Hasta La Creative!

Every picture has a soundtrack.

Advertising Agency: The Tribe, Dubai, UAE
Via: ArabAd’s Creative Archive

American Shelf Life’s Amanda Mooney sent in this ad seen on Ads of the World which she described as “creepy.”

The Wall Street Journal has an article this morning about banner blindness on soc nets and steps companies are taking to be seen in these environments. One example I took note of was Slide’s Facebook “Top Friends” campaign.

Slide, which sells programs that people can use to decorate their pages on sites such as Facebook, has launched campaigns with advertisers including Energy Brands’ Glaceau Vitaminwater and Estée Lauder.

One campaign lets Slide users send virtual representations of different-flavored bottles of Vitaminwater to friends online through an application called “Top Friends.” In eight days, Slide says, users sent 10 million “bottles” of Vitaminwater.

I just installed the application. If te Vitaminwater campaign is still running, I’ll report back.

I spent most of the weekend catching up on Desperate Housewives and Lost on ABC.com. As a result, I got really chummy with Charles Schwab’s “Talk to Chuck” campaign.

Forrester Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang has written a concise summary with insightful commentary on the Louis Vuitton brand-jacked Darfur t-shirt situation.

Advertising Agency: JWT, Jakarta, Indonesia
Executive Creative Director: Juhi Kalia
Creative Director: Randy Rinaldi
Art Director: Imelda Untoro
Copywriter: Dessi Tambunan
Photographer: Sam Nugroho
Digital Imaging: Rudi Harianto
Print Producer: Gina Virginia Ma’ruf
Published: May 2007

Advertising Agency: JWT, Chennai, India
Creative Director: Senthil Kumar
Art Directors: Puja.S, P.K. Prasad
Copywriter: Ashwin Parthiban
Fabrication: J. Jayprakash
Other additional credits: Ravi, A.P. Baskar, Yogesh Khairnar
Released: November 2007

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Jinhong Lin has come up with a simple way to create an eco-friendly coach hanger out of bamboo, perfect for those into the eco-chic movement.

Bamboo is quickly becoming one of the top environmentally-friendly resources in design and fashion. In addition to being cost-efficient, bamboo is …

The Calgary Zoo is running a warped print campaign that depicts how animals must see you — and your drool-worthy spawn — from inside their steel cages.

You may feel finished with 2007, but that doesn’t mean you’ve seen the last of its advertising. (Far from it, actually.)