organic Workstation by Stevie Miles Brewu. I think that last name might be a “concept” name just like the chair, hmmm, Stevie? The idea is a fully adjustable, ergonomic interactive,…
I’m still new to Portland, so there are lots and lots of ad people I have yet to meet in person. Jerry Ketel is one. Dan Wieden is another. I could actually fill a spreadsheet with all the movers and shakers working in Portland’s creative industries that I’d like to meet.
One of the gents who would surely be on such a document is Eric Anderson of White Horse. Anderson is an academic working in digital marketing. He’s writing a book called Surviving the Customer: Game Theory and the Emergence of Social Media.
Here’s an excerpt from his book proposal:
To understand why social media marketing is emerging now and how marketers can transform it into a sustainable resource, we need to look outside the marketing echo chamber to the rich body of work on adverserial relationships developed by the science of game theory. Originally used to help guide nuclear brinksmanship policy during the Cold War, game theory gives us powerful tools to analyze how the traditional “zero-sum game” of marketing has evolved toward cooperation.
Equal parts analysis, manifesto, and hands-on guide, this book will examine all facets of the social media experience through the lens of fascinating game theory concepts like the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the Nash Equilibrium. Marketers , culture hounds, and media gurus alike will emerge with a new understanding of and hope for the potential transformation in the way marketers and consumers talk to each other.
Did I mention that they put smart pills in the water here? Yep, it’s been a city of Portland regulation since way back.
(TrendHunter.com) Back hair: cringeworthy, right? So would you pitch in and help shave your love’s back hair if she asked? The Swerve is new to the market and has a special head and hand grip to keep the blades at just…
The Liberation Army Against Freedom (L.A.A.F) ad features men in Arab attire set in a terrorist-like setting. Not to worry though, the L.A.A.F was created by Dutch officials and are used solely for fireworks…
(TrendHunter.com) Fleshbot (NSFW) released their Top 10 Intimate Toys for 2008. Coming in on top was the SaSi, a rather odd looking design, but apparently very effective. The others, in order, are The Gigi Eleven, top luxury…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re a humanist at heart who buys online, you may want to rethink before hitting the ‘buy’ button. According to a Times Online London investigation, Amazon in the UK is forcing workers to bust their…
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