Tate goes Grande!

Tate Modern is planning not only to be the most visited modern art museum in the world, but also one of the biggest in size along with George Pompidou Center in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. According to the International Herald Tribune article the musuem is planning to be all dressed up just in time for the 2012 Olympic Games, since being the host city. You can view the various proposols by clicking on the image!

Simple and Clean...

Italy's Leo Burnett Co. S.r.l. sure can kick it! This ad for Ariston's Aqualtis Washine Machine is a true gem! A concept so simple, yet original, with visuals that scream creativity combined with a moving song (Vangeli's "Ask the Mountains" feat Stina Nordenstan) seem to be the recipe for winning the Cannes Lions - International Advertising Festival, 2006 (Gold Lion) for Home appliances & furnishings.

Introducing you the Space Beetle...

VW has been driving mad apparently these days... Apart from the recent comeback of the Rabbit and the teary fairewell (for now) of our loving Golf, there is a new development on innovative design petit automobiles... the space Beetle. Well, it has not yet proved itself able to fly, but it is a considerable insight of what the future upholds. Perhaps, BMW is constructing a concept car of its own... the Underwater Mini..! Soon at a dealer near you!

The real winner of the Mundial...

Italy may have been the receiver of the golden world cup this past Sunday, but France was certainly the winner in the battle of the football ads! CLM/BBDO France has scored the big goal by creating this ad for France Telecom... Allez la France, alors!

Want to be on the safe side...

... so that your divorce won't necessarily be a period of depression also? Then you got to have the right lawyers! Check this ad created for Sanders, Lyn & Ragonetti Associates... the owner of the porsche would wish he'd known them... Thanks Ilias for the funny ad!

When the marketing gurus join forces...

Just so you know... having an ipod today doesn't make you all that modern! But, having the new nike ipod nano is what makes you really kicking! When you fancy going out for jogging or simply melting the treadmill, you need to have the right motivation. The Nipple guys have created the perfect motivation... your personal coach! If music is the way to run, your shoes will do the talking and your ipod the listening... The nike ipod provides you a pair of magic Nikes with a sensor in them that controls your pace and gets connected with your ipod. This way "your run takes on a whole new dimension". The songs change depending on your rhythm... How cool is that?

World Cup Madness!!!

Can you believe this ad???! This worldcup mania has been the perfect gift for the advert people... Even garage doors use this event to get noticed nowadays! Well, i guess commenting on the woman's boredom during this man-stuck-infront-of-telly period is the natural way to go...

Can you bet on it?

Sportingbet.gr has created these funny ads to tell you that gambling is all about probability! If you got that covered you got to play on... Like this one... Love at first site?
The probability that Mrs Mary is going to have grand-children?

The probability to stare at this picture for more than 30"...?


or what's the chance that Panos is the father of this kid? (when considering that all Greeks are white...) Hillarious!

ipod rocks San Fransisco...

On top of union square the biggest outdoor ad was certainly the new funkier ad for the ipod! Get in tune..

For those of you who know...

Anna Vissi's incident that would make a kicking campaign for Amstel! We salute the creator!

Get Protected... and find The One!

This extreme and provocative but also tastefully made ad is created by TBWA Paris agency as an AIDS campaign. The sure thing is it will produce strong arguments and thoughts, but the graphics at least are exceptional...

Do you get it?

the provocative Levi's...
polished as a mirror...
as fast as mazda...

a trully original ad created for Glassex...

Meet the craziest ad agency in America...

... Crispin Porter and Bogarty according to Businessweek. The famous agency, with almost zero TV ads, were the ones responsible for the 90% of the MINI's success in the US. One of their work worth mentioning is when they run a Ford Excursion around urban markets placing a MINI on top of the gas guzzler. The message implied was that "an Excursion owner was taking his MINI to the country for the weekend, instead of his skis or a surfboard". This stunt established in the US the idea that petitte is practicle yet pretty... which was the signature selling point for the MINI brand.

BMW brings innovation...

A new feature of night vision that hasn't been used before in regular cars is added in BMW 7 series... The video appears to be extremely convincing, however on a second thought, how often do you happen to be in the middle of darkness and your big lights seem to be inadequate?

So that you'll never run on flat...

Goodyear lives up to its name! The new series of ads, created by Leagas Delaney agency in London, shows us why changing a tire can be dangerous. The ad uploaded is by far the best one...

Another cow parade...

... to be pride of is held in Athens today! The world’s largest public art event, originated in Chicago and New York in 1999 continues to grow by gathering new artists all over the world to express themselves on the standard statue cow, in order to create an auction in the end of the event for charitable causes. This cow not only represents the trends of art nowadays, but more importantly it is a symbol of unity and philanthropism...

Picasso's art ranks most expensive in auction history...

...as a portrait of his mistress Dora Maar is sold for $95.2 million in Sotheby's on May 3rd. The painting "Dora Maar au chat" becomes the second highest price ever paid for a work of art at auction, after "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice),"which is also a 1905 painting from Picasso, created in his Rose Period, which brought $104.1 million at Sotheby's. Apparently the bidder was not familiar to the Sotheby's executives and was sat on the far back of the auctioning room. Viewers said that he was holding his 1340 numbered plate and bidded in an unusual style. The bidder remains to be unknown, an added element to characterize Sotheby's auction trully spectacular. It appears that the art market has bounced back fiercely...

What an MBA won't teach you...

is the truth about advertising!!! This trully brilliant and hillarious clip is the creation of director Tim Hamilton back in 1999. Nevertheless, if you view it it perfectly applies to the bitchiness involved in every workplace... especially when it comes to advertising! (source)

How Kaavya Got Signed and Got Caught...

Only a month ago, every student at Harvard University was envious of a fellow freshman, Kaavya Viswanathan, who got a $500,000 deal by a prestigious publishing company, Little Brown & Co, for her new fiction How Opal Got Kissed Got Wild and Got a Life and for a following novel. On top of that, DreamWorks expressed an interest to create a movie based on Kaavya's book. For an unpublished writer at the age of 17, sealing this deal, seems beyond any kind of imagination... However, the story unfolds in a bitter ending as the Harvard student gets caught plagiarizing 14 passages from author Megan McCafferty's novels, Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings. Kaavya publicly apologizes about 'internalizing'' McCafferty's words in her own writing, since she has been a fan of the author from a very young age and resorts to cancel all books published, until the novel is reviewed. More updates on the story can be found in Harvard's magazine, here.

Mac does it simple...

when it comes to advertising! It appears that Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, has resorted to the traditional way of marketing his products, by confronting the competition head on. The new series of TV commercials features a humorous comparison between PCs and Macs, portrayed by author John Hodgman as a nerdy PC and another younger, sexier actor as the Mac (source), who discuss about viruses, unexpected freezes and the iLife software package. This could be the perfect case study for hostile advertising (click on the image to view it)... The war is on!