Awesome Educational Billboards

This is a great campaign that also educates the public about random facts. Cool stuff!!!


http://www.123inspiration.com/clever-ads-billboard/

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays, and safe travels! See you in the New Year.

Here's a fun post, and be sure to sign up for The Daily Heller.

Ads that I enjoy :)

I was searching for magazines of ads that I could buy so I could study advertising and learn from other designers and it brought me to this website.

http://enpundit.com/ads-of-the-world/

#2 and #5 caught me. I love looking at ads and actually observing it if I knew I would never have thought of it in the future.

Survey Experience

Yeah! Survey is finally over yet I still need to study for finals :(.

For survey, I got the best critique on my Advertising projects especially on my Museum campaign. When my ad for the International Spy Museum came out, all of the professors laughed :). 

Here is the link to the International Spy Museum if interested -> http://www.spymuseum.org/

I also got a complement from one of the professors on my Opinel campaign saying something along the line that the way I portrayed the ad was simple and understandable and the images were great. 

Even when the time was up and I was on my way walking out, they all said "great job on your museum campaign!" 

 Thought this was really inspirational!

 http://www.ted.com/talks/candy_chang_before_i_die_i_want_to.html?source=facebook#.ULlbdk7JBZk.facebook

scaryideas.com

I found an interesting advertisement blog.
visit   http://scaryideas.com/   Enjoy!

interesting advertisement campaign

I really like that these strong images tell everything about ads. 

AWESOME use of multimedia advertising/guerrilla marketing

These are so cool!!

http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/guerrilla-marketing/12-inspirational-guerrilla-marketing-examples/

enjoy!

Amazingly creative double page spreads

These are probably some of the top full page spread advertisements. They really utilize the medium.

http://www.creativeguerrillamarketing.com/guerrilla-marketing/creativedoublepagemagazineads/

Museum

Here is the "Museum" for anyone who is interested!

http://mmuseumm.com/

Yes, Virginia

Here's a link with some history behind a very famous tourism campaign. Nice chunk of typography too.

Atlas Obscura

Found this a little late, but here's an extensive source for weird museums and tourist attractions: atlasobscura.com

Some clever ads

I think these ads are clear and clever enough that it does not need any explanations :)

These are some ads for Amnesty International. I have always thought their work is really interesting.

few commercials

http://youtu.be/Os87PLlyU4k
http://www.formfiftyfive.com/2012/08/mother-new-york/

Square on Wired

Square Buys Design Shop to Infuse Itself With Apple DNA
Some interesting philosophies that reflect brand personality.

eos lip balm

I found some really cute/clever ads for the eos lip balm campaign... Here's a link to view some ads...


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=323349349968&set=a.323349129968.44586.33786259968&type=1&theater

Designers & Books Fair 2012

The first Designers & Books Fair is set to launch on the last weekend of October. It looks really interesting and they will have some really interesting speakers like Massimo Vignelli, Tom Geismar, Michael Bierut and  Paula Scher. http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=642

Count Down

http://uaddit.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=642
I don't really know how this works but I was looking for some ad blogs and I found this count down. I personally think some of them are really clever.

Great Knife Ads

These are the really great ads by WMF I was talking about.
They're three different campaigns.

These are some other clever ads I came across.

Marina Abramovic & MoMA PS1 Summer School

On Sunday I had the pleasure of attending MoMA PS1's Summer School Open House, where performance artists and their students perform their pieces for the public. The event was from 1-6 and featured three different artists and groups of students, though I only attended to see Marina Abramovic.
The event started with an introduction from Marina and her assistants, who then led the crowd through a series of exercises to attempt to get the public in the correct mental and physical sphere to view the performance pieces. These exercises ranged from breathing and stretching to locking eyes with a stranger  for a solid ten minutes. While uncomfortable, everyone took it very seriously and there was a collective shift after this shared experience.
Myself having mixed feelings about performance art as a medium, I was excited to see such an icon in person. Marina is quite a presence and she commanded the public's attention with every word. There were two separate pieces performed, both using all 12 members of the class, dressed in all black. I felt the performances to be on par with performance art that I have previously seen, which is not great (granted these pieces were put together in less than a week's time).

However, my favorite part came after the performance, when Marina opened up a Q and A for the participants and herself regarding the 'Abramovic Method.' During this session, one of the performers/students explained an installation in the performance room that had previously gone somewhat unnoticed: a row of TVs on the floor, each with video of one of the performers wearing headphones. He explained that Marina had asked them to select a song they hate and a song they love before the first day of their performance class, and upon their arrival she only wanted to hear the song they hated. The performer elaborated on these ideas of facing fears and challenging personal weaknesses, and told the audience that the TVs were showing footage of each participant listening to their selected 'hate songs' and their reactions as the song plays. Viewers are invited to listen to these respective songs through headphones so that they can experience the audio with them. Having just watched their performance pieces that had a lot to do with music, singing, and sound in general, I felt this installation to be a compelling culmination of the ideas expressed in the performances
MoMA PS1
PS1 Summer School

UNADULTERATED.

I always love hearing things from a child's perspective I feel like they make it so simple. It's really easy to get caught up in what a piece means or its execution. I feel we forget to look at the art for simply what it is.

John Baldessari

Here is the video we discussed in class. Enjoy…

bicycle in nyc

as seen on gawker

Greatest Craigslist Car Ad Ever

READ IT HERE

MAN BIB!!!

Possibly the greatest advertisement i have ever seen: The Solo Man Bib.


 http://blog.freestylemagazine.com.au/?tag=solo-man-bib

This Advertising Life

This Advertising Life

amazing time lapse

Samsung

effects start at 0:40

Hillman Curtis

HILLMAN from Hillman Curtis on Vimeo.

acid age

I first saw the bunnies on the subway a couple weeks ago on my way to work. Impossibly long-eared, they stared down at me, the text around them commanding me: “Look into my eyes! Bunnies never lie!” The rest of the anti smoking ad resembled a third-grader’s conception of cuteness: multi-colored hearts everywhere, vines crawling up the sides, and birds emitting music notes and tweets inside yet more hearts. After seeing it on a few different trains, I sent an email to the address listed on the ad. The advertiser and designer turned out to be G Mailit Creations, a one-man company run by Alfred Brotter, an 82-year-old Bronx native who made a bunch of money in real estate and is now living in Florida.

VICE: Was that subway ad your idea, or were you just the agent for someone who wanted to put it up?

Alfred Brotter: I had been studying various philosophies, mostly Richard Wetherill and his humanetics, and he claims that the human mind cannot be penetrated from the front of the brain, it’s clogged up with too much stuff. Most anti smoking campaigns connect to the front of the brain and the important message never penetrates to the brain center receptors—and a receptor message must also connect to the back of the brain. The G Mailit creation does just that. Love, honor, mortality, happiness— when all four are targeted to a habitual smoker, can it be easily dismissed?

It’s very difficult because a person who smokes is a smoking person. In order for that person to stop smoking you have to murder the smoking person. I was a smoker and I didn’t want my kids to smoke so I stopped. I knew if I smoked my kids would smoke. Usually if two parents don’t smoke its very unlikely that the children will smoke.

About eight million lives are lost worldwide by smokers. Translated into languages everywhere, I believe the message and focus on this anti smoking creation could prove responsible for saving at least one million persons’ lives, or for having five million persons retain their much-needed loved ones.

The question is, will Michael Bloomberg want to buy this thing? He could distribute it worldwide in many languages—the question is how to approach him about it. I wrote a letter to him hoping his office would give me a call and I could fly to New York and talk to him.

http://www.viceland.com

Creativity* shall provail

Another professor showed the class this to emphasize his point about protecting creativity from over-the-top focus groups and such. Pretty fun.


Dammit I can't get the embed thing to work. It's a focus group for the 1984 Apple commercial. 


Here's a link: http://youtu.be/3SdevjDLkO4

McDonalds Reflective Billboard

Brainstorming Doesn't Work

Intriguing article by Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker from January 30 about the ineffectiveness of brainstorming and how criticism encourages better ideas. I scanned the most interesting page.

You can also read the first part of the article here, which starts out with a mention of B.B.D.O. in the '40s.

Good thing to waste time

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/CanvasPinball/Default.html

The hunter and the bear are back

The Tipp-Ex interactive ad campaign (2010) is my most favorite ad. 

The hunter and the bear are back for Tippexperience 2! 

Watch "Hunter and bear's 2012 birthday party"

If you haven't watched the first tippexperience campaign, watch the video below. Just type words like dances, kisses, hugs,kicks, loves..

very dramatic ad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=316AzLYfAzw

Google's project glass

Google unveiled hybrid glasses that function like a smartphone last wednesday (April 4th). You can wear these smart glasses and experience the augmented reality.  These glasses would cost around $250 to $600 dollars by the end of 2012.

The first video was released by Google and the second one is a parody video that also shows random ads. The parody video actually has more view counts.