Inspiration

George W. Bush is undoubtedly one of the most popular figures of current times. He's infamous for many things he misspoke and his views on how to handle national security. His ideology affected not only the United States, but the whole world in a major way. No wonder he's been on top of mind for many creatives and became the hero of numerous advertisements in the last few years.

Here is a collection of some of the most interesting ads that dissect his character in order to sell an idea or a product. You be the judge whether they are successful in achieving this objective.

Let me start the showcase with this ad made for Milenio, a Mexican newspaper who claims they solved the inner workings of Bush's personality. Simpson + Texas cowboy = GWB. The tagline reads: "Such a complex world needs a good explanation."

In this highly diplomatic ad (what else would you expect from Britain) Marmite Squeezy claims Bush's just like the funny tasting sirup: "You either love it or hate it."

Here is a campaign from Singapore for the iPod Touch that brings back the eighties look typography combined with the Apple signature white backgrounds.

Here are some other Apple products related campaigns I posted here earlier from Australia, India, USA and Brazil.

Geekologie found rejected Star Wars promo items from years ago. Most of them are great ideas and I wonder why were they rejected. I hate it when this happens. I've learned to deal with it, but it's so depressing when your supposedly great idea is turned down for silly reasons like budget, cultural taboos or being off brief. C'mon clients! Life's too short to be so rational. Let's celebrate creativity and enjoy the attention bloggers will give you regardless how inefficient the idea may seem at first. But then again there were not many blogs in 1999.

Cool iPod ads from South Africa that don't look like the classic bright color silhouettes we're used to from Apple.

Update: Sorry folks, Apple asked me to remove the ads.

I've posted about iPod related campaigns before: HP iPod from USA, iPod from India and iPod in a public service ad from Australia. This time it's from Brazil!

Translation: Be sorry for your feet tomorrow.

Translation: Thank you lord for giving me ears.

I must add: "Thank you lord Steve for giving me an iPod" ;)

These cards are also out-of-the-box ideas that most clients would love to have, but would never have the balls to actually use. Hopefully you will enjoy the ideas presented here as much as I did and will get inspired to create your own cool designs.

I would like to thank everyone who sent me their coolest designs!

Let's start with a cutting edge design. Literally.

Meet the Newton Virus is the first art virus by Troika.

Check out this cool microsite made for Adobe! Take as much as you want and check out the CS3 Billboard posted earlier too.

Let me post another Apple related campaign, this time from Intermarkets Dubai. Click the images for the full ads.

So, what's your take? Is taking a piss out of PCs still a good strategy? Or is this pissing against the wind?

I was so glad to get rid of the last Microsoft product a year or so ago from my machine. I would never dream of giving an MS product a second though ever again.

Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for Office, Outlook, Explorer and a couple of other applications to be there for us when there was nothing better to replace them, but they were the biggest resource hogs on my Mac. They were heavy in size and in their CPU and memory usage. They were relatively slow and unreliable too.

Now, we have iWork, Mail.app, Safari and a tons of lean, cool and fast apps to replace them. And, in this time and age, MS decided to release MS Office:Mac 2008. This is a bitch to sell.

And, here comes McCann San Francisco to the rescue with their campaign that talks to the Mac user and subconsciously promises a light, quick and user friendly package for your office needs. It's lighthearted, well written and short. Great use of white space and highlight colors. Congrats to the team. Click for bigger images!