Lady Gaga is kicking off her Monster Ball Tour 2011 and this is your chance to become part of it.

As the presenting sponsor of The Monster Ball starring Lady Gaga, Virgin Mobile has partnered with Talenthouse to find aspiring bloggers, video journalists and crazed fans that believe they have what it takes to join the ball.

Nine "Little Local Monster" bloggers will be chosen and will get:

  · Attendance to a local Lady Gaga Monster Ball concert (dates and locations below)
  · Access to interview, assist and document behind the scenes of the concert

Do not simply be content with any kind of illustration. 200 Best Illustrators is the perfect tool for those wishing to turn their advertising into little works of art. Numbering no less than 320 pages, this impressive volume showcases the world's best illustrators in the following categories: Advertising, Annuals, Books, Brochures and Calendars. The latest edition boasts an excellent mix of familiar names and new talents. The cover of this new edition comes from India or, to be more precise, from Taproot India, Mumbai. The motifs for Transasia Papers were also awarded a Golden Lion at Cannes in 2010.

India strikes again! I don't know what it is about their fascination with Hitler (in advertising), but they do love to use him. He's such a simple symbol, and here der führer has a gloria above his evil little head, as the ad is bragging about Onida's anti reflective LED TV's. Yeah, Onida, I'm not sure you want your brand name connected with Hitler.

Stockholm Stadsmission is a Swedish charity organization working for homeless people.
The Print and poster campaign ran in december 2010.

Somehow brand naming scores lowest in your average brand manager's scheme of things. Our brief was to shake things up a bit by provoking the brand manager with some mouse pad posters.

Lovely illustration skills by Ayana Nissan in this campaign for Well Hair from Draftfcb+ Shimoni Finkelstein Barki, Israel. Wella has hair products for every hairtype, be it you're blond, brunette or redhead, a city slacker, beach type or nature lover.

American Apparel must have recently discovered that nobody was talking about their garage-porn styled photos anymore, so they switched to pencil sketches instead. With pencil sketches they can go even further with their tantalizing tease-images and have the model remove her panties while putting on her best come-hither look. And they're not just any old pencil sketches, these look like the work of Boris Vallejo the master painter of the fantasy and erotica genres whose art hung in every adolescent males room back in the 70s. A match made in heaven, really, the only better one I can think of is the Lynx / Axe posters that used Boris Vallejo's art.

Discover the world’s first Global Mood Clocks that reflect the “mood” of a city by showing the dominant colour from the latest GPS tagged photo uploads to Flickr, as well as the top trending Google and Twitter keywords, all in real time.

Website: moodclock.greycanada.com
For Mac & PC: Visit moodclock.greycanada.com
YouTube Video: http://moodclock.greycanada.com/moodclock_video.htm

To create the campaign, and book, for the Golden Egg awards in Sweden, CP&B Europe CD's Gustav Martner engaged some collegues halway across the word the re-judge last years entries.

"It's not just a ploy, it's about searching for if there is an international language of good ideas" says Gustav Martner.

The last image is a new international diploma, given to the winners from last years award after being "re-judged" with the new international jury.

For full story, see CP&B has the Swedish Golden Egg awards re-judged by international jury and have a peek at The Golden Egg website.

MOTHERHOOD / UAE NATIONAL DAY / ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS / KIDS MUSIC / FASHION SHOW / NIGHT SOUQ / LOSS

We had to think of a fun way to promote ourselves. What better way than to play a name game!

HUGE's new creative director is a west coast import, and before heading east he created Adios LA billboards to break up with Los Angeles city proper.

On Lincoln Blvd, Olympic Blvd, Venice blvd, Beverly Blvd and Highland ave you can find these real billboards created by John Jackson who left LA for a gig in New York city and apparently had money to burn (or pre-scheduled media slots and favors to cash in, more likely).

As they say on the site:

Lady Gaga, Alecia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Elijah Wood and Kim Kardashian staged digital death on twitter by giving up tweeting December 1 to direct attention to the "Keep a Child Alive" buy life campaign. They also posed for posters, and Kim had to go the arm up sexy route, presumably to gather donations from necrophiliacs. At least Alecia Keys is playing dead proper.

Fans can help "buy the stars" back by donating to KCA through the Buy Life site, with a StickyBits app that scans Buy Life barcodes, or by texting BUYLIFE to 90999.

The idea isn't just to dress their posters with celebrity eye candy, the celebs are "dying" online by shutting down their social networking until one million dollars is raised.

Here's our plug for electric Mitsibishi's. Home Charged.

Introducing the Mitsubishi i MiEV, the first all-electric car from Mitsubishi. Engineered to be the perfect car for the urban environment, the i-MiEV can park in the tightest spaces, breeze through traffic like a dream and can still comfortably accommodate four adults.

We've not run out of ways to say "longer lasting flavor" ...yet.

Ad about secondhand smoking for the Association For Smoker Awareness (ADESF). It was created by NEOGAMA/BBH.

Prints for the non-profit association CCFD–Terre Solidaire, first French development NGO, which supports local initiatives in South and East developing countries. This campaign fights against tax havens, cancer of the south developing countries. The 3 prints are based on the personification of money : 'Mr. Money' a character with moral values and feelings who is imprisoned in a tax haven, tired of the selfish that people use him.

The H-57 Design team geeked out in all orts of ways here, creating illustrations of stormtroopers, Darth Vader and Yoda himself only out of type. Go Italy, go Milan, go geeks. There's of course the wee issue of it not using H-57 designed fonts, and the whole borrowed interest thing, but it's still pretty cute.

There is this myth that naming is a no-brainer. So some clients do it themselves and live to regret it after the deed is done. To counter this DIY Naming, we decided to do a stark campaign to educate clients on how badly things can go wrong if the category-fit, product-fit and brand-fit is just not right.

Euro RSCG C&O created an advertising campaign for the first French information radio, France Info.
The campaign includes a series of 3 black and white posters ads (photographer: Marc Gouby).
Three people of the editorial staff have been shot to empower the idea that reporters are at the heart of information.