Cool Ads, Part 6

"QUANTUM SHOT" #219


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Creativity continues to spill over in the advertising world. No wonder we keep buying stuff that we sometimes don't really need. The inventive marketing ideas insinuate themselves into our minds, only to emerge at that crucial buying moment, when we let our subconscious to take over. Of course, it's all part of the game, the age-old game of cat and mouse. As long as consumers are getting entertained, they don't mind playing along. So, here is another batch of splendid marketing ideas:

Anti-pollution message, worthy of impressive Photoshop job
(Silver Award, Cannes Lions 2007)




(Advertising Agency: Contrapunto for WWF)

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Food & Drink Ad Masterpieces

Bird Food Ads:
(making a clever use of Peter Fendrick's 3D works;
won Silver Cannes Lions Award in 2007)





Ad for the Super Lock Food Containers:
"Lock your food in the right place"
(Some Cthulhu / Davy Jones ideas here)






(Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson)

Obligatory "Absolut" section:



Start a Fresh Life:
(for Fresh Life Snack Pack)


(Advertising Agency: The Foundry, Melbourne, Australia)

Are you still eating meat?



This is actually about the "instant relief of acid indigestion"...



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Slightly Shocking:


(image credit: Echoburst)


(image credit: Bob Carey)

"Human, after all..." (from banned Diesel campaign):



Next series is so bizarre, that you have to see it full-size. Here is the link


(Advertising Agency: DDB)



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Bug Funeral:



Ad for the powerful electric fan:


(image credit: Betsie Van der Meer)

Diesel: Global Warming Ready:



Mind-blowing clothing, quite literally:



Very classy and sublime:


(image credit: Ilkay Muratoglu)

Fedex T-Shirt:





New form of art:





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Car Advertisements

We'll keep this section "short-n-sweet" today:


(image credit: Ebo Fraterman)

Again, a little ad rivalry -
Volkswagen's Polo ad appeared first:


Nissan's prompt answer:

(source: András John)

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Urban Advertisement: Perfect Placement

Amnesty International:



(image credit: Matthias Koslik)

We wrote about this "Wrong Job" campaign before, but here are new images, just as good: (click to enlarge)




Perfect LEGO ad:









Ad for paints, quite impossible to pass by:


(image credit: Christopher Adams)


(image credit: Reuben Miller, Anamorphosis)

Paint swatches:




And we finish with a perfect "minimalist" ad:




Sources:
Ads of the World, Adme.Ru, Knuttz, Advertka, Exler, Kuteev, Pantherhouse

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