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The Bloom grocery store chain, part of Food Lion, erected a giant sign to promote its new brand of beef. It disperses the smell of steak during rush hour, from 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m. It pairs the smell with a big visual, showing a giant piece of steak and a French fry on a giant fork, and is one of the first of its kind in the country.Read More

Light Pole in downtown Vancouver
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New website contains more than 120,000 vintage ads that date back to the 1800s (in 50 market categories)

The Vintage Ad Browser collects vintage ads from a variety of sources, including books, magazines, CD-Roms, websites, APIs, and submissions. The site currently contains more than 120,000 vintage ads.

Vintage Ad Browser

The history and evolution of well known logo designs

The evolution of logo design can be traced back to ancient Greece, when the rulers and their dynasties used to use cipher as a monogram on their coins. More modern logo designs date back to the early days of the Renaissance, around the 13th Century. Goldsmiths, masons, paper makers, and potters, were among the first trades people to use marks—gold stamping, chiseled symbols, watermarks on paper, and simple thumb-prints on pottery.Read More

Here is a collection of creative advertisements on stairs.

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Marketing stunt a big hit for Lenovo in Germany

The notebooks — part of a marketing campaign created by Ogilvy Frankfurt — were installed in buses and tram shuttles that lead prospective buyers to Lenovo Roadshows all over Germany.Read More

A marketing campaign developed by Cossette West uses the tag line “Shopping turned on its head” and for the next four days visitors to the GAP store on Robson Street in Vancouver will find everything flipped on its head.

The store logo has been inverted, a hot dog cart and cars outside the store was turned over and clothes racks fixed to the ceiling.

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Created for Toshiba by Grey London, 'Space Chair' builds on the phenomenal success of 2008's record-breaking 'Timesculpture' ad campaign and has once again been filmed using Toshiba cameras. Shot in the wilderness of the Nevada Black Rock desert, the advertisement follows the journey of an ordinary living room chair to the extraordinary heights of the edge of space, lifted to an altitude of 98,268 feet by a simple helium balloon.Read More

Creative Offices of Advertising Agency Leo Burnett.

Singapore designers Ministry of Design have completed an office interior for advertising agency Leo Burnett that features a drawing of the company’s founder spread across the walls and floor, wielding a scaled-up model of a pencil.Read More

Levi's challenges people to find a $100,000 fortune buried somewhere in America by solving the question "Who was Grayson Ozias IV and where is his fortune?"

The story of Grayson's 1890s adventure exploring America will guide Levi's modern-day event. The game's scavenger hunt leads to many cities and towns across America, each a part of Grayson's journey, encourages players to step out from behind their computers and will lead some lucky player into the real world directly to the buried treasure. Each task triggers the next clue in the challenge.Read More