Advertising Is Good For You

Two pro-gay marriage commercials with the same brilliant concept

Click here to watch a recent pro-gay marriage spot from Ireland.

 

Click here to watch a 2005 pro-gay marriage spot from Puplicis for MTV. 

 

Source: AdFreak

The Web Design Sketchbook

Designed by Norwegian art director Are Sundes. Available for sale at Hunting Lodge.

 

Source: Cool Hunting

Most Creative Use of Hacking Skills

Yesterday, someone hacked into the computer that controls the digital road signs near the intersections of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards in Austin, Texas:

The nighttime view is even better:

Learn more at Austin News KXAN.

ADDENDUM posted 02/02/09

A few days later in Indiana:

Campaign from Partnership for a Drug-Free America

Just the other day I presented a collage-as-visual idea to a client; it was rejected. Fortunately, this anti-drug campaign from Campbell Mithun, Minneapolis wasn't.

Why don't creatives more often create visuals out of unexpected media? One reason could be that clients have a hard time imagining the final product. (Yes, I'm still ticked my collage idea got killed.)

Source: Ads of the World

Attention vampires, elements in advertising creative that suck consumers' attention away from the brand.

Source: Advertising Age

Image: Vampires Then and Now