Chip Shop Awards 2010 open for entry
The Chip Shop Awards 2010 is open for entry.
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Viagra is 10
Photograph by: Getty Images
That little blue pill from Pfizer is celebrating its 10th birthday. Let’s reminisce together about the flood of Viagra spam we’ve each deleted.
HP invent
Hewlett Packard set a design brief for the recent D&AD Student Awards, and one result in particular stands out.
The Chip Shop Awards 2009
After a tough judging session held at Leo Burnett’s offices, The Drum has today announced the nominations for this year’s Chip Shop Awards, the only international advertising awards that actively encourages entrants to cheat by entering ads for clients they don’t even have on their books.
Sex, Lies and Photoshop
With so much falsehood in fashion advertising, just how much are we affecting the minds of the younger generation? Magazines, billboards and other print media push an unattainable fantasy world upon us. So when laws are being considered to have publications clearly label ‘Photoshopped’ images, personally, I’m all for that.
FAB Creative Excellence Awards
There are just two days left to enter 2009’s FAB Awards (Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards). Now in its 11th year, the FAB Awards has taken entries from clients and agencies in over 60 countries around the world. Here are some of my favourites from 2008.
10 Guinness ads from years gone by
Guinness® is an acquired taste, and in my younger youth I’d always have opted for a fizzy beer. Nowadays, however, I’m more partial to a pint of black, and here I showcase 10 Guinness ads from years gone by.
World Wildlife Federation ad campaign
It’s not very often that I see an advertising campaign I instantly appreciate. That’s the power of imagery, and the power of targeting our environmental responsibilities.
This paper towel dispenser shows an ad campaign for the World Wildlife Federation (WWF), and the strapline reads:
The hypocrisy of Unilever advertising?
Dove, a Unilever-owned brand, have launched quite the insightful viral video campaign, called Dove Onslaught, which aims to highlight how todays children are bombarded with false advertising messages on a constant basis. In this article I discuss the possible hypocrisy behind Unilver as a whole.