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Imagination at its Best: BMW tests afterimage advertising in Germany

Imagination at its Best: BMW tests afterimage advertising in Germany

It isn’t everyday that you get to see something like this. You can call it imagination at its best. Well BMW has just done the unthinkable. It has recently uncovered the first version of flash projection subliminal advertising. It is a unique but perhaps unsafe technique to using flash projection technology. Let us now delve into the scientific aspects [...]
GAP Vancouver Turns Shopping On Its Head Literally!

GAP Vancouver Turns Shopping On Its Head Literally!

Advertising is all about catching eye-balls and putting message across and GAP Vancouver has transformed its tagline message into an amazing stunt, that too overnight (see link below for video). Designer brand GAP’s tagline goes “Shopping turned on its head”, so GAP Vancouver literally turned everything inside the showroom and outside it upside [...]
Art of Mauritz Escher for Volkswagen’s Latest Campaign!

Art of Mauritz Escher for Volkswagen’s Latest Campaign!

Creative advertising is no doubt inspired by art and very often we see creative teams paying tribute to rare art through the copies they create for different brands. For instance advertising agency DDB New Zealand has used sketches of renowned graphic artist Mauritz Escher for the latest Volkswagen VW4Motion ad campaign. A car doesn’t really fit [...]
Vampires Gaining Popularity in Cyber Space

Vampires Gaining Popularity in Cyber Space

According to folklores blood sucking vampires rule the night world seeking vengeance. The myth and mystique of vampires have inspired many novels, poetry, more recently movies and even a HBO serial. Vampires have been box-office hits too. So no wonder vampires have now started haunting the virtual world too! Vampire related websites have gained popularity [...]
Extreme Sports Uses Extreme Weather

Extreme Sports Uses Extreme Weather

Netherland based Extreme Sports Channel used the recent extreme weather conditions in London to advertise their channel. Guess how? No, it wasn’t print or TV or billboards but they imprinted their logo on the very snow which had brought city to grounding halt!! Extreme Sports Channel targets youth and focuses on unconventional challenging adventurous [...]
Adobe Photoshop CS4: It can’t get more real!

Adobe Photoshop CS4: It can’t get more real!

Here is a print-ad of Adobe Photoshop CS4 created for Software-asli.com by Jakarta based ad agency. Not sure about the product, but even advertising can’t get more real! Here Adobe Photoshop CS4 is conveyed as best human interfaced product, something ‘as real as it gets’. The whole picture with real color palette, tools and other applications [...]
Samsung ad: Next is retro?

Samsung ad: Next is retro?

Well, if one goes by Samsung’s latest mobile ad in the ‘Next is what?’ series, it looks like next is retro! What else can one make of ad which shows a picture of human evolution and a tagline which says ‘Go wild!’? There is no fresh concept and thought. The picture is not new and back to wilderness and freedom slogan is not new either. [...]
Is it brand or creative ads which win awards?

Is it brand or creative ads which win awards?

Who says selling dental floss is difficult? A good creative team can put across utility of product in a very subtle manner. The picture of stuck chicken and the punch line ‘Your teeth can hide many things’ say more than any regular dental product ads with faces and teeth. The ad world is flooded with loads of ads of all kinds of modern products [...]