Advertising Is Good For You

La Vie Grand Marnier

Love this retro illustration.

 
Remember the booty call ad in the same campaign?

Celebrity Saturday: Kate Beckinsale and Zooey Deschanel for Absolut vodka

 

Advertising Agency: TBWA, USA

Source: Ads of the World

Booty call

One does wonder if she's going to serve him the Grand Marnier or hit him over the head with it.

Retro ads for Stella Artois

Click images to enlarge.

Advertising Agency: Mother, London

Illustrator: Robert McGinnis

Source: Ads of the World

Halloween Week: Heineken ads

 

And that, children, is how Happy got his name

Disney is a bit miffed about this ad for Australia's Jamieson's Raspberry Ale.

Read more at the New York Daily News.

Advertising Arts & Crafts: The Crocheted Jagermeister

Click here to see a more practical Jagermeister product.

Source: Craftzine

Nice wine bottle

Source: The Dieline

Absolut Vodka Rock Edition

Introduced August 10: the Absolut Vodka Rock Edition, with packaging designed by Natalia Brilli.

Party at Barack's

Tonight, President Obama will host Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. Jim Crowley of the Cambridge, Massachusetts police department. Over beer, the three will discuss recent events.

(If you only just emerged from a sealed underground bunker with no Internet connection or TV reception and you'd like the story behind the meeting, CLICK HERE.)

What brand of beer will be served? Here are the preferences expressed by each of the three men.

Sgt. Crowley will be drinking:

 

Professor Gates asked for either of these two:

 

And President Obama will be having:

And in case you were wondering, I will be in my living room having my usual:

Banned in alabama

Cycles Gladiator wine has been banned in Alabama because of a law that forbids the display of "a person posed in an immoral or sensuous manner" on any alcohol packaging.

The "immoral or sensuous" Cycles Gladiator wine label:

Source: The Consumerist

Celebrity Saturday: Dita Von Teese for Cointreau

Cointreau has named burlesque queen Dita Von Teese a Cointreau Ambassador -- advertising spokeswoman would be another way of putting it.

Here are some photos of Von Teese for Cointreau taken by Ali Mahdavi.

 

To see more of Dita Von Teese go to Cointreau's interactive website.

Jim Beam's call of the wild

The copy and concept are kind of sophomoric but I do love the art direction.

Advertising Agency: Proof (Beam Global In House Agency), Deerfield, USA

Source: Ads of the World