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Two days prior to the kick-off of UEFA EURO 2008™, adidas presents the tournament’s stars supersized. A 17-meter-high huddle of players welcomes fans at the Zurich train station. At the Vienna Prater, a Petr Cech likeness 42 meters in size sporting eight arms holds even the most impossible shots – and in front of the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, fans can marvel at giant-sized football boots which are the bigger than life versions of what some of Europe’s best players will be wearing during the tournament.

Zack Snyder is offering you the opportunity to create "Veidt Enterprises" TV commercials that could end up in the feature film WATCHMEN, scheduled to be released in theaters on March 6, 2009.

To get started, download the standard definition and/or high definition assets from the links below, and then shoot your own original TV commercial that advertises one of the products! Remember, the movie is set in 1985, so TV commercials should be in 4:3 aspect ratio (so it looks like standard TV, not widescreen) and they should be either 15, 30 or 60 seconds in length. The products are all made by "Veidt Enterprises," and you can download the product logos for your use as well.

Make your TV commercial in NTSC standard definition (720x486) or higher resolution, upload it, and then others can vote on your work. The contest ends on June 2, 2008. The 40 finalists will win signed posters from Zack Snyder. The top five finalists from user votes will win High-Definition Canon Vixia HG10 camcorders. Up to 20 of Zack's favorite finalists will win $1000.00, and have a chance to be included in the WATCHMEN feature film itself.

Contest Website: http://youtube.com/watchmenmovie

About Watchmen
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?

For more information visit: http://watchmenmovie.com/

Check out the stop motion video for Get-out-and-play. And here are the making of images and the video too.

We've made a very slight update on the way content is displayed on the site. If you notice anything incorrect please let us know here in the comments. Hope you like the updated look!

Check out this collection of business cards that feature a bunch of great ideas! Here is part one on the same topic of creative business cards.

If you liked it, digg the story: http://digg.com/business_finance/Cool_business_card_designs_Part_2

Hillary-ious and strangely addictive to watch game. Kudos to the Obama fans, who have done this viral. ;) If she gets stuck, you can help her out by dragging with your mouse to fall further.

Here are a few invitations you may use to join:

LinkedIn Ads of the World group
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/60649/2D32F507E322

LinkedIn Advertising Professionals group
http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/60700/72C35A6D7531

Ads of the World members who have registered at least 30 days ago are all pre-approved to these two groups!

Intrusive and in-your-face, ambient ads are set to sweep the advertising world and consumers off their feet with highly contextual ads found everywhere in public places, from store and street floors, to restrooms, escalators and buildings.

For its new book on outstanding ambient ads, Page One Publishing is now looking for projects that successfully bring together ingenuity, interactivity, execution and effectiveness. The book offers a platform for the creatives behind brilliant ambient ad projects, while bringing wider publicity for the featured ads.

We welcome all designers, creative agencies and companies to submit their creative and eye-catching ambient ads, and to be part of a publication that will entertain and inspire consumers and advertising professionals alike.

Submissions deadline is 15 March 2008. We look forward to seeing your projects!

Selected works will be featured in a full-colour, 240-page, 210 X 280 mm hardcover book entitled ADapt, which will be published and distributed worldwide in September 2008.

Please send a brief write-up of the ad along with a few sample images to:

Melody Tan

E-mail: melody_tan@pageonegroup.com

Or

Li Jen Tan

E-mail: lijen_tan@pageonegroup.com

Coca-Cola: Bill Frist and Jam

Semi-Pro Super Bowl Ad w/ Will Ferrell as "Jackie Moon"

Universal Pictures Wanted Movie

Bud Light

Huh! I have a hunch this would not get approved today!

Is this video going too far?

Ads of the World gets mention in Macworld magazine! Thank you! :)

Ads of the World: This site has been around for a while, but I overlooked its usefulness for a while before I realized what an incredibly inspirational design resource it is. Ads of the World is sort of like an online version of the Communication Arts magazines you’ll see floating around every design shop and ad agency in the world. AOW puts on display some of the most unique and creative ad agency work from around the world. While the work is all user-submitted, it must pass through a tough panel of judges in order to end up on display. Of particular interest to American designers is the visual freedom designers have in other parts of the world. Something we could only dream of, or not, as the case may be.

JWT's list of 80 Things to Watch in 2008, in alphabetical order:

1. Africa (foreign investment and development in)
2. Antibiotic backlash
3. Assisted marriage
4. Beijing 2008
5. Blue replacing green as the environmental movement's color du jour
6. Brain exercises
7. British actress Keira Knightley
8. Carbon tax
9. Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang
10. Classical musician Gustavo Dudamel
11. Climate sightseeing
12. Continuation of comebacks (Indiana Jones, The Cure, etc.)
13. Cooperative consumption
14. Couch surfing
15. Country branding (Oman, Indonesia, etc.)
16. Designer Phillip Lim
17. De-teching
18. DJ Tiesto
19. DNA-based exercising
20. E-clutter (and e-clutter consultants)
21. Eco-fatigue
22. E-mail etiquette
23. Facebook suicides
24. Fashion label Vena Cava
25. Foreign government investment (e.g., China, UAE) in U.S. companies
26. French President Nicolas Sarkozy
27. Game 3.0 (gamer-generated global gaming)
28. Google's Android
29. Gossip Girl
30. Gphone
31. Green weddings
32. Higher education online
33. Hip-hop's Retro Kids
34. Humbling of the hedge fund manager (anti-excess post sub-prime)
35. Hybrid taxis
36. Indian actress Deepika Padukone
37. Intellectual luxury
38. Investigating ingredients
39. Japanese designs (Tsumori Chisato, Uniqlo, Muji, etc.)
40. Kitchen appliances as new power tools
41. Lifestyle curators
42. Lipstick trumping lip gloss
43. Manga-inspired clothes
44. Mobile technology explosion
45. Mobulimia
46. Music as awareness driver; concerts and other residuals as cash cow
47. Musicovery (music tailored to moods)
48. Myanmar
49. Nollywood (the rise of Nigerian cinema)
50. Outsourcing to Ukraine (and other Eastern European countries)
51. Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto
52. Pantone's 18-3943 (blue iris)
53. Pets in the office
54. Prius homes
55. Radical transparency
56. Radiohead repeats (name-your-own-price music)
57. Recycling into fashion (Nau, Gary Harvey, etc.)
58. Selfless as the new selfish
59. Sex and the City, the movie
60. Shiny Toy Guns (the band)
61. Skiing in novel spots (Kashmir, Japan, Greenland, Russia, Korea, etc.)
62. Single men saying no to sex
63. Skype sex
64. Smart Cars in American cities
65. SNS (social network service) brand communities
66. Spanish actor Javier Bardem
67. Staycations
68. Sturking
69. Tequila as the new wine
70. The N-11
71. Third screen (the mobile screen) rivaling the first screen (TV)
72. Trans-ertainment
73. U.S. gymnast Shawn Johnson
74. U.S. presidential election
75. Vicarious consumption
76. (Video) Gaming Olympics
77. Virtual gifting
78. Wannabe young Internet entrepreneurs (a.k.a. Mark Zuckerberg copycats)
79. Weak dollar/strong euro
80. Women juggling men

Advert found in a US flyer. No comments.

We've got a new feature to announce today. Now you can mark your favorite ads. This is for registered users only of course — another good reason to register (hey, it's free).

Just click the Favorite link (with the litte heart icon) below the images or videos to mark them as fav. This way you can collect those important campaigns you want to keep as a reference for the future.

No need to search by keyword for those cool campaigns anymore. Just check your private image or video library and find the ads you want instantly.

You can also browse other member's favorite collections by visiting their profile and clicking the links to their favorites. Of course at this point most of these pages will be empty, but hopefully very soon private collections will start to emerge.

Here I started my own collection of images already.

Hope you will like this new feature and it will make Ads of the World more useful for your work and research!

If you find any bugs or problems, please let me know here in the comments! Thank you!

Two winners are awarded the hotly-contested title of the "world's most beautiful bottom".

19-year-old Kristina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and Andrei Andrei aged 24 from Romania won the women's and men's categories in the world's best bum contest, organised by the underwear maker Sloggi.

43 candidates from 28 countries battled it out at the final in Munich to convince the jury of the quality of their behind.

FUCK THE LINE. I just got this press ad from ag_407, Brazil done by Creative Directors: Selma Navarro, André "Chuck Nóia" Felipe, Art Director: Alexandre d'Albergaria and Copywriter: Daniel Zago.

And, this points out something very important. The traditional posh attitude towards above the line is becoming less prominent and BTL together with online is becoming more