A thirtyish ad man from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But who's counting candles?
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Milkbar: A Photographic Archive By Eamon Donnelly
Long before the Americanized 24 hour ‘convenience’ stores and before the ‘Big Two’ overhauled how we buy our milk and bread with petrol, on nearly every third corner of the Australian suburbs lived the Milk Bar. The independent one stop shop with everything you needed to live day to day. In this constant changing world, the Milkbar represents an idealised image of the Australia we used to know, the faded signage and empty corner shops still dotted around our cities remind us of a simpler time, a time when you knew your fellow shopkeeper by first name.
‘Expect the unexpected’ by DBS Bank, Tribal DDB Singapore: Pretty self-explanatory… DDB placed half a car in several locations around Singapore and invited people to scan a QR code to find out what happened. This is one of the videos that they were presented with…
Fun work from these guys, year after year.
What’s having a bad client like?
For bad clients, the means is more important than the end. They live to control and micromanage the process. They delay approvals and won’t commit. They believe that their high-touch involvement is helping things, when it is actually derailing the process, de-motivating teams and leading to uninspired work. Interestingly, bad clients aren’t necessarily afraid of delivering uninspired work. They would rather produce a shitty campaign and blame the agency for it, than produce a stellar campaign and not get credit for it. Great clients are fearless and increasingly hard to find.
— Digiday - Confessions of an Agency CEO (via danielcaeiro)
First the massive BP Olympic billboards were graffiti-ed. Now a series of graffiti artists have taken over some outdoor spaces with their own campaigns.
I don’t know if I’m supposed take issue with this, working in advertising and all, but I don’t.
I love ‘em.
Agency: Ha! | Source: Copyranter
Me, too.
Phew, some PR people over at shell at are going to be working over time trying to contain the onslaught from this prank that’s drawing attention to arctic drilling. This source (aka my lazy Google search result) says “an international organization of corporate pranksters”, called the Yes Men,…
Dead Ideas by Passion Pictures.
Yes, this is what having your ideas rejected feels like…
Lego Tattoos for Pilot Extra Fine
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A very nice creative execution by Barcelona-based advertising agency Grey for Pilot in order to promote their ExtraFine pens. The concept lies in the contrast between the symbole of low resolution, Lego, and the high resolution tattoos that were drawn onto Lego characters with the ExtraFine pen (Hi-Tec-C).
