"Purveyors Of Quality Shit"

"Food for thought"

"The consumer actually wants to buy health and beauty while remaining on the sofa: our lifestyle is less active than it has ever been."
-- Alex Renton, The Observer Food Monthly

Happy Christmas

Proverbs and Aphorisms

"The man who tickles himself

can laugh when he chooses."

"Since 1961"

Client: Head & Shoulders
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Bucharest

"Food for thought"

"All creative people need something to rebel against, it's what gives their lives excitement, and it's creative people who make the client's lives exciting."
-- Mr. Paul Arden

Bauer 1994

Can you imagine Jack Bauer trying to save the world (again) with the technology used 13 years ago?

[Via: Zand Land]

Art is a weapon

... and graffiti too?

"Christmas Belles"

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You won't find Santa Claus, Christmas trees, stars in the sky or reindeers. But you'll find a party spirit, lot's of glamour made in the 50's, Twiggy and Antonio Banderas.

Client: M&S
Agency: Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R

"Food for thought"

"The options for how a brand can communicate are so many that you need someone to make sense of it all. That’s the preserve of the planning department — to guide us through a complicated world and do things with a proper sense of ‘why’ rather than just to be trendy and new."

- Guy Murphy, JWT’s global planning director in The Economic Times

"Circle of Life"

Client: Zonnatura
Agency: SWH, Amsterdam

"University slogans"

"Impactful or not, does a college really need a motto? Quick: What's the slogan of your alma mater? An extremely informal and decidedly unscientific survey indicates that many people don't know."


[Source: "Your (Lame) Slogan Here"]

"Axe chocolate"

Client: Axe Dark Temptation
Agency: Vegaolmosponce, Buenos Aires

Today's videoclip

\\\ --------- The Bees "Chicken Payback" --------- ///

"You are my sunshine"

"Remote control"

by Finn Magee

"Damm right"

Client: Canadian Club
Agency: Energy BBDO, Chicago

"Shopocalypse"

"What Would Jesus Buy?"

"Authenticity over Exaggeration"

"In today's media-rich world, traditional advertising models are breaking down. Now, the consumer runs the show.

Successful advertising campaigns today are self-parodying and spark discussions rather than blatantly sell products."

[Source: "Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising", Harvard Working Knowledge]

Xmas spirit = Empty pockets

"Deliver us from temptation" or how the supermarkets makes us spend more than we actually had planned.

"Belong"

"You know who your mates are. Belong."

Client: Carling
Agency: Beattie McGuinness Bungay

"Death Star Canteen"

"CopyCat"

Client: Think! Road Safety
Agency: Leo Burnett, London

Signs of times

An old Lisbon street sign forbiding ad posters in walls.

"The meaning of life"

By Mr. Johnny Rotten.

Hahn Nitzche Sudios

by Jung von Matt, Hamburg

"Naturally juicy"

Client: Orangina
Agency: FFL Paris

Greenpeace "Upgrade"

"Husband playground"

According to El País a shopping center in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) has created a entertainment space called "Aparca Maridos" (husband parking) where women can literally dump their husbands while they're shopping.

"Black is Back"

Fashionistas wanted!

"Black is Back": a bilingual online community we (Lowe Lisbon) created for Rexona Crystal. Check it out.

"The Designers Mixtape"

"The Designers Mixtape invited designers all over the world to show us their musical taste."

"Modern life is rubbish"

I've read quite recently Euromonitor's report “The Fast Consumer”. Interesting stuff me thinks. No big news. In our modern and affluent societies we live on two constant modes: one hectic, of complete acceleration and another one of deceleration as a counterbalance result.

Stress, success subservience, lack of time, compulsive connectivity, urban caothic multi-tasked lifes are mixed up equally with the quest for more simplicity, switching of (enternaiment, cocooning, leisure activities), convenience and converge of solutions (functional and healthy foods, gadgets with multi-applications). So here you go, this is the real picture of the much celebrated 21st-century lifestyle. Well as far as I'm concerned, Mr. Damon Albarn was indeed right: “Modern life is rubbish”.

"You would need 120 baby animals"

Client: FAADA - Foundation for adoption, sponsorship and defense of the Animals
Agency: Contrapunto Barcelona

"Potato Parade"

"Don't give up on Vista"

"Don't give up on Vista" says Apple.

Trevor "Beattie-isms"

"Russell Brand is A Comedian. He does Comedy. Very brilliantly and in a very modern way. On TV. On digital radio. Via podcast. Comedy faces as many challenges as we do, in terms of finding its audience and delivering its message. It's had to evolve. Adapt. Change. But it's still called comedy." - -Trevor Beattie in The Independent

"Food for thought"

"Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational." -- Hugh Mackay

"Beard"

Client: Coca-Cola
Agency: Ogilvy, Buenos Aires

Eurostar campaign

"Attention! London is around the corner."

[Via: Guardian "You taking the piss?"]

"Guide dog"

Client: PlayStation Portable
Agency: TBWA\Madrid