Category Archives: ads

If only these retro fake ads were for real products!

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

Bobster855’s collection of ancient “National Lampoon” advertisements is fantastic–like a cross between comic book ads and Skymall. I’m pretty sure that digital grandfather clock came to be.

The All-New Mockbook Pro

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

I love this ad for Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot sequel. (refresh if it’s already played to the end) Other targets include annoying insurance and dating ads.

Magazine to run video ad

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

Entertainment Weekly will contain video-in-print advertising in september. From the BBC: The slim-line screens – around the size of a mobile phone display – also have rechargeable batteries.The chip technology used to store the video – described as similar to … Continue reading →

Video: Making "Living Movie Posters" with a Red One camera

Posted on June 9, 2009 by Joel Johnson

Alexx Henry Photography used Red One cameras to make “living movie posters”, essentially trying to replicate the look of a one-sheet photograph but using video. I don’t know if this is a promo for the Red One, but it’s technical … Continue reading →

South African Makita billboard is drilled pointillism

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Joel Johnson

[I Believe in Advertising via Trendbeheer via PSFK via Toolcrib via Core77]

Commercial: Loewe Sound

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Joel Johnson

This commercial for Loewe televisions, available in Germany, does not require you to adjust your volume. (Slick-looking televisions, too.) (Thanks, Florian!)

Mio Digiwalker ad (funny)

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

“There’s always a way out.” [Thanks, Heather!]

Fake LEGO ads pit brickplay against sex, needle, and gunplay

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Joel Johnson

These advertisements for LEGO from agency DDB aren’t real, in as far as they certainly weren’t commissioned by the brickmaker, but we can still love them. [via Animal]

Advertising regulator agrees with Apple: Windows is virus-stricken and insecure

Posted on December 25, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

Britain’s strict ad-standards regulators offered a Christmas gift to Apple yesterday: it ruled that ads claiming Windows is less stable than OSX–and more vulnerable to infection– were truthful. Despite a history of correcting Apple’s hyperbolic marketing, it did not uphold … Continue reading →

Would this iPhone ad make you complain to your government?

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Joel Johnson

I can’t decide who is goofiest: the 17 people who complained about Apple’s iPhone 3G ad claiming that the phone was “really fast” or the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority for listening to them and banning Apple’s ad. Unfortunately I haven’t … Continue reading →