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Everything's sexier

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Copy: Everything's sexier in Paris Las Vegas

(Until six cosmopolitans later, she's asking you to hold her hair back as she droops to her knees on the bleached tile floor and hugs a little porcelin...)

Agency: R&R Partners

More great Vegas ads from R&R:

That last one reminds me of this fun item.

A picture and a thousand words

(Or: even though it was really cool to tell the client that Stephen King was coming to the next ad  meeting, he totally treated our super creepy photography like a book jacket and wrote a freaking novel that we had to run unedited because he threatened to name the mean antelope-aliens in his next novel after our clients and agency president if we shaved as much as a comma. And somehow we won an HAAG anyway. Wild, huh?)

Agency: Paling Walters
Found at: TwentyFour

The family sports car

I've noticed that publishers and advertisers have managed to make pregnancy look hot (less the swollen ankles and vomiting, of course); so, the next challenge can only be making the diaper-bag-toting, exhausted, mother-of-a-two-year old hot, too. Game on.

Client: SEAT Altea
Agency: BBDO?

Found at: Twenty Four

Stop music piracy

Copy: Nothing great comes easy. Please respect artists. Stop music piracy.

Agency: TBWA
Found at:  Ad Arena

Beko: A vaccum as quiet as this ad

With the help of my friendly household art director, I was able to decipher this ad. See, it's a treble clef and staff. And, there's no music notes on it. And, the teeny tiny tagline is "very quiet."

Geez.

Found at: Advertising/Design Goodness
Agency: TBWA

Alka Seltzer: Making food unappetizing?

Nice clean creative. A little weird to make the food you're passionate about look so tasteless and chalky, but, eh, overall, very compelling - quick visual connection, page flip stopper.

What's interesting, though, is the introduction of the overbrand. I don't remember Bayer playing that prominently into Alka Seltzer ads before. Wonder if there's some new research out there or a new agency. BBDO? Or an up-and-comer? Anybody know?
 

Cigarettes are still cool elsewhere in the world

While cigarette makers here are skulking around the airwaves with downplayed creative and public service announcements, Camel is still playing up the old-style sexy/cool/urbanism of lighting up elsewhere in the world. Only issue: Isn't that "Discover more" font/treatment pretty darn close to Discover card? At best, confusing...

Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi, Milan
See more at Ads of the World

Wempe: An interactive die cut

Credits: Julia Neumann & Michael Schachtnerr
Found at: Advertising/Design Goodness

Maddening musical treasure hunt

Looks like Virgin Digital's musical treasure hunt is getting great reviews on the awards circuit. As visually arresting and "flip stopping" as it is, I have to say, it makes me feel like a loser. I get almost none of the pop culture references. When will I learn to retain music and tv trivia? Drat, it's probably too late...

Agency: Ground Zero

Copy: Do you see music? Welcome to a world that's twisted and gorgeous and achy and electric and effed up. It's waiting for you at virgindigital.com Exercise your music muscle.

TV campaign lives in print

Or: For all the boys in my office who invested a month of their lives drawing various Rhino logos. This, my friends, is a RHINO.

Actually I like the ad because it's a great translation from broadcast - maintains the feeling of the TV campaign (and, it's Puma counterpart) with all it's energy and motion. No easy task.

Agency: Nonbox

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