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

Check out two more after the jump!

No copy. Two logos. Perfect brand messaging.

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  

My favorite kind of advertising innovation, taking something tradtional and boring (print) and making it interactive and able to live on its on. 

Well done Saxso Funny! This interactive singage says all images have a sound. Umm can you say brilliant!?

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….

Thanks Advertising Is Good For You!

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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. 

Most people use search engines by default when trying to find a website, even when the URL is knows, its entered as a search term rather than as a URL. 

Additonally, if you really need a URL posted in your ad then you’ve done a poor job of buying a URL thats in sync with your brand. Don’t be cute or tricky when buying selecting your domain, pick something obvious and easy or else you’ll HAVE to put your URL on everything. Really, only some local and niche companies should HAVE to list their URL.  

Instead of cluttering up your print ads with a URL, make your site incredibly easy to find utilizing SEO and paid search. If someone can’t Google your name, product or service and find you immediately, then you need a lot more web work then adding a URL to your ads. 

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.