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I don’t usually repost other people’s advertising commentary, but in this case it’s about an ad that I also happened to see at the same time as the author (left), but was unable to look at it long enough to articulate my own reaction due to the reasons described below. It was written by Jason [...]

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Maybe this is a good idea if you’re deliberately trying to speak to that coveted douchebag demographic, but otherwise, this just comes off sounding like the advertising equivalent of thinking that knocking the popular kid will somehow earn you friends at school. You just end up sounding like a jerk. Who Okay-ed this? If you [...]

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Been meaning to post about this for a while, but been mad busy. I’m super digging the ad campaign for the The Surrogates, due out September 25th. Based on the graphic novel of the same name by Robert Venditti, the world of the Surrogates is a future in which direct human interaction has all but [...]

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. Also awesome: wonderful and wondrous large-scale art creations shown happening absolut-ly anywhere but the desert. Like this? Share it: Tweet

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“I think Andy Warhol got it wrong: in the future, so many people are going to become famous that one day everybody will end up being anonymous for 15 minutes.” – Banksy Well, it’s the future, and fame has propagated apace with Moore’s law. Thus, it only makes sense that 30 years since the release [...]

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The past 150 Years of Dance Culture, brought to you by Bacardi Mojito: . . Reminds me of last year’s Levis love note to the past century of Romance. Seems brand history is a trend that never loses relevance, even for the “young folks.” ps. Goddamn, if I don’t want a mojito now. Like this? [...]

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MLB 2k9 ad starring Tim Lincecum: It’s totally funny, but it’s also kind of interesting social commentary in a way. I’ve been doing some research for a client over the past few months on community sites for kids such as Club Penguin, GuppyLife,  Stardoll, imbee, etc. Because of the way that COPPA laws restrict what [...]

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In case you happen to have missed it, Tropicana changed the design on their cartons last month, and in the process discovered that “Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging,” as Stuart Elliott writes in the New York Times: PepsiCo is bowing to public demand and scrapping the changes made to a flagship product, Tropicana Pure [...]

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Just a quick post to let you know our new Google overlords must have officially arrived, according to this ad: Taking over from the exiting party which has heretofore been responsible for bestowing the bless-age, and to whom all unanswered questions had previously been directed, the new ephemeral, universal, entity that apparently has $5,000-a-month jobs [...]

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A few months ago I’d written a post called How Not To Use Condoms, about the misstep of  Trojan’s “Evolve” campaign. Here, then, is Durex’s take on how to advertise condoms, courtesy of Fitzgerald & Co: And I’d actually been planning a more substantial entry to be the first post of 2009, but when I [...]

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