Advertising. The word doesn’t usually evoke good feelings, since they usually tend to be about things we don’t want, shown at times we don’t want to see them. But the following ads are much, much more. Not only are these very intelligently designed, but some of them also bring much needed awareness to the more important issues of our time.
#1. NRDC.org: Air Pollution Kills 60,000 People a Year
#2. National Geographic: 3D Crocodile Escalator
#3. Pepto-Bismol: Laundromat
#4. Motor City Nightmares: Horror Buckets
#5. Sparring Partner Gym: Hanging
#6. IBM: Smart Ideas for Smarter Cities
#7. Doom Fogger: Roachville
#8. Carnival Cruiselines: Waterslide Escape
#9. Bigelow Organic Tea
#10. Visa: Go Back to Pompeii
To raise awareness of Visa’s sponsorship of the Pompeii exhibit at our National Museum, we greeted all visitors to Wellington Airport with a lava flow that ran around the baggage carousel.
#11. Baltica Beer: Subway
#12. Dental Care
#13. The Hairdressers: Need a Top Chop?
#14. Windex Glass Cleaner
#15. Hopping Pátio Dom Luís: Breast Cancer Bra
“Prevent breast cancer. Do the self-examination.”
#16. Dressing for Pleasure: Ketchup bottle
There are two worlds of bottom snacking, the world of BDSM and thw world of ketchup bottles. The company, Dressing for Pleasure, a specialist in fetishwear and all things S&M releated, married these two worlds by putting stickers of enticing rear ends on the bottoms of ketchup bottles. Thus inviting bar patrons to explore a completely different appetite while addressing their hunger.
#17. Frontline: Get Them Off Your Dog
“Get them off your dog.”
#18. Fight Smoking
#19. Mercedes-Benz 2012 C-350 Coupe
#20. Juice Salon: Escalator
#21. Korean Subway Ad
#22. Quebec Automobile Insurance Society : Seatbelts
#23. Don’t Drink And Drive
#24. Nivea: Good-bye Cellulite Couch
#25. The Redbirds Are In Town
To promote a home stand for the Memphis Redbirds, a minor league baseball affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals, we covered a car in fake bird droppings and parked it near a busy intersection with a sign that read, “The Redbirds are in town.”