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Things are not what they look. Part III

And again a compilation of realistic looking ads. Enjoy!

Ad: Ever fancied yourself a Playmate? Well now you have such opportunity with this Playboy towel.
Agency: Grey, Argentina
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Oops, wrong door

New anti-bias campaign in Vienna called”Vienna Sees It Differently”? was launched. So well-known signs in public places have been altered to make people rethink gender-based stereotypes.

funny signfunny sign
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Art of optimization

There are so many cool and funny inventions .. maybe we are just a step aside from teleportation.

Transparent toaster for the unbelieving
This toaster allows you to see what exactly is happening down there – no tiny dwarfs baking your toast, pure mechanics.
via Inventables.com

cool invention
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Things are not the way they look. Part II

We have again made a compilation of realistic looking ads. These advertisments may not be just off-the-peg, but these genius works are timeless.

Agency: Saatchi&Saatchi, NY
Ad: This absolutely genius advertisment of Folgers is a photo of coffee, printed on vinyl and then placed on top of steaming manhole covers around New York. It looks, as if a large cup of coffee was placed on the ground!
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Not all planes are plain

Some people are afraid of flying, and some just love to fly. One way or another, these planes are so cheerful, it must be a pure pleasure to fly on them!

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Torkil Gudnason’s crazy hair

Torkil Gudnason

We bet you have seen these pictures somewhere before – maybe in Vogue, Elle or Harper’s Bazaar? Torkil Gudnason is a Dutch photographer, who shoots in color and then plays with hue. He admits that his most favourite thing in the world is light.

Torkil Gudnason

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Things are not the way the look

Continuing the topic of funny ads, we have found lots more, check them out:

LangGysiKnoll, Berne, Switzerland
LangGysiKnoll, Berne, Switzerland

Swiss agency LangGysiKnoll invented bizarre paper rugs for dining tables, promoting a trendy shoe shop just around the corner. The name of the shoe shop and the address are written on the inner sole of the shoe on the picture.

via creativecriminal.blogspot.com

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Buy nothing on November 24 and 25

Buy nothing DayEvery year all over the world people celebrate the Buy Nothing Day. In case you don’t have a clue of what this is – this is a free-shopping day every November.

The idea is that the consuming has grown so much in the past few years that there must be a way to stop it – so a tribute to non-shopping was created, which became the Buy Nothing Day.
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Cups for laughs

Wrigley
A genius advertising move was invented by ad agency BBDO: new look of to-go coffee cups is both fun and promotion.
Bottom of the cup has an image of snow white teeth, thus creating an impression that teeth are placed under magnifying glass and they owe such whiteness to Wrigley’s Extra Smile chewing gum. It also promotes Starbucks coffee and looks hilarious.
As a result, all Starbucks clients in Germany are satisfied both with the cups, coffee and chewing gum. Nice!
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Jungle book for those who can’t read good and want to learn how to do other things good too.

Jungle book
In case you are illiterate, there’s finally a book, which doesn’t have words in it. It has.. grass!
Yes, the pressbook was bound with a cover made of special paper containing seeds. In a few weeks, seeds start to grow and in the end, you get this lovely piece of reading – some space for imagination.
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