Visa has launched a campaign to celebrate its sponsorship of the FIFA World Cup. Using the ‘life flows better’ strapline an obviously unfit man makes his way through various locations around the world and progresses to score a goal at what I can assume is the World Cup.
Star Wars never gets old for me as I grew up watching all the originals many many times and a new advertising campaign by adidas is making sure that Star Wars will be around for a while longer with a new collection of shoes and apparel completely inspired by the films. The advert is brilliantly made and with the obvious inclusion of many of adidas’ celebrity stars it brings a contemporary feel to the Star Wars image. An awesome remixed song to boot!
Also posted up a selected few items that I’d have on my wishlist:
adidas X-Wing
adidas Luke
adida atat
adidas saga
The pieces begin to hit all adidas Originals stores and other select retailers in January 2010 while a closer look into the lineup will soon be made available.
LONDON – Danny Kleinman has directed a hard-hitting new cinema ad for the anti-aviation expansion group Plane Stupid, featuring dead polar bears falling from the sky past high-rise buildings.
The spot, created by Mother, aims to raise awareness of the carbon emissions associated with short-haul flights.
Opening on what at first appear to be unidentified objects descending from the heavens, the shot zooms in to reveal that the objects are in fact dead polar bears plummeting to the ground as a plane is heard overhead.
The 50-second ad ends by equating the 400kg of greenhouse gases produced per passenger on the average European flight to the weight of an adult polar bear.
Adverts like these are becoming more common which leads me to wonder if we are not actually shocking an audience anymore but desensitizing.