by Jason Fox | Mar 26, 2012 | Advertising |
Thanks to Adland.tv, even us Yanks can get in on being (for once) properly offended at a Turkish ad that manages to be anti-Semitic and misogynistic at the same time. Apparently, using Biomen will wash that morality right out of your soul. Hmm, perhaps ad agencies...
by Jason Fox | Mar 7, 2012 | Advertising, Charity, General Interest, Politics |
Have you heard of Joseph Kony? How about the Lord’s Resistance Army? Surely, you’ve at least heard of a country in Africa called Uganda. While much of Uganda exists in relative safety (for the last eight years my family has sponsored a boy there and he has...
by Jason Fox | Mar 5, 2012 | Idle Chatter |
The highways and byways of heaven. Paved with gold so unblemished it makes Dove soap look like 99 and 44/100ths percent pure chum. Lined with mansions – not of the Mc variety, but built pearl brick upon pearl brick by Otis the Masonic Archangel and his winged...
by Jason Fox | Mar 5, 2012 | Advertising |
To promote its fuel cell vehicle, ingeniously dubbed the F-CELL, Mercedes-Benz decided to hide it in plain sight to show just how “invisible” the car is to the environment. Not counting the impact of manufacturing and other things involved unrelated to the...
by Jason Fox | Mar 2, 2012 | Advertising |
This, folks, is how you do advertising. This spot for Britain’s “The Guardian” newspaper takes something familiar (the Three Little Pigs), and twists it in a new way (social media’s reaction to their antics) that’s true to the brand and...
