March 10, 2009

Sustainable consumption


Because swapping is the new shopping: Caliroots sneaker swap.

March 09, 2009

You're here to be happy



"The Encounter"

[Via: Brainstorm #9 \ See film here]

March 06, 2009

Profound thoughts



Do planners like advertising at all?

March 05, 2009

"Real Life Adventures"



Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich

"Trading down"

"For Generation Y [those born after 1978], the crisis has hit harder than September 11. This is the first financial trauma of their lives, and they have been led to believe that access to capital and spending is limitless. Many of them are just completely over their heads. They have no idea of budgeting."

- Paco Underhill in "The Shopper of Tomorrow: Trading Down"

March 03, 2009

"Food for thought"

"In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times they have to."
-- Bruce Barton (the second "B" of BBDO)

February 26, 2009

The mass market race



How many years did it take for some of last century's innovations and present ones, to be adopted by 150 million users?

A:
38 years for TV, 14 for cellphone, 7 for the iPod and 5 for Facebook.

[Via: The Trend Watch]

"Food for thought"

"Creative people have 50 per cent more mating success than non-creative people, which explains my three wives. Why do pop musicians and artists have all this mating success? It’s because on an unconscious level their peacock’s tail is on display.”
-- Robin Wight, The Engine Group

February 25, 2009

"Sound"



Client: Loewe
Agency: Scholz & Friends, Berlin

February 20, 2009

"Love & Sockets"

“You remain anonymous"




Client: Greater Vancouver Crime Stoppers
Agency: DDB Canada, Vancouver

February 19, 2009

"Food for thought"

"In modern times, there is nothing which more exactly defines social differences than personal taste, whether in food or music or wallpaper or the choice of children’s names. The choices that people make in these areas of life may seem spontaneous and genuine, but, without any apparent pressure or coercion, they usually conform to class lines."
-- Keith Thomas, "To Buy or Not to Buy: The Origins of Good Taste"

February 18, 2009

Today's blog




One of my favorites. From my former alma mater.

February 12, 2009

Agent 2.0

Timeless trues



[Via: Flickr]

February 06, 2009

"Food for thought"

"When we look inside ourselves, there's nothing there. Identity is constructed - not found. Identity is created by feedback."
-- Norbert Bolz, TU Berlin 2008

"Zodiac race"



Client: Onitsuka Tiger
Agency: Amsterdam Worldwide

February 04, 2009

"Heist"


[Click on image to see film]

Client: Coca-Cola
Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, Portland

"Acting"



Client: Whiskas
Agency: Graffiti BBDO, Bucharest

February 03, 2009

"Sale"



Client: Harvey Nichols
Agency: DDB, London

"Disco Ballers"



Client: Ray-Ban
Agency: Cutwater

January 30, 2009

"Food for thought"

"My biggest competitor today is a person with an idea."
-- Nabi SakkabHead, Procter & Gamble

January 29, 2009

"Punk rope"


Punkrope DVD Trailer from Tim Haft on Vimeo.

January 28, 2009

Today's videoclip

"Consumerism"



The symbols of "modern religion" and faith.

(image via Wooster Collective)

Top-of-mind in 1"



"1 second ad" from Saatchi & Saatchi for Miller beer.

January 27, 2009

Let it out

Last weekend I noted that the majority of the people coming out from the cinema, after they've been watching "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", were all sobbing or had red eyes.

It occured to me this: what if Kleenex distributed packs of tissues to them outside the cinema? Contextualized marketing!?

"Nothing is original"

January 26, 2009

"Haircuts by Children'"



Would you let your kid cut your hair?

January 24, 2009

National Snow Day petition



Client: Copper Mountain
Agency: Wexley School of Girls

January 23, 2009

January 22, 2009

"The real Thing"



[Via: Crummy Church Signs]

Future Trends 2009



----------------> by Leo Burnett UK

January 19, 2009

(bizarre) YouTubian stuff

"Food for thought"

"We're not an ad agency, and I don't want to be an ad agency. We're a media-arts company that expresses brands through many forms. It shouldn't be one company does ads, another does PR and another does packaging or architecture."
-- Lee Clow, TBWA\

"Objectified"

January 15, 2009

"Light bulb"



Client: WWF Canada
Agency: DraftFCB Toronto

"On Drink"

January 09, 2009

"Stay grounded"


Stay Grounded from Green Thing on Vimeo.