Saturday 16 April 2011

Extreme, Beautiful Ads as a Work of Art


Extreme, Beautiful Ads as a Work of Art (with some lovely kitsch thrown in)



Spectacular wide-format thrills, monsters and disasters

This series seems a bit too optimistic:

A super-suction range and hood:


Garbage Pen Fighters: "All We Throw Away Turns Against us" -

Another way for garbage to fight back:


Windex: a clean glass effect -


Epic pile-ups: Landrover Phone, "Incredibly Tough" -

Household Surrealism & Unexpected Weirdness

Overweight washing machine? Sure, "think about what it consumes..." -



Disturbingly fat fridge - is it eating your food?


Happy Fried Chickens:

Drinking straws creativity: from small to big ones -


"Say Cheeese!" ad for SONY Cybershot (left) and Sydney International Food Festival campaign (right):


Eat a bar code, darling:


Some great ads for the Gold's Gym:


Improved Chewing Skills! - fragment of a campaign for the Mintz gum



Walt Disney Princess Crystal Slipper campaign:


"Otherwise it would be too easy to install" (ad for the portable gas bottle) -


Surrealism in and around bathroom:

Automotive Goodies

This truck has to use some gel in order to get out:


A Smart car can fit about anywhere:

This car shows everything up front, turning itself inside out:

Urban Ads Mayhem: Viral Street Campaigns

Even walking the streets isn't safe any more (Landmine Stickers Alert!):



Billboards get extreme:


Umm... no.


Impressive.



The gruesome one above is the ad for the Gas Safety Service in Russia.


Right image: the Chanel store in Ginza, Tokyo -



Some grassroots billboard improvement:


Using bridges for ads:


A nasty crack in the building, fixed by the Glue:


Cool billboard coordination between advertisers:


We only hope that the Australian Childhood Foundation did not put a live kid inside this ad:


Escalator Bonus for Homer Simpson:

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Creative bus stop ad placement:


Action against Global Warming: "The Melting Man" and the little Icemen:



Another great Global Warming campaign, using your local swimming pool:


Got a bunch of fresh snow all over the city? Use it for ads! -



Some weird street viral campaign in South Korea:


The Trees Have Eyes - made by the UK street artist FilthyLuker:



Urban transit all fixed up:



Some great anti-DUI campaigns:

Shock Therapy!

"The Other Side of America!" But of course, this is only logical -


"Who do you take care of?"


Disturbing bath ritual:


"Hi! I'm Bruce!" - Part of the series "Skeletons in the Closet" by Klaus Pichler

You don't keep a huge snake in the kitchen? No? Why not?..

Big BIG Burgers!

Assorted Advertisement Riches

This is genius: perfect placement!


Great "bumper-sticker" idea:


Very creative business cards:

Ad Placement FAIL

Note the warning above:


Somewhere in Russia, the ad for the beauty salon:



We're not the only website which appreciates cool advertising campaigns - Wired often covers it, Ads of the World is a great place to discover new ones... also don't miss the TED's Ads Worth Spreading series, with a recent bunch of winners.

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