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City fights back - pavement not adspace
Kirshenbaum and Bond Bamboo ads made, eons ago, maybe 92-93? Remember those?
IBM just launched a campaign for "Love peace and Linux" (how sweet) by spraying graffiti on the pavement (via adweek), and enraging the cities of Chicago and San Francisco.
Andy and ADCN - and the guld
The international Andy awards are being handed out in New York tonight as the Dutch ADCN parties till dawn in an old warehouse. "Who won what?", "did it really - that piece of..", and "why didn't they enter in the awards?", will be the topic of discussion over free coctails most of the evening. In Sweden at Guldägget the topic will be "do the winners correspond to that list on Adland?". At least, that's why I will be watching.......
BidragsID: 49
Hannibal Influenced Kiddie Ads=Taboo Breakthrough
Some people would give their right arms to do an "edgy" TV commercial.
Others are just smart enough to glom onto the international trend for dismemberment as an attention-getting source of spot humor.
The Suits Must Die - An Adland Exclusive Breakthrough Opus
The Suits Must Die.
The advertising industry at a dead end.
Greg Stene, Ph.D.
Mass Communication
Idaho State University
Pocatello, ID 83209
208.282.4539
[This is the Forward only. I'm seeking a publisher for the whole book.
Naked Sophie scores even more free PR.
Note 2004-01-15 Paypal, the eBay owned internet-bank thing has frozen our assets and shut down the Commercial Archive's only donation option right before the superbowl (ouch) due to the nudity in this image. Read more here
The now infamous Sophie Dahl Opium ad has become the most offensive ad of 2000. It'll go down in history kids! Or at the very least, become a trivial pursuit question. Aren't we proud?
Opium: a whopping 948 complaints - but the ad was never banned.
Spielberg Spoofsite Spoofed
First POP.COM goes flop, now this!
Steven Spielberg is getting a swift lesson in the ways of the web as a gang of erstwhile geeks deconstructs an elaborate spoofsite game designed to promote his new summer film A.I. (Artificial Intelligence).
Smooth Johnson
Here's a quote which appeared in the April issue of "Creativity" magazine. A fine addition to the archives of irony.
"The trade of advertising is so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good. I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly to our passions." Samuel Johnson, 1759
Braille Posters that can't be read by anyone.....
Clayton found this lovely article about some clever posters written in Braille with the theme of equal treatment for the blind.
Only problem - the posters had no other headline than the braille, so the seeing could not read them, also they were placed behind protective glass, so the blind could not read them. So the equal treatment message fell on deaf ears. *bada-bing-tssck!*
"Unfortunately, no one knows what it says because it has been put inside a display case with a glass front," the magazine noted in its feedback section, a regular feature about life's ironies and tidbits from around the world.
Spielbergian Spoofsites
Though it's been done many times before by Blair Witch, Diesel, Lee and Energizer, Steven Spielberg is using spoofsites to promote his sure-to-be summer sci-fi blockbuster, "A.I."
Images Festival
You didn't forget that the Images Festival of independant Film and Video is between the 12th of April until the 22nd, did you?
If you are in Toronto - do stop by. And get me some buttered popcorn.
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