Advertising Is Good For You

Eating like a kid in a Charles Dickens orphanage

Gruel. The only lunch I have time for. #FML

Shark sitings in Vancouver

Here's a multi-media campaign from the Vancouver Aquarium for an exibit called, The Secret World of Sharks & Rays. The sharks steal the show.

Created by TAXI, Vancouver.

Out-of-home advertising:

Print ads:

 

Saved the best for last. An advertising installation that changes with the tide. During high tide, it looks like a giant shark:

At low tide, the advertising message is revealed:

Here's how it works:

Via Ads of the World

The Hipmunk chipmunk

My new favorite brand mascot — the Hipmunk chipmunk is the symbol for the online travel planning site.

The only other brand mascots that even approach this level of cuteness are the Porter Airlines raccoons.

Why doesn't every company have a vanity barcode?

The cost of adding an awesome barcode is negligible in relation to the average package design budget. 

And what a great way to update a traditional brand.

Well done, Hillshire Farm.

Junk drawer advertising

Created by M&C Saatchi Abel, Johannesburg.

"All by myself. Don't want to be all by myself. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

"I used to have a corner office. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

"Now all I capture is dust. Send your old tech to a better place. Trade in and upgrade 16 Feb – 28 March."

Via Ads of the World

This was really a thing

Bickmore Morticians Powder. 

You have to admit, this is some cool vintage packaging.

The National Museum of Funeral History is a thing, too.

Movie Posters: Man of Steel

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Via IMP Awards

This is my cat's WTF face

Sally O’Malley Reynolds just caught me arguing politics with a random person on the Internet. 

Forward to all the pre-pubescent boys you know

Butt humor. For Polycell, a spray that promises "No more unsightly cracks."

The end becomes particularly disturbing. Little boys will love it.

Click here to watch the English commercial for a spray butt crack filler.

Is it me or does the butt crack look like this guy?

Just came across the perfect quotation for all the women graduating

Remember...

There is always

a little girl

in the stands

that wants to be

just like you,

don't disappoint her.

—unkown

 

Happy Graduation to all my family and friends who are getting their diplomas.

Meow

It's beer, it's Japanese and it has a cat on it. For more information, you have to click the link. And be fluent in Japanese.

Via Rakuten

ALQUIMIA animated font by Pavel Paratov

Click here to watch the animated font ALQUIMIA in action.

Click here to see more work by Pavel Paratov.

 

Apple's online store sold its 50 billionth app this afternoon.

Via CNN