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

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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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…

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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(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…

The new Armani Exchange Spring Summer 2008 campaign “Style Tribe” exudes an intense mood of sensuality and style with a theme of escapism to exotic locations with your friends or “tribe”.

Shot in Ibiza, the campaign was shot by fashion photographer Tom Munro and styled by Victoria Bartlett. The…

Perhaps there’s an emerging Web aesthetic: the Modernista! school. Many have debated the (de)merits of the Boston shop’s Web 2.0 “un-Web-site” that directs users to content around the Web. (Some say Modernista! didn’t pioneer the approach, giving credit to Minneapolis agency Zeus Jones for doing it first.) Now, StrawberryFrog is using the Modernista! tack with GirlSmiles.org, a charity site set up for Nanhi Kali, a fund to educate poor children in India. Navigate to the site and you’ll get a familiar unsettled experience, with the Nanhi Kali (“Save the girls”) logo appearing in the corner of the screen. Clicking on the links takes visitors to sites across the Internet. The “About” page is the Nanhi Kali Wikipedia entry, the “community” link goes to the Facebook page, and so on. Despite the striking similarities, Frog CEO and prolific blogger Scott Goodson says work on the site began in February (with help from AlbertKen in Sweden), two months before Modernista! launched its agency site. Besides, he adds, the effort isn’t about self-promotion but could “reinvent the way non-profits build social relationships with people [at] a time when social media is a totally new and hugely powerful medium.” Check it out. Goodson urges you to follow Supertramp’s words of wisdom: “Give a little bit of yourself.”

—Posted by Brian Morrissey

Some British TV viewers have objected to this Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain ad from Leo Burnett—in particular, the part when the doctor (who’s actually a Nutri-Grain baker) orders the patient to take his trousers off and then brandishes a giant red oven mitt. The industry watchdog is allowing the ad to stay on the air (minus the trousers line) after ruling that the doctor/baker is clearly “a surreal, eccentric figure” and not “a powerful or authoritative figure.” Whatever the case, hopefully Nutri-Grain washes its oven mitts regularly.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

(TrendHunter.com) The new Armani Exchange Spring Summer 2008 campaign “Style Tribe” exudes an intense mood of sensuality and style with a theme of escapism to exotic locations with your friends or “tribe”.

Shot in Ibiza, the campaign was shot by fashion photographer Tom Munro and styled by Victoria Bartlett. The…