Friday, Giorgio Armani introduced a new line of t-shirts that feature designs from Ghana born artist Owusu Ankomah. The shirt line was developed as a charitable donation drive for RED, a global philanthropic initiative. The shirts cost $78 (they’re Armani so why not) and 40% will go to the Global AIDS Fund.
To propose to his girlfriend, a man is blogging to raise donations so he can buy a 30-second commercial spot during the 2007 Super Bowl. In the commercial, the man claims he will be proposing to his girlfriend. This has got to be the craziest idea I’ve ever heard. The idea is pretty reasonable considering this year everyone is creating their own viral videos for big corporations to run during the Super Bowl. It’d be interesting if the guy comes close and the NFL covers the rest come game time.
Ingenio has inked a deal with Microsoft’s MSN search engine to deliver pay per call advertising to searchers. While Google Adwords will continue to dominate the market in the short run, I believe that the introduction of MSN location based advertising on top of MSN’s “Windows Live Searches” will help. The agreement between MSN and Igenio will allow local businesses such as restaurants, wedding planners, and bars to target consumers in the immediate area via pay per call advertising. (via)
The NSA (National Security Agency) believes that targeting devout followers of the hit television series ‘Lost’ and ‘CSI’ will bring in a fresh batch of employees with ‘Carmen San Diego’ like skills. In your dreams fellas.
The NSA recently released its first television recruitment campaign during a recent episode of Lost and CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) in the hopes of bringing in fresh recruits. The campaign will be targeting high school and college students who are looking to get into the professional field of ‘tactical spying and espionage.’ A boost of 4,000 hits came to the NSA’s website after the ad aired and generated a lot of interest. The ads featured “techno music blares and a radiant blue globe” in the background. (Via)
In this Michael J Fox Stem Cell commercial we see my favorite television star talking about his disease. Fox was struck with Parkinson’s disease and has been a dedicated advocate for curing the disease for years. Fox recently ran this advertisement for Missouri based Claire McCaskill. McCaskill is running for Senate in Missouri and steam cell research just happens to be one of her priorities. Fox appears without medication in the commercial to show that he wants to be as open about his illness and ‘bare naked’ as possible. Without medications, Fox is seen shaking heavily and very rigged. The ad was very powerful and I would slap the crap out of anyone who treats the ’shakyness’ as a joke.
These Electrolux front loading washing machines are pretty disgusting upon first inspection. Like most print advertisements, a person only has a few seconds to decipher what is going on in the ad and what is the producer or retailer selling. It will take a little longer than that and a very open mind to distinguish that the ’spaghetti man’ is represenative of the problem that the Electrolux will solve. (Via)
Here’s a series of really odd advertisements for littering and pollution awareness from a beach on the coast. (Via)
Here is the accompanying advertisement for the German Aids / HIV awareness campaign from ‘Vergessen ist ansteckend.’
Here’s a new campaign for German Aids and HIV Awareness from ‘Vergessen ist ansteckend’. The message for this advertisement is probed; next time you’re horny, simply try not to loose your head about protection. (Via)
Here’s a new advertisement for female circumcision with the tag line “female circumcision has nothing to do with religion.” It was developed by Aktion Mensch. (Via)
I finally got around to finding the Sony Bravia commercial after having publicized the print ad a couple days ago. This commercial was financed heavily and features hundreds of different colors spurting from the building in an effort to showcase the beautiful “Sony Bravia LCD Television Display”. A definitively unique and beautiful commercial for the company, I feel it best reflects both the elegance (note the background music), style, and technological advacements in color display for Sony.
The Nintendo Wii will be pulling out all the stops in Japan and the United States for the launch of the new console. Here we can see a gigantic three story box to box billboard for the new console outside a Toys R Us in Times Square (New York, NY).
I have a couple of big mid terms this week so here’s the VW Volkswagen Low Ego Emissions Commercial to tide you over.
Because Daddy never hugged me. Because I make more money that you do. I’m compensating for my short comings.
In this, the latest Geico Caveman commercial (5) we see the Geico Caveman on a news talk show debating the offensiveness of the caveman commercials with a news anchor.
Thanks to Believe Ad for the pictures. Developed by DDB Worldwide Communications Group for Nike Corp, these print advertisements for the new Nike Shox shoes are truely eye inspiring. I’m sure all of you out there notice how the black background mixed with the very dark colored athlete help the white Nike Shox and small Nike logo in the corner simply ‘pop’ out from the page. It’s a perfect blend of both color and athleticism which Nike hopes to converse to consumers.
There are a total of 8 print advertisements here from the Nike Shox Breakdancer campaign.
