Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Yahoo has reaffirmed its opposition to Microsoft’s takeover attempts, unveiling plans to double revenues over the next three years.

Eva Longoria Parker who plays Gabrielle Solis on Desperate housewives may want to call a lawyer – or just close her eyes and pretend she never saw this.

Pipedream products (link totally NSFW!) has come up with a series of blow-up dolls themed around stars characters in TV shows and films – I don’t know if this is sheer genius or creepy as hell.

There’s Sarah Jessica Parker as her sex in the city character, and Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba as her Sin City self. To save you from persuing any porn-pages you may click read more simply laugh at the packaging of these things. I hope I don’t have to repeat that they are considered kind of not safe for work etc – I mean, it’s blow-up doll packaging. There will be words on it that may offend you or your pets.

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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Search specialist 360i has made another move to round out its offerings, acquiring New York-based design and development agency i33.

Makes stains look harmless.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett Singapore
Executive Creative Director: Chris Chiu
Creatives: Victor Ng, Jon Loke

Simon Dumenco of Ad Age made me laugh this morning.

Now that Web 2.0 seems, with each passing day, to be less and less magical — what with softening click rates and the rising realization that it’s going to be insanely difficult to effectively monetize social networking — “Don’t be evil” sounds increasingly hilarious. If anything, the old-media titans and new-media boy geniuses defining the future of the web are in a battle to out-evil each other.

That may not be the funniest paragraph in Dumenco’s opinion piece, but it delivers his thesis.

Designed for precision.

Advertising Agency: Ad Planet Group, Singapore
Executive Creative Director: eo
Associate Creative Director: Alfred Teo
Art Directors: Leo, Khoo Meng Hau
Copywriter: James Tan
Agency Executive Producer: Sabrina Tan

May the most effective win.

Agency: McCann Erickson, Singapore
Illustrators: Terry Lim, Tang Kee Hong, Liong Khoon Kiat
Art Director / Typographer: Liong Khoon Kiat
Executive Creative Director: Farrokh Madon
Copywriter: Parixit Bhattacharya

May the most effective win.

Agency: McCann Erickson, Singapore
Illustrators: Terry Lim, Tang Kee Hong, Liong Khoon Kiat
Art Director / Typographer: Liong Khoon Kiat
Executive Creative Director: Farrokh Madon
Copywriter: Parixit Bhattacharya

New York magazine does its big Eliot Spitzer wrap this week, and commissioned 10 artists to capture the former New York governor’s fall from grace. Three entries are from Ogilvy & Mather staffers, including the pithy one above, by Tom Godici and Greg Ketchum. Ogilvy’s Andy Gray created the other two. See those after the jump.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

Techcrunch explains why Charlie Rose was sporting a huge black eye and sporting a bandage over part of his forehead while doing his show last night. No, he hasn’t been in a barfight – he tripped on a pothole while walking on 59th Street in Manhattan. At the time though, he was carrying his shiny new MacBook Air, so he had a decision to make, catch himself or the Macbook Air? He chose the Air.
“In doing so, he pretty much hit the pavement face first, unfortunately,” the producers said “The Macbook Air is fine, he showed us the blood stains on it this morning.”
All hail Rose the gadgetgeek with the right priorities.

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