Eugene's Blog Posts Tagged 'advertising' (8)

Plastic Surgeon's Hilarious Elevator Ad

We've seen a similar kind of juxtaposition done with Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam mural on the celing of the Sistine Chapel, but this site-specific ad by Dr. Kim's plastic surgery office takes it to another level. The interactive advertisement becomes hilarious every time…

Continue

Added by Eugene on August 7, 2012 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

Desertification Disintegrates Animals

In an effort to educate the mass public about desertification, the degradation of land in drylands, Mardid-based agency Contrapunto BBDO created this series of eye-catching ads for the World Wildlife Fund. An elephant, leopard and parrot are seen deteriorating into clouds of dust, reminiscent of the dried up floors in the eroded landscapes.

According to WWF and Wikipedia,…

Continue

Added by Eugene on December 5, 2011 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

Giant Lobster Trolley

Creative advertising is most effective when businesses take advantage of their surroundings. For this year's Visa Wellington on a Plate culinary festival, New Zealand-based agency Whybin\TBWA turned the city's trolley buses into a lobster, with the trolley's pole transformed into the lobster's antennae!…

Continue

Added by Eugene on September 17, 2011 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

Sprawling Goalkeeper Makes Save Over Highway

To stir up some excitement for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Adidas put up this gigantic billboard of German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, sprawling out to make a save over a highway near the Munich airport. Ad agency TBWA Germany actually broke the law by putting up the billboard, which is impossible not to see, as advertising on the autobahn is banned.…

Continue

Added by Eugene on August 31, 2011 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

A Razor So Sharp...

A few years back, New York ad agency JWT came up with this brilliantly creative campaign for razor company Schick. To illustrate "the power of four," they created a razor so sharp, it even shaves the hair off tattoos! Clever and creative.

Credits:

Advertiser:… Continue

Added by Eugene on August 30, 2011 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Reality Sucks

In an often contrived way, movies are completely unrealistic. In fact, certain scenes are obviously created to warm your heart or make you cry. Well, we can't blame the movie studios because, most of the time, reality sucks. Agency Duval Guillaume made light of this fact and created these hilarious ads for Utopolis Cinemas. See how they put their own spin on famous scenes from Titanic and Free… Continue

Added by Eugene on July 29, 2011 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

Tiger Rips Bus Open

If you saw this bus rolling down the street, would you do a double take? The creative bus wrap is by the Perth Zoo's Wildlife Conservation Action program which is hoping to raise funds to support the lives of the threatened Sumatran Tiger species. With fewer than 400 of these tigers left in the wild, they need our help!

What a clever and creative way to grab our attention.

Doesn't… Continue

Added by Eugene on April 13, 2011 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Clever Ads: Donate Blood (5 total)

Using funny imagery with some funky font, ad agency Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil worked with Santa Casa Hospital to make these clever ads about donating blood. The tagline? Don't waste your blood. Donate. Awesome.