Archive for September, 2009
All kinds of awesome.
Ok, this made my day. When you walk around your neighborhood and see telephone polls with handwritten ads for roommates wanted or a lost cat – do you ever really stop to think that it’s advertising? I mean, of course it is, but do you wonder why the same amount of thought and design that […]
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: advertising, design, good, outdoor
DoubleTwist does it again.
You remember DoubleTwist – they’re the company that first pissed Apple off by creating software that allows you to use your iTunes music on any device. (A big Apple no-no.) Then they tweaked them even further by buying ad space for the product on the side of the Apple Store in San Francisco. Apple had […]
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: advertising, good, rip-off, TV
5 second sex.
You know when you go to the beach, accidentally bump into someone, and then 5 seconds later you’re having sex? I hate when that happens, because I never have a condom handy. However if these 5 second AIDS awareness ads have anything to say about it, we’ll all remember in the future. (They’re semi-NSFW.) Actually, […]
Filed under: Good Stuff | 1 Comment
Tags: advertising, good, PSA, TV
How do you categorize these? New media? I’d complain that the tackiness level is off the charts, but then I remembered this is advertising we’re talking about. There is no ceiling for tacky. Via.
Filed under: Are you kidding me?, Out there | 1 Comment
Tags: advertising, New_media, ridiculous, weird
The Puma t-shirt Ferrari.
Here’s as crazy a product display as you’ll see. The Puma Store in London assembled this amazing Ferrari F-1 car using 1,500 t-shirts, 88 pairs of jeans, 20 belts and 26 pairs of shoes and baseball caps. Whoever designed this is a stud. Via.
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: advertising, design, good, in-store, promotion
WTF?
No, it’s not what you think it means. It’s the unfortunate former logo of the Wisconsin Tourism Federation. Apparently they got tired of all the 4th grade snickering and decided to flop a few letters around. Now they’re the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin, which hardly rolls off the tongue. The Wisconsin Tourism Council? The Wisconsin […]
Filed under: Eh. | Closed
Tags: advertising, naming, weird
If you’ve worked in advertising for any length of time, you have some great stories about clients killing or maiming your work. Some clients are just afraid – they’d rather keep with the status quo and protect their jobs instead of going out on a limb. Other clients simply don’t get it. And a few […]
Filed under: Are you kidding me? | 2 Comments
Tags: advertising, clients, ridiculous
I wonder how well it pays?
Well, I guess this is one way to get customers. Do I have to submit a mouth resume? My dental records? Via.
Filed under: Out there | Closed
Tags: advertising, outdoor, weird
To us old fogies, the faux- titillating and trying-too-hard American Apparel ads just make me want to turn the page. I mean sure, sex sells, but when a brand bludgeons you to death with skin it gets tired fast. (See: Abercrombie & Fitch.) However, these ads aren’t for me. They’re aimed at teens and early […]
Filed under: Eh. | 2 Comments
Tags: advertising, print, ridiculous
Friday fun: Name that logo.
Ok, let’s have 8:00 minutes of Friday ad dork fun. Click here for the game and see how many logos you can identify. Some are easy. Some are much harder. I got 25 out of the 36. When you’re done with that one, you can always try the mascot quiz that I posted a while […]
Filed under: Good Stuff | Closed
Tags: advertising, good, logos
