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Kickstarter Tips From Kawehi, Whose Cover Songs Are Conquering the Internet
Most startups and creative talents would be proud to pull off one successful Kickstarter. But multi-talented musician Kawehi has just wrapped up her fifth, this time bringing in 10 times her goal and...
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G.I. Joe-Themed Episode of Community Is Packed With Retro Awesomeness
NBC's Community regularly pays tribute to its characters' pop culture obsessions, but it still came out of left field when the last episode focused on protagonist Jeff's love of G.I. Joe. Not a...
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Designer Creates Delicious Résumé With the Winning Ingredient Baked Right In
It's not so strange for folks to bring cookies, cakes and candies to work and share them with colleagues. But for job applicants to prepare treats and serve them to prospective employers before even...
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There's a Tiny, Adorable, Rather Messy Kitchen in Each Bottle of This...
If you want a drink that tastes like an entire kitchen, Japanese beverage marketer Kirin might suggest its Salt and Fruit soda. A new spot from the brand features a tiny, adorable kitchen (a 1/48...
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Have Another Good Cry With Thai Life Insurance's Latest Beautiful,...
They've done it again. Thai Life Insurance has unveiled another masterful mini-film by Ogilvy & Mather Bangkok, the latest in a string of tear-jerking,...
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Crazy 3-D Newspaper Ad Brilliantly Hides a Whole Kitchen Inside a Classifieds...
Innovative newspaper ads are a rare beast. We've seen a few fun ones lately—the Game of Thrones ad with the dragon shadow; the ad for the movie The Book Thief with two almost completely blank pages....
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Best Wedding Present Ever? Photographer Remakes Hollywood Posters Starring...
In a world where love is patient and love is kind, one couple refused to play by the rules. This summer, they're going to the chapel and someone's going to get ... buried! OK, so it was actually last...
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Barbarian Group Has Its Superdesk, But Barton F. Graf's Offices Might Be Even...
For those of you blown away by The Barbarian Group's 4,400-square-foot undulating "superdesk," Gerry Graf wants you to know his offices are pretty damn impressive, too. Much like TBG's snake-like,...
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It's Weird How Many Classic Ad Slogans Work Perfectly With a Cartoon of an...
Famous advertising slogans are inseparable from the products and services they sell. Or are they? Inspired by our recent post about social media icons in Edward Hopper paintings, ad agency creative...
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Meet Comic Neue, a New Version of Comic Sans That Might Not Make You Vomit
A heartfelt hatred of Comic Sans is required for every graphic designer and anyone who happens to have good taste. But while most people use it as a cruel joke or ironically, Craig Rozynski, an...
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Devastating Gun-Control Ad Reminds You That Kids and Firearms Don't Mix
Grey New York and its client, States United to Prevent Gun Violence, won a silver Lion in Film at Cannes last year for "Ed," their brutal spot about gun violence, set in a workplace. The sequel,...
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First Wine in a Box, Now Wine in a Can?
Raise your brushes and rollers to toast Lithuania's McCann Vilnius, which recently packaged France's famed Beaujolais Nouveau in limited-edition paint cans for a fun self-promotion. McCann says it...
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Can You Please Watch This Romantic Turkish Ice Cream Ad, and Tell Me What's...
So, here's a lovely little four-minute love story from Unilever's Cornetto ice cream brand in Turkey. And you're probably smarter than I am and can figure out what's actually going on in it. I've...
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Oops? Rolling Stone Has John Hancock Sign the Constitution on Julia...
If you've seen Rolling Stone's latest cover featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Veep fame, your initial thoughts were probably along the lines of "Elaine from Seinfeld is naked!" or perhaps "JLD looks...
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J. Crew Brings Back a Discontinued Swimsuit Just Because One Superfan Asked...
Open letters to brands rarely work, though it might help your odds of success if you happen to be a fashion writer for New York magazine and the Wall Street Journal. Last August, freelance writer...
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If You Can Sit Through This 7-Minute One Direction Perfume Ad, You're a...
They pout, they preen, they shill. And more than likely, they score. The members of One Direction, boy band and global merchandising phenomenon, star in a new video that's not a total goof (not...
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The Story of Microsoft's 'Bliss,' One of the Most Famous Photos Ever Taken
Microsoft wants to make sure you remember the famous image of the blue sky and rolling pasture that graced so many computer screens for so long. As the world mourns (or not) the end of the road for...
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Here's What Happens When You Ask Netflix to Go to Prom With You
Muthana Sweis, a student at Marist High School in Chicago, took two dates to his junior prom—and one of them was Netflix. In a January tweet, the 17-year-old asked the company if it would accompany...
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Slow-Motion Baby Chickens Fall From the Sky in Cutest and Saddest Easter Ad Ever
Male chicks are adorable, majestic, tragically doomed waste products in this student-created ad that PETA loved enough to turn into an official spot. German director Djawid Hakimyar tells AdFreak the...
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How Do You Break Through Apathy? One Agency Tries for Rage
Pleas to help the poor are usually ignored. So what if you turned things around and started advocating against the poor? Would anyone come to their defense? Publicis London put that question to the...
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