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There Is Crying in Baseball, and Kleenex Has You Covered
Just in time for Derek Jeter's broken ankle and the bitter tears of Yankee fans everywhere, Kleenex is offering customizable oval tissue boxes with postseason baseball themes. As a lifelong Bombers...
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Rare Tub of McDonald's McJordan Barbecue Sauce Sells for $10K
Michael Jordan might not remember the McJordan burger, which graced Chicago-area McDonald's locations in the early 1990s, but clearly someone does, as an unopened gallon of the barbecue sauce...
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Maxipad Brand Goes for Blood in Brilliant Reply to Facebook Rant
Brands often freeze up when they're criticized on Facebook. U.K. maxipad maker Bodyform makes the most of it. A week ago, a man named Richard Neill posted a rant on Bodyform's Facebook wall,...
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The World's Shortest Free Fall, Brought to You by Slim Jim
While we're setting records, how about this stunning video of a stuntman on Conan attempting the world's shortest free fall? It looks easy, but it doesn't end well. The stunt was ostensibly sponsored...
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JFK Library Relives the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Asks: 'What If?'
While suitably impressive as a whole, the most stirring element of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum's immensely detailed and immersive "Clouds Over Cuba" interactive presentation is...
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Humans Get the Paint Job in Artsy Ads for Motorcycle Shows
Motorcycle shows always have hot girls around to show off the bikes, but design firm i.d.e.a.'s campaign for the Progressive International Motorcycle Shows took it one step further by turning the...
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Dear God, Save Me From the Monsters in the Drambuie Ad
Samuel Beckett meets Salvador Dali in this crazy new Drambuie ad from London ad agency Sell! Sell! and HSI director Chino Moya. We've seen some wacky liquor commercials in the past few weeks—notably...
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Brothers From 'Charlie Bit Me' Recall Their Tough Childhood in Ragú Ad
Harry and Charlie, the kids from 2007's superviral "Charlie Bit Me" YouTube video—which is closing in on half a billion views—make a humorous return in this new Ragú spot, where they recall the pain...
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What a Surprise, Spirit Airlines Is Having a 'Binders' Fare Sale
You can set your watch to Spirit Airlines's dumb promotions tied to provocative current events. And sure enough, they're advertising a "Binders Full of Sales" deal today—a reference to Mitt Romney's...
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Binder Boom: Trapper Keeper Mentioned 5,500 Times in 24 Hours
I know, we're all tired of hearing about Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment at Tuesday night's debate, but I still wanted to share a fun fact: Over the past 24 hours, that comment has...
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Logos Sure Look Stupid When Rendered in Comic Sans!
Topping today's list of first-world problems: What would famous logos look like in Comic Sans? Russian designer Oleg Tarasov provides the answer. In almost all cases, they take on a more relaxed,...
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Pennsylvania Billboards Still Whining About Joe Paterno
One irritating thing about modern advertising is that every horrible opinion has a billboard espousing it. The most recent proof of this comes from Pennsylvania, where a group calling itself PS4truth...
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Chicago Agencies Teaching Kids Creativity Through Cardboard
The Chicago Children's Museum has an exhibit called "Unboxed: Adventures in Cardboard," inviting children to "discover the limitless potential of this deceptively simple material." To advertise it,...
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Bolthouse Farms Is Fine With You Shaking Your Carrots in Public
Bolthouse Farms once made its Baby Carrots seem sexy, extreme and futuristic. Now, it's shaking things up—with a new spot for Baby Carrot ShakeDowns that gets even more suggestive, as it recommends...
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Will Ferrell Now Making Old Milwaukee Ads for Swedish TV
Old Milwaukee's Will Ferrell campaign keeps getting weirder, and that's not a bad thing. After airing low-budget ads in Davenport, Iowa, Terre Haute, Ind., and Milwaukee itself last year, and then...
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Designer Creating Visual Brands for All 44 U.S. Presidents
James K. Polk was nicknamed Napoleon of the Stump. Grover Cleveland was also known as Uncle Jumbo. Those are just some of the bits of trivia I picked up from Branding the Presidents of the United...
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Nike's New Women's Athletic Tights Cut to the Bone
We've reached the point where having a skeleton is bold and empowering, judging by Nike's new X-Ray Bones women's athletic tights. They do look pretty cool. And as Blisstree's Hanna Brooks Olsen...
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Vote Now So You Can Complain Later, Says Election Campaign
"If you don't vote, you can't complain," the old saying goes. But that's not a great foundation for an ad campaign about voting—it's the wrong way around. How about: "If you do vote, you can...
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Think Twice Before Foursquaring That Stranger, Say AIDS Ads
McCann Worldgroup Helsinki reminds you to check yourself before you wreck yourself with a stranger, because you don't know who checked in before you. The spots, for the AIDS Council, cleverly play off...
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The Week on AdFreak: Oct. 12-19, 2012
The 10 most-read AdFreak posts from the past week: 5. Man With Smallest Penis Will Win an iPhone in Website's Contest 4. Brad Pitt's Chanel No. 5 Ad Is Total Nonsense, and I'm OK With That 3. Meet...
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