An extremely clever ad! The picture pretty much explains it all especially when you see the tag line… “Doing Brand Research”. Excellent work… ad agency Memac Ogilvy!

Advertising Agency: Memac Ogilvy Label Tunisia, Africa
Creative Director: Nicolas Courant
Copywriter: Thomas Thelliez
Art Directors: Wilfrid Guérin, Géral Héraud
Photographer: Christian Michelucci

Ever wonder how Google came up with their Google Chrome logo? Well my sources tell me the illustration above depicts the creative process at Google perfectly. If you ask me the logo looks a bit like the game “Simon Says”. Whatever you want to compare it to I must say it’s very clean and does everything a logo’s supposed to do.

Download the Google Chrome browser here.

A breaking series of posters for the Denver Center Theater Company’s 10-play 2009/10 drama series aims to reach a younger strata of new play-goers with a campaign intended as both modern and thought-provoking.

Each of the ten posters is two-sided. The front is all words, its main element a question, meant to tease the viewer into imagining the plot’s essence—even before he learns the play’s name. On the posters’ backs, the title and a symbolic visual distillation are prominent. For “Othello,” we see an eye and a drop of blood. For “A Christmas Carol”: three tree ornament/watchfaces, with hands turning backwards to the past, forward to the future, and stopped at the present. For the series’ only musical, “Mama Hated Diesels”: the cab of a semi truck, eighth notes for exhaust pipes.

The posters’ two-sided format gives them a temporal dimension unusual for print. They will appear in theater, restaurant, café, and storefront windows, with the word/question side facing out and the picture/title side facing in. The effect is that it could be many minutes between when a viewer, say, entering a restaurant, first sees a verbal question about the play and when later, sitting, having ordered his food, he finally connects with the play’s title.

Unlike in past years, when each play in the series received its own, one-off design treatment, all posters in the new campaign adhere to an overall identifying format, one featuring a spare palette of flat, solid colors, stark, symbolic illustration, all-caps, sans serif typography, and mixed horizontal and vertical baselines. It is a format that presents even Shakespeare’s “Othello” and Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” as contemporary.

Advertising Agency: Cactus, Denver, USA
Creative Director: Norm Shearer
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Brian Watson
Art Director / Illustrator: Jorge Lamora

I really like this poster but I have one question where is Kobe?

Advertising Agency: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
Agency website: http://www.goodbysilverstein.com
Creative Director: Jamie Barrett, Ari Weiss
Art Director: Matt Ryan

This latest ad campaign from zippo is pretty slick showcasing some kick ass illustrations and new lighter designs. You might find that looking at the ads it makes you want to grab a pack of Bud-Light and put in a old cassette of Black Sabbath!

Like totally rocking man!

Advertising Agency: Brunner, Pittsburgh, USA
Art Director: Derek Julin
Photographer: Tom Cwenar
Retoucher: Dwight Pritchett
Copywriter: Eric Schlauch
Creative campaign leader: Dave Vissat

I really like this video it’s extremely chill and portrays a typical good day here is SoCal. The fact that they got Paul Rodriquez to skate and “Ice Cube” to cameo, even better!

Well blame the coffee looks like I got the new slogan for Durex condoms wrong in the blog title. The new slogan actual goes a little something like this, “the condom that make’s you feel like…”. Tell me if I’m wrong but I think I might have a better slogan, considering the product… “the condom you can’t feel”.

Wipe that smil off your face, we’re all adults here and my apologies to any of the Catholic faith, for the record contraception is a BIG no, no! What are you doing looking at this anyways? :-/

In any case this commercial is a delight! I like how they span the range of lovers starting with a sultry queen wrapped around a younger balding man, on to high school homework lovers and the grand finale… cop’s & donuts! (pun most definitely intended).

Yep nothing but the best here at Casualty of Design, high brow humor, design and scandalous sexy talk sponsored by advocates for fornication, (so long as you wear a condom)!

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Advertising Agency: McCann Paris, France
Creative Director: Mike Zonnenberg
Art Directors / Copywriters: Philippe Pinel, Frederick Lung
Senior Program Manager: Gorana Garevski
Program Executive: Thomas Ferrare
TV prod: Lionel Courtiaud
Production company: Satellite My Love
Director: Cesar Pesquera

This new ad campaign for Legos 50th anniversary is so awesome! What a great idea to pull up some of the most memorable moments over the past 50 years and construct a set with Legos… way cool!

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/ Alster Gmbh, Hamburg, Germany
Chief Creative Officers: Armin Jochum, Deneke Von Weltzien
Creative Directors: Fabian Frese, Gotz Ulmer, Daniel Frericks
Senior Art Director: Andre Price
Senior Copywriter: Sergio Penzo
Producer: Claudia Schildt/Fabian
Designers: Florian Zwinge, Tilman Gossner
Photographer: Claudia Schildt/Fabian