November 29, 2007
At Uranus – Things come out a little differently
Play for us by Leo Burnett, Milan for Nintendo
Richard Burton reads from Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood - An ad for Volkswagen Golf. (YT. From Coudal)
Uranus corporation presents Brown 25 (more YT)
1960's Polaroid Pictures of Signs in Washington
An old Lisa ad with Kevin Costner. (From AdFreak)
What Happens Behind the Scenes
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November 03, 2007
The Wheel
Don pitches a campaign to Kodak for their new slide projector. (From Mad men)
Another slider banner
Great Moments In Commercial History - Rejuvenique
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September 17, 2007
Warped text
How to make lemonade from lemons on $500 ad budget
9 things I learned about the world according to anonymous stock photo models
If You Can Read This, you're probably already drunk. (From Collision Detection)
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August 08, 2007
All you can eat
Really Quick FedEx ads
Vintage ad for Gaytop counters from “Found in Mom's Basement” Vintage advertising
100% woman (YT) and other disgusting ads that everybody should hate
More on Slate: There Are 12 Kinds of Ads in the World - Resist them all
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May 09, 2007
Need glasses?
Hazel: The Magic Bullet's Cigarette Hag Extraordinaire on “Infomercial Hell”. (From Unknown Highway)
2007 One Show winners
Grab a graphic to link to Grow-a-brain
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April 20, 2007
Shiny, neon-orange, liquefied pump-cheese, and all
The singing cowboy. (By The Truth)
Andy Warhol Japanese TDK Ad. (YouTubesky)
Iranian Advertising of many western products, 60s-70s. (From The New Shelton)
Swedish vintage ads, posted on flickr by Martin Klasch
Life-size Inflatable Doll and other Classic Comic Book Ads
Popular type of “3D Illusions” street art that was invented by Julian Beever is now being used by other advertisers
Knife throwing for children and other ads I never seem to see
Seen everywhere: Fast Food: Ads vs. Reality
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March 15, 2007
Happiness in a pill
Spank While You Sell: Corporal punishment imagery in print advertising
Have a slogan generator
Ambient background clips from Children of Men including commercials, billboards, and interface design
Obvious anti-smoking ads
Brazil VS Argentina condom ad
From Crazy Gideon's to Roscoe's BBQ - Bad Local Commercials. Some of them show on The 50 Greatest Local Commercials
Members of The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA)
Animated Stereogram of a swimming shark above from Militant Platypus
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January 28, 2007
9/11 every day
“Semi-Annual after-Christmas Sale” and other delightful Classified Ads
In an attempt to break through to consumers, advertisers have started to migrate from traditional media to almost anywhere outside the home with a little blank space. (NY Times slide show)
Corporate World Web 2.0 Logo redesign
Every ad in Times Square
More realistic looking ads
Cool Ads # 2
Unrelated item: I can’t figure out what is behind the Stolen ID Search website. It doesn’t show on Technorati as of now, and it doesn’t feel right to me. Your thoughts?...
Re-post: Icon War
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December 03, 2006
Marmola Prescription Tablets
Advertisers were sometimes a little heavy-handed during the Great Depression. But this 1937 Personal to Fat Girls advertisement takes the cake, so to speak.
A blogger on a Sonic Commercial
Creative ads in Russian
1963 McDonalds Commercial Introducing Ronald McDonald
The 1st four Geico Caveman ads (and background)
Business Card for a personal trainer that is impossible to read unless stretched apart. It’s made out of very durable material, making it difficult to stretch. (From Coudal)
(Photo above from PLU)
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October 02, 2006
Always Milder
Sharpeworld's Commercials mostly from the 70’s & 80’s
An Indian Toothpaste Commercial (YouBoob)
Selling Stuff During the Golden Age of Radio
A responsible consulting organization has reported the results of a continuing study by a competent medical specialist and his staff on the effects of smoking Chesterfield cigarettes
An ad for some insurance company inspired by Katamari Damacy
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September 17, 2006
Vintage ads
They’ll do anything to sell you stuff
Ann Miller for Great American Soup, written and directed by Stan Freberg
Subliminal advertising in spam
Re-post: Theo Jansen’s engineered art for BMW South Africa
Vintage Tobacco Advertising. (From Presurfer)
Also, shocking vintage ads from Eat Liver
A few commercials done by Bill Plympton
An ad for the Oslo Gay Festival, June 17-27
(.gif above from ronsens)
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August 01, 2006
I was drunk and I regret it
Lost Cannes Lion. Tom Eriksen an employee at Farfar claims to have lost his Lion at the MSN Beach Party after the awards show. He's offering $1000 to the person who can recover his lost lion - or something resembling one. (From Adland)
On location at new Sony Bravia ad shoot. The movie, the flickr slideshow . How it was done. This is a follow-up to the Bouncing Balls Ad that was filmed in San Francisco last year
“HeadOn: Apply directly to the forehead”. The mesmerizing ad for headache gel. (I guess I miss a lot by not having a TV…)
Bad Ads 3 from Worth 1000
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June 30, 2006
Selling Out
Louis Armstrong pushing Suzy Cute dolls, 1964
Also, Wilkins Coffee commercials by Jim Henson from the sixties, including what seems to be the first Kermit. (From Samizdata)
Other celebrity endorsements - Mandy Patinkin for X-Elscior: Pap Smears are against Jesus!
It happens. Not here, but now, from Amnesty International, Switzerland
Church Marketing Sucks’s mission is to frustrate, educate and motivate the church to communicate, with uncompromising clarity, the truth of Jesus Christ
Yes, this is one of the famous TV commercials for Ayds, a simple diet candy that was supposed to help satisfy your cravings for something sweet long enough to keep you from raiding the fridge and eating higher-calorie items. Unfortunately for the company's marketing department, in 1982 AIDS was starting to become a name known to the public
Haagen-Dazs Launches Flavored Stamps
Pixel ads now take over a building, Personal Stamp Ad and all the other advertising-related posts at The Cool Hunter
So, how do you get your message across and get people talking about your product? You do what Papa John's Pizza did
The Lynx Effect: What do you get when you mix The Swedish Bikini Team with the Carlton Very Big Ad
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May 24, 2006
Pull the string
A nice Wonderbra ad. (From Cool Hunter. Also there, the world’s first TV for pigs, a device for smoking when in the presence of a pig)
More interactive Bra Ads at Banner Blog: Snip it, Tickle it or simply Pull it
Creative Department Douchebag, AKA AdMan, by Pete Johnson
The ads of Axes and Alleys, claiming to be an on-going 100 year old tractor magazine
Don’t It Yourself. Some things are better left to professionals
Advertisements on the overhead bins. Every bit of empty space in our lives is slowly being taken over by ads, so why would you want even more?
“Ladies, we have a problem!” The Miami Vice Spoof of Bacardi & Cola
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February 16, 2006
Coming to a post office near you -
First Full Motion Stamps! created by the Dutch design studio Solar: stamps made of 12 successive frames of video footage. (From MIT Advertising Lab)
Many fine concepts at Gari Cruze’s Ad Blather: Basketball Nike, promotional FedEx t-shirts, salt & pepper Crackers, ribbed Durex
‘If you're trying to sell something, sometimes that can be humiliating’, from a grizzly bear, and other Miller auditions
Bad ads from the 40’s & 50’s, found @ Baker Kohn
We’re Happy Little Vegemites. (From Mookie)
The Ikea Lamp Spot
Women feel safe with a man who smokes
The cost of official propaganda during the last 30 months: $1.6 billion (53 million per month)
Advertising Coincidences, when different ads from different agencies are using the same idea or image. (From J-Walk). Like the previously-mentioned Rip-off ads
Emerald Nuts TV “oddvertisements”
Utter Fool and other Spoof Ads found on Google Images
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