Advertising Is Good For You

Cool poster for Boston's SoWa Open Market

Wonderfully gruesome ad campaign for a magazine subscription

Advertising Agency: Publicis, Milan

Source: Ads of the World

Customer service: you're not doing it right

Source: Passive Aggressive Notes

I thought kindergarten dress codes prohibited high heels and feather boas

Beyonce and her mother Tina Knowles have released the ads for their latest collection of little girl clothes under their House of Dereon brand.

Source: Style Dash

Izze: beverage packaging goodness

Izze is a sparkling juice with no caffeine. no refined sugar and no artificial ingredients. And one 12-ounce bottle is equivalent to two servings of fruit.

Fresh approach to self-promotion from a freelance art director

Auckland freelance art director, Mari Pettersson, came up with this clever self-promotion piece. She explains:

As a fresh newcomer in freelancing, I wanted to approach some creative directors by delivering them a small poly-wrapped meat tray containing 'a fresh brain' = my business card. The label was personalized for each person. Number under the barcode is my phone number."

Looks a lot like the campaign from yesterday's post yet it's a completely different concept.

Source: Ads of the World

The Skittles prom dress. Sweet.

She's known on Craftster as Theperilouspopsicle, but she also goes by The Skittles Queen. This lovely, talented young woman designed and made her prom dress from 101 empty bags of Skittles candies. CLICK HERE to read her story. 

 

In case you missed him, CLICK HERE to see the young man who made his tux out of Coke cans.

Ambient/guerrilla campaign with results that look like contemporary art

Here's how this campaign worked:

To put beach pollution into perspective, trash was collected from various beaches, packaged it to look like seafood and displayed it at local farmers' markets. This is the print extension for those who couldn't actually make it to the market."

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Los Angles

Source: Ads of the World

Did you hear a splash?

According to a recent Solutions Research Group study of nearly 5,000 Americans, more than 63 percent of BlackBerry users take the device into the bathroom.

Image: dmansouri      Source: CNN

Images from the tech support capital of the world

A friend emailed me these photos of India the other day.