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Women condemned to feel nothing

AMAM, the Asociación de Mujeres Anti Mutilación, (Association of Women Against Mutilation) has commissioned a series of print advertisements raising awareness of the impact of genital mutilation. “More than 140 million women in the world are condemned to feel nothing”. Plastic dolls from a range of ethnic types are shown with wide open mouths, contrasted [...]

Toyota Aurion V6 Game Changers

Toyota is launching the new Aurion V6 in Australia with a series of television advertisements known as the Game Changers, a follow up to the Make Your Move of 18 months ago.
The campaign focuses on three innovations from the sporting world that have changed the game in their fields: the Thruster, the Big Bertha, and [...]

Brisbane Offers Flexible Hours for Full Story

Brisbane City Council is offering its employees a form of glide time in which employees can work earlier or later than the usual 9 to 5 framework. It’s a great move for employees not wanting to use all their leisure time commuting into and out of the Central Business District.
Brisbane City Council’s flexible employment options [...]

Apple iPod Gamma to Shut Up and Let Me Go

Apple has released the latest TV ad in the iTunes/iPod silhouette campaign, “Gamma”, featuring “Shut Up and Let Me Go”, sung by The Ting Tings.

See the spot online at www.apple.com/itunes/ads/gamma
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube

Credits
The Gamma ad was developed at TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Los Angeles, by chief creative officer [...]

Philips Ice Tried on Transvestites

Philips developed the Satinelle Ice Epilator to address the pain involved in removing hair out of a woman’s leg. The device uses an ice-pack attachment (that you put in the freezer the night before) to numb the leg, making epilation a far gentler process. To demonstrate how painless this process is, DDB London recruited transvestite [...]

Moccona Coffee in Quest for Romance

Moccona in Australia presents its special blend of coffee in a TV advertisement oozing with romance. In a sequence clearly borrowed from Cinderella, a suitor walks from door to door on a quest to find the woman who has the jar to match his glass lid.

“Moccona - never settle for less than special.”
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Behind Bars on Pedestrian Crossing Speed

Pedestrian Council of Australia commissioned this ambient pedestrian crossing with a message - speed and you’ll end up behind bars.

Credits
The on-road advertisement was developed at Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney by executive creative director Steve Back, art director Vince Lagana, copywriter Steven Jackson and producer Jeremy De Villiers.

Hillary Under Sniper Fire

So what might it have been like if Hillary Clinton had come under sniper fire when she landed in Bosnia. Now we know, thanks to the folks at Barely Political.
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Amnesty Unsubscribe to Waterboarding

Amnesty International has released a new TV ad (suitable for ages 15 plus) for unsubscribe-me.org, the fight against human rights abuse in the ‘war on terror’. This ad begins as a study of poured water in all its beauty. It’s only part way into the video that we discover that the stuff of life is [...]

REM Hollow Man in Music Video

R.E.M. has released a music video for the single, “Hollow Man”, taken from the April 2008 album, Accelerate.

Live action and animated typography are combined together to express something of the disorientation found in the song.
Click on the image below to play the video in YouTube

Credits for Hollow Man Music Video
Filming, design and animation was [...]