Posts Tagged ‘advertising’
Confessions in 2020
December 4th, 2009 by lifeproof
I like people who can foresee the future. These banners were published in Corriere Della Sera of Italy with the below explanation (thanks to Google translation): Travelers arriving at the airport in Copenhagen will be greeted by billboards with the faces of the aged leader of the world that I apologize for not being able [...]
Tags: 2020, advertising, catastrophic effects of climate change, change the future, confession, Copenhagen, Copenhagen summit on climate, Corriere Della Sera, Greenpeace, tcktcktck.org, World Coalition
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Scientism: the Religion of 20th Century
November 27th, 2009 by lifeproof
In 2007, Terry Eagleton came to Istanbul as a part of a conversation series that was titled “Meetings at the Center of the World.” Each conversation paired a Turkish and an international writer, thinker, expert, scholar in his/her field. Terry Eagleton was paired with renowned Turkish Sociologist, Hüsamettin Arslan, whose PhD dissertation was titled “Epistemic [...]
Tags: 20th century, advertising, Genetically Modified Foods, Genetically Modified Organisms, GMF, GMO, H1N1, H1N1 flu, H1N1 flu vaccine, Hassan-i Sabbah, Hüsamettin Arslan, Ideology and Criticism, marketing, Meetings at the Center of the Globe, propaganda, religion, Scientism, Scientology, Tayyip Erdogan, Terry Eagleton
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Raising the Future: Conscious Childcare
November 15th, 2009 by lifeproof
This ad claims that your child will be just like you when s/he grows up. If you are a rapist, offender, pedophile, alcoholic or even president, your child would most likely be one, too. So, think twice; your actions today not only effect the future, they create the future. 1 in 3 children of offenders [...]
Tags: adsoftheworld, advertising, Canada, childrenofoffenders.com, Chris Staples, conscious childcare, David de Haas, Ian Grais, Katie Ainsworth, offenders, responsible chidcare, Rethink, social activism, Vancouver
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Hair Style™
November 14th, 2009 by lifeproof
Let’s go back to advertising and marketing campaigns and strategies again. This one is an ad campaign–from Turkey–for the most famous hair stylist in Istanbul, Yildirim Ozdemir. I think he is beginning to export his hair styling services to cosmopolitan inhabitants and foreigners in the city–otherwise, why would he have such iconic figures and a [...]
Tags: advertising, Bedandbreakfast, Burak Arici, Erçin Mor, hair style, hair styling, Istanbul, marketing, Photography, Sani Levi, Serhan Acar, Taner Ugan, Turkey, Yasin Aktasgil, Yildirim Ozdemir
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