Quek to depart H&K China

BEIJING – Hill & Knowlton China CEO Esmond Quek (pictured) has resigned his position after four years with the agency.

INX poised for Asian expansion

HONG KONG – Indian cable content producer INX Media is looking to diversify its offering with international expansion in Asia, the Middle East and the US, according to chief strategy officer Peter Mukerjea (pictured).

New sports and fashion portal arrives in Hong Kong

HONG KONG – Digital agency New Digital Noise has launched a new sports and fashion portal called One Vs Zero, today, targeting the confluence of the two industries.

Pennies as Ad Mediums – Luckvertizing

Luckvertizing is a term coined by Zoomdoggle.com who affixed the tail sides of 5,000 pennies with tiny messages of luck and their own URL. After about 50 hours of cutting and pasting, they distributed the coins all around NYC, head side (lucky side) up, in areas like Williamsburg, The East Village, …

Modern Dogma Prevention – FM Ads Fight Celebritism, Trashism, Nip tuckism

Galaxy 92 FM wants you to know that it’s all about the music. They ask you to stop modern dogmas that have become the religion of this generation. It’s not about Hinduism or Buddhism anymore, now we have Celebritism, Trashism, and Nip tuckism.

My favorite off the print ads, which were created by L…

Designer Visualization Dolls – Viktor & Rolf Anniversary Exhibit

The kings of peculiar fashion, Viktor & Rolf, celebrate their unique work of the last 10 years with an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. Holding true to their reputation, they are not using models or mannequins, but are dressing two foot tall dolls in miniature remakes of their great…

TV Shows Launched Via Facebook – Mujeres Asesinas

Mujeres Asesinas is a new TV series that is making its media debut on Facebook. The show, which translates to murderous women, touches on family violence and unravels a plot where common women are transformed into murderers as a result of the unforeseen circumstances of life.

With an intelligent …

Healthy Super Chocolate – Xocai

(TrendHunter.com) Xocai chocolate offers guilt free indulgence. “The name Xoçaiâ„¢ consists of the first two letters of the Aztec word, ‘Xocolatl,’ an ancient, Central-American, chocolate drink, and the last three let…

Accident-Avoiding Smart Cars – Michelin “Chess” Car

(TrendHunter.com) Thijs van der Zanden & Frans Hegge of Belgium submitted this vehicle design as part of the 2008 Michelin Challenge Designâ„¢. Titled the “Chess” car, the vehicle features two portions – the “motor” (t…

Carnival Cabinets – Lucas Rise (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tired of neutral furniture? Then the carnival evoking cabinets of Argentinian designer Lucas Rise will put an explosion of colour in your living space. These are focal pieces extraordinaire. His inspi…

Non-Vegetarians Eating Poo – Keimling’s Crappy Ads

Well, what do we have here? An ad for Keimling vegetarian restaurant that basically tells you to stop eating animals because you’re essentially eating crap! A bit extreme, wouldn’t you say?

Both the concept and illustration are by Dian Warsosumarto for Jung von Matt/Donau ad agency in Vienna, Austr…

Seductive Radio Ads – FM Music That Turns You On

I love how this new print ad for Lounge FM 102 ignores the virtue of being subtle or a bit suggestive and goes directly for the kill.

With a slogan of “Music that turns you on”, the ad illustrates just that with a close up shot of a female seductively playing with a man’s ears with her tongue in a…

Music giants call for Baidu boycott

BEIJING – Dubbing Baidu “the largest and most incorrigible purveyor of pirated music in China”, top players in the music industry have joined forces against the search engine, calling for brands to stop advertising on the site.

Whats the buzz?

Nielsen Buzz Metrics was launched a little over a week ago in Australia – here is the low down.
Buzzmetrics is essentially Nielsen Online’s service that allows you to measure trends, qualitative commentary on brands and garner category insights. All based on internet users interactions, conversations and behaviours in the social web…
Nielsen proclaims to have […]

Top 100 Baby Innovations – From Pregnancy to Toddlers (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mothers play such a dominant role in society, and as their worlds are infatuated with their little ones, particularly at their earlier life stages, we’ve created a cluster to show you all the neat inn…

Top 28 Hip Innovations for Seniors (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want to be a more savvy senior? Cutting edge and hip aren’t just adjectives to describe things geared at younger generations; in fact, there are incredible innovations for baby boomers and seniors too…

Sculpted Fitness Chocolates – Abdominal Muscle Bars for Men (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You know how they say Swiss chocolate is the best in taste? Well I think French chocolate is the best in presentation. The chocolatier Jean-Paul Hévin launched the first chocolate bars without sugar…

Visible Magnetic Fields – NASA’s Magnetic Movie (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Magnetic fields are usually invisible but scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory have successfully found a way to make them visible, as demonstrated in the video. Nasa’s short film, appr…

Political Fusion Portraits – Obama-Lincoln

(TrendHunter.com) Ron English, a New York-based counter culture billboard artist, created this Barack Obama-Abraham Lincoln fusion portrait that will likely spark some very lively discussions.

The image was created a…

Celeb Metamorphosis Spreads – Angelina Jolie’s Vanity Fair Photos (II) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vanity Fair revealed the much anticipated photos from their hot July issue featuring Angelina Jolie. Besides the voluptuous cover shot, photographer Patrick Demarchelier captured Jolie on January 31 i…