(TrendHunter.com) The big building competition in the Arabian Peninsula is really heating up with a really ginormous tower just announced for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Although we revealed this project would be under construction, we didn’t know where it would be built.
The plans show it will be twice as big as the alre…
You’d think if a maternity bra ad was going to get all constructionist with cranes to depict the supportive nature of the bra, they’d get a model with huge boobs who actually looked like she needed support.
Management at a North Dakota television network affiliate are at a loss to explain how and why a commercial for a local car dealership featuring three seconds of male genitalia was broadcast during the ten o’clock news Monday night.
(TrendHunter.com) Normally architects don’t like to deal with the jiggle factor when designing a structure. But when your raw material jelly, it is a prerequisite. Bompas & Parr are running a jelly design competition as part of this summer’s London Festival of Architecture. The resulting molds and preparatory materia…
(TrendHunter.com) It took me a few a seconds to ‘get’ these Jocky Underwear ads, then I just couldn’t stop laughing.
As women appreciate the help of a sports bra while doing physical activities, guys also need an appropriate protection to prevent their family jewels from popping up.
The ‘Stay Put’ campaign shows yo…
(TrendHunter.com) It’s all about speed at the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix Of Long Beach. And we’re not talking about famous race drivers. Actually we’re talking about no drivers at all!
On April 20, 2008, the robotic stars of last year’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge autonomous car race are having another go at the Roboti…
Toys R Us is taking a greener approach to appeal to environmentally conscious customers with a launch of a new eco-friendly line of toys. To mark their Earth Day launch, they’ve also recreated their logo.
The line will include items like unprocessed wood toy and dolls made of untreated organic cott…
Pay-per-view funerals will start in Britain soon. If you can’t make the services, for a fee, you can log on and mourn. Wesley Music will offer the service to funeral parlors around the country for a one time payment of $150 for access to a funeral webcast. If the eulogy is half as good as John Clees…
Like a mother walking in on her son in the middle of a masturbation session, this M&M commercial…
For a lot of people, just mentioning the world vodka stirs up associations with Russia. But is it men, or women that come to mind? In Russia, vodka has typically been advertised as a masculine drink, the majority of ads targeted to males. That’s changing now.
The lavender, lady-like ad for Damskay…
Modernista! deservedly won praise for its innovative and shockingly unsucky Web site. Let’s face it, the bar wasn’t high. But just how ahead of the curve is Modernista! is when it comes to new forms of communication? After all, it committed a big Wikipedia no-no by steering its own entry. Chris Grayson, an amateur sleuth, points out on Modernista!’s Facebook fan page that the agency’s founding partners, Lance Jensen and Gary Koepke, are hardly poster boys for trying out new things. Jensen doesn’t have a Facebook page, and Koepke hasn’t uploaded a photo and doesn’t appear to have any friends. Even on LinkedIn, they leave a small footprint, Grayson notes. Neither one blogs. “This ‘company website as 2.0 filter’ looks a lot more like a stunt, than like an agency that ‘get’s it’ [sic] or is involved in Web 2.0 technology in any real way,†Grayson writes. The question comes down to whether it matters if top agency people do any of this new stuff. On the one hand, you’d think agency people have more important things to do than blog and Twitter. Then again, people like Ian Schafer of Deep Focus and Scott Goodson of StrawberryFrog are hip deep in social media stuff.
—Posted by Brian Morrissey
LONDON (AdAge.com) — Police have been called in to ad agency CHI & Partners to investigate the origin of a rogue e-mail that was sent out across the company last Thursday. The e-mail contained contractual and salary information for all the company's employees in both London and a small New York office.
LONDON – Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam has appointed Jeff Kling, previously creative director of Euro RSCG New York, as its executive creative director.
Unlike a fine Scotch whiskey, blended is a good thing when it comes to automobile wax – a very good thing, it seems. Swizöl sells a car wax that is “blended for a very limited number of collectors and enthusiast each year.” You must have to preorder this stuff because it is custom made for each car…
There’s a detail in this Brandweek story about the “chocolate wars” that really stands out. It seems Hershey is seeking to “recruit hosts for 10,000 chocolate parties during the April 25 weekend.†Chocolate parties!? That’s also part of my utopian vision, and needless to say, I volunteer as a host. (Back of the line, Griner!) The lead agency on Hershey’s Bliss is Havas’s Arnold, aka Adland’s Party Machine, so anything could happen at these bashes. (There might even be chocolate wrestling. Well, probably just chocolate sampling. But that’s still pretty good.) Just don’t invite that M&Ms guy. He’s got issues.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Perhaps in reaction to complaints about their over-sexified imagery in their advertising, American Apparel has decided to opt for something mush less sexy; an image of Woody Allen.
(TrendHunter.com) Pay-per-view funerals will start in Britain soon. If you can’t make the services, for a fee, you can log on and mourn. Wesley Music will offer the service to funeral parlors around the country for a one time payment of $150 for access to a funeral webcast. If the eulogy is half as good as John Clees…
LONDON – Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam has appointed Jeff Kling, previously executive creative director at Euro RSCG New York, as executive creative director.
(TrendHunter.com) Here it is Jaegermeister fans, your very own home tap that dispenses the lovely brew at the perfect zero degrees Fahrenheit.
When the three liter bottles get low, an energy-saving shut-off kicks in to help reduce your carbon footprint. Also featured is a low level signal, and LED lights. The break…
LONDON – Revolution’s latest video webinar will examine the topic: ‘Search and Social Media – friends or foes?’ and will launch on Wednesday, April 30.
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