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As much as ads annoy us if we have to sit through them at moments not of our choosing, when we get to watching beautiful commercials by incredibly creative designers and directors we can’t get enough. Our latest round-up of cool (mostly) new commercials is all about animation (mostly computer animation, but not exclusively), and [...]

We like that new technology is bringing the rest of the world up to European advertising standards, which go with the “If it’s pretty it doesn’t need to make sense” principle. Increasingly, commercials for products big and small, from every corner of the planet, are doing simple concepts with slick visual style, like those in [...]

We claimed we were going to hold off on Halloween-related posts, but with just over a week to go that seems pretty pointless now. Plus, today’s Halloween listicle is really clever and creative, and may have helped us find our costume for this year. Graphic designer Charlene Chua has made a series greeting cards depicting [...]

Advertising tends to be a devil’s advocate sort of device, convincing smart people to buy things they shouldn’t (Coke, candy, over-priced clothes) by appealing to some of their most basic desires. This scenario is made especially literal in the sorts of ads featured in mental_floss’s listicle of 8 Angel Vs. Devil Commercials, our favorite of [...]

Because sports and related fields (athletic gear and the like) are such big business, they often produce some of the coolest and funniest ads. At comedic end of the sports field, ESPN’s sports news show Sportscenter is probably the best. This makes Bleacher Report’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Sportscenter Commercials very entertaining. We especially [...]

Obviously, the famous Got Milk? campaign is one of the most effective advertising slogans ever, all the more so because of its meme compatibility–that is, anyone can make a “Got x?” shirt/poster/sign and people will get the reference. The California Milk Processor Board is hardly the first advertiser to harness the power of question slogans, [...]

Generally we’re a little frustrated by how many of the images we encounter on the street in a given day are commercials, not to mention that most are poorly conceived and thoughtlessly executed. If we were starting a new society (which we do almost ever day, in our mind) the streets of its cities would [...]

Evidently we’re somewhat obsessed with advertising and commercials, so we try to refrain from posting them too frequently. Occastionally, though, we’re assailed by such a rush of stunning new ads that we just have to share their artistry and vision, which is why we’ve assembled these 12 Trippy New Commercials, beginning with what might also [...]

No matter how you feel about his Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speech, Michael Jordan was still one of the best basketball players (and superstar athlete corporate spokespersons) ever. Appropriately, he’s appeared in many of the best commercials ever, as you’ll appreciate while perusing Hail May Jane’s listicle of The 23 Greatest Michael Jordan Commercials [...]

Today, for some reason we can’t quite figure out, is National Play-Doh Day. Our only hunch is that today may be the 54th anniversary of the invention of the product by Joseph McVicker, although we’ve had a hard time pinning down an exact date. Regardless, in its time on the market it’s become a staple [...]