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Design
The Unibody Coca-Cola Can
12:51AM Jesus Diaz | It doesn’t only look beautiful and it will make Jon Ive and Steve Jobs wet, but this naked Coca-Cola can would help save energy while reducing air and water pollution. Would it really make a difference? Let’s do some maths: More »
Design
Velcro Bus Ads Are Bound To End In Disaster
3:20PM Jesus Diaz | I don’t know what Coca-Cola was thinking when they used these ads to promote their Grip Bottle in bus stops. They are made with velcro, so if you lean or get anywhere near them wearing woolly cloths, you’d get stuck. More »
Online
Google Promotes Droid Day With Rare Homepage Ad
7:22AM Rosa Golijan | Hey Google! I adore your celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary and such things, but what are you doing sticking an ad on your homepage? An ad for Verizon’s Droid of all things. More »
Entertainment
Subway Ad Makes It Look Like The Tunnel Is About To Collapse
1:20PM Adam Frucci | This freaky subway ad for upcoming disaster porn 2012 is currently up in Rio de Janeiro’s subway systems. Get it, it looks like the tunnels have ruptured and are flooding and everybody is about to die! Ha…ha? More »
Entertainment
Lloyd Dobler Gets A Job
2:40AM Mark Wilson | You can put a guy in a trench coat. You can hand him a boombox blasting Peter Gabriel. You can make — even break — his heart. But you cannot make him Lloyd Dobler, aka the body overtaken by symbiont John Cusack. More »
Phones
New Droid Commercial Turns To All-Out Sci-Fi
4:20AM Adam Frucci | The Motorola Droid! It’s a robot from space, shot to Earth from fighter jets, letting you check Facebook! Or something like that. Apparently this ad, that shows you nothing about the phone itself, will start running next week. More »
Random Stuff
Watch These Real Flies Carrying Real Ad Banners
10:40AM Jesus Diaz | Someone thought that the best way to promote their company was by attaching paper ad banners to real flies. I tried this at school to pass notes to a pretty girl called Carla. It ended in pain. More »
Random Stuff
Bad Promotional Idea Of The Week
11:27PM Jesus Diaz | Jason is in Japan now, looking for Godzilla. He sent this video tonight. It seems that Microsoft thinks that putting a Windows 7 presentation booth in the middle of Akihabara station is a good idea. More »
Entertainment
Microsoft Pusses Out on Family Guy Special
9:55AM Matt Buchanan | Microsoft’s involvement in the Windows 7 Family Guy hackathon is cancelled. Family Guy’s writing team pulled out one too many idea balls about incest, the Holocaust and feminine hygiene, making it “not a fit with the Windows brand”. More »
Entertainment