I have four pieces of art in my apartment : my niece’s first canvas (a purple and pink portrait of me), a giant print of Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany’s and two blue and yellow Rothko’s. I fell in love with Rothko’s large blocky prints during my semester abroad in London when I spent every week in a different art gallery for a class.
Most people who see the Rothko prints hanging in my room ask me if they’re more of my nieces. They just don’t get why I love the simple masterpieces. Ugh. It annoys the hell out of me which is why I love these above ad for the Arts channel.
The Gene Davis piece above looks like my blog background; maybe I was channeling Mr.Davis and not a 6yr stuck in the 80s when I designed it
Nothing I love more than simple creative executions that say everything there is to say about a brand. Creative is hard, I certainly don’t have the chops to design or any sort of skill set outside of one class of InDesign in college. But when I see simple ads make it to print – makes me infinitely happy and at peace with the ad world. With that I want to share these Fed-Ex ads I stumbled across on Ads of the World.
I finally found a cell phone campaign I can appreciate. Sprint failed, Blackerry failed, but LG I love.
These ads sparked a hot debate on Ads of the World (where I found them), check out the site to read up on why people hate them.
I like them because unlike Blackberry spots, LG doesn’t talk down to consumers and act like 3G phones are new. The target demo knows about the iPhone, they’ve played with their friends phones. The basics of 3G and touch screens are a given.
LG is focusing on making themselves different. Apple and Blackberry are being defined as the work phones, LG is going after those who want a cool, fast, phone without needing a job that requires it.
Oh and for the record I Google and Addictomatic all of my dates
If I liked wiskey, I would totally buy Canadian Club purely for the ads.
The campaign has been a staple with my Wired magazine for a few months, and I fall in love with them all over again each month.Both ads are excuted beautifuly to evoke the 60s with a fantastic sense of humor.
You just can’t go wrong with the tag “Damn right your dad drank it” for a whiskey.
It takes hours to spool, buffer and print any reports, marketing plans and all other important items with a tight turnaround time. It will randomly ask for different size paper in a drawer or the mysterious Tray 5. The printer will say its out of toner when it is completely full. Streaks appear across pages whenever a large client job is printing. Pretty much your basic crappy possessed office printer.
Which is why this ad campaign is something I would have gleefully joined in on. Anyone have a bat?
Thanks to AdverBox for these ads for Reflex Pure White Office Paper….
In a study posted on the Future Lab Blog, 70% of ads on Ads of the World posted in the last 4 months, did not include a URL. The article continues to rant about how ads should contain a URL by default in todays advertising world; I totally disagree.
There has been some good advertising for cancer recently.
Stand Up For Cancer ran in Wired and Blender to promote their telethon and it was actually good. The copy of the ad is straight to the point without making me defensive or dismissive. Casey Affleck looks like your ‘average’ guy so it doesn’t feel like a cheesy celeb endorsemen. Unfortunately I can’t find the a picture of the ad online but Stand Up to Cancer has a Facebook page and a website.
Then I saw ads for the Cancer Institute of Australia. If these don’t break your heart and make you want to desperately want to fund a cure, then you’re absolutely heartless.
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