Movies often give young girls the delusion that when they grow up, they’d just have to find their Prince Charming and live happily ever after. To give girls a reality check and prepare for real life, Louisville, Kentucky-based all-girls Roman Catholic high school Mercy Academy created a series of ads. Tapping on fairy tale-inspired characters […]
Philips, the technology brand, is using Twitter and Facebook to help promote its new logo as it is released November 13. The company is inviting fans to help #UncoverPhilips by ‘claiming’ a pixel in their new logo, created by the company’s design team as well as agencies such as Interbrand, Ogilvy and OneVoice. Set to […]
Developed by Leo Burnett Change, this heartbreaking video makes good use of the skip ad button—commonly seen on YouTube these days—to illustrate the plight that ex-convicts face. The video starts off with an ex-convict persuading a prospective employer to hire him, but once he reveals that he spent some time in prison, the “skip ad” […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UelJZG_bF98 Honda’s new ad features black-suited men and women navigating obstacles, and its newest Honda CR-V breezing through. The car makes the impossible ‘possible’ by shattering the optical illusions in this video that is definitely worth watching a few times. The new fuel-efficient CR-V 1.6 Diesel promises to “do those things that can’t be done, […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhuUhaNIWLQ The team behind Never Hide Films has created this memorable ad for sunglasses brand Ray-Ban with anamorphic desk objects. Borrowing heavily from fellow YouTube user Brusspup, this “Super Clever Sunglass Illusion” features seemingly ordinary items on a desk, which turn out to be hyperrealistic anamorphic cut-outs when viewed from another angle. The only item […]
‘Back streets of the Internet’ is a short documentary by advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo Lab that explores the online creative culture of Japan. Directed by W+K Tokyo Lab art director Shingo Ohno, the documentary seeks to provide “a glimpse of the type of creative culture that exists online behind the language barrier on the backstreets […]
To celebrate the Porsche 911’s 50th anniversary, the German automotive company created a ‘car symphony’ to sing itself happy birthday. Using seven generations of the Porsche 911, the cars revved their engines to belt out a unique rendition of the ‘Happy Birthday’ song. To go along with the video, the company even created a game […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdQZHxiMfeM Developed by paint and painting supplies retailer Sherwin Williams, the ColorSnap Glass app lets wearers snap a picture of anything wherever they go for design inspiration. The app matches paint with the colors derived from the snapped photos, so users can go out and capture color inspiration before painting their room the same color. […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV4TjIYVyuY To get people interested in sports in Turkey, Nike got Didier Drogba, Birsel Vardalı, Burak Yılmaz, and other famous Turkish athletes to make a “human printing press”. In this viral video, each athlete uses his or her abilities to power a printing press—cyclists power a machine which loads paper into a printer, while a […]
Unilever has teamed up with crowd-sourced ideas platform Idea Bounty to generate a new TV and print campaign for its FMCG brand Peperami. In order to re-launch the Peperami brand mascot ‘the animal’, the first time the mascot will be seen on TV screens since 2012, Unilever is offering a $10,000 prize for the best […]