Some schools such as Panamericana Escola de Arte e Design offer enrollee test papers full with small circles or lines. Almap BBDO made ads from several of those papers. The key question is: How far does your creativity go? 
Advertisments, Thought outMarch 18, 2009 1:49 pm
Design-studio Ozi’s which is a comics studio made an interesting project “Recycling Junk into Art”. They visualize spam’s mottos and messages. I bet everyone saw the messages in your e-mail box. If you didn’t, you are the lucky one! Here instead of boring and annoying spam messages we get funny pictures!
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It’s well known that the name and the slogan of a product are at least a half of selling success. However many companies, even the greatest, make mistakes while choosing names and slogans. They don’t pay enough attention to this matter and this result in market loss for them. Here is collection of promotional marketing mistakes:
Pepsi’ slogan of 1963 "Come Alive, You’re in the Pepsi Generation" was translated into Taiwan language and got an unexpected meaning: “Pepsi will make your ancestry to rise from graves” Taiwans were shocked.
When Parker Pen entered the Mexican market, its advertisements which claimed that Parker Pens "won’t leak in your pocket and embarrass you" was mistranslated to "No te embarazará chorreándose en tu bolsillo" which means "Won’t leak in your pocket and impregnate you".. The problem is that the translator choosed up a wrong word which is false friend for native English-speaking – Embarazada (Spanish word for pregnant).
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An Deutch web-site Pundo3000.com made a research of 100 different products to compare the apperance printed on the wrap with real apperance of what’s inside. "All products were bought in local stores, were taken pictures of wraps and then of the final dishes. Later all products were eaten", reseachers claim. The project’s aim was not discrimination of any brands or products, but the comparison of wrapper advertise with actual product inside it.
Business, AdvertismentsOctober 22, 2008 2:13 pm
The computer falls in price daily for about 1% of its cost.
When US forces were fighting in Vietnam, only 15% had college degree. In Gulf War a degree had about 99.3% of soldiers.
1996th Annual report of JD Power Institute began with words "There are no more bad cars; all of them are equally good."
Better then Internet is telepathy only.
In USA fathers spent in average 45 minutes daily speaking with their children in 1960. Today – 6 minutes.
An average US citizen is viewing about 247 adverts daily.
In Procter & Gamble Co. are working more sciences then in Harvard, Berkley and MIT taken together.
Every 15th American started his labor activity by frying Big Macs.
New apparatus selling Coca-cola are provided with electronic which is capable to perceive the weather outside. If it’s sunshine, the tin can cost $1. If it’s raining, the price may cheap to 50 cents.
65% of car purchase decisions are taken by women in USA.
