Calgary Zoo: Steak

Calgary Zoo: Steak

Come face-to-face with the top of the food chain. Book a behind the scenes tour with the lions at CalgaryZoo.com

Advertising Agency: Trigger, Calgary, Canada
Creative Director: Patrick Doyle
Art Directors: Todd Blevins, Elise Russell
Copywriter: David Delibatto
Photographer: Matt Barnes

Cute Profanity as Fashion – The Cheeky Parisienne Is Back (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This time last year we were blown away by the cuteness and cheekiness of parisien fashion designer, Nicole Locher. Trend Hunter covered her line of ‘Embroidered Profanity’. In short, her collection consisted of the cutest little tops, with the naughtiest messages embroidered onto them.

Now she i…

Help the Honey Bees – Haagen Dazs Promotes New Cause

Luxe ice cream manufacturer Haagen Dazs has developed an elaborate public awareness campaign to the help save the honey bees. Alarmingly “more than 25% of the Western honey bee population has disappeared over the last several winters.”

The ad is an operatic video by the Goodby Silverstein & Par…

Warner Home Video, Horror Classics Collection: Chicken

Warner Home Video, Horror Classics Collection: Chicken

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Brazil
Creative Director: Ruy Lindenberg
Art Director: Alessandro Bernardo
Copywriter: João Caetano Brasil
Production Company: Pródigo Films
Director Caito Ortiz
D.O.P/Lighting/Cameraman Marcelo Trotta
Editor Alexandre Boechat
Music: Raw Produtora de Áudio
Sound Design/Arrangement Hilton Raw
Post Production Prodigo films

Misplaced Body Parts as Advertising – The Mebucaine Throat Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Misplaced body parts always freak me out. It all started with Madonna’s Bedtime Story music video which had her eye as a mouth and vice versa.

The new freaky campaign for Mebucaine places an open mouth on your throat/neck to illustrate how you can open your throat with their sore throat medicine.…

Photo Speakers – Speakers with Pictures for Your PC

(TrendHunter.com) Long ago Trend Hunter featured art speakers, which were essentially paintings that could pump your tunes. These photo speakers are pretty similar but they are photo frame speakers for your PC.

If you are tired of the same conventional looking speakers, then give these photo frame speakers a try. …

Dreamliner Gallery – Actual Showroom For the $150 Million Boeing Dreamliner (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) After spending a fortune on an empty aircraft, buyers of Boeing Dreamliner can enjoy the experience of equipping their own airplane.

In the Dreamliner Gallery, a showroom created by Boeing, customers can walk in and choose the type of seats, interiors, coffee makers, entertainment systems they wan…

Website for Ethical Fashion – The BBC’s ‘Thread: Fashion Without Victims’

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) launched an ethical fashion ezine named “Thread”. The online magazine seeks to address issues many fashion-conscious and environmentally-responsible people constantly grapple with such as the damage sustained by the environment due to irresponsible and unethica…

Help the Honey Bees – Haagen Dazs Promotes New Cause (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Luxe ice cream manufacturer Haagen Dazs has developed an elaborate public awareness campaign to the help save the honey bees. Alarmingly “more than 25% of the Western honey bee population has disappeared over the last several winters.”

The ad is an operatic video by the Goodby Silverstein & Par…

Website for Ethical Fashion – The BBC’s ‘Thread: Fashion Without Victims’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) launched an ethical fashion ezine named “Thread”. The online magazine seeks to address issues many fashion-conscious and environmentally-responsible people constantly grapple with such as the damage sustained by the environment due to irresponsible and unethica…

Leading Car Designers Creating Toys – Honda Wins Hot Wheels Design Competition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Lead designers from Honda, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Lotus and Mitsubishi all competed in a Hot Wheels Design Competition. The competition celebrated the 40th anniversary of Hotwheels 1/64th-scale die-cast toy cars.

The Honda Racer is a winning concept from a design competition by Mattel Toys. Hon…

Galaxies Gone Wild – Breathtaking NASA Images to Celebrate 18th Anniversary of the Hubble (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In celebration of the Hubble telescope’s 18th anniversary, NASA has released a compilation of 59 galactic photographs taken from the renowned telescope. NASA calling the the collection of dynamic images “Galaxies Gone Wild”.

These five pics are my favorites from the “Galaxies Gone Wild” collection…

Bright Duffel Bags and Satchels Hot This Spring – Fergie Promotes Kipling Bags (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie has joined Belgian brand Kipling for a second time to promote a new Spring collection of totes, duffel bags and satchels that “express Fergie’s subversive style” says TopModelsGuide.com.

The bags are made of bright patent leather with multicolor kaleidoscopic neon pri…

Shadow Design – Transform Your Roof Into Art With The Rosett (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I have always been fascinated by shadow decorations and how light can transform a boring surface into a more visually appealing one. That’s why I love this design, Rosett, which gives you an instant imitation of the appearance of shadow decoration. Simply screw it into an electric socket with just a…

Retro Reinvented – Cassette Tape MP3 Player (Actually Works in a Cassette Deck)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember that old contraption known as a cassette tape? I’m sure there are youngsters out there who haven’t seen one. Well, here we a have a novel gadget being unveiled that combines a cassette tape with MP3 storage in flash memory and connectivity via a USB port. The cassette MP3 player accepts SD …

Is Clutter the New Minimalism – Artistic iPod Island Hub (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As an act of defiance and rebelliousness against the current trend towards minimalistic high tech gadgets, designers Ingo Strobel and Katja Hiendlmayer have come up with this ironic one-off iPod Island Hub art installation. The minimalism trend is best exemplified by Apple and its products, so it wa…

Top 50 Breakthroughs in Graffiti (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This super gallery showcases the cutting edge of graffiti, including remote controlled graffiti robots, graffiti chocolate bars, LED graffiti throwies and cleanvertising.

Graffiti and counter-culture art have always represented the cutting edge of cool, but modern advances are taking graffiti to …

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Glocalisation Advertising Strategies in India

Globalization is one thing that most international companies invest in today and it is an aggressive practice in the local shores of India. Large names that include Coca Cola and McDonalds have adopted the new termed practice called Glocalisation, a saleable mix of the global and the local, which represents the human capacity to bridge scales from the local to global and vice versa.

Product association is evident in our local regions and for international companies known throughout the world, the need to rev up the consumer awareness has become a critical need. India has so far acknowledged this need and companies who have intended to join in this Glocalisation practice are jumping in one by one.

Advertising agencies in our country are increasingly going in for international tie-ups. As a result, foreign brands are suddenly seeking local attention. The art of making an advertisement look local and endearing to Indians is the global spin-off in advertising,” Vipin Dhayani, creative head of the Everest Brand Solutions, said.

(Source) Zeenews

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E-Paper Clothes – Lunar BLU Jacket Display

(TrendHunter.com) E-paper technology has been tantalizing our minds and imaginations with each new, fascinating development that crops up. Lunar Design created the Lunar BLU which is a concept jacket that uses flexible organic E-paper that can show other people your mood, subway maps (as the picture shows) and even v…