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Blatant thievery at the Chip Shop Awards 2011
I’ve posted before about how I think the Chip Shop Awards are brilliant and a chance to recharge your creative batteries by showcasing ideas that would normally get shot down. However, no-one takes the...
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£450 to get your makeup done for the afterlife
Relatively new makeup brand Illamasqua have established a reputation for being outrageous, but I think they might have overdone it this time. They’ve just announced a service in conjunction with a...
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Oh hi dad, welcome to the disco: memes in ads
Here’s a trend we could all have done without: internet memes plucked from the web and slapped, contextless and out-of-place, on ads. By far the worst offender here is Virgin Media’s new campaign by 18...
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New Look to fans: judge each other’s looks for prizes
What the hell, New Look? The UK clothes brand, popular with teenagers, are running a competition on their Facebook page in conjunction with the new ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ film. It’s called ‘Are...
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More rip-offs at the Chip Shop Awards 2012
I love the Chip Shop Awards, but I can’t help noticing how much plagiarism goes on, and it really saddens me. Last year, I wrote about how The Walker Agency ripped off Saatchi & Saatchi X’s ‘Every...
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“Is it just me?” redux: Olympic special
Here are our lovely Olympic mascots, Wenlock and Mandeville, adorning an Olympic poster. Wenlock, on the left, is the mascot for the Olympic Games. Mandeville, on the right, is the mascot for the...
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The Practicon calendar: the greatest Secret Santa present of all time?
Dental company Practicon put out a calendar featuring dental models in amusing family-style poses. They didn’t expect it to go viral, but it’s not hard to see why it did! Here, in its entirety, is the...
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Ad agency Ralph lets you assassinate Facebook friends with small breasts
This week in jaw-dropping, how-the-hell-did-this-get-made campaigns is Ralph’s very short-lived Facebook one for Square Enix’s Hitman game. It allowed you to put a “hit” out on your Facebook friends...
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Bauballs: battle of the balls
For as long as anyone can remember, Christmas has happened every year. And also for as long as anyone can remember, men had balls. And yet at two separate London agencies this year, these two age-old...
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The Tweenchronic kids’ music video is anything but innocent
I can’t believe this is real. Jesus christ. This is a music video by “Tweenchronic”, a pair of young girls being managed by the same guy who produced Rebecca Black’s ultra-viral hit “Friday”. With that...
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User submissions: they sound like such a good idea…
The theory: “So how are we going to make the campaign social?” “Basically we’re going to have this Google map and we’ll let people add their own pollen hotspots to it” “So it’s like a crowdsourced...
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I think LG is trolling us with the G Flex ad
If you like: - English actors badly delivering Americanised dialogue (“Open it already!” “Bro” “Like a BAWSS”) - Seeing a man awkwardly snog his own hand - Hand-beards that look like pubic hair - The...
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One year on, another user-submission app gets the shaft
A year ago today, Benadryl’s crowdsourced pollen map had to be pulled after an uprising of internet users used it as an outlet for their creative emissions: We suspected there was more to come, and 12...
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A new kind of Tesla coil: Tesla Motors’ logo looks like contraception
Electric supercar brand Tesla’s logo looks uncannily like… the humble contraceptive coil. Awkward. With thanks to @cuhleeen for the Tesla coil joke, which I somehow missed.
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Blatant thievery at the Chip Shop Awards 2011
I’ve posted before about how I think the Chip Shop Awards are brilliant and a chance to recharge your creative batteries by showcasing ideas that would normally get shot down. However, no-one takes the...
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Oh hi dad, welcome to the disco: memes in ads
Here’s a trend we could all have done without: internet memes plucked from the web and slapped, contextless and out-of-place, on ads. By far the worst offender here is Virgin Media’s new campaign by 18...
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New Look to fans: judge each other’s looks for prizes
What the hell, New Look? The UK clothes brand, popular with teenagers, are running a competition on their Facebook page in conjunction with the new ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ film. It’s called ‘Are...
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