Sure, most of the handsets in this Bell advertisement are pretty hideous — but it was the late ’70s, man. These were hideous times. And besides, I’ll take the wacky “Sculptura” and “Stowaway” over today’s sea of black blech rectangles.
Here’s one way to reduce testicular cancer: make people choose between using a BlackBerry and examining their balls to prevent death.
Ah, Japan, you crazy country you. As if your advertising wasn’t surreal enough already, the advent of posters that react to being kissed has taken things into a whole new league.
The free/ad-supported app market is great, right? You get apps, with absolutely nothing to pay, and no real downside, right? Wrong. All those ads being pushed to your device — and the location data needed to push you the right ads — are killing your phone or tablet’s battery.
If you have kids, better watch out for free educational apps with ads in them. Apparently, they can be a backdoor for R-rated messages about hot dating, guns and scientology. Check out the image for a small sample.
Hahn, an Australian brewery, is obviously in the wrong business. Instead of focusing on crafting fine ales, it should be further developing and commercialising this stabilising arm that guarantees you won’t spill a drop when being jostled about in a bar.
If you’ve ever wondered what life was like for Ewoks as the Empire built another Death Star near Endor, this ad for Toys R’ Us gives a pretty good idea at what it’s like to stare up at an artificial moon.
SXSW, the annual vanity carnival of schmoozing, marketing superficiality and barbecues, has something new to offer Austin’s visitors: unalloyed human degradation. A New York ad firm has converted homeless people into 4G hotspots.
Google rolled out a new project on Friday to remake classic ads for the web. Basically it’s an attempt to show how Google can modernise powerful old-fashioned one-way branding for a new interactive era. Also? It’s got great troll-tential.
In 1984, Apple launched an ad campaign based on George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, which depicted IBM users as mindless followers and Mac users as visionaries and rebels. Now, the man behind it, Regis McKenna, has explained that he think it was more successful than the product it attempted to sell.
