Happy 2001. Happy 2002. Happy 2003

Happy 2001.

Happy 2002

Happy 2003 

Happy 2004

Happy 2005

Happy 2006

Happy 2007

Happy 2008

Happy 2009

Happy 2010

Happy 2011

Happy 2012 (to be cont’d forever )

~Sunil

Promenade Wine: Take a walk through Paris

The Eiffel Tower, bicycle, chic hats, a hot air balloon ,  fashionable  women  and  cups of coffee  makes you feel  like taking a walk through  Paris.  With handwritten  copy  and illustration, Promenade Wine’s  packaging  transports you to France.  

Client: Client: Vinordia

Design:  Olsson Barbieri

Illustrator: Erika Barbieri

(Tip of the hat to The Dieline Wine )

HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR

  

I doubt you would read ‘DECAPITATED CEREBELLUM IN LICENSED PREMISES, WHEREIN LADIES BARING MAMMARIES HAVE BEEN SEEN, TO WIT, PERFORMING ACTS COUNTER TO SOCIAL MORES’ .

Whether outrageous or scandalous,  hilarious  or shocking,  New York Post’s  headlines never fail to entertain. They grab the attention of newspaper readers, and  get them to cough up few cents to see what other  juicy stories might be lurking beneath the delicious headlines .  

'Headless Body in Topless Bar ': The Best Headlines from America's Favorite Newspaper ‘ is essential reading  for any journalist,  sub-editor,  advertising  copywriter , blogger  or lover of pop culture.      

The genius who dreamed up the iconic New York Post headline 'Headless Body in Topless Bar' , Vincent Musetto revealed that his favorite of his own headlines is  'Granny Executed in Her Pink Pajamas.".

Which one is yours in this list ?

1.

HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR

2.

GRANNY EXECUTED IN HER PINK PAJAMAS.

3.

MARLA: ‘BEST SEX I EVER HAD’

4.

CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR

(Senate fails to convict Bill Clinton over Monica Lewinsky affair)

5.

KISS YOUR ASTEROID GOODBYE!

(Meteor misses earth)

6.

GOTTI'S GREATEST HITS

(Boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City,  John Gotti)

7.

BITE OF THE CENTURY

(Mike Tyson’s  fight)

8.

‘I AM DEATH WISH VIGILANTE’

(Bernie Goetz turns himself in.)

9.

AMY’S NUDE ROMPS IN JAIL

10.

JIMMY CARTER: ‘IF KENNEDY RUNS I  WILL WHIP HIS ASS’

You won't believe your eyes. Santa Claus delivering an extra gift for you

Santa Claus delivering Christmas gifts in 3D. 

Extra for you being good.

Merry Christmas.

~Sunil

 

  ( Tip of the hat to Gene and  Gnurf  ).

 

Levi's : The Swimmer

Tarsem Singh’s  homage to  “The Swimmer"  directed by Frank Perry. In the 1968 movie,  Burt Lancaster  literally swims  from swimming pool to swimming pool to his home.  

He names the route Lucinda's River after his wife. Director Tarsem with Larry Barker and Rooney Carruthers add a twist to make it a memorable 1993  TV commercial for Levi’s.      

Client: Levi’s

Ad Agency: BBH , London

Creative Team : Larry Barker,  Rooney Carruthers

Director: Tarsem Singh

Producer: Robert Campbell

Hamilton Cycles : Ride city ride

 

Client: Hamilton Cycles

Ad Agency: Cosmos Advertising 

Art Director : Sanjay Sure 

Copywriter: Sunil Shibad

Let it snow on your computer screen . Really.

Just in time for Christmas. Type the words "let it snow" into Google and you will see your computer screen frost up with the snow flakes  falling onto your search results.

If you click on the "Defrost"  button,  you will be able to scrape some of the ice off your screen and the search results will once again become visible.

You need Firefox or Chrome browser. 

Carlton Draught : Slow Mo ( Full version)

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About a year ago, Carlton Draught’s  hilarious  “Slow Mo”  was aired. It went on win a Gold Lion at Cannes .  Here is the longer three-minute cut  to appreciate, frame by frame, the ineptitude of beer-drinking blokes.  A man dancing wildly to impress a  girl. Peanut flying out of a guy’s mouth. Reverberations of an ample backside dropping on to a bar stool.  Pub and Puccini.  It doesn’t get any better.

Just in case you want to sing along, here's the aria’s lyrics :

Slow motion
Men in slow motion
At normal speed men look really ugly
Men look better in slow motion
It makes me want to sing quite loud na na 

I want a Carlton Draught,  chips and lasagna

Who wants my salad?
I think I need to take a break and have have a lie down
Where is my choir?
Is this ad still going?
When will it end?
I still a keep singing because I love slow mo
Slow mo
Slow motion
Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
Slow motion.

Howard Schatz : Body Knots

Through Schatz's brilliant eye, the human body is twisted and turned into clever compositions one  would not have dreamed possible. Sometimes witty, sometimes glamorous and sometimes strange. The models make Cirque du Soleil contortionists look like amateurs . All are beautiful, intriguing and fun.

 

(via Howard Schatz.  ©  All rights reserved.)

Louis Vuitton : Darcel Disappoints

The enigmatic cartoon character Darcel (of Darcel Disappoints)   offers his champagne-blurred and typically wry impressions of his brush with fame and luxury at Louis Vuitton London Maison . The Maison is to retail what St Paul’s is to cathedrals, and rivals even Louis Vuitton’s Paris flagship for sheer extravagance.

Wonderbra : Bungee jumping : Hello girls

To launch the new Ultimate Plunge bra, Wonderbra projected a picture of their newest model, Adriana Cernanova, onto the side of Battersea Power Station in London.

Then they invited women  to bungee jump down  right into Adriana Cernanova's  cleavage.

Victoria Joint, Heidi Speed and Kate Hassen won an online competition to be three of the first to take the plunge off the top of a crane placed infront of the image.

Research by Wonderbra found more than a quarter of women wanted to follow in the footsteps of Hollywood celebrities,  but almost half said they lacked the confidence.

A  giant leap for womankind this was not.

 

European Women’s Lobby : For a change of perspective

"If I had to have sex ten times a day with strangers for a living, at what point would I start to feel sick? From the beginning surely."

 So concludes the voice-over of a thought-provoking PSA  crafted by  French film director Frederique Pollet Rouyer and Belgian film director Patric Jean for  European Women’s Lobby  . 

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Nine out of ten women in prostitution  would like to exit the system of prostitution but feel unable to do so. An international study found that 62% of women in prostitution reported having been raped, and 68% of them meet the criteria for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the same range as victims of torture. 

European Women’s Lobby  aims at taking concrete actions to bring about an end to societal tolerance for widespread sexual and economic exploitation of persons in prostitution, the vast majority of whom are women.

Craig Redman : Protagonist

Australian graphic artist Craig Redman’s pop art-inspired " Protagonist".  An exhibition celebrating Italian fashion icons, both established and emerging in all fields.  Featured figures include Valentino, Miuccoa Prada, Ana dello Russo, Stefano Gabbana, Rosita, Ottavio Missoni and Ricardo Tisci among others. Shown during Milan Fashion Week at Slam Jam (Milan).

 

N12 , the world’s first 3D-printed bikini

N12.bikini - Intro Video from Continuum Fashion on Vimeo.

N12 , the world’s first 3D-printed bikini created by designers Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion , goes on sale.

The 3-D printed bikini  has no stitching, no closure hooks and secures onto the body using circular components that easily snap together.

Of course, 3D printed bikinis are going to cost you a little more than the traditional  ones. The N12 starts at $250 and goes up to $300 depending on your size.