Advertising Is Good For You

Celebrity Saturday: Jennifer Aniston for Smartwater

 Click here to see a few more Smartwater ads featuring Jennifer Aniston.

Sprite makes Brazilian beaches even better

To promote its lemon-lime soft drink in Rio de Janeiro, Sprite Brazil created giant soda fountains and scattered them along the beach. The soda fountains dispensed water, allowing beachgoers to take a refreshing shower.

Click here to read a funny tweet about Sprite.

Via Gizmoto

South Korean ads for banana-flavored milk

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Adorable:

This one made me laugh out loud:

Created by: Cheil Worldwide Seoul, South Korea

 

Click here to see some cool packaging for another flavored milk drink.

Via Ads of the World

Mostly hysterical commercial from Lithuania

The only thing I don't like about this commercial from Lithuania — and it's no small thing — is that it gets somewhat homophobic toward the end.

Click here to watch the TV spot for Vytautas mineral water.

Click here to see another funny commercial from overseas.

Brandspotting on Twitter: Sprite

Click here to read a funny tweet referencing Olive Garden.

Fashion designers dress Coca-Cola Light bottles

 

Coca-Cola asked various Italian fashion designers to adorn a bottle of Coca-Cola Light. Here are the gorgeous results.

From Moschino:

 

 

 

From Blumarine:

From Alberta Ferretti:

From Etro:

From Versace:

From Missoni:

From Fendi:

Click here to see the results when Canadian fashion designers were asked to create garments from toilet paper.

Via My Toying

 

Starbucks digital print by lilopie

The Starbucks print by lilopie is available for purchase at Deviant Art.

Click here to see Starbucks cups with sketches by Johanna Basford.

Redeye Roasters: another chapter in the life of a former ad guy

Yesterday was the official opening of the Redeye Roasters Coffee & Espresso Lounge, located on the harbor, at 3 Otis Street, in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Owner Bob Weeks is a former advertising creative guy who left the business five years ago to start a coffee roasting business.

Here's Bob with his wife, Jamieson Weeks, a senior art director with whom I work.

This is the coffee roaster that used to be in Bob and Jamieson's house, vented through their living room. Its new home is in the new Redeye Roasters shop.

Redeye Roasters is an airy, inviting place with a beautiful view of Hingham Harbor. The decor is unique, with a counter and display cases made from re-purposed wood by the Weeks' friend, artisan Rich Dunbrack, owner of The Thieving Magpie.

 

The coffee, made from freshly-roasted beans that Bob discovers during his trips abroad, is amazing and well worth the trip.

If you can't make it to Hingham, you can order freshly roasted coffee from the Redeye Roasters website.

Smooshed brands

Crushed aluminum cans at a recycling plant new Laval, France. Click image to enlarge.

Click here to see an image of 2.5 million plastic bottles, the same number consumed in the U.S. every hour.

Via Atlantic

Coming soon, Arctic Home Coke cans

Coca-Cola has often used polar bears as an icon.

The soft drink maker is doing it again.

Coke is introducing a limited-edition 1.4 billion white cans featuring polar graphics.

This time the polar bear imaging is also being used as a reminder that the bears' natural habitat is shrinking and steps have to be taken to ensure the bears' survival. To that end, Coca-Cola has already donated $2 million to the World Wildlife Fund's Polar Bear Conservation efforts.

Read more about Coca-Cola's Arctic Home promotion at The Die Line.

Click here to see the pixel-edition Coca-Cola cans.

New Diet Coke can

New Diet Coke can designed by Turner Duckworth for the 125th anniversary of Coca-Cola.

Click here to see the pixel edition Coke cans.

Via Allan Peters

Celebrity Saturday: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and her latte are featured in the latest ad from the Got Milk? campaign.

Coca-Cola cans, pixel edition

Via Behance Network