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Nutcase Your Style Your Brain - November 20th, 2009

Nutcase in Germany is promoting their sale of the American brand helmets are being launched in Europe with a print advertising campaign celebrating their safe and customizable properties. The Nutcase helmets not only protect, they also look good, in this case appearing to show the helmet hair under the helmets.

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Location (Germany).

Bruderkiss in Berlin Wall East Side Gallery

Russian artist Dmitrji Vrubel has repainted his famous mural, “Bruderkiss”, in time for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The painting, showing Russian president Leonid Breshnev kissing Eric Honecker, the East German Central Committee secretary for security matters, responsible for the building of the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Wall Dominoes Fall

The twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is being celebrated today with Domino Aktion, in which a set of 1,000 styrofoam dominoes, wrapped in muslin, falls along the route where the wall once stood. The 2.3 metre high blocks, most painted by schoolchildren from around Germany, are lined up over 1.5 kilometres, [...]

Balls Underwear for Men of History - October 13th, 2009

Balls of Berlin, purveyors of men’s underwear, recently recruited men of history to model their underwear range, featuring Christopher Columbus, Robin Hood, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Otto von Bismark.

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Location (Germany).

Day of German Unity - October 3rd, 2009

Germany today celebrates Deutsche Einheit, the Day of German Unity, in celebrations centered in the Saarland state capital of Saarbrücken. The day marks the 1990 unification of the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and German Democratic Republic (East Germany). This choice of Saabrucken reminds citizens that Saarland was brought back into Germany in 1957 after twelve years under French occupation.

Last year’s celebrations were held in Hamburg, with the theme of “Culture in Germany” picked up by Scholz & Friends in the key visual, three barges in black, red and gold carrying the names “Einigkeit” (Unity), “Reght” (Right) and “Freiheit” (Freedom).

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Location (Germany).

RWE and Greenpeace go Boom De Ah Dah - October 2nd, 2009

Discovery Channel’s Boom De Ah Dah commercial, launched in August 2008, continues to inspire spin offs and spoofs around the world, the most recent being an ad by German energy giant RWE and a response by Greenpeace.

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Location (Germany).

Megawoosh Slide for Microsoft Project - August 9th, 2009

Microsoft’s marketing in Europe has gone viral with “Megawoosh”, a video demonstration of a super water slide stunt by German “Projektbüro Kammerl”. The Megaswoosh, we are told, is the most unusual waterslide in the world, conceived and designed by Bruno Kammerl. It’s all a stunt to promote Mach Es Machbar, a German site featuring Microsoft Project software. The site shows Bruno using Microsoft Project to show the development of the Megawoosh project, from conception to completion with a 35.2 meter jump on a specially built Soft Slide.

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Location (Germany).

Kraftstoff Vodka Design - August 6th, 2009

Deli Garage, a food cooperative in Hamburg, Germany, presents Kraftstoff Vodka in flasks with original designs designed to fuel creative minds. The three pocket flasks hold 40% alcohol Vodka with espresso, melon mint (Melone Minze), coriander and ginger flavours (Koriander, Ingwer).

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Weru Soundproof Windows of the Past - July 31st, 2009

Here’s a selection of award-winning print advertisements for Weru soundproof windows, produced by Scholz & Friends, Berlin, in campaigns from 2005 to 2007. Each advertisement features enough of the window frame to establish the context, along with people using miniaturized noise-emitting implements and vehicles. See my post on the 2008 campaign (Fireworks, Cannons, Church Bell).