Hasta La Creative!

French company Tefal is promoting a newfangled muscle:fat tracking scale for beachside midlifers that suffer the indignity of sucking it in.

(TrendHunter.com) The fun T-sketch T-shirt lets your write any message or display any logo or picture on your chest with a cool illumination effect. What you write or draw on the integrated chest display is automatically converted into an illuminated message or design of which you can adjust the intensity.

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Here’s some behind the scenes footage of that foam shoot that bathed the streets of Miami with gallons and gallons of soap suds

SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — AT&T is taking on Verizon Wireless and its "best coverage" quality claims, a move some observers of the telecom industry say is overdue. But others say AT&T trails several other providers in overall quality of service based on consumer surveys.

One of the things we enjoy at Coffee Morning, besides coffee, is playing host to students. Tomorrow will be one of those days. The University of Arkansas Ad Club will be making its way to Kansas City for some agency tours and will also be on hand for some coffee and chats. If you’re up to it, come on down to JP Wine Bar for a warm beverage and some excellent conversations. We’ll be there starting at 7:30.

PLEASE NOTE: There will be no "calling of the Hogs," barefoot hillbillies, or boyfriend/girlfriends that are siblings. That means you, too, Andrew.

Dear Aeon Co.: There seems to be some mistake. Last Saturday night, I rented one of your robo-babysitters for Junior. The missus and I have had trouble finding local teens for the job because they’re too busy uploading fake pictures to their MySpace accounts. Also, Junior starts fires. But that’s a story for another day. We requested your 1.4-meter model with the ad-projector eyes. Ads for Volvo would have been especially appreciated. (Sorry, since that hypnosis focus group, I can’t get Volvo out of my mind.) However, you sent us a somewhat larger model, which then proceeded to decimate the neighborhood. At first I was upset. But frankly, Junior’s never been so well behaved and quiet. (The doctors say he’s “traumatized,” but that’s a big word I’m too lazy to look up.) In fact, I’d like to reserve the big metal guy for the upcoming weekend! Since he ate my Prius, I’m heading out to buy a Volvo C70 which, as we know, combines sleek and stylish design with class-leading safety features to turn heads everywhere it goes!

—Posted by David Gianatasio

The following Taco Bell commercial from last fall has had a recent inexplicable resurgence on broadcast TV over the past few weeks, and it’s got me thinking a bit about tv spots and the music chosen to accompany them.

Aside from the bizarre appearance of the grim reaper and a few other oddities, the most bizarre (or at least thought provoking) thing about the commercial is the use of Modern English’s “I melt with you.” While the song has a special place in my heart, I’m not sure that the connection with Taco Bell really works for me. New Wave and Cheesy Beefy Melt don’t really go hand in hand in my mind, and I’m left thinking about Modern English – not ye old Bell.

It’s really no different than a few other fast food commercials over the past year, most notably the Wendy’s spot that used the Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun” on TV and radio. There was also the Nintendo DS commercial with all the kids singing “Santeria” by Sublime. Not necessarily horrible, but peculiar choices, and ones that I don’t think i would have consciously made.

Does dumping a cult classic or one-hit wonder song into a commercial always make sense? Is it always the best idea? Does the grim reaper really eat at Taco Bell? Just a few questions that have been mulling around in my head lately.

“More people die in road accidents than in wars.” That’s the point these Honda “Drive Safely” print ads try to make to promote driving safety.

The safety campaign uses three famous war paintings with scenes of death and chaos.

If you look closely, you will find that the ads creatively incorporate …

Cadbury’s eagerly awaited sequel to the “gorilla” Dairy Milk spot will debut this Saturday, featuring a midnight truck race set to Queen’s 80s track Don’t Stop Me Now.

(TrendHunter.com) Flowers are generally considered a pretty, gentle item to bring into the home. They’re usually displayed in delicate vases which is why these army tank-inspired flower holders are extremely bizarre.

The Tank U vases were created by Parisian design group, La Tete Au Cube and come in White and Platin…