Most painful Christmas ad ever? Or actually quite enjoyable?
It’s Christmas everyone! You know when it’s Christmas when the adverts start. The ‘Holidays are coming’ Coke adverts used to actually make me dance a little inside when I was a kid, such was the power of advertising. Now I am more cynical I can’t help but cringe at all the cheesy nostalgia. M&S have [...]
Finally, an ad that I find truely shocking
Every year certain ad campaigns come under fire for pushing the boundaries for what society finds offensive. Famously, the government’s anti-smoking campaign in 2007 was banned for it’s use of shocking images of people with a fishing hook in their mouth. At the time I was working for a design agency in Leeds and I [...]