Ad Brilliance

Iams 10-pound frisbee for dogs.

Wish we’d thought of this one for Iams by Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney. It’s brilliantly simple, memorable, creates dialogue, and can be thrown 40 yards!

The bill for child slavery.

You can’t help but spend some time with these simple ads placed at the bottom of shopping bags and in restaurant bill wallets. Created to look like receipts, they shock, and make complete contextual sense. Thanks to our friends at scaryideas for bringing this campaign (done in November ’08) to our attention. Agency Martin/Williams in… Read More »

Wild freaky clown terrorists for new Philips TV.

Whether you’ve gotta a thing for horror clowns or not, you’ll be mesmerized by this surreal short film to promote the arrival of Philips Cinema 21:9 aspect ratio TV and its website www.philips.co.uk/cinema. The site hosts the video, called ‘Carousel’ which is not so much a film as it is as a moving pastiche of clown… Read More »

Monopoly’s high gloss makeover.

These ads for Monopoly by JWT Frankfurt visualize the vibe of owning property on the board. The glossy interior re-design does a nice job updating the brand’s 1950’s top hat n’ tux wearing Mr. Monopoly tycoon image:

Condom enlists army of Cupids to unleash big love.

This ‘300’ style ad for dirt cheap Be Love condoms by Leo Burnett, Paris (Eric Esculier, Stephane Santana AD/concept; Simon Danaher illustrator) turns Cupids into Spartan warriors of love. Their cry: Let your love arrows fly with great vigor and little remorse! (Image thanks to scaryideas):

paysafecard reveals moonlighting online game heroes.

We like these ‘Don’t Let Your Hero Down’ ads for paysafecard done by TRAKTOR Wien, Vienna for one reason: They’re just so much fun to look at.   Granted, the reminder that paysafecard is ‘the easiest way to pay for online-games’ doesn’t really explain why these characters are stuck working menial jobs, but we love the… Read More »

Mt. Sinai Hospital Cleans up Baseball

We love this newest ad for Mount Sinai hospital done by DeVito/Verdi. It’s sweet and simple, and the work of Rich Singer and Dan Treichel. That’s it. We love it.

Microsoft networking pulls pants down on charlatans who feast on B2B.

Oh man. This B2B online video for Microsoft by UK’s rebel viral (which we pilfered from our juicy friends at AdGabber) makes your heart bleed for all those small businesses trying to do whatever they can to make it in today’s brutal economy. What we love most about this is, it pulls the pants down… Read More »

Meat Most Foul.

We love beef as much as the next carnivore, but these ads of meat as land mass for the Cattlemen’s Beef and Board and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association do not exactly inspire our meat lust.

Pepto-Bismol for Dismal Economic News.

Stock market = dread. Those who bother anymore, open up the stock pages (where they still exist) with one eye opened, but half-covered. Which is why we like the opportunity Pepto-Bismol and agency Publicis, NY took to blanket the nasty bank-born financial spirochetes and similar Madoff toxins with a thick coat of Pepto. You probably… Read More »