USAJim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey and to promote that their bourbon taste never changes the made this clever billboard comparing their product to men. They state that men never change and prove it with the tag line: “Guys think about sex every sex seconds”.
United KingdomA lady calls her boyfriend who is in a bar, but is suppose to be sick at home. Luckily everyone in the bar pretends like they are part of different TV channels. This reminds us of the Andes: Teletransporter commercial even tough the advertisement made for Captain Morgan dates back much longer.
United KingdomJohnnie Walker is a brand built on belief and personal progress; John Walker’s walk started almost 200 hundred years ago and continues to this day. Walk with Giants by Johnnie Walker celebrates Giants in their fields who offer insight and inspiration to people worldwide, no matter what the next step on their personal journey may be.
Walk with some of the most inspirational men on earth: Richard Branson, Lewis Hamilton, John Hegarty, Marc Herremans, Robert Carlyle, Ozwald Boateng, Ranulph Fiennes, Amyr Klink, Don Mc Cullin. Thanks you Ken Vanhalle for the tip.
Website: Walk with Giants
GermanyWhiskey is often drank by men. Women can’t always appreciate the strong taste and mostly they mix it with other drinks to make it softer.
But this particular whiskey, Deans, is especially mild and not only meant for the rugged guys.
This is proved by the print ad who shows a Scotsman whose skirt is blown up by a passing subway train. Now I wonder where he got that pose from?
USAThe vodka brand Absolut has requested Spike Jonze (best known for his collaborations to the movie Being John Malkovich), to participate in a ground breaking short film. The partnership acknowledges the brand’s position as a pioneering and culture-shaping brand.
The short film is called “I’m Here” and is a 30-minute love story about the relationship between two robots living in L.A. It is said that the short film shows the director his vision of the brand Absolut.
It premiered last week on the Sundance film festival.
Click here to see the short movie.
DenmarkFernet Branca is a bitter Italian herbal apertif or digestif. The text that goes along with this advertisement is:
“This could have been an ad for sexy lingerie. But we bought the ad-space first. Life is bitter”
FranceA while ago Rindert posted a really cool series of print ads for Absolut wodka. Today I found a new one, but I haven’t posted this one for the creativeness of the ad. I just like the fact a bottle can become so famous, they don’t need to put a label on it, everyone knows this is a bottle of Absolut…
USAA group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka.
Doing things differently, leads to something exeptional
Check out how they made these pieces of art. Amazing!
For over 25 years Absolut vodka has had a simply genius advertising campaign. The well known bottle of Absolut is the shape of a Swedish Medicine Bottle. Which is hard to use for bartenders but the shape was an inspiration for their print campaign.
The principle is simple. Always create the same shape with a dazzling image using all different kinds of techniques. The prints that were displayed in magazines became collector items and even famous artists and writes helped creating them. According to Advertising Age magazine, the Absolut vodka campaign was one of the ten best campaigns of the 20th century.
In this post you will find more than 75 different advertisements according to well known places around the world. Click Continue under this image to see them all.
The agency that helped Absolut with creating these amazing advertisements was TBWA/Chiat/Day.
BelgiumIn Belgium from the 11th till the 18th of June Absolut Vodka has five Porsche taxis driving you around for free in two major cities. They drive to shopping malls, pubs and other public places. At night they drive people home from party locations. It is part of their new campaign “In an Absolut World”.
