Abercrombie & Fitch Sponsors Obama’s Concession Speech?

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Now here’s an interesting product placement.

Fake Magazine Bag – Retro Magazine Clutches are Back (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The return of retro continues to be strong in the fashion industry, and it’s exciting to see old styles make themselves available for purchase again. One of the most delicious comebacks is that of the 1970s Magazine Clutch!

They’re plastic-coated and made to look like folded magazines. There’s a go…

Liquid Love

Virtual addiction is beginning to have a corrosive effect on our real-life communities.

Copyranter Beats the Blues, Joins AnimalNewYork

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Less than a week after calling blogging quits unless someone decides to pay him for it, Copyranter got his wish. (Damn. That’s some serious range.)

Puzzle Billboards – McDonald’s Sort Your Head Out Campaign

McDonald’s has been on a roll with some very creative campaigns recently. The latest is an outdoor billboard that invites you to “sort your head out” with their 1 Euro large coffee.

The billboard is actually a puzzle that allows you to shuffle the pieces around to sort out the model’s head. The em…

Another Piece That Aims to Solve ROI Puzzle

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Publicis Groupe's MediaVest is partnering with a market-research company to answer advertising's million-dollar question: Do TV ads make consumers go out and buy products? TRA, a media market research company, has developed a new technology that matches the advertising households receive with the products those households actually buy.

McDonalds’s – Giant Puzzle – Get your head straight – Stockholm, Outdoor

DDB in Stockhoolm are at it again, this time creating an oversized “push puzzle” outdoor poster that only people who’ve had a decent amount of coffee can solve. (actually the poster is located inside, at the central train station.)

Executive Creative Director: Andreas Dahlqvist
Art Director: Simon Higby
Copywriter: Martin Lundgren
Art Director: Viktor Arve

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Typography Rugs – John Pour Home (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Your front entrance helps largely to shape the first impression people get of your home, and your rug plays a role in what you reflect. To show you’re not just an average Joe, let your personality come out with one of these John Pour Home rugs. Instead of having a message printed on them, their shap…

Breathing New Life Into a Refocused Cabler


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — After spending its first seven years in the shadow of Oprah Winfrey, an early investor in the network, Oxygen is finally ready for its spotlight. The latest entrant in NBC Universal's portfolio of cable networks has undergone an exhaustive re-branding, both internally and externally, and will enter this year's upfront with a completely fresh perspective.

Golf Ball Painting – Tiger Woods Paints Buick “Art Rivera” Campaign

The talented Tiger Woods stars in this new artistic “Art Rivera” spot for car maker Buick.

Woods carefully shoots color-filled golf balls at a white canvas. The campaign highlights the attention to details, thought and care coming together to create something beautiful: in Wood’s case an artistic p…

Freak Sister Eats All Day Long Until Rescued by Hot Tub Chicken.

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Oh yea. Let’s make fun of them hillbilly types with their funny accents, horrible fashions and disgusting stomachs.

NYC Garbage Art 2 – Trash for Baseball Fans

The guys over at NYC Garbage are at it again. This time around, they are hawking garbage from Yankee Stadium which is one of the oldest and most fabled sports arena in the country and Shea Stadium, the less celebrated house of the New York Mets. Both stadiums are scheduled to close after the 2008 se…

Don’t Speed Ambient PSA – “Bars”

From Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Australia comes this ambient pedestrian crossing with a message – speed and you’ll end up behind bars.

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Couples Physical Separation Deftly Illustrates Effects of Spousal Abuse

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Sometimes commercials delivers their message with a sledgehammer.

McDonalds Makeover – Hip Store, Sleek Uniforms

McDonalds UK revamped their interiors and got new designer chairs and muted colours, but then they didn’t stop at that and decided the staff needed a makeover too. McDonalds has replaced the brightly coloured uniforms of their employees with a smarter and sleeker range designed by UK design institut…

Most Profitable Companies In The Fortune 500

Well run oil, financial services, technology, retail, health care, communications and consumer packaged goods companies are making money.

Here’s Fortune’s list of most profitable companies:

  • Exxon/Mobil
  • GE
  • Chevron
  • J.P. Morgan Chase
  • Bank of America
  • Microsoft
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Wal-Mart
  • AT&T
  • ConocoPhillips
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • IBM
  • Procter & Gamble
  • Altria Group
  • Pfizer
  • Wells Fargo
  • Cisco Sytems
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Intel

If you work on any of these businesses (or another just like them), I hope you too are making a profit.

Mr Clean / Maestro Limpio – Shine – Billboards, Argentina


Grey Buenos Aires has had some fun with the double billboards promoting the shiny floors you get when using Mr Clean.

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Puzzle Billboards – McDonald’s Sort Your Head Out Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) McDonald’s has been on a roll with some very creative campaigns recently. The latest is an outdoor billboard that invites you to “sort your head out” with their 1 Euro large coffee.

The billboard is actually a puzzle that allows you to shuffle the pieces around to sort out the model’s head. The em…

Bottle Refunds for Charity – Coop Denmark Instant Donations

(TrendHunter.com) In Denmark, as in many other countries, consumers get a refundable deposit on bottles when they return them through a retailer’s collection machine. The machine prints out a slip of paper that states how much they’ll receive at the cash register.

One of Denmark ‘s largest consumer goods retailers…

Ouija Board Instruments – Haunted Musical Furniture (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Oujia Board Slide Guitar by Nicholas Holcomb is a unique fusion of a guitar and table design.

The resulting design is a fun musical piece of furniture that will liven up your living room.

Also check out other unique creations by Nicholas Holcomb below, such as the Speaker Boxes and Starcrusie…