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Link Lust: There she was just a-linkin' down the street

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 20:21.
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What the heck is that campaign really selling? All I've learned so far is that bunnies are prone to temper tantrums when stressed and frickin' cute with their tongues sticking out. I'm not sure what to buy now. Maybe some carrots.

Things You Can't Do Coked Up, and I have only one to add: "read that three page blog in it's entirety". What? Coked up is advertising related. Don't pretend you don't know what I mean.

Meatwater - oh my. Go around and read the product descriptions. It'll take you a while to find that it's a photographer's publicity piece. Nice work, and really icky product idea. :)

Fox yells "cut" on commercials

Submitted by Robblink on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 15:02.
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The Fox channel has recently announced that it will reduce the number of commercials on two of their new Fall shows - J.J. Abrams' "Fringe" and Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse". Will this make the shows more watchable? Maybe, maybe not.

Mike's Hard Lemonade - New Product / We don't do soy - (2008) :30 (USA)

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 13:25.
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"Mikes double caffinated soy Lemonade". Suuure!
Agency: Amalgamated

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland press campaign from TBWA

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 13:20.
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This campaign from the The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland is trying to attract a new audience to the church. As visuals they have both a black Jesus, a female Jesus, a gay couple asking "what would Jesus do?" and a hippie-styled poster with the line "Jesse really digs ya man"

 

 

Kudos Ad Agency : TBWA\PHS Helsinki Oy
Mikko Torvinen (Art Director)
Antti Toivonen (Copywriter)
Tommi Laiho (Copywriter)
Ossi Honkanen (Art Director)
Sanna Sipola (Illustrator)
Johanna Paavilainen (Account Supervisor)
Merja Koskinen (Account Supervisor)
Jaana Haapala (Strategy Director)
Minna Helske (Planner)

 

 

 

Audi RS6 - Gymnasts - (2008) :60 (UK)

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 11:45.
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Cut + Run Editor Andy McGraw recently completed a global spot for Audi through BBH London which is currently airing in the UK and will soon launch in the US. Directed by the ever- innovative Paul Hunter, the commercial is a stylized, choreographed merging of man and machine and the embodiment of human engineering.

Cut to a rhythmic track that includes actual Audi RS6 sounds recorded at a racetrack, "Gymnasts," features a cadre of gymnasts twisting, twirling and moving with precision. It is homage to the RS6's powerful engineering that demands "performance from every part."

"It was an honor to cut for Paul Hunter and an exciting project for many reasons, "says editor McGraw. "It required a combination of cutting to music and accurate comping of multiple layers to get exact timings. It's a great example of how all of the production and post elements come together with powerful effect."

Unprecedented number of Black Pencils awarded by D&AD last night

Submitted by Dabitch on Fri, 05/16/2008 - 09:15.

The Black Pencil, was presented to 6 creative teams at the D&AD Awards Ceremony in London last night.
Fallon's "Gorilla" for Cadbury won in TV & Cinema Advertising, 'The National Gallery Grand Tour' by The Partners in Poster Advertising, 'Get the Glass' by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, and Projector Inc, for 'Uniqlock' in Online Advertising.  Apple won two Black Pencils for the iMac and the iPhone.  This makes the multi-national design company the biggest single winner of Black Pencils in D&AD's 45-year history with 6 won since 1999.

anti smoking QUIT - lung X-Ray adbin, UK

Submitted by Dabitch on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 17:21.
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Oh my god, I'm so grossed out. These helpful little bins allow you to dispose of your cigarette butts there, while doubling as a really gross image that may indeed turn you off from smoking, at least temporarily. See, part of the X-ray image is transparent allowing for the accumilated butts inside to be part of the visual. Apparently this is a new medium called "adbins".

Browse adgrunts by title - find future colleagues, friends and fans.

Submitted by Dabitch on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 10:04.
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I was talking to Lotta last night over a few super huge Czech beers about this super cute owl tray that she's made (and sells, I'm so getting one it's adorable), and it suddenly hit me - why can't we browse adgrunts by their titles? I mean, in order to find Lottas page with that tray, you first need to find her. So I got cracking, and now there's a rigid horrible-oh-no-don't-box-me-in-please drop-down menu where you can choose a title that suits. Note the word "can", you don't have to. But is a good way that allows other adgrunts here to find you and by extension, your homepage (if listed) by title.
Actor
Photographer
Illustrator
Art Director (etc and so on)

You'll find this drop-down menu under the tab "personal" in your account. To make things a little more rigid, the titles are genderless, "actor" instead of both actor and actress.

John West - Peli-Can (2008) Print (Australia)

Submitted by caffeinegoddess on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 01:20.
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John West is known for canned salmon, tuna, sardines, anchovies, kippers, herring, mackerel and pilchards, with a claim to only choosing the best fish. And so it would be logical that the pelicans stock up on John West cans. The Peli-Can advertisement was developed at Grey Melbourne by executive creative director Ant Shannon, senior art director Tim Holmes, senior copywriter Brendan Guthrie, with retouching done at Electric Art.

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