As above, so below. As within, so without.

Biggest ad poster in the world

2007-10-30T21:36:00.000Z

And where will that be? Except in the land that is trying too much to show themselves upon the whole world; Dubai, UAE. Its a campaign from Sorouh estate, the size of the poster is 20,000 square meter. The idea of it is for charity and its to collect one million faces and for every face that uploads the company will donate $1 to the UAE Red Crescent. By the end of this campaign they will donate $1 million dollars.

To upload your own face is by going on this website; http://www.sorouhfaces.com/

Got the news from Mr. Farrukh Naeem Blog an award advertising copywriter. You can find the full article in his website.

Branding Challenges -FutureBrand-

2007-10-21T21:28:00.000+01:00

Still reading the study that FutureBrand did for the Arabian Region market that have been developing widely in the estate market. They have stated branding challenges in the Arabian Region which they it is a saturated marketplace.

The challenges and problems are;

1. Creating and launching a new brand and building awareness despite the clutter.

2. Determining whether a brand should franchise to other locations.

3. Responding to increased competition from new developments.

4. Establishing whether a new development phase requires a new brand.

5. Fixing a declining project image that is negatively affecting sales and investor interest.

6. Creating and enforcing brand and marketing guidelines for third party developers and vendors.

7. Establishing a customer affinity program.

8. Developing a long-term cram approach to help close the gap between purchase and handover.

9. Assessing marketing plans to determine if media spend is being strategically considered.

10. Creating a compelling sales center that delivers a branded experience.

11. Launching an internal branding program to ensure that employees are ambassadors of the brand.

12. Creating a compelling way finding system.

FutureBrand New Study

2007-10-21T20:16:00.000+01:00

While checking FutureBrand website to know who is the company and what they exactly do. In their website I requested to get the Gulf Real Estate Study about the Arabian Region talking about UAE -Abu Dhabi and Dubai-, Qatar and Bahrain developments in the estate market. I find the study is very helpful regarding my dissertation topic.

In the study about Branding Real Estate it says;

Many development professional still think of branding as superficial window dressing or simply a logo that gets created moments before sending a brochure to print. While this may be the norm for some companies, it is certainly not the benchmark for what a brand is or what it can do.

Since each developer and each development has its own objectives, priorities, challenges and business issues, each branding situation is unique. Simply broadcasting your message or spending healthy amount on media will not guarantee success, especially as the market matures. Part of the skill of branding is knowing which approach is best suited to the specific situation, how to create a connection with target customers and how best to help companies stand out against the crowded playing field.

The study can be find in Futurebrand website.

Orange 'Home'

2007-10-21T16:36:00.001+01:00

A very beautiful commercial by Orange. Using simple stuff like cushions, books, a sofa to create objects like a phone.

I like Orange adverts and I think this one really worked to put a smile on your face.

Sony Bravia Rabbits

2007-10-18T23:52:00.001+01:00

The amount of effort was done in this advert is huge and it does show that it took them weeks to film it only. Using clay to make rabbits from all colors. And the start of it is such amazing.

A wonderful advert by Sony!

Wonderbra

2007-10-14T21:31:00.000+01:00

Being a CEO in the age of 29 years, is very impressing. Maybe its time to start wearing this Wonderbra for help to find a good job after graduating!!

Blood Under The Door

2007-10-14T19:50:00.000+01:00

This communication was targeted at college hostels and PGs in areas around MG road. The exercise was conducted a week before the Horror Film Festival at Rex Theater. The target group comprised film buffs, who look forward to film festival and enjoy horror films the most.

These transparent sheets printed with red color were slipped under the door, to make it seem like blood was 'seeping' under the door. The exercise was a huge success. All the shows were completely sold out. Moreover, after the Festival, college students used the device to play a prank on unsuspecting friends!

New Homes, delivered.

2007-10-14T18:19:00.000+01:00

We are always used to see IKEA's home adverts to be stylized and extraordinary images or way to promote it. This time, Home Centre - a furniture chain shops in the Middle East Region - comes to the market with a new warm home feeling concept.

The furniture comes in a delivery box and you can see the seal and the recycle symbol and even the bar code to show the cardboard box more noticeable. I like the idea and concept behind it that makes it more settled and an ideal home to live in.

The advertising agency behind it is The Classic Partnership in Dubai.

Via: AdBlogArabia

D&AD Workshop

2007-10-14T17:56:00.000+01:00

Have been posting about D&AD in the last posts, but I like this advert for one of their workshops asking "Want to get into advertising?"

And having a small yellow ladder to the big one to help you to get into the advertising; helping you to get through the first step to the big world by having workshops to meet all these creative directors to meet and ask all kind of questions. Another great work by them.

D&AD; For Excellence, For Education, For Enterprise and not for profit.

40 years

2007-10-14T17:09:00.000+01:00

While waiting for the D&AD briefs to come out, I spot this ad that was in The Economist. Celebrating 40 years of Design & Advertising by showing the yellow pencil chopped and there is 40 round rings to show the age of it like the knowing the estimate of the tree age by counting its rings.

One of the many good ads for D&AD.

Yellow Pencil

2007-10-14T16:48:00.000+01:00

We all are well aware with the D&AD Yellow Pencil logo, but coming across to the new advertising company based in Kuwait called Pencil Advertising logo. It was not hard to spot how similar are the two logos. Even that it has the same 3D effect of a pencil, it is not something that we can "WOW" it to see it.

The new company ad is about strengthen your brand with Pencil Advertising, although the people behind that work are all Western. So I'm quite sure they have an idea about the D&AD and they had only copycat their design.

Reference: AdBlogArabia

Penguin Celebration

2007-10-14T16:04:00.000+01:00

As I have came back to the UK and went into different bookstores to look for books that might be useful to help me by this year. What caught my eyes every time is the Penguin books' covers that had changed either to orange, green, purple, pink or blue. A complete set of 36 books that you can have hold of them in any bookstore or on the Penguin Books website.

After investigating about it, it appeared that Penguin Books won Publisher of the Year 2007 at the British Book Awards in May, which the event demanded a bit of a celebration. To mark the occasion, they've produced a strictly limited run of collect able "Penguin Celebrations", lusciously redesigned in six colours, a beautiful homage to the much-loved, classic 'stripey' Penguin paperbacks of yesteryear. There's Orange for fiction. Green for mystery. Pink for distant lands. Light Blue for big ideas. Purple for viewpoints and Dark Blue for real lives. With authors from Zadie Smith to Paul Theroux to Donna Tartt all these books are modern classics in the making.

A great tool to change their book covers and to show the world that they are picked to be the best publisher of the year 2007.

Apology

2007-09-21T13:19:00.000+01:00

An apology for the lack of posts for the last past days, because things came up and were out of my control. Hopefully will be back soon with more interesting posts, after settling down back in Leeds. And of course after facing the new year at university which its filled with challenges.

Good luck everyone and God help us all!!

Toyota Service 2

2007-09-18T15:03:00.000+01:00

Another ad for Toyota Service by GMASCO advertising company in Dubai. I think its more powerful than the previous one that I added few days ago.

Using a fake care part and make it look like a gun is a genius idea that I mostly liked. Which the smoke from it shows very realistic as a gun shot. And the use of light of the second ad with the arrows to point it has horse power but with tiger's speed referring to the wheels. Not to mention the third ad that the human hand is painted as a cheetah saying the fastest car service.

This campaign is very impressing to promote for a car service better than the normal ads that we usually see.

Salvador Dali

2007-09-15T19:27:00.001+01:00

I'm a huge fan for the Surrealist artist Dali.
But what we most didn't know that he was starring in some commercials.

Very lame and cheesy adverts, but it was something at that time.

SLR Power

2007-09-15T19:17:00.001+01:00

I don't really have to add anything to it.

Everything you need to know is there.

Clear statement!

I like the car though.

Dark Cloud

2007-09-15T19:02:00.000+01:00

WWF wanted to show how much carbon monoxide from a car can pollution the air. It is because of driving the car for one day or less. It was done by Ogilvy company in Beijing, the originality of the concept and the execution is great work by them.

Nothing like a visual depiction to cause an impact and awareness to the public!

Girls of Riyadh

2007-09-13T19:24:00.001+01:00

Banat Al Riyadh "Girls of Riyadh" which was widely known among young adults through Internet groups at first. The novel unfolds as every week after Friday prayers, the anonymous narrator sends an e-mail to the female subscribers of her online chat group. In fifty such e-mails over the course of a year, we witness the tragicomic reality of four university students-Qamra, Michelle, Sadim, and Lamis-negotiating their love lives, their professional success, and their rebellions, large and small, against their cultural traditions.

While this novel offers a distinctly Arab voice, it also represents the mongrel culture and language of a globalized world, reflecting the way in which the Arab world is being changed by new economic and political realities. Riyadh is the larger setting of the novel, but the characters travel all over the world shedding traditional garb as they literally and figuratively cross over into Western society.

Only last year I read the book, when a publishing company tracked the trace of the anonymous author who sends the groups e-mails for people around the Arabian Gulf Region. Its had really captured me about reading it and how other girls from different culture are considered to be lucky not to be in Saudi Arabia. The novel is written in informal Arabic/Saudi. That I had few problems to understand it, although I've seen an article saying they had translate the novel into more than 20 different languages.

I recommend anyone who wants to know about the culture of Saudi Arabia to read it. In the other Middle Eastern regions is not as strike as there.

Toyota Service

2007-09-13T12:16:00.001+01:00

Another advert by Gmasco company in Dubai. Presenting a new service by Toyota for regular check ups on your car. The modeling of the car parts and shape it as a human heart and spine is really good and creative idea to present the new service.

The background colors are alright but if it was without the texture; I think it will look much better. Maybe they were trying to use something new, but the shadow effects let us accept the ad without looking for flaws.

Images: AdBlogArabia

Beauty on Balance

2007-09-13T02:03:00.000+01:00

How does one judge beauty?

For many, beauty is entirely subjective. To others it is something to calculate precisely. But beauty in all its forms can be described as the perfect marriage between balance and proportion.
Consider the 12th century mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci. He discovered the beauty of balance in a simple sequence of numbers, each being the sum of the preceding two (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and so forth). This sequence is also known as the Golden Ratio (1:1.618).

The Golden Ration is found throughout nature, from the symmetry of a nautilus shell to the proportions of our very own DNA. And ever since Fibonacci, it has stood as the benchmark designers, artists and architects have used for centuries to achieve aesthetic perfection.

As we will discover, wherever the beauty of balance is expressed, the result is satisfying, captivating and often seductive.

In the article by MSN "Open Design" remind me of the Design Theory classes that I had to undertaken a face I think it was beautiful of the opposite sex and try to equal it to the Golden Ratio. In this article you can learn about the human face, vehicle design and architecture proportion for the Fibonacci series.

The Scourge of Arial

2007-09-11T12:29:00.000+01:00

Arial is everywhere. If you don't know what it is, you don't use a modern personal computer. Arial is a font that is familiar to anyone who uses Microsoft products, whether on a PC or a Mac. It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft's influence in the world.

Arial's ubiquity is not due to its beauty. It's actually rather homely. Not that homeliness is necessarily a bad thing for a typeface. With typefaces, character and history are just as important. Arial, however, has a rather dubious history and not much character. In fact, Arial is little more than a shameless impostor.

I found the article very interesting considering the typefaces we use, it remind me of the brief we had to do in our first year. In the article they compare the usage of Arial on PCs and Helvetica typeface on Mac computers.

The rest of the article could be found in this website: http://www.ms-studio.com/articles.html

BMW 3 Series

2007-09-11T12:15:00.001+01:00

The ad of BMW 3 series is wonderful. It appears that they have spent a long time to film this advert.
They way that the car can save your life, from how women were seducing the groom by throwing their underwear is quite funny!

Maybe a man will think to buy a BMW hoping that he will get the same attention.

Intelligent wash

2007-09-10T23:15:00.000+01:00

Found this ad in GMASCO website, a well known advertising company based in Dubai. Its an advert for a washing machine by SANYO, the thing which its quite creative is taking the piles of clothes and sheets to be shaped like a human brain to show the sense of intelligence for the washing machine. I most like the use of colors for the piles of clothes, not only that it shows that it can all fit there nearly 7 Kilos (15lbs).

Very creative, indeed intelligent!

Not Here But Now

2007-09-10T09:28:00.001+01:00

Amnesty International in Switzerland launched an award-winning human rights awareness campaign, “Not Here But Now”, using outdoor poster s on walls in Swiss cities in June 2006. The aim of the campaign was to remind people that human rights violations were occurring within a few hours flight from Swiss cities.

Swiss cities are linked with troubled zones: Gaza and Zurich, Somalia and Geneva, Israel and Basel, Iraq and Basel, China and Geneve, Liberia and Winterthur. This poster here is Gaza and Zurich.

The “Not Here But Now” campaign won a Gold Outdoor Lion at Cannes International Advertising Festival 2007.

Rugby in Paris

2007-09-10T09:14:00.001+01:00

Paris Ile-de-France, the French regional tourism committee, is promoting Paris as the venue in which rugby and love come together with a controversial print campaign featuring kissing rugby union players.

With the Rugby Union World Cup in France this September, the locals are gearing up to demonstrate their capacity for humour. The campaign, online at C’est So Paris (www.cestsoparis.com), shows front row members of a scrum locking lips. Other members of the scrum have their hands placed in what could be taken to be amorous positions.

The text: “Enjoy rugby in the capital of love”.

Virgin Money - Everlasting Love

2007-09-10T09:02:00.001+01:00

Bill and Glenys Ferguson get friendly in their garden in Lawnton, north of Brisbane. “Would it turn you on if we trimmed your rates?”

"Our love can help you make a baby."

Aleme and Osman Gjolej in the shower using only the “hand bra” to cover themselves. “Once a year we’ll give you the once over.”

Virgin Money in Australia is encouraging loyalty in the mortgage market with Everlasting Love Home Loan campaign, a series of light hearted print advertisements featuring senior citizens in loving relationships. The campaign, developed at BWM, Sydney, promotes a new mortgage which gives customers a .01 per cent cut in their rate after three years and a further .01 per cent cut after five years.

The Daily Telegraph says: "THERE is nothing virginal about Virgin Money's new home loan campaign showing wild sex romps between elderly lovers."

More info: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22353903-5001021,00.html?id=

Cadbury's Advert

2007-09-09T19:25:00.001+01:00

Cadbury had launched their new advert. Why not use a gorilla? When the gorilla feels the song and all in a sudden it comes to life.

So, chocolate, Phil Collins and a Gorilla...works more than perfect!

Thank you!

2007-09-08T23:41:00.000+01:00

I would like to thank AdBlogArabia, MediaMe and I like advertising for their blogs and posts that I've been collecting from them. Not to mention all the other sites that I can't really indicate who they are; thanks for the search engine Google.

AdBlogArabia and MediaMe had posted many advertising and marketing campaigns that were held in the Middle East. That I was fascinated and had kept an eye on it to enrich my knowledge about the Middle Eastern advertising. Funny, how the Admin was looking at my own little humble student's blog, have no idea how he got here!

Thank you sir for enlightening me!

MTC - Zain

2007-09-08T22:24:00.000+01:00

Few days ago, I had post about this new marketing campaign teasing the public in the media and not much people knows what is it. My friend who works for MTC Vodofone told me about the company changing their brand and cutting any official agreements with Vodofone in the world. By having a new company and name through the Middle East.

They had transferred the head quarters officially to Bahrain. And there have been ceremonies and parties by bringing singers for the new launch of the new company. Too bad I couldn't take pictures of the billboards around the country because I'm always driving through the roads.

Blog Tech

2007-09-08T12:48:00.000+01:00

Blogs Make Tech Impact: 78% of Tech Journalists Read Them

Ten percent of tech journalists report that changes in social medial have dramatically impacted they way they work, indicating, "I feel as if I have a new job now," according to recent research from Fusion PR.

Seventy-eight percent of tech bloggers say they read blogs, 31% say they regard bloggers as credible sources, and 67% say they cite bloggers in their articles. Forty-nine percent read between one and three blogs, and the majority of tech journalists read blogs several times a day.
Other findings:

* 40% of tech journalists say social media has impacted their stories and the way they cover news.

* 35% of tech journalists say they maintain their own blog.

* The majority of tech journalists turn to search engines to research companies and trends.

Nike - Just do it!

2007-09-08T12:29:00.000+01:00

Nike's adverts to show the real meaning of their slogan "Just Do It", an athletic with disability that beaten the world record to be the fastest thing on Earth without legs. The motivation to give disable people the opportunity to be a mark in sports history is excellent.

Nothing can stop someone from achieving their dreams. This is one strong marketing for a sport brand than using the usual sports icons.

It says on the poster:
"I was born without bones below the knee.
I only stand 5 FT 2
but this is the body I have been given.
This is my weapon.
How I conquer. How I wage my war.
This is how I have broken the world record.
How I become the fastest thing on no legs.
This is my weapon.
This is how I fight."

Oscar Pistorius, Paralympic World Record Holder.

Diesel - Global warming

2007-09-08T00:24:00.000+01:00

Comment #1:
Diesel is exploiting global warming for for business purposes. It is ignorant of you to think foul of a company doing so if they are in fact working on reducing their environment impact. The real question that you should be raising is what is Diesel doing as a company to reduce their environmental impact? Are they using more organic material? In order for global warming to really be taken on, it has to be recognized as profitable. It’s not like all these business are just going to stop because of global warming. Would not it be a good thing if a company, like Diesel, saw an opportunity in global warming to reach an ever growing market of greener customers by reducing their environmental impact?

Comment #2:
These ads are awful. Diesel is exploiting the problem of global warming for advertising and business purposes. Its making global warming seem cool and fashionable - like hey, if we destroy the environment, then it’ll be like the Bahamas all the time! This is misleading and horrifying.

Do you agree on Diesel using Global warming effects when the whole world trying to reduce its impact by promoting their new range of summer clothes?

Well, its not called Diesel without a reason.

Ugly Betty

2007-09-08T00:08:00.000+01:00

Ambient marketing to unleash the arrival of Ugly Betty on Channel 2 in New Zealand. Using a paper bag to hide it was really clever, so the public curiosity will tune on channel two Tuesday night at 8:30.

Its quite a simple idea but yet clever.

P- Mate, Pee Free

2007-09-08T00:03:00.000+01:00

This stunt was for P-Mates a disposable, biodegradable product that makes it possible for women to pee standing up. To drive trial where the product was most needed (i.e. dirty public toilets), we reversed the men¹s and women's washroom signs at a local bar. Stepping into the washroom, women were met with signage on the floor, over the sink, the urinal and in the stall. With free P-Mate samples mounted on the signs and trial offer coupons printed on nearby toilet paper, it only took a few brave women to spark a chain reaction that spilled out of the washroom, onto the street and into neighboring bars.

Agency: Big House Communications, Vancouver, Canada Associate.

Animal

2007-09-07T23:47:00.000+01:00

I found this picture without any title. I really can't figure out for what have they taken it or anything. And I am not sure exactly what kind of animal is it, could be a weasel though.

You can see the fear and terror in the animal eyes, as looking for help to get out from the cage he has been trapped in it. I guess this picture can be used for animal rights and protect these animals from killing for their fur.

Dancing Bird

2007-09-07T23:41:00.000+01:00

I found another poster for the Design Awards events which will be held in United Arab of Emirates. It feels that they took the concept of the Yellow Pencil from D&AD and just transfer it to their Dancing Bird ceremony.

On the poster it says "Money, Fame, Career. One winning design can change your life."

I still think they could do better with the poster to promote it. Its not an eye catching poster and the slogan appears to be very direct than showing creativity.

Brand Camp

2007-09-04T00:49:00.000+01:00

At term time, I'm very sure that everyone gone through this circle of not knowing what does the brief really wants or needs. Have you ever gone through various tutors with only one work of design you have done? And all of them had different opinions? That you had changed every single color, angle, background, idea, concept, type, font etc? Not having a clue who is right and which tutor you should follow his guidance? Which tutor that will take you to the Holly Path of Design?

I'm sure we all suffered from the various of opinions and the mood changes of the faculty.

Just a way to tell you: "You are not alone".

C3

2007-09-04T00:35:00.000+01:00

Using 2 famous Optical Illusion images (changed original colors to match the company’s corporate colors), they tried to show that the conclusion people would chose as an answer, rely on how they see or conceive from analyzing these shapes. The Continuous Creativity Company believes that these different and various opinions generates results. How this apply to their business. Their motto is: "Since we are results oriented, we will come up with a work that might generate different emotions or opinions, but give the result that the client is seeking”.

“Advertised brand: C3 (Corporate Ad)
Advert title: Results Oriented
Advertising Agency: C3 (C Cube)
Published/Released: Summer 2006 - Cannes Lions of summer ‘2006 - Communicate Mag.

Zain

2007-09-03T23:44:00.000+01:00

In the past two days, this advert is everywhere in the media around Bahrain. It appeared it wasn't only in Bahrain it is even in UAE and Kuwait.
Every newspaper and when I was driving today on the highway the only thing I saw in the whole way was continuous billboard of this advert. And I don't know what is it exactly!

Found the website which it is only teasing us the public.

http://zain.com/

Wild Wadi

2007-09-03T16:21:00.000+01:00

Simple and neat ad created by Ogilvy One Dubai for Wild Wadi, an Arabian themed water park located in Dubai and considered one of the best water parks in the regions.

The ad features a floatation aid shaped like a "no entry" sign to communicate the fact that Wild Wadi will be closed for a certain period in September, nice one!

Design Event

2007-09-03T13:29:00.000+01:00

This poster is for a Design Event in Dubai, thinking about it it doesn't really make any relevant to the event. It does not show any clear statement about the relevant of the subject of the Design Awards ceremony.

For something that matters, think they should work on it a bit more.

Melody Tunes TV 2

2007-08-30T14:05:00.001+01:00

Guess the fat kids always win and be the star of the show in these commercial.

Another one from Melody, still very funny and amusing when the mother sings for her child!

Melody Tunes

2007-08-30T13:35:00.001+01:00

This is one of the commercials on TV for an Egyptian music channel.
The kid was drawing his fat brother so the fat kid enjoyed seeing his brother smacked by his mother.

Hilarious, to promote the launch of the new music channel all in English and the good part is using an Egyptian accent to talk English.

Beko, Very Quite

2007-08-24T23:12:00.000+01:00

I find this advert quite amusing, I didn't understand at first it took me awhile. The background is so quite and the colors used in the shot really shows how silent the room is.

Here, I'm amazed how can some colors represents action or silent. Then your eyes notice that piece of carpet with striking lines and again the silence again. Your eyes will even notice the vacuum cleaner the star of the advert. How it is shaped like a music note and then you understand the whole advert for it.

The small print says, "Beko is very quite".

It is really quite and a good advert I would say.

KLM

2007-08-23T12:16:00.000+01:00

This is a very interesting work of design promoting an airline company, KLM the royal dutch airline.

We see the English alphabet then a crown in the middle with missing words higher than the letters. When you check the missing letters they are; K, L & M. The letters of the airline company and the crown represent how Royal the airline is that the letters turned into a crown.

Very clever piece of work.

Heinz Baked Beans

2007-08-23T12:08:00.000+01:00

I'm sure most people saw this ad by Heinz Baked Beans. That was out for the Christmas season. What we have here is a Santa Clause boxers shorts, a man standing how just had Heinz Baked Beans. Showing you how did all the Santas got alerted after the man had his beans, the dead Santa is my favourite.

It shows that how good the beans tasted depends how powerful and smelly his fart was.

Wild Cats

2007-08-21T00:06:00.000+01:00

That was at my friend's Hasan house, who likes to collect things and arrange them in a very weird twisted way.

Well, I like seeing bizarre things in life, shaped and designed in a models. Its quite funny.

Adidas

2007-08-20T23:36:00.001+01:00

When I was talking about Arabic and English translation for most of the brands we see in the Middle East. I think this poster for Adidas really worked, how the developed the Arabic typography to be similar as the Latin and did not change the tone of voice of it.

Good work!

Sale

2007-08-20T22:30:00.000+01:00

"Sale up to 75% for stylist and fashionable maternity clothes. Unbelievable prices only at B Heart."

That's the translation for the ad in Kuwait. I think the poster says it all, for not showing the letter "S" for Sale but showing it as a pregnant women tummy. It made me smile.

Warba

2007-08-19T23:13:00.000+01:00

Warba Insurance Company in Kuwait. As I have just posted previously quite a similar ad which it was copied from this one; the original ad.

I think this ad works better, its well communicated, strong, clean and clear. In my opinion, bandage does not have to be pixeled because it will lose its impact, and that is the message all about.

The advertising is about, online insurance.

Tea bags

2007-08-19T14:20:00.000+01:00

A model which has a “tea bag” in his mouth. I am sure that the designer had no idea what tea bagging was. Who are they targeting ? Stupid people who eat tea bags?
So the concept is, its really good you will eat every part of it. Fine, nice thought but still execution sucks which took everything down the drain. And blue is not your color for tea, I would use white if I am running away from hot colors!! If you did not notice that the packaging and the background is the same shade of blue.

I vote this poster as the most hideous poster I've ever seen in my life, this company needs a new creative people to use! And what's with that DUDE, thinking he is so tough and a model!

I can't stop pointing how wrong this advert is, very wrong!

Computer

2007-08-18T12:09:00.000+01:00

"Call us to solve your computer problems"

OK, there is the hand mouse and a blaster. This ad is taken from Saudi Arabia. Poor advertising, poor concept. Advertising in the Middle East isn't as advanced as it is in the West, so it might probably work there. I'm not exactly sure though about it. One thing I'm sure is, the wasted loads of money on it.

English Language

2007-08-17T21:00:00.000+01:00

A program for teaching basic English language for people. I find the ad isn't that well, the concept behind it didn't work with the model they used. Using an Asian guy, quite dressed good and then for some reason he couldn't read English?!

They could use a better model, maybe some nations who doesn't have a slightly idea about English but even though English language is spread widely around the globe. This ad was created in Oman but I find it quite insulting to use ethnic race; Asian . It would be better if they used an uncivilised person, someone from the jungle like Tarzan maybe?!

Chemung Tech

2007-08-15T12:13:00.000+01:00

"Yeah, ok, so I'm nuts. Big surprise to those who have made it this far without figuring that out. I use it for good instead of evil, though, and I done good, too.

I got myself in the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune (three times for anyone who is keeping score), the Elgin Daily Courier, the Rockford Register Star, the Northwest Herald, WTTW (Chicago's public television station for you out of district folks), and WGN the Superstation (c'mon, you had to have heard of that one).

Even got my stuff shown in a couple of galleries including Gallery 451 in Rockford, IL, Follies Gallery in Galena, IL, The Thompson Center in Chicago, IL, the Step Above Gallery in Washington D.C., and one in Toronto that I forgot the name of.

I also got invited to show in some colleges and, well heck, that ought to give you an idea of what I can do with a little bot of effort and a big ol' pocketful of the "you bet I cans." Now quit reading this and buy something. You've got better things to do, you know."

Images:
1. Signs of creative life: the door to Dale Sinderson's shop.
2. A quirky roadside surprise awaits you on route 173 in Harvard, Illinois. Artist Dale Sinderson's "Chemung Tech" is filled with his carvings, yard art and other unique creations.
3. Yard art: little green men, red snails and smirking cows.

4. The artists shows off his "mini town".

Gnomes, you no longer welcome in the backyard anymore, Dale's comics are conquering the garden. "Take me back home." They shout out! It's better to let you read about his biography from what he wrote than what I write about Dale Sinderson.

Chemung Tech website: http://www.chemungtech.com/

Bird House

2007-08-15T12:03:00.000+01:00

Church of Ornithology. Faith-based avian housing. Right or left-leaning depending on how you look at it.

Another quite interesting piece of design by normal people that didn't attend to think as designers just to mark their religious opinion. Guess the birds are quite religious going to Sunday church.

Spam Filter

2007-08-15T11:57:00.000+01:00

That gives us a good idea to design a mailbox in more interesting, creative idea. I like what the owner did for his mailbox.

Crown Fountain

2007-08-15T11:52:00.000+01:00

Designed by Spanish sculptor Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain features two 50-foot high glass block towers at each end of a shallow reflecting pool. The towers are activated with changing video images and lights, and water cascades from the top of each. Anchoring the southwest corner of Millennium Park at Michigan Avenue and Monroe Streets, the Crown Fountain is a major addition to the city’s world-renowned public art collection. Inspired by the people of Chicago whose faces appear on the glass towers’ changing video images, this site-specific work creates both a unique meeting point and a dynamic space for silent reflection. Utilizing water, light, and glass, Plensa has created a bold statement that is sure to stimulate passers-by and invite them to enter and experience Millennium Park.

Excerpt from chicagotraveler.com

When we get influenced..

2007-08-15T07:02:00.000+01:00

When I was wondering the corners of the world of Facebook, checked my cousin's profile pic. A design that embarks his face into different colors. Simple work, yet nice to the eyes. It shows that he got influenced by Pop Art movement; especially by Andy Warhol's work.

Andy Warhol was an American artist who become a central figure in the movement known as Pop Art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter; an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats.

He is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Warhol's career had started in 1960s with creating paintings of famous American products such as Campbell's Soup Cans and Coca Cola.

His philosophy that expressed his affection for popular culture, and evidences an ambiguity of perspective that cuts across nearly all of the artist's statements about his own work.

He says: "What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it."

Question we raise here, we get influenced by such great inspired artists that came before us. These artists didn't have anything to inspire them except the social and culture they lived in. Can we as a young designers do something new that will mark us in history?

We will only have to wait and see.

Latin & Arabic

2007-08-14T22:30:00.000+01:00

Was brushing my teeth that night, something caught my eyes. An interesting typography for the toothpaste Crest that I used that night. The logo adapted to Arabic letters.

Brand in the Middle East are required by law to display both Latin and Arabic on their products. What is really interesting is to see how usual occidental brands are adapted into Arabic lettering. Its not always a success. Which I think its quite a brand problem and less a typographical problem.

The worst problem is when Arabic typography follow the Latin's in term of branding and style and its not always a well designed to be enough legible for Arabic. And some match perfectly the brand and style but even so not legible in Arabic or even in Latin. Say if it was Arabic branding then convert it to Latin's.

The best is when the Arabic versions are legible and still gives the style, brand and weight of the original Latin. For example the 7up logo.

Here are some examples I've collected.

Belly Dancer Man

2007-08-13T00:52:00.001+01:00

When I was wondering around You Tube, found this video.

He is dancing on a Morrocan song, but this guy have talent for the way he moves. He could be a belly dancer instructor.

I think this will be a perfect idea for a Belly Dancing School. That they can even teach the men to shake their bodies!!

Dancing man

2007-08-13T00:46:00.001+01:00

An advert for a radio station...Tune to the Brew!

Soul provider

2007-08-12T22:20:00.000+01:00

Tom Kundig of Olson Sundberg Allen Architects knows what people want and he knows how to translate that into beautiful and inspired buildings. Kundig, who was recently awarded an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, sees his work as collaborative, giving physical form to the ideas of his clients. He spoke with Open for Design about delivering on desires.

Open for Design interviewed him; asked him:

You have a reputation for being a listener when it comes to clients, craftspeople and fabricators. How do you deal with these different desires?

Tom Kundig: In a perfect world, I would say that my job as an architects is to make architecture out of what the client and the landscape wants, whereas my dad's generation was probably more like. "I'm the architect and I will make you architecture."

My desire is to pull from the landscape and pull from the client and create something that reflects all of these different things. So it's more of a collaboration.

So how do clients fir into your collaborative process?

The good clients understand that you are going to engage them and make decisions from there. You\re not going to let them design it or let the craftspeople build it; it's trying to orchestrate things into this rich, soulful building, if you're lucky.
I do feel uncomfortable with clients who just want me to make all of the decisions, because it's not my building - it's theirs. It's important for them to be present in the process.

Connecting to the environment is very important in your projects. How far do you take that?

The connection happens from the interior of the building all the way through the envelope of the building to the exterior and vice verse. There is clearly a thoughtfulness about how the interior works with the skin of the building and how the skin of the building works with the exterior of the building.

The full interview is on: http://openfordesign.msn.com/default.aspx?id=10city_kundig

Olympics

2007-08-11T01:14:00.000+01:00

Check this Olympics welcoming by Paul Smith. "Happy to have the Olympics here...Paul Smith" Bless him. Isn't it better and I mean way much better than the logo they had chosen? The pink bricks? What is that about? Paying that much of ridiculous money for a designer to do some Lego bricks as a logo.

I know have been posting for Paul Smith a lot, what can I say; we are in love!

Get ready for the beach..

2007-08-11T00:27:00.000+01:00

The ad I found online was really good, showing the summer collection for the latest runaway by Paul Smith.

Its a moving picture, not sure if it will work in the blog. Just click on the link to see it.

http://www.triomarketingventuresinc.com/newsletter/vol03/issue05/images/paulsmith_vol03_05.gif

Paul Smith

2007-08-11T00:05:00.000+01:00

Paul Smith is an true Patriot English designer, with a very weird style fashion taste. Which I'm not complaining because I'm loving it! The fact that PS designs incorporate with everything is a good kind of marketing and advertising. Take for example the naked woman cuff links, was out last year. Though in the world cup fever, his designs went to a football and cuff links I couldn't find but similar to the above image but with a naked lady holding a football. One of man fantasies, I would believe. A mini cooper, English make, English design with some of Paul Smith colorful touch to it. A wallet that will be nice to have it as a gift.

HP sauce Paul Smith

2007-08-11T00:00:00.000+01:00

Paul Smith has collaborated with HP Sauce to create a limited edition HP Sauce bottle.

The limited edition bottle, which features a take on the Paul Smith multi-stripe in varying shades of brown, will go on sale exclusively at Harrods as part of the ‘Truly British’ season.
Paul Smith explains. “As part of Harrods ‘Truly British’ season, I was invited to work with HP on an exclusive project. Customising the HP label was a great way for me to be part of this celebration of all things British.” Says Smith.

A great designer, one of the best.

Gangsta 4 Life

2007-08-10T21:30:00.000+01:00

Seen this idea before with Green Peace poster that I've posted few days ago. This poster is done by a student Jan Drewniak in Toronto. It says "Gangsta 4 Life; means when you're in, there's no way out."

Gangs are about the sense of loyalty and pride between the gang members have for their sets. Dying for one's gang is a part of life, a necessary evil and an honor.

I think the ad should focus that there is a way out, to offer hope, that you'd better offer it for them who got troubled in such things. And there are some non-profit organisations that would like to help the gangster who wants a new fresh life to start.

Give them hope, before killing them alive.

Veet

2007-08-10T21:23:00.000+01:00

Two girls from Miami Ad School/Madrid did this ad. It believes that the ad was already done in Spanish before then got translated to a English.

It says: The marketing for Veet, a depilatory cream. Stickers are placed on campus, anywhere paint has peeled. Sticker reads "This is what happens to your skin when you wax."

I like it, but I also don't agree with it. Waxing may exfoliate skin, but it doesn't rip it off. So, for me, it's not highlighting a convincing benefit at all. Great on the idea and the execution, though. Very insightful and original.

Get a Girlfriend

2007-08-10T21:04:00.000+01:00

So what we have here, is some losers; either playing video games or wasting their time with Lego or having a go cart race in their bedrooms.

Its quite funny campaign, the company tone of voice is attraction, seductive and sexy for the opposite sex. Its quite working here with their audience. Although we have always saw in their advert the macho man who actually uses Axe and the women are fighting over him. Why not show the men who doesn't use Axe deodorant the stinky loser men?

Conclusion: To "Get a Girlfriend" ... use Axe to attract the ladies!!

Brits in Dubai offended by ad

2007-08-08T17:02:00.000+01:00

Dubai: Britons are divided on whether a scrapped du advert that featured a man ordering fish and chips to the tune of their national anthem was offensive.
Telecommunications company du announced yesterday it was pulling off the radio advert after a Briton said it was "offensive".

The advert featured a man singing an order for fish and chips to the tune of 'God Save the Queen'. Although another Brit had been interviewed saying: "I think there are other radio adverts that stereotype on the grounds of race that are more offensive than this one was."

I haven't heard the advert myself, but the question is raising is; can a one call only from a Patriot British let the company withdraw this ad from the radio stations? And who is the target market when the creative brief was written?

Better leave it for Little Britain sketch comedy, so no one will complain!

Meridia

2007-08-08T16:39:00.000+01:00

In this ad it shows some plates with leftover food. Then the announcer says "If you could leave just a little bit left-over after every meal..." Then he says "You could loose weight."

Meridia is a prescription medication that's used along with a reduced calorie diet to help people lose weight and keep it off.

The annoying part here is you expect it will say "By wasting this food, you would easily help to feed a child in Africa."

A new low in simulated honesty. So all these overweight women talk to the camera like"If you're ummm... overweight, well...your doctor has something that... uh, may help you eat less"
It MUST be the PILL... wow!

The half empty plates, really doesn't work with the loosing weight; its more wasting your food while others are suffering from hunger!

KitKat

2007-08-07T10:16:00.000+01:00

Tired of studying all day long, with boring books and your brain will explode?

The advert is quite cheerful and it does have this kind of an amusement within it. When you see all these boring books and oh there is a KitKat bar in your bag you forgot about it while you are studying in the library. You feel the joy and the relief.

What's better than having a snack when you are doing some work?!

Have a break...Have a KitKat!

Chocolate Explosion

2007-08-06T11:21:00.000+01:00

Have you seen the advertisement for the new chocolate-flavored Altoids that features an explosion—presumably, a symbolic explosion of flavor—in the shape of a mushroom cloud?

Most Japanese or with Japanese roots had got offended by this ad in the US. They did find this advertisement extremely offensive and callous to the millions affected by the bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in WWII. Which most people have asked to withdraw this cheap attempt for the chocolate ad.

Foods Tastes Better With MC!

2007-08-05T00:03:00.000+01:00

Foods Tastes Better With McDonald's Logo, Kids Say

Study suggests branding has powerful effect on preschoolers' diet
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, Aug. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Most 3- and 5-year-olds who taste-tested a variety of foods said they preferred the ones in the McDonald's wrapper -- even though the foods were exactly the same, a new study finds.

The study suggests that, like adults, young children are highly influenced by branding, experts say.

"This study demonstrates simply and elegantly that advertising literally brainwashes young children into a baseless preference for certain food products,"

"Children, it seems, literally do judge a food by its cover. And they prefer the cover they know,"

The team had 63 children, ages 3 and 5, sample five foods: chicken nuggets, a hamburger, french fries, baby carrots and milk. The chicken nuggets, hamburger and french fries were all from McDonald's; the carrots and milk were from a grocery store.

Each sample was divided into two portions: one wrapped in a McDonald's wrapper or placed in a McDonald's bag and the other in a wrapper without the McDonald's logo.

After taste-testing, the children more often said the chicken nuggets, fries, carrots and milk wrapped in the McDonald's logo tasted better, even though the foods were exactly the same.

"Kids don't just ask for food from McDonald's," Robinson said in a prepared statement. "They actually believe that the chicken nugget they think is from McDonald's tastes better than an identical, unbranded nugget."

Further research revealed that one-third of the children ate at McDonald's more than once a week, and more than three-quarters had McDonald's toys at home. In addition, the children in the study had an average of 2.4 televisions in their homes. More than half the kids had a TV in their bedrooms.

"We found that kids with more TVs in their homes and those who eat at McDonald's more frequently were even more likely to prefer the food in the McDonald's wrapper," Robinson said. "This is a company that knows what they're doing. Nobody else spends as much to advertise their fast-food products to children." It is estimated that McDonald's spend more than $1 billion dollars per year on U.S. advertising.

Mcdonald's replied, "The fact is, parents make the decisions for their children, and our research confirms that we've earned their trust as a responsible marketer based on decades of delivering the safest food, the highest quality toys and the kind of choice and variety today's families are looking for,"

"The branding of fast foods and junk foods into the minds of young children is one of those influences. When product familiarity is breeding ill health, it is time to put a stop to it."

website: http://health.msn.com/pregnancykids/kidshealth/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100167396&gt1=10316

Drugs & Cigarettes

2007-08-03T13:06:00.000+01:00

An anti drugs campaign shows a dead body rolled in white canvas. The campaign says "Roll it, it will roll you!" No to drugs. This copy-cat-writer ad is by Thekavli in Kuwait.

Although I've seen the original ad. It was an ad for anti smoking by Impact and Echo in Kuwait.

Quite very similar, both of them shows a body bag; drugs or cigarettes; they are all the same!

GreenPeace

2007-08-03T12:47:00.000+01:00

I like this poster because I didn't read what it said at first, the first thing I saw was a bulb then my brain switched to see a hanging robe.

Then when you read it, it says:
"Ordinary bulbs are killing the environment. Just one simple act on your part can stop the climate crisis: switch to Compact Fluorescent Lamps."

Clever!

MBR Worldwide

2007-08-02T23:03:00.000+01:00

MBR WorldWide having open vacancies for Art directors and copywriters. I think the advert goes well, its funny and catchy! But it is really true in reality, so the experts have to take actions or we will stay with cheesy stuff like these!

Tweenies

2007-08-02T22:44:00.000+01:00

Why them? Why these creatures are so popular? I didn't know who they are till my little cousin who is one year old was humming their song "bloo bloo bloo loop looo bloo" he was singing and dancing by his own. Apparently I discovered the song actually says "Here We Go Loop Loo" had to download it while I was babysitting him. The awful part, I was supposed to dance around with him or he will feel humiliated.

Here it brings me to this question! What attracts children? They are young, fragile, smart but how to convince them that these cartoonish colored characters are right for them to watch? We always try to convince grown ups in marketing our branding or logos or whatever we do. But how can we convince children? How can we go into their little brains and know what they like and don't?

Don't you ever think every child likes cartoons! They have some cartoons they do like and some they don't. Some don't even watch cartoons; yes I came across a 2 years child who doesn't like watching cartoons or touching soft toys!!

Again, if we feel prepared to conquered an adult's brain; can we do it with children? How can we? Not all bright colors attracts them or the songs to use? What is it then?

Tweenies, they are scary creatures; have no idea why a child will like them anyways!

Johnny Rockets

2007-08-02T22:20:00.000+01:00

Every Johnny Rockets restaurant boasts great-tasting food from a menu of all-American favorites including juicy hamburgers, hand-dipped shakes and malts and freshly-baked apple pie. Guests also enjoy an all-American diner look and feel, servers who know the secret behind getting ketchup out of the bottle, tabletop jukeboxes that belt out tunes for a nickel and authentic décor.

The design of the restaurant is like living in the US in 1950s. Their waiters which are from the Far East mostly, always dance behind the bar on the songs so we get to see a show while eating our burgers that's are the size of my own head.

When the waitress takes the orders, she gets us the drinks and some ketchup. What really took my attention is not when she made a smiley face from the ketchup. It was was written on that cardboard plate; "Let's Ketchup on old times" a simple phrase gesture made me laugh on this silly remark. But I think their branding in advertising the place and the atmosphere of the restaurant really work to grip people attention and come again to sit down and "Ketchup" on old times!

Johnny Rockets is the place where every Guest can enjoy all-American favorites served with a smile!

Hulk

2007-07-29T23:56:00.000+01:00

There is no need to explain a word, the image says it all.

Age VS Tech

2007-07-28T23:30:00.000+01:00

Can 10 years really change everything around us? It seems that 10 years ago, we didn't have I-Pods nor PS3 or digital cameras. Amazingly, technology had changed quite a lot in the last decade so did parenthood.

The scary part; I feel old!

Job vacancy

2007-07-28T22:51:00.000+01:00

This ad was in newspapers in Dubai by Liwa Advertising LLC company.
Rationale: The idea was to convey the huge workload in the agency - hence the need for more people.

Does the ad really works out in the competitive graphic design industry? Does it really need a copywriter for it? Or this simple ad really will get some replies to it?

Easy words to understand..

2007-07-28T22:44:00.000+01:00

Marketing, followed by Public Relations then Advertising.

Result: Branding.

Easy for us to remember and to understand where we come from and what we really do in the real world.
Click on the image to enlarge it.

Lebanon 2

2007-07-27T21:03:00.000+01:00

After the war last summer between Lebanon and Israel. Israel had left a massive destruction on the Lebanese lands. Lebanon is a wonderful country that many tourists goes to there for their famous landscapes and their wonderful hospitality.
In the Arab countries they are raising money to rebuild what the massacre left after the war. The second image is the real Lebanon flag. While Saatchi & Saatchi in Dubai had created a growing green cider tree to rebuild, restore and revive. The branding is for an organisation called Re-Lebanon.org

Arabic

2007-07-23T23:17:00.000+01:00

"Arabic Calligraphy Throughout the Ages"

As a decoration and art form Arabic calligraphy has evolved during the last millennium, continuing to flourish in the modern Arabic speaking world. Using traditional skills, bamboo pens and special inks, skilled Arabic calligraphers and designers still play an important role in communications, design and art on an international scale. Time honoured calligraphic styles like Ruq'a, Naskhi, Ta'liq, Diwani, Thuluth and Kufic remain core, but Arabic calligraphers today are reaching new heights of excellence.

The first design is a sentence, all combined in one design. The most thing I like is how the words had fitted together to show quite a strong image that says "Arabic Calligraphy Throughout the Ages."
The second image is quite ineligible to read the whole. I could read few words but can't really know what it really shows. Maybe, its not supposed to show the words...its only showing the beauty of the calligraphy with a shocking colorful background. The third image is written "Mulkat Allah" as God's owns. The blue shading is the thing that attracted me, the use of one color fading to show the words.

Was always keen on the Arabic typography but never know how to present it in the West. Arabic isn't an international language as English, it is much complicated and one of the hardest languages to learn.

Bunny

2007-07-21T11:56:00.000+01:00

Durex came again to show us some work that our first reaction will be a shock then a giggle. For my shock this advert came from Dubai, as a conservative country I'm quite shock for having that in their magazines or billboards (yeah right? billboard!) or anywhere else published.

So what we have here? A bunny. Not from balloons as we are used to see from the clowns (scary species) in our 7th birthday party making a dog or bunny or even a gun by the balloons. Oh no, this by Durex is from Condoms. See how strong the condoms are, they can be shaped by a bunny with a huge reaction.

Something you don't see everyday. Any volunteers to try to do a flower by Durex condoms? Don't forget to blow it.

Creativity

2007-07-21T11:43:00.001+01:00

When I got cross this ad, I understand it immediately. But some people who wrote their comments didn't. For us to be in this design industry we will come across people that we have to show them and point out for them what an ad or a design article means.

In this ad that came from AD Plus in Syria, shows that "Real creativity begins amidst other great ideas." You stop here and think about one simple design brief was given to us to work on by the university. How many ideas that came to our minds, how many times have we changed the poster; logo; typeface or even the color as simple as that.

People on other fields do not really understand, that every time we change the background color from Black to White it gives another statement and in a second another idea pops into our minds. So all that light bulbs in one huge bulb and only few that shines for the designer creativity.

Boobs = Brains?!

2007-07-20T22:38:00.000+01:00

I found this picture from one of my school mates having it as a profile picture. This trash can is located in the United States. So the question is: why its on a trash can? Is it that men will be attracted to the trash can and throw the garbage? Clean environment by creating sexual images? The idea isn't really clear to me. Although if they want clean streets, they should put a wet t-shirt for the men's sake. After all men never think with their brains.

Penline tape

2007-07-20T13:54:00.000+01:00

Ambient marketing for Penline tape. It shows its strong to tape an outdoor sign.
Agency is Euro RSCG in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DeenadayalanArt are the Creative Director and Director: Choo Chee Wee (you got to love the man for his name)!

Lebanon

2007-07-19T20:33:00.000+01:00

Lebanon, no need "to light" it more.

Harvey Nichols

2007-07-19T14:56:00.000+01:00

When Harvey Nichols stores opened in Dubai, was a great thing like discovering oil wills again. Arabian Gulf people are very concerned about their image and how they look, so opening a whole department store includes all the designers labels was a big sucess. I think the poster combine fashion and beauty, everything you need from fashion and beauty is there at Harvey Nichols.

Costumers bought things they don't need to impress they people they don't like.

Shopping is a pleasure in a tax free country.

Al Marai

2007-07-18T11:33:00.000+01:00

Another campaign by Al Marai fresh juice in Kuwait.

It says it came to the country with stories to be told. In Arab countries you can find orange and pears; so orange as an Arabian belly dancer; pear came from Egypt as a Pharaoh and last which I got confused about it because its not related to Arab countries world. But then I got the point why the Mango is a Maharajah; it came from India. Silly me not to notice that the best mangos from India!

Similar?

2007-07-17T22:24:00.000+01:00

Wasn't really attracted to the advert, till I saw what my colleague Miss. Holly Mee had posted the Heinz Ketchup poster. Similar to Al Marai Company in the Middle East. You say tomatoes, we say Oranges.

McDonalds

2007-07-09T00:19:00.001+01:00

An advert comes from Mcdonald's in Egypt.

As a huge fan of Mcdeez, the guy is exactly me!! I fell out with someone because they touched my fries too, didn't invited her again to MC.

Funny advert, but so true!

Lungs-Mat

2007-07-09T00:08:00.000+01:00

Al Sawy Cultural Centre is the oasis in the middle of Cairo driving the city cultural & social pulse. This anti-smoking doormat is sent to homes and left to the residents to convert into ambient media.

Image #1:
Our audience received a cylindrical package from Sawi Cultural Wheel which reads "Be part of our Anti-Smoking Campaign"

Image #2:
Inside the package is a ...

Image #3:
Doormat with...

Image #4:

Clean lungs printed on it and a small no smoking sign...

Image #5:
With time...

Image #6:
The lungs get dirty.

PS3 Rubix Cube Commercial

2007-07-08T12:53:00.001+01:00

Anyone hated the Rubix Cube in the 80s? Got on our nerves to do it, well PS3 got the best solution for you.
Thank you Sony!

Say "NO"

2007-07-07T13:04:00.000+01:00

Al Bayan newspaper in United Arabs of Emirates had launched this advert all over the country in a campaign to be against pornography. "Say NO to seduction in UAE”, an interesting ad created a while back by Team Y&R in Dubai in attempts to resist seduction and pornographic activities in the UAE.

The ad features Playboy bunny logo, in the word "NO" in Arabic.

Pure Genius!

Hand

2007-07-03T20:29:00.000+01:00

An adult hand and a little baby's one. People will consider this picture as seen before many times, between the relation with the children and adults. This picture is in a frame next to my bed, it has a special meaning then these posters they sell. For the fact, its my father's and my own hand.

Gingy the Gingerbread man -Shrek-

2007-07-03T16:41:00.001+01:00

When Gingy (The Gingerbread man) get questioned by Hook in Shrek 3 the movie, his amazing act is so wonderful. When he sees his whole life trail flashes in front of his eyes because of the fear of death from Prince Charming and Captain Hook.

The fictional story board of the movie is absolutely excellent. That you got to love it; especially Gingy when he sings. DreamWorks had really pushed their imagination to the Far Far Away land.

Skull

2007-07-03T15:41:00.000+01:00

Salvador Dali, the most influential surrealist artist. Salvador made this remarkable piece of art of a Human skull consisting of seven naked women's bodies. This portrait was photographed by Philippe Halsman.