Dodge is showing us “How to Change Cars Forever.” It involves breaking all the rules, and spotlights inspiration and the creative process as the true source of innovative product design.

The division of Chrysler builds on the “Imported from Detroit” campaign, which famously launched with music of Detroit native Eminem, with fast-paced and irreverent visuals backed with a hip, but foreboding, instrumental version of “No Church in the Wild” by Jay-Z and Kanye West.

The spot, from Portland-based Wieden + Kennedy, manages to portray the R&D department at Dodge as the guys who don’t care for the corporate overlords and liberally color outside the lines of the company org chart. “Kick out the committees. Committees lead to compromise. Call in the engineers. Call in the car guys. Call in the nerds. Not those nerds—those nerds. Uh oh…the finance guys. Kick out the finance guys.”

In short, we want to love the rule-breaking, car-loving guys fighting the boring and banal power of tie-wearing, fine-print-loving middle managers who’d rather “shift paradigms” than downshift gears to screech around a sharp turn in a cool car. We love their passion—and then we want their car.

In the next spot, “How to Make the Most Hi-Tech Car,” we see an actor called “Future Guy” who travels back from the future to design the Dart’s configurable 7-inch instrument cluster display. And if you’re a Star Trek fan you’ll recognize Future Guy. It’s Michael Dorn who played Worf—everybody’s favorite Klingon. So +4 on the nerd cred to both agency and client alike for entangling a little Trek in a spot about tech—and generally making a lot of sci-fi guys happy.

Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.

We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.

Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth.

We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause.

Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion.

We shall prevail!

 

On January 24th Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you’ll see why 1984 won’t be like ’1984.’”

Winklevoss Twins go Nuts

September 14th, 2011 | Posted by admin in advertising | funny ha ha - (0 Comments)

Like this on Facebook, I dare you.

Copywriting FAIL bad

I really think that after 27 revisions from the client, and a complete loss of professional enthusiasm and integrity, the copywriter for this ad just made a flippant gesture and sadly sighed “sure, sounds good.”

QR Code Infopraphic

If you’re like the majority of people, QR codes look like an alien language—unless you’re an iPhone-wielding Manhattanite in Manolo Blahniks. Studies show 68 percent of QR codes are scanned on the ubiquitous Apple smartphone, New York has the highest penetration, and women are nearly twice as likely to use them.

That makes sense because the technology finally allows marketers to add a hyperlink to a outdoor product advertising in a very pedestrian-friendly market. From 2010 to 2011, QR codes have increased 4,589 percent, the leading uses are for product info, coupons, social media, and in real estate. But mobile payments and paperless ticketing are quickly catching on.