Cycle Agarbatti: Lord Shiva

Cycle Agarbatti: Lord Shiva

Cycle Agarbatti is the world’s largest manufacturer of devotional incense sticks. Many people in India are illiterate, they recognize the brand via the bicycle picture.

Advertising Agency: Mudra, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Bobby Pawar, Rajesh Sonawane, Mahendra Bheda, Varun Mehta
Art Directors: Girish Wadisherla, Vivek Jadhav, Vijayanand
Copywriters: Varun Mehta, Deepa Rao
Photographer: Mietsh Popat
Digital: Sudhir Gautam
Published: December 2007

Cycle Agarbatti: Lord Hanuman

Cycle Agarbatti: Lord Hanuman

Cycle Agarbatti is the world’s largest manufacturer of devotional incense sticks. Many people in India are illiterate, they recognize the brand via the bicycle picture.

Advertising Agency: Mudra, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Bobby Pawar, Rajesh Sonawane, Mahendra Bheda, Varun Mehta
Art Directors: Girish Wadisherla, Vivek Jadhav, Vijayanand
Copywriters: Varun Mehta, Deepa Rao
Photographer: Mietsh Popat
Digital: Sudhir Gautam
Published: December 2007

Cycle Agarbatti: Goddess Laxmi

Cycle Agarbatti: Goddess Laxmi

Cycle Agarbatti is the world’s largest manufacturer of devotional incense sticks. Many people in India are illiterate, they recognize the brand via the bicycle picture.

Advertising Agency: Mudra, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Bobby Pawar, Rajesh Sonawane, Mahendra Bheda, Varun Mehta
Art Directors: Girish Wadisherla, Vivek Jadhav, Vijayanand
Copywriters: Varun Mehta, Deepa Rao
Photographer: Mietsh Popat
Digital: Sudhir Gautam
Published: December 2007

Umbro: The dog

Umbro: The dog

Advertising Agency: DDB Nantes, France
Art Director: Tristan Omnes
Copywriter: François Dupuy
Director : Pierre Isoard
Production : Blue Marlyn

Umbro: WC

Umbro: WC

Advertising Agency: DDB Nantes, France
Art Director: Tristan Omnes
Copywriter: François Dupuy
Director : Pierre Isoard
Production : Blue Marlyn

Nudevertising for Wine – Avondale Wine Goes ‘Au Naturel’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The “Au Naturel” campaign for Avondale Wine is simple and straight to the point: we are getting back to nature.

The brand made a decision a few years ago to produce wine in a natural way that will not harm the environment. They use cover crops instead of fertilizers to restore the balance of the so…

Controlling the Weather (UPDATE) – Beijing to Use Rockets to Stop Rain for Olympics

(TrendHunter.com) In 2007, Trend Hunter featured the concept that Beijing would be controlling the weather during the Olympics. Despite some controversy (which is hardly new for these games), messing with mother nature will continue. So here’s the update on HOW.

To assure perfect weather for the 2008 summer Olympi…

Varta Flashlights: Lights on

Varta Flashlights: Lights on

Advertising Agency: Serviceplan, Dritte Werbeagentur, Munich, Germany
Creative Director: Christoph Everke
Art Director: Alexander Nagel
Copywriter: Cosimo Möller
Production: Elaine Viebrock, Tanja Bruhn, cobblestone Hamburg
Postproduction: Marc Paap, Torsten Eichten, schoenheitsfarm Hamburg
Director: Marc Paap
Managing Director: Alexander Monagas
Aired: March 2008

Kenstar Air Coolers: Hammock

Kenstar Air Coolers: Hammock

Breeze that pampers.

Advertising Agency: Triton Communications, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Shyam Samant, Ryan Abraham
Art Director: Amol Mahadik
Copywriter: Mayank Yadav
Illustrator: Vivek Chaudhary
Published: March 2008

Kenstar Air Coolers: Chair

Kenstar Air Coolers: Chair

Breeze that pampers.

Advertising Agency: Triton Communications, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Shyam Samant, Ryan Abraham
Art Director: Amol Mahadik
Copywriter: Mayank Yadav
Illustrator: Vivek Chaudhary
Published: March 2008

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 3

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 3

All you need on document solutions and office supplies. Now in Miami Beach.

Creative Directors: Matías Aubi, Ariel Dress
Art Director: Matias Aubi
Copywriter: Ariel Dress
Illustrator: Ernesto Sotera
Photographer: Ana de Rosso

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 2

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 2

All you need on document solutions and office supplies. Now in Miami Beach.

Creative Directors: Matías Aubi, Ariel Dress
Art Director: Matias Aubi
Copywriter: Ariel Dress
Illustrator: Ernesto Sotera
Photographer: Ana de Rosso

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 1

Maclee Express: Miami Beach, 1

All you need on document solutions and office supplies. Now in Miami Beach.

Creative Directors: Matías Aubi, Ariel Dress
Art Director: Matias Aubi
Copywriter: Ariel Dress
Illustrator: Ernesto Sotera
Photographer: Ana de Rosso

Pixel Reducing Table – Buy Now Before The Table Gets Too Small (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “This table will self-destruct,” notes the product page. Well, not literally. The table is made by Studio1am and the way it works is that every time they make a table, it will be slightly smaller than the previous one by virtue of the fact that one pixel will have been removed. That tells us that 1…

Toyota: Full of life

Toyota: Full of life

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Paris, France
Creative Director: Christophe Coffre
Art Director: Florian Roussel
Copywriter: Guillaume Blanc
3D: Walee
Published: 2008 April

Kulula South African Tourism: Swede

Kulula South African Tourism: Swede

Advertising Agency: King James, Cape Town, South Africa
E.C.D: Alistair King
Art director: Greg Cameron
Copywriter/Creative Head: Paige Nick
Agency Producer: Sam Kelly
Account executives: Melanie de Winnaar, Lisa Roux
Production Company: Velocity Films, Johannesburg
Director: Anton Visser
Producer: Prenneven Govender
D.O.P: Michael Cleary
Post production co: Left Post Production
Editor: James Hosking
Facility co: The Refinery
Visual Effects/animation co: Depth VFX
Audio Facility: Produce
Audio Engineer: Louis Enslin

Kulula South African Tourism: American

Kulula South African Tourism: American

Advertising Agency: King James, Cape Town, South Africa
E.C.D: Alistair King
Art director: Greg Cameron
Copywriter/Creative Head: Paige Nick
Agency Producer: Sam Kelly
Account executives: Melanie de Winnaar, Lisa Roux
Production Company: Velocity Films, Johannesburg
Director: Anton Visser
Producer: Prenneven Govender
D.O.P: Michael Cleary
Post production co: Left Post Production
Editor: James Hosking
Facility co: The Refinery
Visual Effects/animation co: Depth VFX
Audio Facility: Produce
Audio Engineer: Louis Enslin

Kulula South African Tourism: Japanese

Kulula South African Tourism: Japanese

Advertising Agency: King James, Cape Town, South Africa
E.C.D: Alistair King
Art director: Greg Cameron
Copywriter/Creative Head: Paige Nick
Agency Producer: Sam Kelly
Account executives: Melanie de Winnaar, Lisa Roux
Production Company: Velocity Films, Johannesburg
Director: Anton Visser
Producer: Prenneven Govender
D.O.P: Michael Cleary
Post production co: Left Post Production
Editor: James Hosking
Facility co: The Refinery
Visual Effects/animation co: Depth VFX
Audio Facility: Produce
Audio Engineer: Louis Enslin

5 Trends So Popular They Knocked Trend Hunter Offline

(TrendHunter.com) Over the last two years, Trend Hunter has outgrown its server on several occasions, often marked by killer trends that knocked the server offline. This month, several of these trends pushed our traffic up to nearly 3,000,000 monthly views. Accordingly, we are about to make our final server migrati…

Big Buck Pop Art – Banksy’s Kate Moss Sells for $150,000

(TrendHunter.com) These prints by the suddenly-ubiquitous graffiti artist Banksy, recently sold for £96,000(about $152,000) at the Bonham’s Urban Art auction. The painting is the artist’s take on Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. Only instead of Monroe’s image, Banksy has used Kate Moss. Luxist notes, “In terms of p…