Advertising agency GREY from Uruguay created this print ads for ‘Don Pascual’ wines in September 2009. The images are achieved by using bottle bottoms, corks, wine bottle labels and watercolors mixed with wine.

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In 2006, McDonald’s has set up a billboard that functions as a sundial in Chicago. The sun creeps through the breakfast menu towards a burger n’ fries. The ad agency and an engineer did a great deal of research to find the perfect location create the effect. The aluminum set of McDonald’s arches (which are 4 x 3.5 feet) casts a shadow on a different breakfast item each hour until noon when it casts an undistorted shadow on a sandwich, signaling lunchtime.

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German advertising agency Butter. came up with this awesome idea for an sausage-advertising campaign. In 2008 the ‘advent sausage’ received a Red Dot Award in the category Communication Design/ Packaging Design.

‘The challenge was to increase the sales of Koenecke (a famous German meat and sausage producer), especially in the wintertime. As solution a special advent calendar was created that was made of a salami sausage-packaging with 24 indications to cut off a delicious slice every day.’

‘Art of the Arcade‘ is London based graphic designer Nick Dart’s online collection of design and illustration work that took place in the golden era of arcade gaming.

‘As a frustrated 24 year old arcade collector and designer, I decided to put ‘Art of the Arcade’ together to make people aware of the forgotten design and illustration work that took place in the golden era of arcade gaming in the 70’s & 80’s. The idea behind the site is to try and show this work in a new context, and give exposure to the designers that helped create a billion dollar industry and a new social past time.’

Yuko Shimizu is a freelance illustrator based in New York City and an illustration instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen her as one of ‘100 Japanese People The World Respects’ in 2009.

Series of three images were created for ‘Tiger Beer’s new ad campaign to stress their Asian origin.

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ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray, it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time.

‘A deeply fascinating movie…you’ll probably never be able to look at commercials and ads the same way again.’