Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) The BUILT Laptop Backpack is an unusual design that looks more like a bulletproof jacket than a typical case for carrying your notebook.

Made from lightweight neoprene, a water-resistant exterior and breathable air mesh, BUILT accommodates and protects laptops from 12–17″ with extra room for boo…

We know smoking is bad, yet everywhere you go, people are still lighting up. Trying a new approach to typical anti-smoking campaigns is Saatchi & Saatchi who will be releasing an Interactive Poster Campaign For QUIT.

The ads have been put up in place of public ashtrays around London. Each ashtray b…

(TrendHunter.com) When you combine the classic, high-end Jielde lamp with an iPod docking station, you get the Hi-Fi Light. A versatile lamp with a docking station for the iPod or the MP3 player, the Hi-Fi Light also comes with a built-in speaker and vintage-style volume and on/off dials.

The Hi-Fi Light comes in b…

Take a tip from Tim McGraw this summer: if you’re craving some smoky flavours this summer but don’t want to risking getting a barbecue stain on your white Tshirt, try a bag of Spicy Jalapeno Fritos Corn Chips!

For a limited time, the Grammy-award winning country singer is endorsing the crispy snack…

(TrendHunter.com) In order to illustrated their killer editing style, FHM Singapore commissioned ad agency Ogilvy & Mather to create these amazing cut-out ads. The process involved the tedious job of carefully carving through hundreds of pages and cutting out images to produce one brilliantly edited image for each a…

Go to the The TIME 100 special issue to see the series of special issue covers designed for TIME by a handful of acclaimed graphic designers, and a few jammy junior creatives at Euro RSCG New York. Who said that juniors never get to do anything fun?


Euro RSCG was the lone ad agency involved in this project, which also includes cover designs by Neville Brody, Chip Kidd and James Victore. So what did Euro do? Cut horizontal stripes of the faces of each of the top 100 people profiled by TIME this year and put them back together again. Cute.

Kudos to the kids at Euro: Ben Thoma, Katie Anne Naylon, Patrik Bolocek. North American CCO Jose Cabaco and New York ECD Hal Wolverton oversaw the project.

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Are your eyes ready for more colourful news?
The Times. Now with colour on every page.

Advertising Agency: CHI & Partners, London, UK
Executive Creative Director: Ewan Paterson
Creative Directors / Art Directors / Copwriters: Ed Edwards, Dave Masterman
Typographer: Dan Beckett

So, I was doing some gardening, that is weeding out linkrot, from the Collections of ads links in the adlinks spurred on by the sudden spike in emailed questions to me this past week asking “do you know any good ad collection sites?” Well, yeah, but the links I know of, like most other things in my ad-sticky brain are actually already online y’all, so if you missed it here’s me pointing with a giant foam finger at it. *points* —-> Adland’s ad links.

American Package Museum. Oh aren’t they so swell looking? “The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century.” And they do it so well with nicely lit photographs that makes it feel like we’ve taken the Delorian to the past.

Good Logo! You know when your client needs a mockup yesterday and then sends you the logo in the shape of a badly pixellated .jpg? Good logo has saved my ass plenty of times, and serves as a inspiration site when creating logos so I don’t make something far too similar to what is already out there.

Truth in advertising – Cigarette ads from back when “nine out of ten doctors smoke ’em”. How fab.

Ad Classix – where you can browse and buy retro ads from the early 1900s to the 1970s. “AdClassix.com has spent years gathering a unique collection of original, authentic print advertisements spanning the last century. We deal only in the original vintage advertisement produced for any given product. We do not deal in digital copies or mass produced duplicates.”

The History of Advertising Trust Archive:“Over our thirty years of existence we have brought together the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. From the outset our mission has been to make this material available for study and research at the lowest possible cost. HAT Archive houses unique collections and study resources dating from the early 1800s to the present day and we are always looking for ways to develop them and improve our services.”

You too, dear adgrunt, can add your link to the links, but you’ll have to be logged in to do so (spammers really love to try and get one past me there – they have carefully scripted automated bots that hammer the site for days at a time, for real). You can help weed out dead links too, just “report dead link” if you find one that is, this way we keep the link archive fresh and choc full of gems for all adgrunts in the world.

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It only takes a small detail to ruin a great film.

Advertising Agency: MSTF Partners, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Directors: Lourenço Thomaz, Susana Sequeira
Art Director: Tico Moraes
Copywriter: Rui Soares
Published: April 2008

Read today because tomorrow may be too late.

In Portuguese oje means today.

Advertising Agency: McCann, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Directors: Diogo Anahory, José Bomtempo
Art Director: Zeca
Copywriter: João Taveira
Photographer: Krypton Photo
Published: March 2008