ANGUS WHINES

Last Minute

Old, and wonderful, until the very end. Shame. Why the fuck would you give all of that up for one more minute?

Walk of Shame

Nice.  Good client.

Via Paul.  By BBDO New York

Tag

Because it's still fucking brilliant...

Tide

I missed this when it came out but Scamp brought it to my attention.  I love it.

By CHI

BBC HD

Nice.

By Sonny London via Lunar BBDO.

Nike

Nice. Feels like the old days.

By Guy Ritchie.

Discovery

Nice.

Via Bad Banana

Shoes

There's nothing quite like making a fuck off huge version of your product for people to play with.

Via Age

Lifesavers

Let a cabbie save your life.  Fucking brilliant.

Folgers

Via Boing Boing

Pain

Via Lunar BBDO

Lube

Are you British in bed....?

Via Made in England By Gentlemen.

Balls

Via Copyranter 

Don't Stop Me

I like it.  It makes me chuckle.  It's one of my favourite songs and I like the cute little truck.  I do however feel as though it jars at the end when it cuts to the chocolate and cheesy end line, but perhaps that's just me.  And as time goes on, I'm feeling more and more tepid.  It's just not good enough with the ridiculously loose brief they've been given.  But it's fucking brilliant song.

Fallon.

Bird Shit

Earlier this week, Leicester Square was taken over by pigeons, yet no bird shit. 

They were origami pigeons as part of a marketing stunt for HSBC and China Design Now. Printed on the insides was some Chinese artwork, information about the China Design Now exhibition, a map of how to get there and a discount voucher...

 

We Tell Stories

Another lovely concept.  What the fuck is going on?

Listen

Beautifully done...

Listen here...

Morning Tongue

Kinky.

Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

Confidence

Cute.

DDB London.

Tired

Ummm... AMV BBDO?  Stop it... you're scaring me...

Carling

This is the kind of wife I want.

Pictures of You

Amazing.

Via Age.

Domestic Violence

Superb vintage ad found by Mr Lonsdale.

Prisoner

Still one of my favourite ads of all time...

Zig Canada

Skittles

Jesus the Skittles stuff is good.

 

TBWA\Chiat\Day

Ranting

Lovely rant from a planner...

Weak Beer

Sydney Morning Herald
February 4, 2008

AUSTRALIA is to launch an aggressive campaign aimed at attracting a new generation of British immigrants.

The ads for the South Australian Government include slogans such as "Sod London house prices" and "Screw working in Staines, hello Adelaide".

Bill Muirhead, an Adelaide-born partner in the M&C Saatchi ad firm in London, and agent-general for South Australia, said he was aware the campaign might create enemies. "It might appear we are being rude, but a lot of things in Britain aren't good," he told The Times. "We went for Staines because it sounds nasty.

Andrew Hirst, the Mayor of Spelthorne, a borough that includes Staines, said it was "an attractive riverside town with a lot more going for it than [Australians'] weak beer".

 

    

Conception

Sweet.

DDB Paris.  Courtesy of I Believe in Advertising.

Brawn

QUALITY advertising.  More here.

Thanks Jaime.

Be Different, Not Shit

Jesus.  This is why they went with Goodby??  Methinks they're leading up to something but still... cringe...

Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco

Bic

Simple.  Nice.

Delvico Barcelona, Spain, via Adverbox   

The Wind

Not sure how I missed this one, thanks Rob. It's stunning.

Collections

Stan, via Age brought my attention to this fabulous work for Sneaker King.  A clever idea, beautifully presented.

Little Hands

I saw this on a Qantas flight while down here.  It's beautiful.  Both flying within Australia (relative to Europe) and the commercial. 

M&C Saatchi, Sydney

The Decapitator

Oh this is brilliant.  The Decapitator goes around decapitating people in advertisements.  Why not, I say.

Via Nick.

Lard

I'm loving a few of the things I've seen recently in relation to fast food chains and wanted to post them for future reference:

Simplicity

TBWA Paris, via I Believe In Adv

Good Potatoes

Jung von Matt, Germany, via I Believe in Adv. 

Dandruff

By Saatchi & Saatchi Bucharest...

Via I Believe in Adv.

Dreams

Fucking awesome. 

Directed by Fredrik Bond.  Tears by Angus.  Thanks Lunar BBDO.

Legend

Stan pointed me to this superb article by Trevor Beattie.  Legendary.

Key quotes:

"I for one would be much happier shuffling off this mortal coil having been known as an 'umble adman who flogged stuff (by hook, crook, blogosphere or blag) than a fully-rounded pervasive brand ideas communicator who provided integrated 360 degree media neutral solutions for all his client's comms and content needs."

And...

"Advertising. There, I've said it. Advertising. Said it again. Advertising, advertising, advertising. Now I'm not suggesting that our industry is in some paranoid state of self-denial (oh yes I am), but my mentioning of the A-word in public right now would be seen by some as a professional faux pas on a par with me sashaying down Shaftesbury Avenue, swinging by the Stage Door of a leading West End theatre, pulling down my trousers and pants and shouting "Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!" till the ushers rushed to shush me up.

And I paraphrase on purpose to illustrate my point. Russell Brand is A Comedian. He does Comedy. Very brilliantly and in a very modern way. On TV. On digital radio. Via podcast. Comedy faces as many challenges as we do, in terms of finding its audience and delivering its message. It's had to evolve. Adapt. Change. But it's still called comedy. The best of it still makes us laugh. The worst gets booed off.

Is there any other industry which so readily and casually denies its own job description as much as ours? It's odd because we don't seem to deny the function. Everything we do is A*********g."

The Chicken

I'm surprised I haven't seen something like this before given how familiar the set up is.  I love it, well done Scamp.

Roll The Dice

Gnuf.com have created the world's greatest dice roll. Here's the teaser...

And here's the full clip.

Children Know No Boundaries

By DraftFCB/Lowe Group, Zürich/Wallisellen, via ibelieveinadv.

"I fucking hate advertising"

Good Baggage

I bloody love this. It's so nice to see a brand be true to itself, whilst moving forward and changing. Nice work Rob.

And here's the making of...

Balls

By Nongshim Communications, South Korea, via ibelieveinadvertising.

The Truth

FINALLY.  Someone who has the guts to just be themselves.

Courtesy of Brand Autopsy comes part of one of Buckley’s radio spots:

If you are inquiring about your cough mixture tasting like expired milk, trash-bag leakage, a postpedicure foot bath, a state fair porta-potty, decomposing meat fat, monkey sweat, used denture soak, New Jersey, or hippie-festival runoff, please hang up. Your cough will be gone shortly.

One of the print headlines:

Made with oil of Pine needles. What did you expect it to taste like?

I fucking love that.

Two Cups

I love a good spoof.

Chairlift

From Charlie comes this fabulous floor sticker...

By Scholz & Friends, Berlin.   

Carlton Draught

This is the kind of shit that gets me through a bad day.

George Patterson Y&R Melbourne

Slowest Car to Make

I'm constantly amazed by how powerful a wonderful soundtrack is.  It's amazing what you can do with the right music.  Dangerous when relied on though.

Tears

Age made me cry.

Playstation Returns

TBWA\Chiat\Day

Pinkie

This is part of a recent campaign for Australia's Road & Traffic Authority (RTA) by Clemenger BBDO.

As appropriate as the gesture is unfortunately it may have provoked some road rage. Three months ago, a guy saw a woman giving him the pinkie as he drove in Sydney. Instead of slowing down, he hurled a bottle at her.  In court this week, he told a judge, “She started doing that hand gesture, you know, the RTA one. And it offended me... because of, you know, she implied I had a small penis.”  Brilliant.

Oh Baby

Scarily, this is one of my favourite ads of all time...

Mum

This is one of my favourite tag lines of all time...

Logos

Courtesy of Darryl comes this fabulous ad for Audi....

Scum

I found one of these on my street yesterday.

Street Advertising Services uses high pressure cleaning machines to wash brands, logos and ads onto dirty pavements. I like it.

Thanks Springwise.

Mmmm....

Oh boy, I can't wait to taste the next flavour of Pedigree Chum Puppy Food.

Courtesy of Springwise.

Women

Courtesy of Doddsy:

Colour

WoW

Regardless of whether it's a copy of the wonderful Leeroy Jenkins, I quite like this:

Saatchi & Saatchi LA

Tango

One of my favourite ads of all time:

HHCL or CHI.  Anyone?

Sinking

Disturbingly powerful...

DDB Auckland for Coastguard NZ, via www.ibelieveinadv.com

Provenance

I love the fact that at Flocks you can get stunning knitted items with details about the individual animals that provided the wool.  As one sheep supplies exactly enough wool for one sweater, each sweater is tagged with a specific animal’s ID number, and comes with a certificate: the animal's passport. Information provided includes breed, weight, year and place of birth, and a picture of the sheep.  Like this jumper...

Or this rug handknitted from the wool of eighteen merino sheep...

Provenance is fabulous.

Thanks Springwise.

Horrific

Oh Jesus, God, no...!!

Clemenger Melbourne. Stop it. Stop it immediately.

(Thanks Rob)

Oh Dear

Crash Bang

"The safest car body in the world"... impressive...

I still feel as though Volvo would be safer though...

Bonnie

This version is MUCH better...

I still think there is WAY too much hype about this but I confess I do like the fact that people are creating remixes.

Career Choice

BBH graduate recruitment...

Number Two

There's not many things Pepsi have done that I've liked but this is certainly a high point in their history...

I'm quite fond of this image too, actually.

Paddington Bear Rocks

Superb (by DDB London)....

As is this little article with quotes from the bear himself.

Matchbox

I love these old matchbox labels. You can see the full set here.

Splat

By Duval Guillaume Brussels, courtesy of The Hidden Persuader

Lightweight

Call me crazy, but I like this.  Not least because it's worlds away from the same old tedious 'headline pack shot' shit I see over and over again for cereal...

Rivalry

Interesting....

JWT Paris

Get Down

I'm in dire need of either watching this a hundred times or skulling a hundred Buds.  Preferably not Lights.

I'd credit it but I don't know who did it and can't be arsed finding out today.

Stripes

Lovely ambient advertising for the Bronz Zoo via I Believe In Advertising...

Volvo Drivers

This I like.

Fuel, Portugal.

Drumming

Call me crazy, but I'm not hugely impressed.

Yes, yes, I'm there at the front of the line applauding work that clearly doesn't come from the most tedious prescriptive brief in the world.  YES, this is being forwarded around.  But, and I don't mean to sound obtuse, but... I don't know... it's just NOT enough for me I guess. 

Chicken Soup

Courtesy of one of Gareth's fabulous posts about better ways of working comes this simple, powerful thought....

My favourite one though was this one.  Points 1 and 2 are superb.

And I can't stop watching this...

Kilts and Stilts

Men who need extra large condoms need extra large kilts...

Nice Guns

Courtesy of the very talented Gary and Huw at AMV BBDO...

Gimps

AWARD School Melbourne posters created by George Patts Y&R Melbourne.

 

The Bear Must Die

Why oh why did they have to ruin this with the bloody bear at the end...?

Ahoy

For the record, I love what W+K have done with Old Spice. 

I've spent hours and hours and hours in meetings with clients trying to work out a positioning, all the while skirting around the massive white elephant in the middle of the room that is the fucking ESSENCE of the brand.  For whatever reason it's either too terrifying or invisible to everyone else in the room.  Or one tool in a focus group many many years ago said they felt it was too "backward looking" meaning we can't ever, EVER, raise that topic again.

Ahoy indeed.

Silence the Stain

My favourite ad of the year so far...

Saatchi & Saatchi New York

Midas

TBWA/Chiat/Day New York

Happiness

Courtesy of Mind Head, a superb documentary on Coke by W+K, well worth watching...

Elephants

Macus, just so you know, I like this a lot.

Builders

Photography by Katapolt.

Oops

An oldie but a goodie...

Shite

I kid you not, I have only just worked out what it says. Am I as appalling as the creators of this monstrosity? Surely not. My two year old niece coud do better shit than this with a blunt derwent and a full nappy.

May I point you in the direction of this excellent alternative by Mrs Belmot?

The People Behind the Numbers

Fooling the Blind

Interesting very low budget ad for the Association of the Blind WA, in Australia...

Car Cake

Fabulous ad for Skoda Fabia by Fallon...

Cardboard

Leo Burnett Paris

Pirates Rock

I love these...

Agency: W+K of course

Bath Job

Courtesy of Creative Criminal...

Lowe MENA, United Arab Emirates

Quicksilver

Skateable ads courtesy of Life Filter.