Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising

A new museum dedicated to advertising and branding has opened on December 1st, in Notting Hill /London. Four years in the making, The Museum of Brands, Packaging & Advertising will feature some 10,000 consumer products and promotional items spanning 200 years. A time tunnel will take visitors through the Victorian era, the beginnings of radio and television, the war, the Swinging 60s, the punk 70s and right up to modern marketing in the new millennium. The museum is registered as a charity and has sponsors including Kellogg's, Cadbury and Twinings. Well, this is bloody INSPIRATIONAL!

BURKA collection

Somebody is trying to break some stereotypes here..(Religion Of Women's rights Travel. Look deeper./ The New York Times by Bozell NY) What is East, what is West after all, for Ethics & Citizenship Movement/ Both sides of Intolerance? Yep right but...Are we playing hide & seak here. Sincerely, we don't really get it! But hey, Unicef is the most creative...(by FCB Kobza, Austria- More education for girls in Islamic countries!) Hmmmm...

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Blàk Coke

NEWS UPDATE Coca-Cola Blāk is due to be launched early next year. Coke, The Company says that Coca-Cola Blāk is a new kind of beverage with an invigorating and stimulating blend of real coffee. Hmmm...a Bolivian drink? or a an iced frapuccino-starbucks replica kind of? let's wait & taste...

While, earlier this month, Coca-Cola announced that it was pulling the plug on Vanilla Coke.

IS BLAK DOOMED TO AN EARLY DEATH TOO?

TV is not DEAD

WHO SAID TVC IS DEAD? Well, read this one TV ads must be remarkable for impacts ... CLICK FOR MORE

Simply unforgettable

CHECK CHINESE CREATIVITY & THEN CHECK YOUR LOCAL DAILY... WHEN WILL WE FOLLOW? These ads- by Grey Worldwide (China) for the Beetle- aren't new, but we find them just lovely in their simplicity.

One Hell of a X-MAS gift

WHO is WHO? HOHO... Pizza World - 1996 Agency : Delvico Bates Barcelona (Spain) Telepizza - 2001 Agency : Publicis (Spain) Domino's Pizza - 2001 Agency: Zonazero (Mexico) A PARANOIAC DIALOGUE OVER COPYCATS -Look at this, CREATIVITY SEEMS TO FREEZE AT THIS POINT OF THE YEAR... -OF COURSE U DUMBO, IT'S TURKEY TIME FOR GOD'S SAKE.. -PFFF! & THEY INSIST ON PROMOTING PIZZAS'. -Pssst!…We are a market share, however small, they will get us WHENEVER, WHEREVER & AT ALL TIMES! -oooh... hmmm...MERRY X-MAS :))

having fun

BIG TIME GUERILLA-just do IT

IS THIS GREAT OR IS THIS GREAT?

Use ur Car...

If u donno where to advertise for your product and still confused on which media to choose, here is a cheap one for you... But hey, drive safely!

HIPPY HOLIDAYS

WARMEST GREETINGS to All...

AM ON FIRE....

That's just A-S-T-O-N-I-SH-I-N-G!!

Evian - 1998 7UP - 2001 UV Vodka - 2003 Johnnie Walker - 1999 Guiness - 2000 Heineken - 2001

Stay Tuned

By the way, the 25th menu of The Night of The Adeaters is loaded with public awareness campaigns... & great surprises. A unique and tasty program is awaiting all Adeaters of Kuwait. Just hope that censorship doesn't knock it all. Another thing is sure, and established Adeaters have inherited an important habit: "The Night" with no clappers ain't one! It goes hand in hand. Clapping to the ads we like, to the music that appeals to us, booing the ones that we believe missed the point, etc. is an intrinsic part of this international show. THE NIGHT OF THE ADEATERS by the French Chef, Jean Marie BOURSICOT is scheduled for February 20-21, 2006- Shaab Cinema. Tickets will be sold at Virgin Megastore starting Feb. 1st. A plus tard Crocodile!

Till then, search for the big idea, urging your imagination to guide you further -or ease yourself and wait till February’s screening where you will join "the Big Idea Planet & Friends” for a mind-blowing experience.

Keep it unreal and Stay tuned!

Chapeau!

When will we be able to see such great & daring public awareness in Kuwait?? (quand les poules auront des dents??...) Whatever... As long as AIDS will remain a taboo topic, Kuwait will remain retarded ... A loooooong loooooong way lies ahead.... Keep walkin' Guerilla against AIDS This is in Buenos Aires-Argentina on World AIDS day - 1st December. Chapeau!!

Freedom of speech above all

Saatchi & Saatchi Poland for Amnesty International. "Gazeta Wyborcza" joined, the campaign organized by Amnesty International - November 23rd 2005. The objective of the campaign was to inform the Polish society about violation of freedom of speech in Belarus. It aimed at encouraging Poles to help regain freedom of expression in Belarus. The cover page of "Gazeta Wyborcza" featured crossed out fragments of articles imitating censorship. Underneath it reads "This is how freedom of speech is respected in Belarus". The special issue of "Gazeta" presented a history of freedom of speech violation in Belarus. The last page featured the photographs of two journalists Andrzej Pisalnik and Mikola Markiewicz with their lips taped and articles on their work in Belarus.

SANTA a MILLER plz!!

CHEEEEEEEEEEERS...........

KILLER BURGERS

BURGER KING Restaurants Celebrate Universal Picture’s King Kong with One of the Biggest Burgers in Company History It seems that tobacco companies are not the only companies that are trying to kill their customers. Burger King has added its biggest burger ever as part of a promotional tie with the movie King Kong. The new triple burger-the TRIPLE WHOPPER with cheese sandwich, which the company describes as a sandwich that will “satisfy even Kong-sized craving,” contains three-fourths of a pound of beef and more than 1,400 calories. That’s enough calories to sustain a person for an entire day and enough to keep three third-world children alive for another day. Then, there’s the 42-ounce chocolate banana milkshakes that have been introduced as part of the promotion. Are we that insensitive to the warning about gluttony in the Biblical list of the seven deadly sins? P.S.: Btw, King Kong opened in theaters worldwide on Dec. 14, 2005.

Just Do IT

These ads are for Nike by TAXI -Toronto; it won the London International Awards in the category "Billboard advertising". An eight foot extension of Canadian hurdler Perdita Felicien was attached to the top of the billboard. These ads are from last year but they rock...Don't they? This is what is called ambient media...Will brief you on that one soon...

Condoms Hotel-Choose your room

Trojan condoms is online in Canada with a new website to "showcase" its products. The site is conceived as an hotel, and visitors are invited to explore the rooms to discover what the silhouettes are doing and, of course, the different Trojan condoms available. If you're in the office, be aware to visit the site with the audio turned off.

CHEERS

says goodbye to TVCs In the UK Heineken has decided to shift its £6.5m advertising budget away from TV and rather invest in sports sponsorships and point-of-sale promotions. Rob Marijnen, managing director of Heineken UK explains on Times Online: "The enormously cluttered environment in TV ads makes it difficult to make standout ads. It's also very expensive and it's questionable as to its effectiveness." Media fragmentation makes it difficult to target Heineken's core market (18 to 26 years old) through TV ads and buying airtime is getting more and more expensive. These are basically the reasons that convinced the Dutch brand to look for new solutions in advertising. Who will follow?

Frosted TVC

Lapiz Advertising for Kellogg's Frosted Cereals, looks like an Adam family video filmed with a touch of Almodovar style. This TVC won the silver ad at the Effie Awards 2005 in the category "hispanic".

JUST PERFECTO

We loved those four ads by Almap/BBDO (Sao Paolo) for Veja Magazine -a Brasilian publication- that won a Gold Cannes Lion in 2004 in the outdoor category for Publications & Media. Had to share this...Just Perfecto!! Advertising is Information! Advertising is Art! & again... CREATIVITY ROCKS!

Stand still minds

TO ALL CREATIVE ON PLANET EARTH

ASPIRE TO INSPIRE BEFORE YOU EXPIRE...and get busted!! CHECK THIS OUT! Although the Idea is bloody Creative...but copycat is a killer! Hope u all agree. Sidaction - 2003 Source : Stratègies.fr & Cannes Archive. Creative : Chermine Assadian, Bruno Banaszuk. Client Servicing : Olivier Moulierac, Jerome Galinha. Agency : Euro RSCG C&O (France)

Giro 555 Fundrasing for Africa - 2003 Source : Cannes Lions Archive. Creative: Darre Van Dijk, Piebe Piebenga. Agency : Amsterdam Advertising (Netherlands)

EAT FAST, DIE YOUNG

Thought of the week. ...IF THE SYMPTOMS PERSIST, CONSULT YOUR CLOSEST CREATIVE ADVISOR... & Merry X-MAS

Not enough poetry

You likely aren't familiar with the latest French addition to the culture jamming lexicon: barbouilleurs. Literally translated as "scribblers", this is the nom de guerre given to activists in France's growing legion of cultural revolutionaries. It all began in October of 2003 when people began painting slogans like "Advertising Kills" and "Too many things, not enough poetry" on billboards and public transit signs across Paris. In one case, a photo of Salvador Dali was plastered over an ad. The city's rapid transit agency, RATP, tried to stem the tide by opening up a handful of billboards to "free expression" for a period of a whopping ten days. But it was a token effort in the shadow of legal proceedings that RATP and Métrobus, the company responsible for the ads, had launched to recoup 922,000 Euros in damage costs from 62 of the commando graffiti artists caught redhanded. The French public, however, chose to back the freedom of expression fighters, some of whom escaped punishment using the argument that the ads were already covered in graffitti by the time they got around to defacing them. As a result, there was no shortage of sympathizers lining up to help defray the costs of the nine defendants who were eventually convicted and forced to pay between 400 Euros and 2,000 Euros in fine. Métrobus president Gérard Unger called it a victory, but it was clear the advertising industry has suffered a major setback. Who says the French always give up without a fight?

GLOW Crazy

The Night of the Adeaters has been scheduled for 2006, February 20th & 21st at Shaab Cinema. All we can say for now is that The Night will glow crazy... Expect the unexpected for this quarter of a century celebration of The Night of The Adeaters.

The ABSOLUT NAUGHTY KISS

ABSOLUT GREETINGS to all Adeaters Lost in the Sand... For Bubbly Ideas loG ON to: absolut.com/naughty

-KKK-

KEEP KUWAIT CLEANAdvertising designers from Oslo agency DDB created this ad for local social advertising campaign “Keep Norway Clean”. This is a good ad that Act as stimulus for growing minds.. CREATIVE COMMUNITY...GROWING MINDS ACT to encourage more advertisements that would foster responsible attitudes among people & help in making the world a better place... Meanwhile, kEEP kUWAIT KLEAN!

Jean Marie & the Cinémathèque

Tarek Sultan, Advertising Manager of Al Qabas newspaper with Jean Marie Boursicot, creator of The Night of The Adeaters in Kuwait, Feb. 2005 It all started at 10! After having discovered his first treasure, a big poster lauding the merits of Gervais ice cream, he decided to become the Ali Baba of Advertising. The operator of Ciné Madeleine in Paris, who found this kid loveable, used to give him copies of candies' commercials as Krema sweets, Miko ice cream.. The embryo of a collection was born. He rifled the waste cans. Not just any ones! Those of film distributors of the Boulevard Longchamps who carelessly unaware, discarded trailers and advertisng films. By accumulating his "treasures", he mixed his passion for posters and advertising with that for Cinema, without imagining, at that time, turning his passion into a business. After his college years, he emerged at Publicis in 1978. There, he discovered that, surprisingly, no one keeps the commercial spots. Neither advertisers, nor agencies nor the producers! Jean Marie Boursicot decided to create the Cinemathèque, a library of advertising films that encompasses today over 700 000 TV commercials.

LA NUIT...

La Nuit des Publivores, by Jean Marie Boursicot, is a night that gives you glimpses into the humour, the concerns, the mentality, the culture, and above all the creativity of the various countries from which these ads originate. It is a night full of fun of course and definitely a mind-expanding, inspirational experience. In addition to being a night of quality entertainment, where ART MEETS ADVERTISING & ADVERTISING BECOMES CINEMA, it also has the power to revive creative enthusiasm and the quest for creating kick ass work..

Admen Reputation

This is how ad people are perceived...- & This is my personally, highly subjective appraisal and appreciation of this matter! & I know many who think likewise... Trust is not a common currency in the ad industry!... Whatever... Let's Rock it at "The Night" coz... CREATIVITY ROCKS!! G.