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Amnesty International - Black Hole (2008) Ambient (Australia)

CD Adam Hunt: "The American Government's prison at Guantanamo Bay is a black hole where human rights and international laws are ignored. People are being tortured there regularly. This protest is to increase awareness that Guantanamo Bay is a human rights black hole, and should be closed."

Amnistía Internacional - Burn the images - print Chile

This Amnesty International print campaign comes from Unitas/RNL, Santiago

 

Josefina Pro, Illustrator
Pancho González, Executive Creative Director
Pancho González, Creative Director
Pancho González, Art Director
Josefina Pro, Copywriter

 

 

 

 

Not that bad, but.. ahem.. if I "Put my client hat on" here for a second (quit throwing markers at me!) - couldn't one say that simply burning the image really isn't much help at all. I prefer ad ideas where the candle burns the ropes, thus setting prisoners free, that sort of thing. Aw, nevermind me, I'm really stiff today.

 

Cu Chi Museum Tours - Vietnam War museum (Vietnam)


Saatchi & Saatchi in Vietnam did these ads to promote the guided tours of Cu Chi Museum of the Vietnam War.

The biggest drawing in the world: One part GPS, one part DHL, add creativity and stir gently.

Erik Nordenankar doesn't do things half-assed. In fact, he's created The Biggest drawing in the world with a little help from a GPS device and DHL. This was his end of school project at Beckmans and I'm willing to bet money he'll land an awesome job pronto. In fact, if DHL doesn't pay him some money to us this as the viral campaign it already is, I'm going to get mighty peeved. YOU HEAR ME DHL?

NY Times: Which Came First, or Does It Even Matter?

McDonalds has recently introduced a new Southern Style Chicken Sandwich and the Chick-fil-A chain is not too happy. It shows in their ads.

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

Have you been seeing these little things in the footer of emails recently too?

P     Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Here's the thing though, I haven't printed an email since 1997. So I have another question for you email-green-peeps. What type of electricity do you use? Are your computers on at all times? Is your companies server hosted in the cheapest possible colocation space, where you're probably using un-eco friendly electricity 24/7 all year, or have you found a green alternative? Adland is hosted at memset, a carbon neutral company, because - duh - I actually think about these things and worry about my carbon footprint which includes worrying about this servers impact on our environment. I guess what I'm saying is, next time you sent one of those silly little things out in your email, consider what that email travels through. Being green isn't only about saving paper.

Fairy - "One drop" spiral - press ad, Romania


Grey Bucharest in Romania created this "one drop" Fairy ad where if you lift the drop up, all the food items written in the spiral come off the plate. Cute (click on the image to see full file). Kudos to: Claudiu Dobrita/Stefan Vasilachi, Creative Director, Cristina Popescu ,Copywriter, and Mihai Tenovici, Art Director.

The Typo Eradication Advancement League corrects America

TEAL? No, not the color. The Typo Eradication Advancement League are featured in the Chicago tribune. God forbid they come here, they'll kick my ass for god knows how many stray apostrophes and errors that we've managed to throw about here over the years. I'm sorry, so so sorry.... Hey, what are you going to do with that jar of Wite-Out®? Leave my screen alone!

Picture a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation—holding back a flood of mixed metaphors and spelling mistakes and extraneous punctuation so commonplace we rarely notice it anymore. But they are 28 and idealistic. Graduates of Dartmouth College, they are old friends with a schoolmarm's irritation at conspicuous errors, and despite their mild and somewhat nerdy exteriors, they have serious nerve. Deck lives outside Boston; Herson lives outside Washington. And together, they are TEAL—the Typo Eradication Advancement League—and they are between jobs.

Lürzers Archive takes their hat off to Paul Arden. - Switzerland

The advertising world lost a giant when Paul Arden passed away.

 

Lürzer's Archive tips their hat to the man who influenced so many.

 

 

Created by Publicis Zurich
Florian Beck (Creative Director)
Jo-Wayne Peacock (Art Director)
Thomas Berger (Art Director)
Mario Nelson (Copywriter)

 

 

 

 

Chevrolet Aveo - Dancing Robot Car - (2008) :55 (The Netherlands)

ad agency: Strawberryfrog, Amsterdam
Lets mock those transforming cars shall we?

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