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Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis, a movie that plays on southern French stereotypes about northerners (the “Ch’tis”), recently beat Titanic’s record at the box office in France.
(TrendHunter.com) From the 12th International Erotic Cinema of Barcelona ad (my favorite) to ordinary bread, super sexy ads always make you look. These photos prove my point.
The endless fascination of womens’ bodies, the eternal love affair with phallic symbols, as in the “Bread is Life” ad, all combine to bring o…
That probably generated traffic trouble.
(TrendHunter.com) This collection showcases 10 of the hottest Youtube music videos of all time (+ 3 bonus videos, because I couldn’t stop myself). To videos were hand picked from Trend Hunter’s collection of more than 2000 viral flicks.
Each of these videos exude creativity and demonstrate the power of thinking o…
Copywriter, blogger, cartoonist and marketing consultant, Hugh MacLeod, has a book deal.
His online manifesto, “How To Be Creative,” has been picked up by Portfolio Books.
I am happy to report that I have just signed a book contract with Portfolio Books [a Penguin imprint] to develop it into a book. Portfolio, by the way, is the same imprint that publishes Seth Godin’s books. We even have the same editor, and I’m told the book will have the same graphic designer that designed Seth’s “Purple Cow”.
Of course I’m excited and happy. Not only do I have a book deal, I have a book deal with a second-to-none, blue chip publisher. Big thanks and kudos to Seth for introducing me to them.
When Rex Hammock heard about the book deal, he said, “it was nice to learn that while it may kill you, blogging can also help you land a book deal.”
Hugh is also considering making larger format art pieces and selling them from a gallery space in Alpine, TX, his recently adopted home.
No word yet on the size of Hugh’s advance, but the PDF version of his manuscript has been downloaded over one million times, so I hope his publisher sent him a decent check.
Christian Lander, the writer of Stuff White People Like, recently landed a $300,000 advance. That kind of loot could go far in West Texas. It might even fund a storefront for cartoonish fine art by the author of a book on conjuring creativity.
(TrendHunter.com) What a powerful campaign!
With a slogan of “Get Unhooked”, these print ads from NHS smokefree show young guys and girls literally hooked. And by hooked I mean a painful hook up their lips.
The ads say “The average smoker needs over five thousand cigarretts a year. Get unhooked” and provide contact…
(TrendHunter.com) Kitchen cutting boards have been receiving some design attention, but I did not expect such a high-tech makeover as Nardo Design’s new high-tech Digital Cutting Board with its built-in flexible LCD display that displays cooking instructions!
Designed by Marc Nardangeli, the cutting board has rub…
Research in Motion founder Mike Lazaridis spoke to BusinesWeek about innovation, management theory and other hot topics of the business day.
Here’s a small part of what he has to say:
If you really want to build something sustainable and innovative you have to invest in R&D. If you build the right culture and invest in the right facilities and you encourage and motivate and inspire both young and seasoned people and put them all in the right environment—then it really performs for you. It’s what I call sustainable innovation. And it’s very different from the idea that you come up with something and then maximize value by reducing its costs. But building a sustainable innovation cycle requires an enormous investment in R&D. You have to understand all the technologies involved.
I see a lesson here for the ad biz. I often think of ads as communications products. But we don’t do traditional R&D in Adlandia (not on our own “products”). Maybe that needs to change. Don’t we want to advance our thinking as the markets we serve advance? Of course we do. But is there one person inside your agency working on this challenge? Is there two, ten or twenty?
It’s been said that an agency can’t all of a sudden become “creative”—that its ability in that area is coded in the shop’s DNA. If you buy that, then there’s either a culture that spurs innovation at the agency, or there isn’t. What do you think? Can the agency biz learn from RIM and improve its product via R&D?
(TrendHunter.com) Make a panda (specifically one called Jingjing) an Olympic mascot and it goes straight to their huge black and white heads.
There is no doubt, Panda’s are everywhere at the moment – a fact cemented in my mind by the panda website – panda fix – which is dedicated these furry beauties… …with even…
Something’s not right with Time’s rank of 25 top blogs. #21 on this list is The Dullest Blog in the World, a literary masterpiece of a diary that hasn’t been updated for two years. When you click on the corresponding cell in the table, you are taken to a description of a different blog called Regret the Error. Is Time trying to tell us something? To quote Time, “Everyday, thousands of bonehead mistakes are printed in newspapers and magazines and go out over the airwaves, and only a tiny fraction of the errors are ever corrected.”
Don’t know why I’m posting about this linkbaiting list at all.
(TrendHunter.com) You’ve got to have balls, so to speak, to wear the flamboyant fashions!
Boys, if you’re going to party in the city where the heat is on, take some pointers from the looks spotted on the catwalks of Miami fashion week. At the Heatherette show at Funkshion, it was all about being super bold this sea…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a campaign from Chile designed to encourage organ and blood donation by young people. The photos show us a bunch of young, tragically cool people getting in line to do their duty. The message, off course, is that it is, like, totally cool to become donors and by performing this selfless act …
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — In a massive coast-to-coast event Tuesday, Starbucks is giving away 8-ounce sample servings of Pike Place Roast, a new blend designed to address complaints that its coffee tastes "burnt."
(TrendHunter.com) Oregon Scientific has put out two really cool retro alarm clocks. The projector alarm clocks feature a projector that shines the time on the ceiling. The clocks also feature atomic-clock synchronization and a temperature display with a wireless thermometer. Very creative.
(TrendHunter.com) How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? Yeah, this is not your typical piece of furniture.
Add some alive furniture to your lawn or garden with these neat looking environmental chair and couch.
Simply fill the frame with soil, spread grass seeds evenly over the dirt, press them in and w…
Advertising Agency: The Martin Agency, USA
Creative Director: Sean Riley
Art Director: Ty Harper
Copywriter: Raymond McKinney
Broadcast Producer: Brian Camp
AP: Katie Chirgotis
Prod Co: Stock Footage – Getty
Editorial/Post: Thoughtstream Media, VA
Editor: Scott Malkie
VFX: Superfad, NY
Music/Composer: Black Iris Music, VA
Audio Post/Sound Design: Rainmaker Studios, VA
Engineer: Jeff McManus
Mixer/Sound Designer: Mike O’Connor
Voiceover Talent: William H. Macy
Aired: April 2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Lifetime has acquired the exclusive rights to Bravo's "Project Runway" beginning with the reality show's sixth season in November 2008. But with the deal comes controversy. Bravo's parent company, NBC Universal, reportedly had an opportunity to provide a competitive bid to Lifetime's offer and didn't. The company filed a lawsuit against Weinstein Co., the show's owners, in the New York State Supreme Court to prevent the series from switching hands.
A spectacular blend of the finest fruit.
Advertising Agency: DDB London, UK
Copywriter: Pablo Arellano
Art director: Miguel Gonzalez
Account handlers: Anna Hopwood, Ben Scoggins, Ildut Loarer
Planners: Vicki Holgate, Georgie Murray-Burton
Photographer: Shinichi Maruyama
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