Financial Times reports that companies are increasingly looking to make green claims in the face of heightened consumer scrutiny. The heads of AMV BBDO, JWT, Ogilvy, RKCR/Y&R and Saatchi & Saatchi have told the FT they believe green advertising will grow in the next 12 months. The agencies say environmental branding has risen up boards’ agendas, and […]

Natalie Jeremijenko, a loved and non-traditional professor at UCSD (and previously, Yale), has brought her amazing Feral Robotic Dog project to the West coast. This awesomely creative and interesting experiment has students transform old toy robotic dogs into toxin-sniffing, pollution hunting puppies that are released in packs on community areas. The re-engineered robots, previously only […]

Best described as darlingly innovative cuisine, we had a chance to dine at Beddingtons Saturday evening in Amsterdam. Usually a near impossible reservation to get, we lucked out with a cancellation literally seconds before we called to inquire. Jean Beddington, the well known globe trotting woman über-chef blends nearly half a […]

Corpus surfaced in 2003 when founders Jarrod Cornish and Keith Richardson decided to take a step away from the pre-faded, distressed look we were seeing with denim (and are still seeing). Using back-to-the-basics fabrics like raw Selvedge denim, Cornish and Richardson took denim back to its roots– to that end, their jeans mix classic […]

My post the other day about The Richards Group losing the Hyundai account and their mediocre work made me wonder if other agencies around the world are doing anything cool for Hyundai. Well, I uncovered this New Zealand ad for my Santa Fe: Apparently, it won a Fair Go ad award–sort of a People’s Choice kinda […]

Ashkahn just launched his new online studio called Don’t Stop. Through his new site, Ashkahn will continue to wow the masses with his experimental and utterly unique visuals for music packaging, merchandise branding, posters and identity. I also learned through his blog that he just contributed some illustrations to the new issues […]

Francesco Cappuccio is at it again folks. You may remember his Canvas Coffee Table I wrote about a little while ago. Well, Francesco is morphing art into furniture once again– this time his inspiration was Lucio Fontana’s 1966 piece entitled “Attesa” (pictured above, center). Francesco was drawn to the way Fontana physically […]

Another gem of a shop I ran into today was Universe on a T-Shirt, a small workshop space on Bloemdwarsstraat, off the busy street of Rozengracht. They primarily sell t-shirt and sweatshirts on which they hand print their sometimes elaborate and always beautiful designs. They hope to help people avoid what they call the […]

The best shops in Amsterdam seem to be the ones I stumble in to accidentally. It seems like most of the popular shops readers have told me to go to so far overall are pretty lack-luster and over hyped. For a change of pace, I accidentally found my way into Boutique, a nerd meets […]

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The New York Times ponders the question: is having a lot of friends on MySpace better than having a record deal? Tila Tequila, who has 1.7 million “friends” on the News Corp.-owned site is about to find out. Her new single “I Love U,” produced by the rapper Lil Jon, will be released on iTunes tomorrow. Ms. […]

Yawn. Another tool to help you measure how much you’re worth. It’s a mix of the domain name analyzer, a domain traffic tool, a domain whois tool, a domain history, a domain popularity, domain appraisal (site value report), a link value appraisal (link value report), pagerank check, an inbound links count, an indexed pages check […]

But no, seriously. The short pleasure you might have from popping a pill or doing a doobie can have consequences you aren’t aware of. Maybe not this time, and maybe not for you (you think), but not everyone is the same and some people don’t have the same control you have. These ads for a […]

On March 24th it’s international Shutdown Day. It’s not related to the Live Earth event, but it’s also an initiative with a ‘community’ background. Basically it’s to see what would happen if as many people as possible would turn off their computers for just one day. The idea behind the experiment is to find out […]

From billboard to billboard, from town over town and everybody is trying to get down… The song keeps going around in my mind, but slightly modified from the original. Anyways, I got this ad in my mailbox when I was in Seattle, but I didn’t have the credits that go with it. Luckily there’s Adverbox, […]

When I first read the name, I was thinking about Bonzy Buddy or something alike. But when I checked it out, I was very impressed by what it does and how fast it does it. In their own words: “Twingly screensaver is visualizing the global blog activity in real time. Forget RSS readers where you […]

Yamazato is a traditional Japanese restaurant tucked on the ground floor of Amsterdam’s Hotel Okura. Zagat readers gave their nod to the restaurant as being one of the best Japanese restaurants in the whole of Europe– and being the Asian food snob that I am, I figured I had to find out for […]

Complete Washroom Solutions makes fun of fashionable coke waifs, while selling a sanitary solution. Talk about squeaky clean… © 2007 AdPulp.com. This RSS Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at may be guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@adpulp.com […]

The New York Times “Sunday Styles” section looks at a disturbing development, or excellent business opportunity, depending on one’s point-of-view regarding consumerism and celebrity worship. Screens big and small are already full of recognizable brands like Coke and Cheerios placed in strategic view, a practice known as explicit product placement. But, until recently, viewers had to […]

Another outdoor execution (pun intended) as an example of how you can involve people in the message you want to bring. In this case, the Spanish department of Amnesty International is protesting against the fact that 4000 prisoners are still waiting for their death punishment on some Death Row somewhere on this globe. Killing people […]

I touched down in Amsterdam late Saturday afternoon, welcomed by torrential downpours and incredibly overcast skies– just my luck! I used some of the evening catching up on emails in my hotel downtown before heading out to dinner at a fantastic world class restaurant called Beddingtons (review forthcoming). Of course as the evening […]

The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) has published an email sent by Starbucks’ CEO, Howard Schultz, revealing his inner turmoil over decisions made under his watch. It’s unusual to see a man in his position question this deeply. His email, titled, “The Commoditization of the Starbucks Experience” looks at what Schultz calls “the watering down […]

Not at all so very new, but still interesting enough to write about is this system from Monster Media, which showcases an interactive virtual world where the tracking system reads the position of the body at all times, allowing for real-time movement and interaction with the display graphics. The GroundFX system is housed in a […]

I missed this post on AdRants (shame on me) but I got pointed to it by Bnox, and so I still get to do my rant, which is fun. I agree that the guys from Exit3a (who claim to be an ad-agency, but nobody ever heard of it) are total twats. Apart from putting a […]

If it’s true that companies should embrace the consumer generated things people do and publish while using their product, the way Coca-Cola and Mentos embraced the geyser effect, then I think these guys are entitled to a life-long stock of free Post-it notes. It’s not the best stopmotion ever, but it’s fun to see what […]

I have a backlog of books I’ve been wanting to read, so I’ll add this one to the list: Then We Came To The End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris, a former Chicago copywriter, is described as this: In this wildly funny debut from former ad man Ferris, a group of copywriters and designers at a Chicago […]

Another goodie from the land of Ché, the number one men’s magazine in Flanders. Not much to add to the concept: hot babes, dreams of men, utopic wishes which result in some nice advertising. This ad comes from their 7 year anniversary issue. Copy: “Let’s keep on dreaming of a better world” Agency: Duval Guillaume Antwerp Location: […]

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, I hope you enjoy this short and thought provoking clip by Michael Wesch, who is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. In this, a short, clear, simple, and fast paced film, Professor Wesch elucidates for us all how Web 2.0 has […]

I enjoy creative nonfiction that explores the work we choose to do and the various conflicts therein. Scott Partee works for the U.N. in Vienna. Here’s how he describes it: I just finished crawling around in a rat hole while wearing a suit to lay down some network infrastructure for some highly confidential nuclear nonproliferation air-gapped ta-do […]

Here’s an interesting bit from Ad Age about Cramer-Krasselt’s loss of the CareerBuilder account: In an internal memo issued today, the agency’s president, Peter Krivkovich, said CareerBuilder put its account up for review after the agency’s Super Bowl ads failed to rank in the top 10 in USA Today’s viewer poll. “To our amazement, to our total […]