I came across these in my internet journeys, they are from a graphic artist that was just playing around with a friend. Originally they had the logo and name of the Smithsonian Museum on them, but then the Smithsonian asked her to remove their name. Too bad real institutes don't have the balls to do ads like these.
Too bad they aren't real ads.
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I like those.
Every now and then I see the odd, really interesting PSA or non-profit ad that shows up in awards shows and I usually applaud them for daring to be different. These get the same sort of respect from me.
Then, I go digging a bit more and I usually find that those interesting ads I admired didn't actually run as a campaign. They were produced once, in a very limited run so that the ad agency could enter the ad in the awards show. The client, well they never paid a cent to have those particular ads put out, so while they may smile and nod if the ad wins an award for the agency, those same award-winning ads rarely get appreciated by the public, mainly because the client doesn't want to take any sort of risk with their "brand." Sigh... It's something of a hypocritical practice, yet common.
Now, what I think the Smithsonian should do is to put on a display of amazing rejected ad concepts just to let people see what they could have had on their TV's and billboards, and the companies in question will benefit from essentially free advertising, even if it doesn't match their brand, because that's the point.
Fun idea, no? It'll never happen in our lifetimes...
I'm so risk averse I make myself sick.
Teddy Roosevelt is AWESOME.
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