Showing posts with label advertolog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label advertolog. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Playboy is just putting labia on the cover now


Copyranter just posted this cover from Playboy South Africa that turns a woman's lips sideways to mimic the "other" labia.

I was sure I had seen this visual trick before. Here's one from Y&R Mexico, via Advertolog, from 2004:


Not that it's any more imaginative, mind you. (It's also been done with a heavily-lidded eye.)

Cheap shock, and it's been done before. Yawn.

If you find any other examples of this concept, link them in the comments.

Update: Here's a poster for the Vagina Monologues, done by Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand in 2002 (via Coloribus):



Update 2: Just found three more (spec?) from DGLY Shanghai, China, for Dior Addict High Shine Lipstick in 2009 (Via Ads of The World Forum):



It's green! With teeth!

How many times can you do the same freaking "vulva face" ad?

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Turning a blind eye

Have a look at these PSAs from the agency Try in Norway:



Hilarious, aren't they? Yet for me, they bring to mind an issue that always come up when dealing with this kind of campaign: is humour the best way to normalize diversity?

I know that people accuse me of taking some ads too seriously, but in this case I'd like to think it is a smart move to get people talking. And the Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partly Sighted obviously agreed. But at the same time I know that these will rub some people the wrong way. (And others will complai that a real blind person would know exactly what was going on - which to me adds another layer of humour, actually.)

The question is, will those people be sighted people?


Thanks to Ads of The World for the tip, and to Advertolog for the downloadable (although with incomplete audio) files. Hit up AoTW for more complete viewing.