December 2011
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Effective Billboard
The following is a billboard that changes when water touches the paint. It promotes safe driving during the rain.
While this billboard certainly catches the viewers’ eyes, I feel like it would distract people while driving —even momentarily when just viewing it—which could cause for a riskier situation. Then again, it clearly forces the viewer to see an immediate...
United Colors of Benetton: Lost Cause?
An ad campaign that’s gotten a lot of buzz recently is (unsurprisingly) one from the United Colors Benetton.
It’s a message that promotes “Unhate” among people of different cultural backgrounds, which I think is important, but does the execution reach the audience it needs to or further polarizes the ones that need to hear this message the most?
A Huffinington Post...
Music in Advertising
This is a recent article from The New York Times.
The company, called Jingle Punks, is sending its own Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra to perform at the offices of advertising agencies in the United States and Canada. The idea is to bring to life, in a soft-sell manner, the company’s goal of delivering music to its agency clients.
Here’s some more on it:
The Jingle Punks musicians...
August 2011
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March 2010
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Salsa: not yo' average nomness →
Julia Moskin’s New York Times Article entitled, “Rediscovering Salsa, the Soul of Mexico in a Bowl,” actually makes this beloved dish even more beloved and tasty by the end of it.
“Watching someone shovel in salsa with tortilla chips is strange to Mexicans. Like how an American would feel watching someone drink salad dressing out of the bottle.”
Courtesy of Google Images.
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“Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves
as well a dark house and a...”
– As You Like It (III, ii, 360-364)
