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Dita Von Teese Models an Incredible 3-D Printed Gown
It shouldn't really count as news when Dita Von Teese models something, but she recently showed off a 3-D printed nylon gown based on the Fibonacci sequence, which is cool enough to merit a little...
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Man Proposes to Woman With Custom Horror-Movie Trailer at Theater
So, you really love your girlfriend, and you want to ask her to marry you. But the old ring-in-the-champagne-flute has been done to death. What to do? Obviously, you try to scare the hell out of her...
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Fake George Clooney Stars in Awesomely Bad Polish Ads Seeking Foreign Investors
George Clooney has proven more than willing to shoot ads over the years—particularly overseas, and particularly when the advertiser in question isn't completely embarrassing. He appears to draw the...
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Samsung's Unicorn Apocalypse Game Is Now Real, Although Apparently It Sucks
Samsung's Unicorn Apocalypse, the fictional game featured in half a dozen ads that aired on the Oscars, was always begging to be defictionalized—and now it has been. Samsung held a developer contest...
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Share Everything You Wanted to Do, but Never Did, on Instasham
Add it to the pile of amusing agency side projects: Instasham, an online collection of stock photos specially designed for posting to Instagram, showing all those things you wished you had done just...
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Taco Bell Explodes in Your Face With 3-D Cinema Spot
Doritos go boom on the big screen! Never mind what they do when they land in your belly. As part of an all-out commercial assault for its newest hybrid taco, Taco Bell has created the first 3-D...
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Lucky the Leprechaun to Waldo the Wizard: The Evolution of Lucky Charms
Leprechauns are creepy, whether they're starring in a horror movie or plastered on the front of a cereal box. There's no telling if that's why General Mills briefly tried another mascot, called Waldo...
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Old Spice's Mr. Wolfdog Is as Skilled as Any Living Creature at Making Banner...
It says something about banner ads that the best ones—with a few exceptions, like this and this—are the ones that are laughably, shareably bad. You've seen them. And now Old Spice is parodying them....
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LG Punks Samsung With Taunting Billboard Above Its Rival's in Times Square
It's a big day for Samsung, which is unveiling the Galaxy S4 in New York City later today. But leave it to LG to preemptively let a little air out of that balloon—with this gloating billboard in Times...
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Pete Rose Knocks It Out of the Park in Wonderfully Awkward Local Furniture Ads
It's a hit! Pete Rose mistakes a recliner for a couch and pretends to eat pastry in these awesomely awkward, sublimely stilted low-budget commercials for Muenchen's Furniture in Cincinnati. There's so...
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Tide Wows With Commercial That Treats Dad Like a Normal Human
Just watch this astounding Tide commercial from Saatchi & Saatchi in New York. It came out in January, so quietly that we didn't even notice it. And that's the beauty of it. See the dad? He's an...
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BBDO New York Unveils 6-Second Winners of Its Vine Film Festival
Nothing gets people familiar with a new social tool quite like making a competition out of it. And so, Dave Rolfe, head of integrated production at BBDO in New York, got almost everyone in his...
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How Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones Would Have Looked...
With chillingly accurate typography and scrolling VCR recording lines, fans on YouTube have been reimagining their favorite current shows as cheesy '90s sitcoms. User Goestoeleven started the trend...
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Canadian PSA Takes Aim at the Noxious Epidemic of Social Farting
"Just because I fart at parties now and then, it doesn't make me a farter." That's how I plan to begin my memoirs, and it's also a key line in the Ontario Ministry of Health's "Quit the Denial"...
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Microsoft Commercial Reveals Company's Outlook on Gay Marriage
First, Amazon treated gay marriage like it was no big whoop in its latest Kindle ad. And now this. Microsoft has juxtaposed becoming a professional stuntman with getting gay married in its latest...
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Oreo Wraps Up Cookie vs. Creme Campaign With Dozens of Goofy Videos
Cookie or creme? Perhaps not surprisingly, Oreo says it's both. Following the "Whisper Fight" Super Bowl spot, the #cookiethis/#cremethis Instagram campaign, the Oreo Separator videos and the "Life...
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Giant Double-Sided Touchscreen Wins Contest to Redesign NYC Pay Phones
The vendor contracts for New York's pay phones expire next year, so the city put together a Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge to get some free labor out of an already overworked design community....
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Albuquerque Car Dealer Selling Jesse Pinkman's '84 Toyota Tercel From...
If anyone out there needs a car or a piece of TV memorabilia—or ideally, both—they can head out to New Mexico and buy the actual 1984 Toyota Tercel that Jesse Pinkman drives in Breaking Bad. The car...
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World's Fastest Agency Delivers 140-Character Concepts in 24 Hours
Floyd Hayes, the former executive creative director of creative agency Cunning, includes a quote from a 2007 AdFreak story in materials touting his new venture, the World's Fastest Agency—although...
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Airplane! Actor and Director Capture Violent Side of Wisconsin Tourism
Airplane! director David Zucker is taking his second stab at tourism advertising for his home state of Wisconsin. And after a rather lackluster first effort, this time he's brought in...
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