Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve covered a number of different street style blogs, and recently mentioned The Sartorialist was covering college fashion at Yale. Now the live fashion spotting has spread to events, with Style.com covering the real life fashions of Coachella attendees.

Linlee Allen photographed attendees of Th…

Talk about an emotional roller coaster. Discussions between heads of Microsoft and Yahoo on Saturday concluded with the two companies deciding they don’t mesh well after all. After company insiders divulged Microsoft and Yahoo were in decidedly harmonious merger…

Microsoft badly wants a piece of the online services and advertising action, estimated to be worth $80 billion a year by 2010. But not bad enough to pay $35 a share for Yahoo.

Microsoft’s bid to acquire Yahoo ended yesterday at 4:00 p.m. in a letter from Steve Balmer to Jerry Yang.

“I still believe, even today, that our offer remains the only alternative put forward that provides your stockholders full and fair value for their shares. By failing to reach an agreement with us, you and your stockholders have left significant value on the table. But clearly a deal is not to be.”

My translation: What, our money isn’t good enough? Up yours, Yang.

“This process has underscored our unique and valuable strategic position,” Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said.

“Yahoo is not a strategy; it’s a part of a strategy,” Ballmer told employees on Thursday.

[via The Seattle Times]

We know sex can be used to sell almost everything, we also know alcohol and sex often go hand in hand. That being said, I am still amazed by the blatant sexualization of recent alcohol campaigns.

I guess my surprise stems from the fact that the risqué “rebirth of luxury” ads for Polish vodka brand…

The Power of Hype.

Advertising School: European school of design, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director: Ralph Thamm
Idea / Art / Photography: Pavel Bondarenko

The Power of Hype.

Advertising School: European school of design, Frankfurt, Germany
Creative Director: Ralph Thamm
Idea / Art / Photography: Pavel Bondarenko

The Discovery Channel has been pretty successful with their web-based viral videos, so their upcoming online show, the “Deadliest Catch” is already anticipated to be a hit.

The video shows a glass tank full of crabs falling and breaking, freeing hundreds of crustaceans.

I’m not sure if this ad w…

We’re far away. We need to shout louder.

Advertising Agency: DraftFCB, Barcelona, Spain

We’re far away. We need to shout louder.

Advertising Agency: DraftFCB, Barcelona, Spain

Advertising Agency: DraftFCB, Barcelona, Spain
Creative Executive Director: Sergio Oca
Creative Director: Beto Nahmad, Pep Ferrero
Art Directors: Javi Garcia, Ricard Barbod
Copy: Beto Nahmad, Pep Ferrero
Director: Bárbara Barberá
Film Production: Ice Cream