Political Spoofs as a Protest – Hillary Clinton for Sunsilk (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The talented artist at Pretty On The Outside has created this artistic spoof of Hillary Clinton for Sunsilk campaign as a protest of the way the candidates have been acting. He finds it “odd that our presidential candidates are dancing on Ellen, appearing on Saturday Night Live, and worst of all, be…

Congress Expands Probe of Prescription-Drug Ads

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has been scrutinizing direct-to-consumer drug advertising for Pfizer's Lipitor, along with Vytorin, jointly marketed by Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp., is expanding its probe to more drugs.

Sensual Foodvertising – PETA Rude Food PSA

PETA’s been known to produce some pretty sexy ads. For the Rude Food PSA, they’ve steered away nude celebrities (who would rather go naked than wear fur) and instead used some very hot, steamy imagery without so much a glimpse of a person.

The video show that even fruits and vegetables can turned i…

Posh Baby Strollers – Metrolla Strolla

(TrendHunter.com) Finally, a stroller that is designed to traverse stairs. The Metrolla Strolla is an awkward high-chair-on-wheels-looking-thingamajig that would also look good in any urban family’s foyer (pronounced foy-a). Then again this baby-moving machine from designer, Dan Levin, looks like something off of rob…

Windows Live Spaces: Rio de Janeiro

Windows Live Spaces: Rio de Janeiro

Again, a world where everybody knows each other.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Group
General Creative Director: Gastón Bigio
Head of Art: Jonathan Gurvit
Creative Directors: Christian Camean, Javier Mentasti
Redactor: Hernán Rebaldería
Arte Director: Santiago Dulce
Design studio: Poderosa.tv
3D artist: Tino Lopez Saubidet
Retoucher: Javier Petrarca

Wii for Miliary Use – Wiimote Diffuses Bombs

(TrendHunter.com) The Wii Remote now has a new application in the real world. The U.S. Military is experimenting with using the Wiimote to control a bomb-defusing robot. The idea is that this new method will make bomb disposal safer.

Sure wish I could get a chance to play with it…although I’d probably get hurt.

Windows Live Spaces: Buenos Aires

Windows Live Spaces: Buenos Aires

Again, a world where everybody knows each other.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Group
General Creative Director: Gastón Bigio
Head of Art: Jonathan Gurvit
Creative Directors: Christian Camean, Javier Mentasti
Redactor: Hernán Rebaldería
Arte Director: Santiago Dulce
Design studio: Poderosa.tv
3D artist: Tino Lopez Saubidet
Retoucher: Javier Petrarca

Windows Live Spaces: Paris

Windows Live Spaces: Paris

Again, a world where everybody knows each other.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Group
General Creative Director: Gastón Bigio
Head of Art: Jonathan Gurvit
Creative Directors: Christian Camean, Javier Mentasti
Redactor: Hernán Rebaldería
Arte Director: Santiago Dulce
Design studio: Poderosa.tv
3D artist: Tino Lopez Saubidet
Retoucher: Javier Petrarca

Mother Approved: Cookie Launches Participation Program


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Conde Nast's Cookie magazine has introduced a seal-of-approval program tapping the voices of readers instead of editors to recommend marketers' products. In the "Word of Mom" program, as the magazine has dubbed it, reader votes will determine honorees in categories like cars, technology, fashion, baby gear and travel.

Apple iPhone: Bet

Apple iPhone: Bet

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA

Chief Creative Officer: Lee Clow
Executive Creative Directors: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum
ACD/Art Director: Alain Briere
Senior Copywriter: Krista Wicklund
Art Director: Drew Stalker
Agency Producer: Serena Auroux

Production Co.: Green Dot Films
Director: Mark Coppos and Virginia Lee
DP: Robert Doumitt

Editorial Co.: Nomad Editing Company, Inc
Editor: Glenn Martin

Post Co.: CO3
Brian Robinson, Stefan Sonnenfeld

Musical Artist: Orba Square
Song: “Perfect Timing (This Morning)”

Fan-Inspired Ultra Mobile PCs – F@N UMPC (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A big problem with current UMPCs is the limited screen size that hurdles multi-tasking or prolonged usage. Inspired by the folding fan of the east, F@N is a concept of a powerful UMPC that looks like a normal one screen device but actually has a hidden keyboard and two other screens that can easily…

Apple iPhone: Brilliant

Apple iPhone: Brilliant

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA

Chief Creative Officer: Lee Clow
Executive Creative Directors: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum
ACD/Art Director: Alain Briere
Senior Copywriter: Krista Wicklund
Art Director: Drew Stalker
Agency Producer: Serena Auroux

Production Co.: Green Dot Films
Director: Mark Coppos and Virginia Lee
DP: Robert Doumitt

Editorial Co.: Nomad Editing Company, Inc
Editor: Glenn Martin

Post Co.: CO3
Brian Robinson, Stefan Sonnenfeld

Musical Artist: Orba Square
Song: “Perfect Timing (This Morning)”

Apple iPhone: Music store

Apple iPhone: Music store

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA

Chief Creative Officer: Lee Clow
Executive Creative Directors: Duncan Milner, Eric Grunbaum
ACD/Art Director: Alain Briere
Senior Copywriter: Krista Wicklund
Art Director: Drew Stalker
Agency Producer: Serena Auroux

Production Co.: Green Dot Films
Director: Mark Coppos and Virginia Lee
DP: Robert Doumitt

Editorial Co.: Nomad Editing Company, Inc
Editor: Glenn Martin

Post Co.: CO3
Brian Robinson, Stefan Sonnenfeld

Musical Artist: Orba Square
Song: “Perfect Timing (This Morning)”

Future Tech Predictions – Laptops in 2015 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Compenion, Canova, Siafu, Cario. These are a few names of laptops we’ll be whining for in 2015. The Compenion concept notebook from Felix Schmidberger in Stuttgart, Germany, has designed a laptop that you just slide up to open. The pair of organic LED panels slide into place next to each other, and …

$300 Billion Green Ad Campaign – Al Gore’s We Can Solve It (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Imagine: You’re extremely committed to stopping global warming, and you want to rest of the world to help you. You have a $300 billion budget. Your name is Al Gore.

Gore’s latest step to showing his pledge to stop climate change comes in the form of a $300 billion ad campaign, the first part of wh…

Fox / Lost: Food supply

Fox / Lost: Food supply

Advertising Agency: Torke, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Director: André Rabanea
Art Director: João Pereira

Target maternity bras: Cranes

Target maternity bras: Cranes

Advertising Agency: The Campaign Palace, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director / Art Director: Tony Leishman
Photographer: Stuart Crossett
Retoucher: Alex Rodriguez
Copywriter: Pat Lennox
Account Director: Cassie Cobain

Instant Tea by Twisting Bottle Cap – Matcha Tea With A Twist (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Just by twisting the air-tight cap, 1.4 grams of high-grade green tea, Kyoto matcha is released into the mineral water, serving up fresh instant tea, with no added chemicals or preservatives. In the same manner, CIC Co. also offers health drinks like Ukon (tumeric) and Aoijiro (kale juice). I’m not …

Reconstructing the Dead – Johann Sebastian Bach Looks Life-Like

(TrendHunter.com) The compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are internationally well known, but what he looked like physically isn’t.

Although he only sat for one portrait his entire life, images of the composer are plentiful as are nicely sculptured busts.

Anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson used state-of-the-art c…

Massaging Backpacks – Airo

(TrendHunter.com) If you don’t mind looking like the Hunchback of Notredom, this Airo messaging backpack will provide you a relaxing massage without having to beg someone for it.

Now that I think about it, having someone walking behind you rubbing your shoulders might not be a good look either.

If my little German …