Mary had a little lamb, fries, and a Coke

This was posted on Copyranter today. It's part of a big product launch in Australia and New Zealand. (You can see the whole campaign at The Inspiration Room.)

Made me laugh, anyway.

This type of carnivorous humour is nothing new, of course. And The Saskatoon Restaurant did it best.

Like this headline, your life could change in an instant

I'm not sure these copy-only ads for Swiss Life, in which life changes mid-sentence, are really doing it for me. But it's a neat idea in theory. And apparently they won Gold at the Epica Awards and Silver Press Lions at Cannes International Advertising Festival.

I wonder if they were better in French, German or Italian?

Campaign by Spillman/Felser/Leo Burnett . See two more at The Inspiration Room.

Classic Benetton ad is still freaking out the squares

This infamous Benetton ad from 1989, by Creative director, copywriter, art director and photographer Oliviero Toscani, is still stirring up shit. A prominent Facebook breastfeeding advocacy page reports,

"Clearly Facebook doesn't like this image. This iconic, 23-year-old ad from UNITED COLORS OF BENETTON has been pulled down from countless accounts now, and [two users] have both been banned from Facebook for posting it, [one] for 24 hours, and [the other] for 3 days. It has been removed from this page several times."

A similar page has also been blocked for it.

Back in the '80s, Benetton was attempting to blow people's minds with its rather blunt attempts to show "interracial" love, understanding and equality. I wonder if people reporting on this image were more offended by the nipple itself, or that it showed a black woman nursing a white baby?

Nonetheless, Facebook remains a bastion of American breast anxiety.

See more classic Benetton ads here.

Any beer that can slow down Motörhead must be good

The Inspiration Room just posted a good bit on the latest iteration of Kronenbourg 1664's "slow the pace" campaign, featuring a slowed down song by Madness. But when I read the post, I was even more impressed by this one from last October, featuring Motörhead:



Nice blues song, eh? But if you remember Motörhead, you know it's supposed to sound like...



The campaign is a brilliant way to demonstrate that Kronenbourg 1664’ is "a premium quality French beer that deserves to be savoured slowly.” Even by Lemmy.

Here's a making of:



Nice stuff!