Hasta La Creative!

If you're looking for some java with a little less hellfire than Dave Mustaine's Legends Cup coffee, indie coffee company CoffeeFool has a few lighter rock roasts. We're angling for some samples, but in the meantime, here's the descriptions and some wild guesses about what to expect when you crack these bags open.

Science is doing everything to fight AIDS. Even plastic is helping.
For every 20 bottles that you put in the recycling bin, the Prtuguese League Against AIDS will receive a donation. Recycle and help us to defend those who are defenseless.

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Portugal
Creative Directors: Diogo Anahory, José Carlos Bomtempo
Art Director: André Lopes
Copywriter: Emerson Braga
Photographer: Claus Stellfeld

Marketers and sponsors are puzzled as to why Latinos just can't get along. They start asking questions about whether Latinos can get their act together when working in so-called cultural collaboration. They lose confidence, and in the end everyone loses.

Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain has just launched an online campaign to bring back the office tea trolley, a much missed tradition in the UK.

The campaign has a dedicated micro site which allows visitors to create and sign an office petition, view campaign videos and even win a tea trolley for the office (a…

Cigarettes kill more

Advertising Agency: F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Brazil
Executive Creative Directors: Fabio Fernandes, Eduardo Lima
Creative Director: Fabio Fernandes, Eduardo Lima
Copywriters: Ricardo Jones, Eduardo Lima
Art Director: Airton Carmignani

LONDON – Two former Maxim employees are launching an online women’s weekly magazine next week targeting ‘real and down-to-earth girls’.

Are Olympics sponsors still feeling uneasy about linking themselves to China in the aftermath of unrest in Tibet and nearby regions? New advertising from Visa indicates as much. A commercial (viewable on a Visa microsite) sounds curiously defensive as it says, “We don’t always agree. But for a few shining weeks, we set it all aside. … We forget all the things that make us different, and remember all the things that make us the same.” At any rate, Visa and other sponsors must hope people do some forgetting. To look at the very handsome spot (via TBWA\Chiat\Day), you might think the Games are being held in L.A. or London or some other uncontroversial venue. (The word “China” goes unspoken.) When the spot identifies Visa as a “proud sponsor of the Olympic Games and the only card accepted there,” a viewer might wonder where “there” is.

—Posted by Mark Dolliver

(TrendHunter.com) Whoever invented these stripper shoes is a genius. The 7 inchers come with a clear, see-through platform and a slot in the hollowed out bottom portion of the toes with the word “Tips” clearly spells out their purpose. As obviously as possible, the shoes send a message the most drunken men couldn…

The Community Design Center of Pittsburgh, a “non-profit organization that improves the quality of life by encouraging good design of the built environment,” ran an ad for last weekend’s Pedal Pittsburgh fundraising event.

20th Century Fox Australia held a flash mob/ social experiment in Sydney’s Pitt St Mall on the weekend which tied into their new film from M. Night Shyamalan called The Happening.

There is a Freeze Sydney happening next month along the same lines as the Fronzen Grand Central stunt done while ago.