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Building Sin City from scratch

When director Robert Rodriguez started working on Sin City he knew it would have to look just like the original style from the classic comic books, so
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Spring Break In The Great White North

Ahhh.... Spring Break. The words evoke seductive images of sizzling sand, sun, skin and social disease.

You're carded: Red Yellow and Green from JWT

Spotlight on: Blarke Sonne Levring a.k.a BSL Denmark

A while back production house Blarke Sonne Levring did the hip thing and shortened their name to BSL, which is a lot easier for a non-Dane like myself
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Ads on Snail Mail

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Pony seen through Simon Wakelin's lens.

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Gratuitousness in Ads

If you judged our society based on the ads alone, one would wonder if we cared about anything but sex.
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Quiznos dusts off Baby Bob

Last year, we wondered if there were Rats in Quiznos subs with their Sponge Monkey adverts.
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a short chat with Dan, from Lee and Dan (LAD)

Like the rest of the planet we want to know a few things about that Volkswagen Polo terrorist viral (adland post Jan 18), or 'fake' ad, or w

Embracing Real Beauty (Part 3)

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From selling trash to selling everything

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Embracing Real Beauty (part 2)

Embracing Real Beauty (Updated)

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Christmas Card Emulation

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Adland Round Up 2004- Marketing, Controversies, Badland and more

Adland Round Up 2004 - The Ads

Break out the popcorn or holiday cookies and get ready to enjoy some ads. We've rounded up the best, worst and some just plain strange ads.
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AdLand Round Up 2004- The Year In Review

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Spotlight on 86 the onions - "86ed the rest"

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Open up and say ahhh - All agape over Skechers.

I was flippin' through last week's Entertainment Weekly and happened upon a Skechers ad - a sequel of sorts to a she-spy action ad from a fe
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86 the onions make ubiquitous campaign for NEC Japan

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Ogilvy London Hijacked

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TBWA Lisbon, Portugal - The blogging ad agency

Hmm?

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Hate hates celebrities and the celebs hate Hate.

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Juan Valdez - coming to a coffee shop near you

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Taste and Flavor vs. Freshness

Here at Adland we've recently mentioned that Bud and Miller are at it again and before that took a look at the Catfight between Miller and AB.
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Maybe Old Navy's Feel Good Fashion feels a little toooo good...

Thanks to an alert friend who prefers to go anonymous this time around, our attention has been turned to a very special Old Navy commercial.
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Publicis Hal Riney- fact or fiction

Welcome to New York. Now get out.

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Tower Isles - Edible Logo

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OMFG! - a little abbreviation deviation

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'9/11' Producer signs to DDA

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Nanner Ads - Garfield The Movie on bananas

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Copyright isn’t a Threat, it’s a Protection

There is a big push via email and the web to rally support for a court case called Kahle v.
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HSBC Lowe retrospective

It was rather sad news to hear that HSBC ended their contract with LOWE, and instead hired WPP, presumably to have more of a global agency to overlook
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Lowe Thailand sells Scholl sandals without showing them.

Subun Khow (cw) and Vancelee Teng (ad) under the creative direction of Jeffrey Curtis at Lowe Thailand have created a new poster campaign for Scholls
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I am Jack's professional pride

Welcome to Orange Denmark

Welcometoorangecounty, the Mallorca based international agency are opening another office - in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Is "The sweetest taboo" breaking one?

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Agency launches website by mailing a lamb hoof

When Cole, Russel & Pryce in Stockholm sent out their (e)mailers to advertise themselves and their new website, they probably didn't expect t
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How long will RSS be ad-free?

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Adland Roundup 2003 (part 1)

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Adland Roundup 2003 (part 2)

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Tall Tales - Intel on Mt. Everest

Intel has been hyping their new and revolutionary wireless Centrino technology (never mind Apple's Airport) in a mondo advertising campaign over
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International Women of Advertising Revealed

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A breath of fresh air from Onitsuka Tiger

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Lowe Bull Southafrica does just fine without Matthew

Lowe Bull South Africa has been on an interesting journey in the past few months after the leader of the lowe-pack, Matthew Bull, departed their sunny
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Dinnertime in China - Less Yuck For Your Yuan

General Tso would be pleased.
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Deadly shoes - the Converse Controversy

Converse, now a Nikecorp brand, has critics going ballistic over its latest shoe, the Loaded Weapon.
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HC gruppen buys Boeing 727 to house agency

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Manila, Philippines billboard eyesore

Not exactly tasteful billboards, they mushroom along major thoroughfares of the city. From the plane, you will see one long line of these billboards.
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Terry Tate for Governor!

Hell - it's California.
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Jackie Chan to save Hong Kong

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Advertising is blind.

Who're the latest commercial darlings? The vision impaired.
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The Curse of Dr Pepper?

A few of you may already be familiar with Campbell's Chunky Soup curse, where football players who star in their commercials go on to face bad lu
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Lurzers TV Archive Mag/DVD coming to USA

The publisher of Lürzer’s Int’l ARCHIVE Magazine (Ads & Posters Worldwide) has just announced that it will be making a considerable commitment in
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w+k goes vacant

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Pissin' in the great outdoors for fun and profit.

If you've driven through Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania or South Carolina this summer, there's a chance you've motored by
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This just in - Terry Tate jumps the shark.

Not personally, but the Dorm Linebacker has done it for him. Somewhere, off in the distance, a fat lady is singing as the Wassup guys join in.
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Cloven Hooves, Cloud Punchers, Flying Rats and Walkie-Talkies

UPDATED: The latest campaign for Nextel, featuring their new nationwide walkie-talkie capabilities, broke over the weekend (the campaign, not the phon
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Reebok rubs a poopy diaper in Nike's Face

As reported earlier, Nike just recendly laid out a $90,000,000 contract for high school basketball player LeBron James, and as an adlister added, $1,0
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idanda.net Online Design Magazine Debuts

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Have a Coke and a Heil.

(db/adlist) It had all the makings of a great Hong Kong promotion.
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Best Buy tees off... well... Mr. T.

It now appears that if you're going to produce a commercial showing a middle aged guy in a sweater vest beating the stuffing out of Mr.
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A Miniplan for the Minivan.

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I Wonder If She Drives A Hummer?

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A Back in Black - Racist, Rational or Happenstance?

It's a simple and undisputable fact - HIV/AIDS is pandemic in South Africa.
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Dragon Lady Causes a Bit of Trouble in Czechoslovakia

Starobrno's Cerveny Drak (Red Dragon) beer ad. Topless tattooed woman. Middle finger. Advertising standards. Good times.
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preaching to the conservative

Jason on adlist sent us this gem - Starspangled IceCream.com - yet another cash-in on the patriotic American dollar'.
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Yoko Ono goes loco for Cocoa Puffs.

... well, not Cocoa Puffs, but rather for a new cereal by Kellogg's organic division, Kashi, called Strawberry Fields.
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What's in a name? Case# 2,351: Ikea's Gutvik Bunk Bed

In Sweden, Gutvik is a teeny village or Ikea bunk bed. In Germany, Gutvik is something significantly different.
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UPDATED - Molson Canadian gets in touch with its feminine side. And goes plaid.

While Miller Light and Coors Light battle breasts in Boobwar 2K3, USA's Great White North neighbor is getting mighty clever with its Miami agency
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Nivea Thais Up Traffic In Bangkok

(Archived) After cracking down on drugs and pirated products, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now going on about moral ethics. Last week,
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Dancing Butchers Boogie Into Trouble With Sacred Cow

New Zealand Beef and Lamb bought and ran a commercial from Meat and Livestock Australia featuring butchers dancing and singing down a crowded street i
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"Ah'll be back. With a lawyer."

Fry's Electronics is getting burned.

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