Angus Whines

Sketches

This is lovely. Well done Ogilvy Toronto.

Powerful Arm

Absolutely love this idea of a robotic arm that translates your Facebook name into a physical signature on a petition to the Prime Minister to fund clinical trials for Muscular Dystrophy.



Via Digital Buzz Blog

Olden Days

Brilliant.



Via The Poptimist

Desk

Fabulous initiative called 'Free Desk Here' with agencies around the world offering a free desk in their studio to new talent. Great idea.



Via Swiss Miss

Loser

Brilliant article on "loser-generated content" by Charlie Brooker:

"TV advertising used to work like this: you sat on your sofa while creatives were paid to throw a bucket of shit in your face. Today you're expected to sit on the bucket, fill it with your own shit, and tip it over your head while filming yourself on your mobile. Then you upload the video to the creatives. You do the work; they still get paid."

Awesome.

Hessian

Certainly it may be lacking in a little authenticity but for some reason I do like the concept of a brand identity you can buy off the shelf.







Via Brandflakes for Breakfast

Love

Quite right Stan, this is how you do a Valentine's Day ad.

Critique

I'm a little late to these but by god I love them. Nothing better than nonsensical client feedback.







Via Mighty Girl

Nuts

'Bauballs', delightful ornaments in the shape of 'nuts', were designed to bring awareness to testicular cancer. I'd happily hang them on my tree.





By Fallon via Brand Flakes For Breakfast

Venn

Too true, Stan.

Puppy Pals

I'm a sucker for product development as an answer to a client brief. Which makes it only logical then that I like this range of Braille chocolates created for Guide Dogs Australia, aimed to help raise awareness and funds for the organisation. Cute.



By The Monkeys via Campaign Brief

Coasters

I've always wanted to do something fun with beer coasters. Good on Hackney Brewery for doing just that - 'beer mat' olympics. Nice.







Via It's Nice That

Panda

Whoever made these ads is a bloody genius.

Build It

Love this.

Pigs

Lovely work. Willie Nelson singing that song is pretty bloody hard to beat.



By Creative Artists Agency

Queen

Charlotte introduces me to the best things. In this case, a 'Queen Pantone Deck' showing the colours that the Queen actually wore on 60 different occasions during her 60 year reign. Brilliant.

Theft

Who knows if this actually works, but I love the fact that Starbucks considered it.



Via Charlotte Cramer

Washing

3M Scotch-Brite gave young Brazilians the chance to wash the dishes instead of pay their bill. Genius.



Via Brandflakes for Breakfast

Briefing

Lovely summary of how to get the most out of your advertising agency.

By Canalside View

Moreing

Lovely concept, 'moreing'.



By Droga5

Thwack

Well whaddya know? Another lovely ad. Crazy.

Stan's right, great use of 'thwack'.

Monkeys

Lovely ad for the Lisbon Zoo.



Via Darryl

Shelving

Fabulous desktop organiser from IKEA.  Great idea.

Television

I love Dan.



Via W+K

Overnight Test

What a fabulous blog post:

Pretty soon, The Overnight Test became the Over Lunch Test. Then before we knew it, we were eating Pot-Noodles at our desks, and taking it in turns to go home and see our kids before they went to bed. As fast as we could pin an idea on the wall, some red-faced account manager in a bad suit would run away with it. Where we used to rely on taking a break and “stretching the eyes’ to allow us to see the wood from the trees (too many idioms and similes? Probably.) We now fell back on experience and gut-feel. It worked most of the time, but nobody is infallible. Some howlers and growlers definitely made it through, and generally standards plummeted.

The other consequence, with the benefit of hindsight, is that we became more conservative. Less likely to take creative risks and rely on the tried and trusted. The familiar is always going to research better than the truly novel. An research was the new god. The trick to being truly creative, I’ve always maintained, is to be completely unselfconscious. To resist the urge to self-censor. To not-give-a-shit what anybody thinks. That’s why children are so good at it. And why people with Volkswagens, and mortgages, Personal Equity Plans and matching Lois Vutton luggage are not.

The rest of the blog is well worth a read - he's a fabulous writer going through a tough experience.

Via Stan

Vacation

These are quite sweet too.  Well I never.





By JWT via This Is Awesome

Glue

Wonderful ad for Superglue.  I hope it actually ran.



Via Darryl

Marrow

Graham Douglas, who works at ad agency Droga5, has come up with a unique way to get more marrow bone donors: he's included a sign-up kit inside a bandage box. When someone cuts their finger, they can easily dab some of their blood on a swab and drop it in an enclosed envelope and put it in the mail to the lab.

Of course it was Help Remedies who agreed to include the registration in their packaging - good on them.



Via Good Business

Moving

Oh my lord.  Brilliant.







By M&C Saatchi via The Hidden Persuader

Trap

Look, good on them for actually using a leaf to tell the story.





Via Colossal

Touch

Lovely Sydney ad agency Host has created an interactive Christmas card entitled 'The Butt St Choir', featuring staff performing Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy'.  Love it.

Sausages

Aren't men wonderful?

Puppies

This ad ran in a women's magazine.



And this ad ran in a men's magazine.



Cute.  Via Darryl

Bonds

Lovely.

Checkout

Fabulous.



Via Charlotte Cramer

Lloyd

What a fabulous idea.

Sick

Personalised 'Get Well Soon' Heinz cans as gifts.  Love it.



Via We Are Social

Rolls

It should come as no surprise that I love these.







Via This Is Awesome

Women

Wow.  Just, wow.



Via This Is Awesome

Deadly Diet

Lovely.



Via inspire me now

Green

Moss graffiti.  How lovely.



Via Design Mom

Dripping

I like the idea of a dripping fountain to sell Naldecon, an antihistamine decongestant.



Via Darryl

Taint

Paying for people not to wear their clothes.  Brilliant.

Happy

I wish I'd had this stamp handy at my last job.



Via Ben

Gulp

The world's largest stop-motion animation, shot on a Nokia N8.

Hay Bales

Well, I love that the farmers thought to do this.

Farewell

I too would benefit from one of these fabulous napkins, while sadly farewelling the lovely Kat, as she rudely leaves us for a well deserved adventure in NYC.

Wurst Face

Seriously, why wouldn't you want your face on some wurst??  Genius.



More detail here, via Darryl

Yuck

Oh dear god...



Nicely spotted by Escapology

Luggage

Cute.



By BBDO Dusseldorf via The Hidden Persuader