Spoofing Absolut while preaching an anti-drinking message, these ads from Jentera Intermedia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia are rather drastic.

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Where's Waldo? According to The Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town, he's out and about enjoying nature thanks to his Hyundai.

While surfing I came across a site called BeingGirl which is a Tampax/Always brand site for young girls. If you follow the prior link you'll see a really really bad commercial. Unfortunately it looks like you can only rate it as good, not bad. Total shame. In addition, there are a couple print ads which give new meaning to the use of "blue liquid" in such advertising. It's hard to believe that these are actually real. Perhaps they aren't. The woman in the second layout caressing the box of Tampons is just too unreal. I am unsure if these are meant to run together, but seems likely considering the lack of brand name and product shot on the first one.

Will the adgrunt who has not used an optical illusion as an ad for aspirins or eye drops please raise their hands? I'm afraid I can't, there was an Optrex campaign in my student folio. *hangs head*
Here's something new though, a different optical illusion used for earthquake awareness from jentera intermdia Indonesia. It's like a tsunami on paper.

Here are some of the Coors Light ads that are on billboards and bus shelters in London, Ontario, Canada. There are at least a couple more in the ad series. These are the ones I was able to photograph.

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Playboy Brasil celebrates 31 years of the magazine in this print ad.

In a previous link lust we pointed to an commercial for Film Four featuring Dame Judi Dench dressed as a lobster, Ewan McGregor as a tomato, Willem Dafoe, Ray Winstone, Rhys Ifans, Lucy Liu and others. Here is a newspaper ad that is part of the ad campaign.

In September Elizabeth Hurley will be starring in Jordache's advertising campaign as their new spokesperson. The ad was shot by famed photographer Michael Thompson in his NY studio. If you go to Jordache's site, the are attempting to tease with a pixelated photo, although it seems the images are already out and about on the web.

Funny, I haven't heard from Jordache (ad-wise) since the early 90s. They must be keeping a quiet profile. ;)

What's going on here? Seems that down in South Africa, they take their vitamins seriously. Flinstones kids and BamBam are reported to be very envious.....

Winning the lottery could change your life real fast. How fast? These ads will show you exactly how fast.

A new international poster campaign by Draft NZ for Les Mills International, a fitness company, shows no hard bodies and no svelt figures at all. Instead the focus is on the benefits of working out such as strength and balance. The ads were shot in Death Valley.

Next time you go to get your hair buffed you might run into and ad from Saab. Since they celebrate 20 years of cabriolet cars this year, and their agency Lowe Brindfors has a love of finding new media and surprising places to advertise, the idea seems so simple and so obvious.

The classic pose, the white dress, those thighs. Yes but Science world doesn't fancy you in the way others do...

Bachelorism is an epidemic, or so says Match.com. Their new campaign is a spoof low budget issue campaigns. Seems that single women are the cure for this epidemic...what a surprise. Read on to see some of the print ads.

From Ogilvy in Hungary, a new campaign for the British Council. Obviously, the headlines are in Hungarian over there.

T: You always talk about the importance of copy.When you are flicking through a magazine, for example, you see a lot of images, and you keep flicking. Should a good ad be like a good book that you don't want to stop reading?

Possible Cannes winner? The "Jobbörse" jobsintown.de, with the help of Scholz & Friends, Berlin, chose to reach out to their target market by adding x-ray vision to common machines in the cityscape. If you think your job sucks, think about the poor gal pouring coffee inside the vending machine... ;)

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read more to see the rest of the campaign.

These new Mastercard cross-promotion ads are growing on me.

Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO have created four new ads that follow the Guinness theme, "Good things come to those who wait". Check them out inside.

A campaign broke in the UK at the end of April featuring Charlotte Church with Gary Lineker for Walkers Sensations Crisps (click link to see the spot). Created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and directed by Paul Weiland, it is intended to be reminiscent of the glamorous Hollywood days of yesteryear. Following with that theme, the newspaper advert in the campaign for the Lime and Thai Spice flavoured crisps is designed to look like a movie poster from the 1940s or 1950s.