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Wear Your Helmet!

November 18th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Pretty cool.

MAC 'Body Paint' from Resin on Vimeo.
The Call/Crash Campaign

November 18th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Pretty creative approach to get the point across.
Great Illustration of the Power of Product Packaging

November 18th, 2010 / Comments (0)
It's all H2O, right?

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Be Inspired by the Creativity of Windows 7 (NOT)

November 18th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Looks like Microsoft's new campaign took a page from the creative playbook of the AARP.
Oh Bristol Palin, How Far Ye Hath Fallen.

November 17th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Quick, somebody stab our eyeballs with a fork so we'll never ever ever have to see this again. Yeah, it's really that bad!

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Kick Ass Computer Generated Heaven

November 17th, 2010 / Comments (2)
According to our friendly cohorts in San Francisco, this commercial by Alex Roman for Silestone countertops is 100% computer generated. In other words, nothing you see here ever really happened.

Silestone -- 'Above Everything Else' from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

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Speed Camera Lottery

November 17th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Who says good ideas can't be found everywhere?

Kevin Richardson won the Volkswagen Fun Theory contest with his idea called "Speed Camera Lottery." Basically, he thought that the fines from speeders should become rewards for those who don't. The Speed Camera Lottery randomly selects non-speeders and gives out the dough.

When Kevin put the idea into practice, it apparently reduced speeding in the area by 22%

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This Might Get You in the Holiday Spirit

November 17th, 2010 / Comments (0)
Genuinely nice spot by a U.K. department store. Time to buy the friends and fam a new holiday Snuggie!

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How to Spend $275 Million in 48 Minutes: Three Super Bowl Ad Trends for 2013

02/01/2013 - 15:54 / Comments (0)

by joshhogan

Want to watch $275 Million get spent in 48 minutes? Just tune into CBS at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday to see one of America's greatest primetime displays...
The school of life.

11/26/2012 - 08:41 / Comments (0)

by Anonymous

Yesterday a reader asked us "how do you get into advertising?", our knee jerk reaction was to ship them off to the nearest ad school for a year or...
How to survive in advertising

11/22/2012 - 08:41 / Comments (0)

by Anonymous

A lot of extremely credible, and no doubt, scientifically-tested rules that apply to horror movie...