Apology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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