This real 3D campaign lead by Mark Figliulio and shot by Mark Zibert will bring forward some familiar faces making waves in diversity for the Ad Color awards, with the tagline: "Color Adds Depth". It also adds funky 3D glasses retro look to famous musicians like Charlie Gabriel of Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots, and dancing kings like Harry Shum, Jr. of "GLEE". The 2012 ad color awards are held in VEGAS BABY, ahem, I mean, at the The Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas if you care to join.

Featuring Charlie Gabriel of Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Harry Shum, Jr. of "GLEE". Color adds depth.

Every presidential campaign has mudslinging ads, and some have epic ads like the daisy countdown. I'm going to call this one as the epic mudslinging ad of this campaign, unless there's another one in the pipeline.

In the first debate between Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama, the GOP nominee said that he’d cut the budget by eliminating non-essential costs, like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And that's how Obama now can say Romney is more concerned with Big Bird than Banks in this ad.

To show off the sleek Ikea range of furniture, and how you can organize your life better with a decent set of shelves, drawers and wall-mounted frames, Laboratory Ideas made an app that would organize your desktop. Once you have it, click "organize" and all those files carelessly strewn about your desktop will magically sort themselves into fancy bookshelves and filing cabinets.

This won a Bronze for interactive in the Clio awards 2012

So what is 'Integrated Advertising'? Lets explain with this animation.

Digital Domain and its commercial production company Mothership produced the emotional new music video from Linkin Park, “Castle of Glass,” created for the launch of Electronic Arts’ Medal of Honor Warfighter game. This is how they created the VFX.

A new commercial for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights is meant to spur viewers to run for their lives…and straight into the amusement park. A Common Thread produced the spot for Los Angeles agency David & Goliath, delivering a chilling piece of filmmaking that plays like a 30-second horror flick.

"In a fresh mediterranian night, a solitary bus and a girl meet a weird character. Anything can happen. And it does." "I stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back, neither was impressed." ;P

I like it, creepy guy is very well cast.

Top fashion and beauty director Jim Sonzero of Sonzero Films has directed a gorgeous, new campaign for Macy’s and Free Media promoting the retail giant’s national Beauty Scene event running now through October 1st. The six-spot package features some of the world’s most beautiful models in an elegantly stylized treatment promoting such prestigious brands as Clinque, Prevage-Elizabeth Arden, Clarins, Dior, Lancome and Origins. Sonzero used groundbreaking lighting techniques and engaging, upbeat performances to excite women about a variety of new beauty and skin care products.

Top fashion and beauty director Jim Sonzero of Sonzero Films has directed a gorgeous, new campaign for Macy’s and Free Media promoting the retail giant’s national Beauty Scene event running now through October 1st. The six-spot package features some of the world’s most beautiful models in an elegantly stylized treatment promoting such prestigious brands as Clinque, Prevage-Elizabeth Arden, Clarins, Dior, Lancome and Origins. Sonzero used groundbreaking lighting techniques and engaging, upbeat performances to excite women about a variety of new beauty and skin care products.

This billboard was created for St-Matthew-in-the-city Church to show their support for the Marriage Amendment Bill, which aims to legalise same-sex marriage in New Zealand. The rejected subline was "as long as we can watch". No I'm kidding.

LETS OVERTHINK A PIECE OF TOAST, PEOPLE.

These ads are for thebessies.ca. See also The award show after party and the editing room.

A scene we all know so well. The editing room. With beer.

These ads are for thebessies.ca. See also The award show after party and the always sad casting session.

The incredibly awkward after party. The only place where "can I touch it?" isn't a come-on.

These ads are for thebessies.ca. See also The Editing room and the always sad casting session.

How do you get more people to take the bus? Make it cool man, and nothing is cooler than everything filmed in slow motion. Just ask Carlton Draught.

At the 2012 IPCPR Trade Show, Viaje Founder Andre Farkas provided an overview of his upcoming cigar, the Viaje Honey and Hand Grenades (HHG). Inspiration for the name came from the cigar's profile describing a combination of sweetness and strength in the blend.

Simon+Associates found they had no problem at all extending the name into an equally sweet and strong design.

DEMORGEN and Famous in Brussels created the website reclame-erfgoed.be and explain it thusly.

Reclame Erfgoed ( Advertising Heritage ) is a website that allows users to add vintage painted adverts on an interactive map. Not just any interactive map, the entire webiste including the navigation are painted on a wall in Belgium and streamed on the site.

CP+P (once Crispin Porter, later Crispin Porter and Bogusky, then CP+B with a PLUS sign just to annoy anyone who wants to use an old school boolean search where + = and, but I digress....) managed to offend a whole bunch of people in Canada with this ad. It aired everywhere except in Quebec, and soon was retracted while Bic Canada humbly apologized for the ad. In the ad were see a prison somewhere in Asia, presumably a country with a horrific human rights record like Burma or China. The prisoners await their judgment from an official who is armed only with a "condemned" stamp and a pen for pardoning.

Harry's bar wanted to push beer sales during Happy Hour, and push shy Singaporians to meet new friends, making Harry's bar more social at the same time. Enter the QR code. Harry's "bottle message" make a message on a bottle. Buy a beer, scan the QR code on it and type in the message you want to send to the other person. Then buy another beer, put the QR code on there and send it to the person you wish to talk to. When they scan the QR code a chat opens between the two of you... and the bar just sold you two beers. Win!

In other QR code news today, we've found safetat will QR code your kid because writing a telephone number on their arm just doesn't cut it anymore. SMH.

Draftfcb in London has launched a new print, outdoor and TV campaign to promote the new Oreo Snack Packs, with two-biscuit portion packs that are ideal for lunchboxes*.

“The Snack Packs are a simple way for mothers to bring a moment of fun to their loved ones even when they’re not around,” said Toby Bevans, senior brand manager for Oreo UK.

The TV campaign develops the family scenarios first seen at the beginning of the year. As the central character attempts to pilfer one of his child’s prized Oreo biscuits, she rebukes him with the fact that the two biscuits cannot be shared or separated as they are best friends.