I guess I am a sucker for commercial art under foot. The Brazilians, as I have noted, have it down to a science. Found at I Believe in Advertising
Category Archives: Creative Wonders
Cross-dressing: always in style
Chinese teen-girl fashion clothier Yuekou is using a 72-year-old man as a model. World, meet Liu Xianping, grandfather of Lv Ting, the apparel-maker’s owner. According to Ting, one day Xianping picked up an outfit, tried to give her advice on mixing and matching outfits and instead of saying “Grandpa, that’s gross…” what resulted was Xianping’s first […]
Interactive artist creates, sells websites
Rafaël Rozendaal is a Dutch-Brazilian visual artist and founder of the DIY curatorial platform BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer). He uses the internet as his canvas and gallery, building colorful and interactive works that lie somewhere between animation and digital painting. Rafaël says, “If you told Leonardo daVinci there’s this magical box that anyone in […]
Not likely coming to Kindle anytime soon…
Publicis Spain created a WonderBra box posing as a self-help book and placed it in bookstores and shopping centers. Apparently business women in Spain are not yet tired of answering the question “What are you staring at?” Via Ads of the World.
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Tagged Ads of the World, killer brands, WonderBra
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Job app for Polish copywriters
This is soooo much cooler than filling out those boring job applications.
So that’s why it’s called ‘Down Under’
I am having trouble getting my head around this underwear ad campaign from Australia/NZ. The copy is “Quality best appreciated up close.” Via ads of the world. Perhaps even weirder is the “club” ad.
Explosive Package Design
Cody Betts, a student at in Multimedia Design at the University of Wisconson-Stout, created this Tabasco Limited Edition Dynamite Sauce for his Graphic Design II final project. The laser-engraved aspen helps achieve the look of an old-style dynamite box. Via Behance.
Social and Exponential
So many have said it better than I, but truly: social media presents more opportunities to connect one-on-one—across cultures, communities and continents—more than any other medium before it. Sometimes a bewildered friend or client will ask me, what good is this social media? What I hear is “what can it do for me.” Well, look […]
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Tagged Branding Is Everything, rapid deployment direct marketing
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Praying for Japan
Since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, creative types have stepped forward and provided their ideas for a campaign to help. One of the most compelling images was designed by Ng Vuong, revealing that the young Vietnamese creative may not be the “simple-minded adventurer” his blog tag line implies. Thanks and a tip o’ […]
Form, or Platform?
Regardless of your feelings about Facebook, you have to “I Like” this art director’s profile page. Thanks to TechCrunch Europe.
