Hasta La Creative!

I did not need to see Harrison Ford getting his chest waxed for this PSA. In fact, I’m tempted to chop down a bit of the rainforest to protest this Conservation.org spot. It doesn’t help that, logically speaking, the pain he feels from … ugh … waxing is far more immediate than that felt by clear-cutting- related carbon emissions in South America. That settled, let’s never talk about this again.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

The sea is at risk of becoming uninhabitable. Join us before it’s too late.

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam Paris, Boulogne Billancourt, France
Creative Director: “Les Six”
Art Director / Copywriter: Louis Carpentier
Photographer: Corbis
Published: May 2007

The sea is at risk of becoming uninhabitable. Join us before it’s too late.

Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam Paris, Boulogne Billancourt, France
Creative Director: “Les Six”
Art Director / Copywriter: Louis Carpentier
Photographer: Corbis
Published: May 2007

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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– I thought this Meth Minute video would be a wacky cartoon about abusing methamphetamines. But it was just a reel of complaint calls.

Saatchi & Saatchi Brussels – “When swallowing hurts”.

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Feathers have been ruffled by Swedish bus-company ads that show kids drinking from gas pumps—images that were meant to send the message that the company uses biofuels that are practically safe enough to drink. Says one critic: “Children may be inspired by the ads to put a nozzle into their mouth, and if it is not rapeseed oil, then it can be catastrophic.” Looking at the image above, I wonder if children might be inspired by the ads to do some other controversial stuff, too.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

LONDON – Chemistry Communications scooped the two big prizes at this year’s ISP Awards, Agency of the Year and the Grand Prix, while snaring four additional Golds.

(TrendHunter.com) Some pictures just beg to be parodied. After recently featuring a spoof of Lohan’s recreation of Monroe’s Last Sitting shoot, we bring you a parody of one of the most iconic underwear ads of the past …

I’m a bit baffled by this bit of merchandising for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but I have to admit it’s awesome on some intrinsic level. The Crystal Skull Adventure Projector appears to be little more than a pimped-out View-Master for archeological scenes, with the obvious distinction that it’s also a projector. Oh, and it’s a frickin’ skull. If you’ve still got extra cash around after dropping $39.99 on one Indiana Jones skull, why not drop $2,600 on another? Via OhGizmo.

—Posted by David Griner