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Paris Subway Stop, Long Deserted, Hosts Eerie 'Prometheus' Ad Installation Riders see ghostly visions as they pass

Plenty of subway stations look like they belong in a horror movie, but this Paris promotion for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus takes the concept to the extreme, setting up…

May 18 2012

Land Rover's Survival Guide: You Can Eat It in Case of Emergency Glove-box books get even more useful

Automakers are getting ever more inventive with the literature they package with new vehicles. In the U.K., we saw the guide to Britain's tiny roads that came free with Volkswagen's…

May 17 2012

Call Your Doctor If This 'Workaholics' Billboard Lasts More Than 4 Hours Comedy Central erects another phallic ad

Comedy Central's "Fully Torqued" phallic billboard on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard touting the new season of its Workaholics sitcom is awfully silly. TMZ claiming that its coverage of the sign is…

May 17 2012

Guinness Turns a Submarine Into a Branded Underwater Bar Contest winner parties at the bottom of the ocean

What shall we do with the drunken sailor? Sign him up for a tour of duty on the Guinness submarine! The vessel comes complete with a "deep-sea bar" and Austin…

May 16 2012

Minnesota Man's Desperate 'Hire Me!' Billboard Actually Works You win this round, Bennett Olson

Minnesota resident Bennett Olson isn't the first guy to put his big grinning face on a billboard in an effort to get a job, but so far he's the only…

May 09 2012

Domestic Violence Billboards Let Passersby Drag Away an Abuser JWT gives victims some space

Interactive billboards can occasionally encourage more socially beneficial behavior than playing giant games of Pong. Case in point—this clever installation at London's Euston Station by JWT for the National Centre…

May 07 2012

Ikea's Porta-Potty Is the Tardis of Toilets Step into 200 square feet of luxury

We've been writing a lot about Ikea lately—its full store inside a banner ad, its rent-paying catalog, its throwback-futuristic home-theater systems. Here's another great idea to add to the pile—the…

May 07 2012

Billboard Likening Climate Change Believers to Unabomber Is Taken Down Heartland Institute hails 'experiment'

The Heartland Institute disputes global warming, but that didn't stop the conservative social-issues group from turning up the heat with a suburban Chicago billboard showing a typically crazy-faced portrait of…

May 07 2012

Volkswagen's Tiny Car Comes With Glove-Box Book About Tiny Roads Explore 'The Narrow Roads of Britain,' if you dare

Auto dealers long ago mastered the art of putting the squeeze on consumers, but DDB London cleverly tightens the vise in a campaign introducing Volkswagen's Up! small car to the…

May 03 2012

Kenneth Cole Pulls NYC Billboard Critical of Teachers King of puns makes more enemies

Some say Kenneth Cole will never learn. I'm more of the opinion that he has absorbed some lessons—like how to court controversy and coverage while (mostly) avoiding real carnage—all too…

May 01 2012

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