Archive for the 'Advertising' Category

Cyrillic in the mirror

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

If you are a social bookmarking sites fan, you should already know this creative poster for Russian Bear vodka. When you look at this poster normally, you’ll just see some random communist propaganda and may not even notice that it is not russian if you can’t read cyrillic characters. If you look at it in [...]

Commercials that are so bad that they’re good

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The following bad commercials are what saves me when I feel down. I just watch a few of those and I immediately feel better. Bad design, shitty actors, wacky typefaces, everything is so bad in it that it just makes you feel good about yourself. Enjoy!

The best of all, an old polish ad that just [...]

Campaign against abuse

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Very strong image for this campaign. Via Ads of the World.

Screencasting made… difficult

Monday, February 25th, 2008

The Gmail team in Russia seems to have time on their hands to do screencasts this way…

Brylcreem commercial

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A cool and relaxing ad.

iDead

Friday, January 11th, 2008

Creative stuff… via Elmanco.

Pearls of wisdom

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

The value of advertising is that it tells you the exact opposite of what the advertiser actually thinks. For example:

If the advertisement says “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile,” the advertiser is desperately concerned that this Oldsmobile, like all other Oldsmobiles, appeals primarily to old farts like your father.
If Coke and Pepsi spend billions of [...]