Creative Criminals

Rubbish is never going to disappear, but advertising agency Colenso BBDO found a way to make it beautiful. They turned the ordinary rubbish bag into a bushy hedge, which formed garden beds when placed curbside.

The “Beautify your City” campaign was created to make Auckland a more beautiful city. It prevented illegal dumping by placing flowerbeds on targeted areas and educated businesses, with a kit delivered by council ambassadors.

Ever wonderend how it would be like when you live in the world of High Definition? According Nokia it should look a bit like the video below. Be sure to check it out, it’s a bit weird, however the effects are fun to watch. Great job by JWT Paris!

A nutrition value sticker is usually found on food packages. In 2006 advertising agency BBDO placed the sticker on a trash bins highlighting that some people have to eat from it. This ambient advertisement was made for helpthehomeless.com

The Salvation Army in Canada is supporting their annual Christmas Fill The Kettle drive with a television commercial and series of innovative bus shelter ads with the tag line, “With your donation, a sense of dignity is within reach.” Needy people are shown reaching for an actual loaf of bread, bottle of water and blanket, as well as for advertised can of soup and a coat.

View the commercial after the jump.

The basic message of this commercial is that you need to buy Gol TV if you want to watch La Liga matches but along the way Andres Iniesta injures a bear, allows the bear to move in with him and at some point obviously teaches him that he is not supposed to like Cristiano Ronaldo..

Sanitary napkin brand Butterfly made a nice wordplay with WikiLeaks. This billboard in Karachi Pakistan says: WikiLeaks, Butterfly Doesn’t. Should somebody reply with: Hopefully not too much blood will be spilled?

AKQA San Francisco and PostPanic created a unique 10th anniversary film to thank more than 1 million Google AdWords clients worldwide. The script includes a fictitious Google research department trying out ambitious experiments to feature each advertiser. At the end a simple thank you is all you need.

Guinness’s latest TV ad, “Dark Life”, launches in Ireland tomorrow and will run in the UK from March. The ad features dark clouds representing a pint of Guinness as it settles, spreading over locations including New York and Hong Kong. It ends with the catchline “There’s more life in the dark”.

The Brazilian Association for Smokers Awareness or ADESF created another great non-smoking campaign. Remember this campaign or this one from the past? The slogan with this campaign matches the illustration perfectly: ‘Smoking is a trap. Quit today’.

“Stars Of Football“; at first it seemed a viral from Nike, but now that the second viral entered that doubt is cleared. The brand nor the agency is known yet, the only thing the consumer knows is that the campaign will be elucidated in 11 days and that many famous and talented Dutch players (maybe Arjen Robben?) will participate..
Until now, enjoy the practical jokes by Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04, Germany) and Ricky van Wolfswinkel (FC Utrecht, The Netherlands) after the jump. Hilarious!