Hasta La Creative!

(TrendHunter.com) Why can this dinky MP3 player be a threat to the omnipresent iPod you ask? It has a secret microSD card slot that will enable you to stuff this player with 32Gb of music and the battery lasts 24hrs for constant music playing or 5 hours of video watching

This ad for Best Maid pickles makes me dislike kids, animation and, by extension, pickles. It tries hard to be cute. Too hard. The little girl, drowning in ringlets, who plays hide-and-seek with “Smiley,” the company’s logo, squeals like nails on a blackboard. What’s she saying, anyway? Something pickle-related, most likely, but all the words sound like squeals. Then Mom arrives with the same squeaky voice and forced exuberance. The spot exudes a kind of 1950s family aesthetic gone wrong. It’s cornball and creepy, calling to mind pre-Jamie Lee Curtis Activia commercials in which apparently average people in everyday situations act so oddly, the spots take on sinister overtones. Dig deeper in that fridge, high-pitched moppet, and you’ll come across some Bifidus Regularis, way in back. (And check out that other kid on Best Maid’s site. He really likes that hamburger. Scary.)

—Posted by David Gianatasio

(TrendHunter.com) Adi Marom, a New York based designer, created an online project where you can create your own DIY finger-puppets of Obama, Hillary and McCain and stage your own presidential debates!

The process is simple! It’s all there, at your fingertips: Download the candidate, print, cut, fold, glue… And set…

(TrendHunter.com) Jeremy is this true? A new brain-scan study might explain why incredibly crafty financial dudes make risky financial decisions. And guess what – it’s sex. In a new study, young men were more likely to make a larger financial gamble after being shown erotic pictures.*cough* cough*. That’s because dir…

Advertising School: Sir J.J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India
Art Director / Copywriter / Illustrator: Abhijit Kalan

Advertising School: Sir J.J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai, India
Art Director / Copywriter / Illustrator: Abhijit Kalan

Because making electronic music wasn’t nerdy enough, here’s a promotional video for something called the beamz Music Performance System, which harnesses the power of lasers to “unleash … the musical creativity that’s harbored in every soul.” In reality, it’s a cross between a synthesizer and a harp, and it’s a cool idea marred by a goofy design and Sharper Image’s tarnished reputation. Let’s hope they don’t do to music what they did to air purification.

—Posted by David Kiefaber

(TrendHunter.com) Looking like a leaky blue balloon, or a big drop of water, Giulio Iacchetti’s “Drop” shower head for iB Rubinetterie, improves water delivery and because it’s made of silicon, it doesn’t allow for the formation of icky lime deposits. The whole idea is to save water when showering, making every “Drop…

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Dubai, UAE
Regional Creative Director: Malek Ghoryaeb
Creative Director: Munah Zahr
Art Director: Tushar Mahajan
Illustrator: Anil Palekar
Photographer: Daryl Patni

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Dubai, UAE
Regional Creative Director: Malek Ghoryaeb
Creative Director: Munah Zahr
Art Director: Tushar Mahajan
Illustrator: Anil Palekar
Photographer: Daryl Patni