Sharp TV Ad Shows You Colors You Can't See
I love this new commercial for Sharp's "Quattron quad pixel technology," and not just for the way George Takei delivers his joyously gay "Oh myyy!" at the end. Well, honestly, that really is why I love it. But I also love the meta quirkiness of the fact that it's a TV commercial advertising a TV color improvement that you can't see on your TV. It's especially disorienting because the commercial is telling you that your TV can't show yellow, even though you're looking at the yellow right there in the ad. That's some René Magritte shit right there. The spot is the first Sharp work to come out of mcgarrybowen, which won the business in 2009 without a review thanks to the agency being bought by Sharp's lead Japanese agency, Dentsu. Read more about the campaign and how it fell into mcgarrybowen's lap over at Adweek.com.
- Mike Darnell Steps Down as Fox Reality Capo
- Embattled P&G CEO Out, Replaced by Predecessor
- The Guardian to Consolidate Web Properties Under One Domain
- JCPenney One of 10 Brands Predicted to Die in Next Year
- Are You Young and Male? Discovery Says This TestTube's for You
- NSA Media Creates Alliance With Wishabi
- Dwell Media Hires New Head of Digital From Yahoo
- FTC May Not Be Done With Google Yet
- JCPenney One of 10 Brands Predicted to Die in Next Year
- Microsoft Humiliates Siri in Biting Parody of Apple's iPad Ads
- Rapture-Palooza Star Anna Kendrick Is Addicted to Reddit
- And the 2013 Grand Effie Goes to ...
- Having Shipped Its Pants, Kmart Now Offers You 'Big Gas Savings'
- Group of Web Video Companies Band Together to Ensure Ads Are Viewable
- Atlanta's Most Infamous Stripper Pimps Charity Advertising Contest
- Microsoft Hammers Google in Leaked Parody of a Chrome Ad
AdFreak is your daily blog of the best and worst of creativity in advertising, media, marketing and design. Follow us as we celebrate (and skewer) the latest, greatest, quirkiest and freakiest commercials, promos, trailers, posters, billboards, logos and package designs around. Edited by Adweek's Tim Nudd. Updated every weekday, with a weekly recap on Saturdays.


Email
Print







