After seeing a recent post on AdPunch on Wonderbra’s great creative advertising, I thought I would pick out some out some of the best that I have seen over the years. Just click on any of the pictures for the larger images, each one is classic but my favourites are “Wonderbra Hills” and “The Economist”. Enjoy gents.  

Another great print campaign for The Cape Times by Lowe Bull, Cape Town. Click on the images above to see the full size. The copy reads “In-depth News, investigated from every angle”. Each print shows famous news stories from around the world from a different perspective. There is the moon landing, tank man at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, and the shoe throwing man from Baghdad. Fantastic work.

Hat Tip: ibelieveinadv

Recently a pretty famous golfer that some of you may know as Tiger “Love monster” Woods has been reported to be hiding out at the luxurious addiction treatment rehab clinic in Cape Town called Montrose Place. As a bit of tongue in cheek fun, Cape Town based agency King James placed the above print ad in the sports section of  the weekend edition of popular local newspaper, The Cape Argus. Love it. Hat tip: Paige Nick

Have just been sent this fantastic creative print campaign for the Russia Today News (RT News), courtesy of the fantastic ladies and gentlemen at McCann-Erickson, London. (Click on the relevant picture for the full size) As the name suggests, RT News have a different perspective on world events. So the breaking print, poster and online campaign encourages consumers to question the somewhat narrow, accepted view on the news.  Congratulations for some great work to Jamie, Harriet, David C, James and Melissa, Kasia, Aidan, Tim & Miguel, Mark (Carter), Jon, Gary T, Colin, Sophie, Pam and Emma Storer. To see the 2009 highlights reel from McCann-Erickson Click here.

Recently we have been seeing a ton of innovation in the print media to digital media conversion arena. This latest wonder is from The New York Times and comes in the form of a PC or Mac compatible reader. The Times reader 2.0 uses Adobe AIR and allows you to read a full digital edition of the NY Times just like a real newspaper but with the advantage of video content and more. The programme updates automatically and delivers the entire day’s Times in seconds, so you can carry it wherever you go. If you’re a subscriber the digital edition is free, or you can get just the digital version for $3.45 per week. There is currently a free scaled down edition available too, to try it out for yourself just click here.

Wonderful work from Young & Rubicam, Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the UNHCR ( The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). The copy reads; “Refugees would like to have the same problems you have.”

Just click on the pictures above to enlarge them.

(Hat tip: I Believe in Advertising)

Really like this new innovative poster for the new Coca Cola grip bottle.

The poster is made of Velcro and has been put up in bus shelters across Paris to catch peoples attention, literally. Nice work from Marcel, France.

Hat tip: adgoodness

 Teazers, a local strip club here is South Africa have just released this barnstormer of a billboard showing a naked lady with the tagline “No need for Gender Testing !”. This blatantly refers to the recent gender testing saga of SA athlete Caster Semenya after she won an 800m race in a time deemed too fast for a girl. Obviously there has been a compliant but Teasers owner Lolly Jackson ( a famously outspoken man) has fired back with the following ROTFL comments, trust me read them if you want a good laugh for the day: "The (Semenya) gender test was the furthest thing from my mind when we did the advert. "If it is construed in another way, maybe it should be that I am directing it at Leonard Chuene – that I am honest, I do not lie when I put my billboards up there," “I’m tired of women complaining about my ads – the women who complain about boobs in advertising are the ones who don’t have them.” "I do not want anyone coming here (to Teazers) with the idea that we do not have women. We have women, 100 percent women here. I did a test on them, I am a professional and they are 100 percent wo-men," he said, laughing. "Some religious freak complained, only a religious fool would complain about that. Maybe the woman who complained should lose a bit of weight and her husband will then stop looking at the Teazers billboard, maybe she is fat and ugly. I don’t give a shit about her moral issues. "I am sick and tired of bloody women who have nothing to do but look at Teazers billboards and complain. There are a lot more serious things that are happening in the country like corruption, crime and all that than complain about a billboard," Jackson said. "It is a nice advert and the woman is a wonderful specimen of a lady. I wish there were a lot more in Sandton looking like her". Classic, I want to hear more from that man. PR people let that be a lesson to you on how to reply to negativity. Big thanks to AdFreak for the heads up.

  Audi Canada and Lowe Roche, Toronto have recently come up with this great campaign for the new Audi R8 V10. As the car was sold out quickly in Canada they decided to create a limited edition fun garage door print cover, featuring a life size picture of the Audi R8 V10. If you go to Audi Canada you can buy the print in 3 different sizes for $469.99 each. To check it out for yourself visit: http://www.audi.ca/ca/brand/en/models/r8_52/own_a_r8.html

After the big scandal over a print ad from DDB Brazil (their website opens to an apology!) for WWF Brazil (original print shown below) comes an even bigger epic fail. Yes as you can see above someone managed to dig out a TV ad in the same manner. All I can say is “What the fuck were they thinking !”. To read the whole epic fail story and the apology note, check out this post from AdFreak.

To help publicise the VW Golf 6’s new Park Assist technology Ogilvy paid local Cape Town parking attendants (more commonly referred to as Car Guards locally ) to take the day off and relax around town. All they had to do was wear the above vest while they had fun watching a movie, chilling at coffee shops and taking leisurely strolls along the beach front ! Personally from what I have seen Park Assist technology in general still has some way to go but then again I can park like a legend so there can be no match (Years of London driving helps and yes I’m very modest). Great work by Ogilvy, Cape Town. Just click on the picture above to enlarge it and read the text.

Inspiring work by Publicis, Frankfurt. In order to promote a local fish restaurant called Fisch Franke they created a fortified poster frame and filled it with 600 Litres of water and several real Trout. The living poster was on display for a limited time and managed to attract a ton of attention as well as increasing traffic in the restaurant itself. Click on the video below to watch the making of the living poster frame. No fish were harmed during the making of this billboard.