Job-Hunting Creatives Disguise Their Portfolio as a Copy of Lürzer's Archive
It can be tough to get your work featured in the advertising magazine Lürzer's Archive. But René Schultz and Casper Christensen found a way around that. The Danish art directors, who were looking for...
View ArticleFrench Art Show About the Marquis de Sade Gets a Suitably Orgiastic Trailer...
YouTube censors who greenlight nudity as long as it's artistic must have spent a fair bit of time on this video from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris—advertising an art show about the influence of the...
View ArticleInfographic: How to Tell Client Tricks From Treats This Halloween
Every day is a bit spooky when you're dealing with clients. But this Halloween, ad agency Mistress has made a little chart you might find useful—how to tell whether your client's double-speak is a...
View ArticleWatch a Clerk Shock Customers by Haggling Over Groceries in Campaign for...
It's common practice to haggle for a better price at a car dealership. But at a grocery store? In American supermarkets, at least, it just doesn't happen. Until now. Car shopping site Edmunds.com,...
View ArticleAd of the Day: KFC Turns to Two Boys for a Lovely Take on Sports Fandom
In recent years, BBH London has focused on family relationships and offbeat stories in its KFC ads, with the product almost as a side dish and strong storytelling as the main course. That trend...
View ArticleWish Old Navy a Happy 20th Birthday, and It Will Make a Giant Balloon...
Everyone knows that if you tell people what you wish for when you blow out the candles on your birthday cake, it's not going to come true. Unless, of course, you wish that you could eat a giant piece...
View ArticleFred Savage, Hired to Do Honda Voiceovers, Wants to Practice by Narrating...
Fred Savage will soon be the new voice of Honda. But he's not exactly a voiceover specialist (that's Daniel Stern you're thinking of, Wonder Years fans). So, Honda agency RPA came up with a fun way to...
View ArticleWatch This 6-Year-Old and Her Friends Drop F-bombs for Feminism (and to Sell...
Activist T-shirt maker FCKH8 asked the world a question. What makes you more uncomfortable: the way society fucks women, or a little girl saying the work fuck? And it turns out that for a lot of...
View ArticleSnickers Gives You an Early Halloween Treat With This Truly Twisted Ad
Halloween is like Christmas for candy brands, and Snickers usually swoops in, batlike, with some fun and spooky advertising (most notably, perhaps, BBDO's truly odd "Grocery Store Lady" spot from...
View ArticleIkea's Parody of The Shining Is Devilishly Good
Heeeeeere's … Ikea's parody of The Shining! BBH Singapore reimagines the creepy hallway scene from Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic in this spot-on 90-second Halloween ad. Instead of a haunted...
View ArticleCraigslist Is the Setting for This Interactive Music Video About Humanity, or...
Craigslist might be best for making a couple bucks off that one-wheeled leopard-print bicycle your ex left behind, and it's just that kind of random human curio that makes the classified site the...
View ArticleBarton F. Graf Has a Clever Idea for Getting More Men to Become Mentors
Esquire recently asked three ad agencies to help with its male mentoring initiative. Today, Barton F. Graf 9000 unveiled its campaign: a political initiative to establish mentorship of children as a...
View ArticleHoly Crap, Someone Is Actually Making a Working Hoverboard for Real This Time
Marty McFly and Tony Hawk both drove demand for hoverboards—but alas, supply has been nonexistent, as both of them had to rely on camera trickery and special effects. But now, finally, we're getting...
View ArticleInfographic: What the Color of Your Logo Says About Your Brand
Few design projects seem to require as much deep thinking as a corporate logo (some would say overthinking—remember Twitter's tortured explanation for its new logo back in 2012)? One of the most basic...
View ArticleBrad Pitt Dodges Insults to Make a Charity Pitch on Zach Galifianakis'...
One of the best things about Between Two Ferns is how the guests have to plug their projects in the least comfortable way possible—indeed, while getting showered with insults. Brad Pitt is the latest...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Two Friends Rampage Through Games in PlayStation's Salute to...
The great thing about video games is you can do all kinds of cool, crazy, dangerous and impossible things without actually having to do them. Instead, you just sit on your couch with your buddy...
View ArticleGoPro Ad With Toddlers Sledding Is the Most Adorable 30 Seconds You'll Watch...
Being a little kid is the best. Everything is new and different, the world is your oyster, and you don't even know it. And your first snow day ... wow, words can barely express the magical bliss for a...
View ArticleHow a Company Known for Retail Ads Suddenly Made a Gorgeous Spot for Hardwood...
IDEA: Lumber Liquidators isn't exactly known for beautiful, romantic advertising. The hardwood flooring specialty retailer is much more versed in transactional, price-focused messaging. (Just look at...
View ArticleAgency Gives You Free Beer for Filling Out Your Timesheets, Because Nothing...
The industry is rapidly changing, but one thing remains the same: Literally the only thing that gets agency people to fill out their timesheets consistently is free beer. The latest example comes from...
View ArticleAd of the Day: Ford Pranks Drivers by Turning a Car Wash Into a Haunted House
Don't you hate it when you're just trying to get your car washed and some freaking weirdo with a wood axe pounces on your hood and starts banging on your windshield? Ford jumps on the...
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