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Mac Burrard Station

The Olympic Games would not exist without sponsors, that’s a fact. They bring the millions, they make it happen. But since early January, Burrard Skytrain station has turned into a giant ad for McDonalds and I hate it. Really, it is e [...]

Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, January 29th, 2010

Categories: Advertising, Vancouver | 6 Comments »

Green burgers

A few months ago, Mac Donald’s launched a new TV campaign in France ‘come as you are’. The campaign itself, created by EuroRSCG, is pretty nice but what really caught my attention was the logo: it has turned green!! Just l [...]

Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing, Sustainability | No Comments »

IE8 Explorer, no cheddar please

To celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 8 in France, Windows has joined forces with…Speed Rabbit Pizza, a leading pizza company. Explore and devour the IE8 pizza! 8 slices, 8 ingredients, 8 euros. I can totally see the rational h [...]

Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, March 27th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Branding, Marketing | No Comments »

Sheepish art

What do you get when you cross LED technology, sheep and guys with a lot of time on their hands? How about one of the coolest campaigns by Samsung. Check it out here. Thanks to my buddy Steve for the link.

Posted by: Alex Leynes on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Art, Fun, Technology | No Comments »

Liverpool Dance Routine

I guess this isn’t anything new since we’ve seen choreographed dancing en mass (in a Philippines jail), performance in subway stations (Joshua Bell), and flash mob performance in many other forms the advertising side of this is [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, January 16th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

I totally dig this movie Poster. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story of a man who is born as a 70 year old, and grows younger through his life; essentially aging in reverse. The movie posters are, for the most part, generic and a [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 12th, 2009

Categories: Advertising, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »

What would Jesus do?

Corporate level Viral marketing has, for the most part, appeared insincere and often completely backfired. Tiger Woods ’08 was released by EA sport and earlier this year a fan posted a video outlining a bug where a player could walk o [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, December 19th, 2008

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Insane street soccer

Soccer meets martial arts – a great combo. This is a commercial or promo vid for Fifa Street 3 video game, check it out. Someone wondered if it uses CG but I’d rather believe in good old fashion skill and lots of practice.

Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, October 20th, 2008

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Blank is like Blank

Fill in the blank has never really been that fun for me until I stumbled on “Blank is like Blank” a blog by copywriter Justin Feinstein. You might remember him from his “If Taglines were Honest” post a few years back [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, August 1st, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun | No Comments »

Charlie’s 15 minutes of Flame

We just sent our summer newsletter and all the prime cuts are going fast. Hopefully you have a copy of the newsletter in your inbox but if you don’t you can view it online, or contact us to be added for the next blast.

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | No Comments »

Creative Juicing

  So, just how do you get a really great creative idea for that next DM piece? Juice it. But is it organic? (via Liquid Treat)

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, June 6th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Design, Fun | No Comments »

Land of the Free

Rachael Ray has in recent months been the face of Dunkin Doughnuts promoting the brand in different campaigns. Recently one of her online ads came under fire and has been removed under pressure from conservative bloggers. Why you ask? Becau [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, May 30th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »

How much wiggle room you got?

A bunch of funny commercials for a car dealership that may, unfortunately ring a little too true for anyone who’s been car shopping anytime over the last, say, thirty years. And yeah, so we love exploiting small furry animals for mark [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

HEMA: a retailer who isn’t overly serious

It is so seldom I see a corporate or retailer website that makes me laugh anymore. Everyone seems to take themselves so seriously these days. Not HEMA apparently. HEMA is a Dutch department store first opened in 1926 in Amsterdam (maybe tha [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | No Comments »

Do the Test

This ad isn’t something that hasn’t been done before, but is quite effective nonetheless. As design professionals, you’d think we’re either hyper aware, or so jaded we don’t see anything and this just reminded [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 14th, 2008

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Code Branding

I’ve blogged about Code commenting before. I like it. It makes me smile. Sometimes people leave jokes, or witty comments their code which brings amusement to an otherwise dry topic. Around the office we’ve been checking out Logo [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Interactive, Technology | No Comments »

Faceblocking

Much has been made of Facebook Privacy lately. Basically Facebook owns has access to all your personal information and rights to use, sell or otherwise make profit from worldwide, for ever. Is this a problem? Do you care? There are plenty o [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Learning, Websites | No Comments »

Terrific Viral Campaign for Breaking Bad

My friend Colin sent me a link to this website with a post title “Mark Busse is a slacker”. My first thought was, “Busted — someone’s on to me.” until I realized it was a clever online viral campaign to promo [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Interactive, Marketing, Websites | 2 Comments »

Homer no function beer well without.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave or without your daily internets (heaven forbid!), you probably already know about the 7-11 stores across the US that have been temporarily converted to Kwik-E-Marts to promote the upcoming Simpsons [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing, Vancouver | No Comments »

Marketing vs Branding Joke

An oldie but a goodie we used to tell potential clients about the difference between marketing, PR, advertising, and branding. The only thing I might add to this joke is a line about design, something like: “You look like you’re [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Branding, Fun, Marketing | No Comments »

The Best Place for Dead Animals

Check out this amazing video showing how even experienced advertising creatives can be manipulated using subliminal cues.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 11th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Marketing | No Comments »

Lost in…France

Recently while in France I did a double take when I saw an ad for Nespresso featuring George Clooney. Stars selling their image (souls) out for big bucks in markets other than North America is nothing new, but I thought this one was so very [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Film, Travel | No Comments »

Oops

When designing for print, being millitant about typos and other errors is critical, but then in the heat of the usual panic to get things delivered on time there’s often great opportunity for clients or others to overlook glaringly ob [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing | No Comments »

Human Skateboard Sneaux Commercial

Wicked new stop motion Sneaux commercial “Human Skateboard” directed by PES. Do NOT try this at home. [props to Steph for the heads up]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

Categories: Advertising, We love | No Comments »

The future is TOO friendly.

If you don’t currently have a stalker, and are feeling a bit left out, the Mini Cooper might help you fill that void with billboards that speak to you. The boards, which usually carry typical advertising, are programmed to identify ap [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

NYC’s True Graffiti Problem

Although I work in an industry that is unavoidably related to advertising, I have to admit that the prevalence of advertising is reaching ridiculous levels, embedding itself deep within almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. That̵ [...]

Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Thursday, January 25th, 2007

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50 Essential Bookmarks

We didn’t make the list, but Communication Arts’ 2006 50 Essential Bookmarks is a great resource for design and advertising fodder.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Learning, Tips, Websites | No Comments »

Creepy Cool Playstation 3 Ads

For those of you not camped out outside of a FutureShop or BestBuy, the US ads for PlayStation 3 really pack a punch. Kickstart your Friday morning with Baby, Eggs and Rubik.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 17th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Rethinking the Lotus Awards

Last night Vancouver’s Advertising and Design community gathered at the Westin Bayshore for the AAABC‘s 2006 Lotus Awards, which showcases some of the best advertising, design and interactive work done in British Columbia. Our o [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Events, Industrial Brand, Vancouver | 3 Comments »

Quick, quick

All I can say is wow, check out what Jacob and Manto have to say.

Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, November 7th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Learning, Tips | No Comments »

If you doubt yourself, wear something else

A lack of.. uh, hmm… courage, has for many years been keeping men from showcasing their toolbags, it is no secret. Now, the pros at AussieBum have begun using “Wondercup” technology to create “appearance flattering u [...]

Posted by: todd smith on Monday, November 6th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Learning, Pop Culture, Tips | No Comments »

Stationery Movies

I guess Viking is the UK equivalent to our Staples or Office Depot. Anyway, they’re running an inventive online promotion right now called Stationery Movies. There are 20 scenes made entirely of office supplies and you have to guess t [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, October 20th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Film, Pop Culture, Websites | 2 Comments »

Eat Like Snake? WTF?

Just click on this link. Seriously – TV ads are getting weird man. And I like it. [kudos RGE for this one]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, We love | No Comments »

Hey Kids! Perrier is Cool!

Perrier is trying to refresh the aging brand and increase sales with a non-traditional ad campaign that riffs on its own names with adjectives like “Crazier” and “Sexier” chosen to draw the attention of a younger aud [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

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The new Sony Bravia Paint commercial

The latest Sony Bravia spot we mentioned here a couple weeks ago has now been released. Watch all 70,000 litres of paint explode into the air here.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

Real Beauty

The potential pitfall of education about the female body in the media can sometimes fall on deaf ears because overexposure of the message. The kind folks at Ogilvy produced this ad for the Dove Real Beauty Workshop for Girls. Puts things in [...]

Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Film, Marketing | No Comments »

New Bravia Spot Preview

Hard to forget the Sony Bravia commercial when they unleashed millions of coloured rubber balls through the streets of San Francisco. Hard to top it too. Well, they’re trying: they’ve splattered an apartment block in Glasgow wit [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, October 2nd, 2006

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Meet the World

If you haven’t seen them already, check out these amazing examples of communication design. Icaro Doria is the Brazilian artist behind these world flags that feature various statistics related to each colour in the country’s fla [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Art, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »

Honestly, wow.

Photoshop and photo manipulation at this point have very few limits; luckily, many people know this and continually produce amazing work. One of such organizations doing so is Brazil’s Platinum, FMD, who not only pushes composite phot [...]

Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Art, Inspiration, Marketing, Photography, Pop Culture | No Comments »

MAC-Sweeney

The inimitable McSweeneys pitches a few Mac Ad Ideas of their own. (via Coudal)

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, September 8th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Fun, Pop Culture, Reading | No Comments »

Weeds Billboard

$420 reward for the stoner who ruined the Weeds billboard in Auckland.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

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Creepy Vintage Ads

Yeah, yeah…ethos, zeitgeist and all that rot, but imagine being the graphic designer on some of these hilarious, shocking and creepy vintage ads from the past century?

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, August 9th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Fun, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Simply Irritating

Anyone who has watched television in the last four months has no doubt seen the commecials for Coca Cola’s icoke.ca promotion, they are of the lowest quality ever put forth by Coke and really seem to miss the mark of the more well-ima [...]

Posted by: todd smith on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

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Coke Machine

Ever wonder what happens between the time you put your coin in a Coke machine and the bottle popping out at the bottom? According to this ad by Psyop, a heck of a lot more than you’d think.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, June 30th, 2006

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The Skittles Beard Ad

And with that, Skittles officially enters the realm of “creepy advertising”. Brilliantly skin-crawling.

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

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Creative Ad Space

Several years ago I was handed the first take-out cup of coffee with advertising on the insulater sleeve. While some people might be put off by the increasing intrusiveness of advertising, but on a disposable item like this, why not? This c [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design | No Comments »

Are you Generic?

I was at Chapters the other day checking out some magazines when I came across a fashion magazine that had a piece of paper attached to the cover. It read: The confessions of a generic magazine: “We loaded this issue with more adverti [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Get A Mac

Everything just works better on a Mac. Get a Mac.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Technology, We love | No Comments »

Jetta: Safe Happens

Check out the new Volkswagen Jetta ads. They are pretty much a higher budget version of the ICBC Counterattack ads with much better acting. Watch Jetta Like + Jetta Movie.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, April 20th, 2006

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For the Best Crunch Ever

How much thought do you normally give to what goes into the making of an ad? Here’s a clever spot that reveals the dedication of the unsung hero’s of folley. BTW, the tag at the end translates roughly to “We make everythin [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 17th, 2006

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Extreme Luxury?

The folks over at BCR Yachts ask what word can they use to describe their yachts. They say yachts are, by their very nature luxurious so how do you accurately describe classes of yachts? Good point. However, the bigger issue is that the wor [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, April 6th, 2006

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Adidas Gets It Right

A few months ago, we blogged about an urban marketing campaign by Sony Playstation that was met with a very hostile response from the street artist community. The lesson learned from that experience might be summed up as “don’t [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Marketing, Pop Culture | 1 Comment »

Space, the Final Frontier in Advertising?

Our good friend Ryan Murphy writes about Five New Frontiers for Advertising on AskMen.com. My favourite: He concludes that “Only time will tell if the Big Dipper will one day be blotted out with an electronically generated billboard f [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Marketing, Pop Culture | No Comments »

Super Bowl Ads 2006

Unfortunately in Canada we don’t get the priviledge of seeing all the super bowl ads, but luckily AOL is hosting them all if you missed any. Tell us what your favorite super bowl ad’s were.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, February 6th, 2006

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Sneaky Unbranded Advertising

Sneaky unbranded newspaper advertising disquised as advertorials are becoming more common. This one for McDonald’s was in my local newspaper today carefully formatted to match the page grid, but with Lorem Ipsum for the copy! With gib [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 6th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing | No Comments »

Expensive, Wasteful Direct Mail

We’ve created some pretty daring Direct Mail campaigns for clients in the past, using tricks like unusual envelopes and printing techniques to get the audience to actually open and read the darn things. This is a big challenge with DM [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, February 6th, 2006

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Spike Jonze is going to the Super Bowl..Again

With the Super Bowl looming on the weekend horizon, we are thankful that such a day exists for jocks and creatives to join together in celebration of the pinnicle events of their respective passions. With that in mind, Miller has posted thi [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 3rd, 2006

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Across The Sound: The Jaffe Juice has gone sour

We used to be fans of the Across The Sound podcast with Joseph Jaffe and Steven Rubel. As podcasts go, it was often inciteful and intelligent discourse between two innovative marketing professionals exploring new technologies and schools of [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, January 30th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Learning, Marketing, Websites | 5 Comments »

Million Dollar Homepage

This guy tapped into a small market, a VERY small market, selling ad space by the pixel. He eventually filled the whole site up pixel by pixel and made a million dollars. Million Dollar Homepage

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 20th, 2006

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

Win a Conversation with Coldplay

Skype is our new favourite toy (our Skype name is industrialbrand). And while upgrading our version recently discovered a brilliant little cross promotional marketing campaign they are running called Win a Conversation with Coldplay. Appare [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, January 14th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Marketing, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

Cringley on Google: TV Advertising?

Yeah, right. Google isn’t doing much these days. Now they’re planning to take over TV advertising.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, News, Reading, Technology, Websites | No Comments »

When Design = Communication

We refer to the term Communication Design often in our business, but what about design as communication? Well, Shot Code seems to have created a very cool way of making it easy for people with camera phones to access (marketing) information [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006

Categories: Advertising, Design, Marketing, Technology | No Comments »

Living out the Dream

Director Spike Jonze once again works his magic in this “I’ve-always-wanted-do-that” spot for the Gap. (via Screenhead)

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

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Designer Jokes

Designer jokes are funny. Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, New York.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

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The 1984 Apple Commercial: Behind The Scenes

Every true Macintosh fanatic has seen, or at least heard about, the famous 1984 television commercial that heralded the introduction of the Macintosh. The spot, with its distinctive Orwellian vision, is indelibly imprinted in the minds of M [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

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Deodorant for Stunt Men

Finally a fresh and strong concept for an under arm deodorant commercial. Figures it’s English.

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

Lotus Showing

The lead time for entering award shows often creates a huge gap in time between the date you enter and the date of the actual awards. Thus, when we found out earlier this week that our blog (this blog!) received a Merit in the Interactive M [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand, Marketing | No Comments »

You don’t need CGI if you’ve got balls

Sony has got balls. 250,000 ‘superballs’ shot from cannons flying down a San Francisco street can be quite dangerous, but director Nicolai Fuglsig thought this was a brilliant way to express that the Sony Bravia LCD TV is ‘ [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, October 27th, 2005

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120 Films about Passat

The new 2006 Passat has “120 not-so-standard” features. To highlight this they commissioned 120 15-second films from different artists, one for each feature. Of note is Chrome Front Grill Frame.

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Film, Marketing | 7 Comments »

Parasitic Advertising or Product Placement?

Should the day ever come when insects sport corporate logos, you might take extra delight in swatting them when they crash your next picnic. Check out these cool photos by a 19 year old Carnagie Mellon student. Incidentally, I came across t [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

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Make Poverty History

Live 8 was over two and a half months ago. The media has long since packed up and moved on to the next noble cause. Bloggers have found new headlines to tag. These beautiful and moving spots by Gorgeous show that the pressing urgency of the [...]

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

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Mercedes – “Space to Think”

Beautiful ad for Mercedes [by Gorgeous]. Reminds me a lot of Kyle Coopers omage to Stan Brakhage in the movie Se7en.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Categories: Advertising | 1 Comment »

Gourmet Triple “O” Sauce?

There’s a strange new advertising trend in Vancouver recently. Top echelon celebrity restauranteurs like John Bishop and Iron Chef winner Rob Feenie, who already have to worry about over exposing themselves on television, are now are [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, July 27th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing | 8 Comments »

Makes sense when the sun’s out

An amazing example of innovative communication design, this billboard by New Zealand’s Clemenger BBDO won a Bronze Lion at this year’s Cannes. The billboard uses over 12,000 aluminum pegs on a white background to to create image [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, June 28th, 2005

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Billboard Liberation Front

Check out the newest Anti-McDonalds installations from the Billboard Liberation Front.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

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I love Paris in the Spring time

Large advertising budget… That’s hot.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, May 20th, 2005

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Worst Agency Reel

After being voted as having the world’s “Worst Agency Reel” by Adweek, Grey Advertising has set out to make the most of their new status by posting their reel online for the masses to decide. via PSFK

Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

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British Television Advertising Awards

Formed in 1976 as the London Television Advertising Awards it is not required to make a profit, simply to recognise and reward the best television and cinema commercials of the year. BTAA

Posted by: Charlie on Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

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Look what we did this weekend.

Starting Friday evening we had exactly 48 hours to concept, write, shoot, edit and deliver a 30 second commercial spot for Room to Read as part of The Great Canadian Commercial Contest. Fourty four teams competed, each producing a spot for [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, April 18th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | 1 Comment »

Good Ideas Always Win

While reading a recent interview on ihaveanidea.org I was interested to glean some insights into the twisted minds of director duo The Perlorian Brothers, who’ve brought us some strange advertisements recently. As a part of the Toront [...]

Posted by: Mark Busse on Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

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Jonze does it again

Spike Jonze dreams up an incredible ad for Adidas. I can’t get enough of the song in the background. It was a wise choice putting Karen O. (from the YeahYeahYeahs) on vocals. Pre-order the worlds first intelligent shoe here.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, March 11th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Film | No Comments »

Soviet Drinking

A gallery of anti-alcohol posters from soviet propaganda era.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, March 8th, 2005

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A nod to our friends at ReThink

Just prior to going on maternity leave, our friend Heather, a copywriter over at ReThink sent this spot via email. Though it’s not her, it is the last project she worked on before giving birth. Should be interesting to see how she exp [...]

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, March 7th, 2005

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Superbowl

For those of you who watched the superbowl just for the ads, ENJOY.

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, February 7th, 2005

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Singin’ In The Rain

In Vancouver if you don’t love the rain enough to sing in it, you’re miserable all winter. Check out this cool old-meets-new commercial for…

Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, January 28th, 2005

Categories: Advertising, Marketing | No Comments »

UK TV Ads

This site allows you to download and watch some of my favourite UK television adverts from the past ten years. Be warned, the design of the site is ‘beautiful’! UK TV Ads

Posted by: Charlie on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

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New VW Ad

Check this out before it gets banned. The controversial new Volkswagen Ad. Car Bomber [UPDATE: This ad was not a real VW ad. It was the work of Lee and Dan, a British pair who specialize in outrageous ads. They are now being sued by Volkswa [...]

Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 17th, 2005

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