Avengers: Age of Advertising

Amidst all the carnage there are Audis (the car of choice, apparently, in London, Johannesburg, Seoul, and Ruritania)

Don Draper Wants To Teach the World to Sing … and Smile

We’ve seen Don drunk-smirking, and politely smiling when social situations demanded it, but we still knew that he was miserable. Every fleeting moment of contentment was followed by a return to Don’s usual state of despair.

P is for Publicity: 13 Classic Movie Trailers

There’s nothing new about publicity, of course, but movies were sold a lot differently in the olden days.

Why are the people in the Lumosity ads so bloody smug?

Why are the people in the Lumosity ads always so f*cking smug? I’m pleased that they’re training their brains with neuroplasticity. I really am. But do they have to look so bloody self-satisfied? Maybe they wouldn’t look so pleased with themselves if they knew that we knew that the ad concept isn’t that original. The […]

An Important Hair-Raising Message

Earlier this year a Swedish ad agency designed a simple but brilliant piece of advertising for a shampoo: a video in a subway station in which the model’s hair is blown by the arrival of the train. Now the same agency has created a new digital ad using the same idea – with a twist. The Swedish […]

The Mad Men Season 7 Poster Gets All Trippy … But Does It Mean Anything?

By Niall McArdle The seventh and final season of Mad Men begins in a couple of weeks. AMC has released the psychedelic poster for the season. There is a very handy breakdown of the poster’s design – and what it might signify for the season – here. Season 6 divided many viewers, and the Internet […]

The Fluff Is Raging

Flufferings on Arts, Culture and the Perpetual Allure of Uma Thurman by an Irish ex-pat currently at large in Canada

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