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Eye-catching packaging of the day: Emmelie Golabiewski

February 13th, 2013 / Comments (0)
Found on The Fox is Black:

Emmelie Golabiewski is an illustrator based in Stockholm. I found her work via various internet wormholes and was completely charmed by her “Children Pharmacy” project, an illustrated packaging series featuring everything from a toothbrush and toothpaste stored in an open mouth to tissue dispensed out of a nose. Her work is whimsical, wonderful, and eye-catching… literally.
New work by McBess for French streaming service Deezer

February 11th, 2013 / Comments (0)
Remember multi-talented artist McBess? We came across the new campaign he drew advertising Deezer, a French music streaming service. Of course, it is lovely.

See details and more ads at I Believe in Advertising.
Tomorrow is National Sweater Day! (in Canada)

February 8th, 2013 / Comments (0)
...But we get the gist.

These grannies want you to put on a sweater on February 9, and lower your heat. Come on, 68 degree! You can do it!
AMC cooks up a brutal Walking Dead installation for Grand Central Station

February 8th, 2013 / Comments (0)
A simply brilliant ambient ad. Each day, a finger is removed. Via.
A beautiful install for Kraken rum

February 7th, 2013 / Comments (0)
Good rum. A good ad. Via.
LEGO's new Tumblr: 55 years of the brick

February 6th, 2013 / Comments (0)
We recently posted about new ads for LEGO using simple imagery and focusing on the imagination the toy inspires. Looks like they've got a new Tumblr using similar posters to celebrate 55 years of the brick.
The easy way to write an absurdist script: use Cleverbot

February 5th, 2013 / Comments (0)
Via. We definitely killed about an hour talking with our old friend Cleverbot after watching this.
Creative break: Help! the website

February 1st, 2013 / Comments (0)
While we were investigation Help I'm horny last week, we made it over to the help remedies main website.

It carries through on the cheeky product design nicely. Each square is clickable. Some lead to product information, others lead to simple mind-wasters.

For example "help! I have too much money" links directly to

a Paypal donation form.

Take a break and check it out.

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When Brand Building Becomes Personal

06/06/2013 - 12:38 / Comments (0)

by The Austin Egotist

Jared Dunten is a lot of things. Copywriter. Artist. Father. Husband. Paraplegic. Fighter. That last one probably should have come first.

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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...