Moms Explore the Guilt, Fear and Joys of Parenting in Ads for Jessica Alba's...
"What do 30 moms who have never met have in common? Everything." Eco-friendly family product brand Honest Company brought together 30 moms for some open conversation about motherhood. The group was...
View ArticleStrangely Awesome Laptop Stove Lets You Cook and Find Recipes Online at the...
Dragan Trenchevski, an industrial designer from Macedonia with maybe the coolest name ever given to a person, has come up with a prototype for an Electrolux Mobile Kitchen, which is basically a laptop...
View ArticleArtist Draws on Starbucks Cups, Making the Mermaid the Heroine of Countless...
You know when you've had just a little too much coffee? No? I certainly do. And let's just say I may or may not start seeing things on the cups. Well, it looks like I'm not alone. Korean artist Soo...
View ArticleSafe-Driving Ad Uses Real Footage of Fatal Accident From Motorcyclist's GoPro...
Raw footage of 38-year-old motorcyclist David Holmes smashing into a car at 97 miles per hour, as captured by his GoPro helmet camera, is being used in a British road safety ad with the permission of...
View ArticleKitKat's Half-Finished Billboard Cleverly Pays Off Its Iconic Tagline
It was 1958 when J. Walter Thompson's Donald Gilles came up with the line, "Have a break. Have a KitKat." Fifty-six years later, JWT London has found a fun new way to illustrate the line—with a...
View ArticleFiat Accidentally Took Viagra and Grew a Bigger Car, Says New Ad That's Total...
There are ads where you can't quite believe the premise, and this is one of them. How did the Fiat 500X SUV come to be? Well, it seems a little Fiat accidentally swallowed a little blue pill—and...
View ArticleThese Crappy Reviews of National Parks on Yelp Will Make You Laugh, and Then...
Yelp reviewers have a knack for making everything about them, and potentially ruining businesses because they woke up on the wrong side of bed. Some places have gotten so cynical about these "critics"...
View ArticleSprite's 'Bill the Billboard' Keeps Drivers Entertained by Cracking Endless...
If it's more comedy you want from your billboard, Sprite is happy to oblige. Ogilvy Kenya recently put up "Bill the Billboard" at a busy intersection in Nairobi, and programmed him to endlessly crack...
View ArticleThese Ads for Glass Bottles Are About as Hilarious as Ads for Glass Bottles...
A world without glass would be pretty soulless. That's the main takeaway from these new TV ads that Doremus and sister shop DDB produced for O-I, the world's largest manufacturer of glass packaging...
View Article40 Brand Logos With Hidden Messages, Starting With the Most Famous One
You probably already know the story behind the famous FedEx logo and its clever use of negative space. (If you don't, read this.) But of course, it's hardly the only logo with a "hidden...
View ArticleThis Video About Dropping a Brick Is Worth a Few Laughs and 67 Million...
If you're going to drop an upper-decker, you might as well help fight a drought in the process."Drop A Brick" is a nonprofit Indiegogo project created by a partnership of several California...
View ArticleSee the Truck-Side Ad That Caused 500 Car Accidents in Moscow in One Day
There are enough distractions when you're driving. Your phone, the tunes, your coffee. But Russian drivers have to put up with so much more—like meteors fall from the sky, and very suggestive...
View ArticleKids Describe Their Real-World Superheroes in Save the Children's Empowering...
A film crew investigates "superhero" sightings in India, Kenya and Mexico, interviewing needy kids in this touching spot for Save the Children."They did something magical and the maize grew from the...
View ArticleWhat's in McDonald's Food, Anyway? Ex-MythBuster Grant Imahara Is Hired to...
Does McDonald's put horsemeat in its burgers? What about pink slime? Would you feed McDonald's food to your kids? So many questions. But now, taking its cues from a well-received transparency campaign...
View ArticleSo Happy Together? You and Android Lollipop Should Never Be Apart, Ads Say
Android wants to be with you. Everywhere. All the time. Is that so wrong? The Google-developed platform doubles down on the "togetherness" theme in work touting its new Android 5.0 Lollipop OS. That...
View ArticleThis Suite of Fonts Was Made From the Handwriting of the Homeless
Homeless signs have been a font of ideas for creatives, but rarely has the focus been on the fonts themselves. The Arrels Foundation in Barcelona has created Homelessfonts—typefaces based on the...
View ArticleYouTube's Famous 'Slow Mo Guys' Get You Up to Speed in Ads for the Video Site
The Slow Mo Guys are shifting into the fast lane. As part of YouTube's ongoing effort to introduce its popular channel stars to a wider audience, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy are appearing in a...
View ArticleDavid Beckham Invites You to Travel the World, Drinking His Scotch, in Ad...
If you're the type of jet-setter who flies a seaplane to a Scottish estate so you can put on a tuxedo and have a drink with a handful of your posh friends, David Beckham would like you to buy some of...
View ArticleJob-Hunting Creatives Disguise Their Portfolio as a Copy of Lürzer's Archive
It can be tough to get your work featured in the advertising magazine Lürzer's Archive. But René Schultz and Casper Christensen found a way around that. The Danish art directors, who were looking for...
View ArticleHere's Why Facebook Never Created a 'Dislike' Button
As anyone who's posted something ostensibly insightful on Reddit knows, watching your comment get downvoted into a negative abyss can leave you feeling stung and downright pissed off. That's exactly...
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