Japan Made a Smartphone Holder That Looks Like a Giant Swan Erupting From Your Genitals
Creativity
Has watching too much anime on your phone left you with painful hand cramps? Then you're in luck, because Japanese anime network Animax made a hands-free, crotch-harness smartphone holder that [...]
Stuffed Animals Get Transplants in Adorable Campaign About Child Organ Donation
Creativity
Imagine a plush rooster with a frog's foot where its comb should be. Such a creature now exists, thanks to a new campaign in Japan. To raise awareness of a [...]
5 Things Marketers Can Do to Get in Shape for the Olympics … in Japan
Brand Marketing
Having passed the 100-day mark until the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio last week, and with the torch relay starting today, the countdown to the Games of the XXXI Olympiad [...]
Ad of the Day: TBWA Helps to Train Medical Students … Using Origami, Sushi and Insects
Brand Marketing
In Japan, TBWA isn't just making ads. It's coming up with new—and quite peculiar—ways to identify medical students who have the dexterity to make brilliant surgeons.
Humans Imitate Animal Courtship Dances in This Funny, Oddly Beautiful Ad for Condoms
Creativity
Sagami Original Condoms has filmed animal courtship rituals as performed by humans, and the results are both strange and seductive.
Shiseido’s Gender-Shifting Makeup Ad Wins Grand Prix in Film at Epica Awards
Brand Marketing
BERLIN, Germany—Major marketers Mini Cooper and John Lewis shared the stage with little-known upstarts Shiseido and ElaN Languages in accepting Grand Prix honors from the Epica Awards. The France-based award [...]