These unbelievable sculptures are made by the 51-year-old metal artist from the Russian province – Nikolay Aldunin. Having worked as a locksmith and a turner he had a chance to get to know every little thing about metals, and look now where it all has led him to. Fabulous! Camel caravan inside a needle’s eye (Gold [...]
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No Comments » This nice ad from the Russian BBDO agency tells you about the kind of situations you can avoid by using Google Maps Street View service. Staying at a family hotel that is next door to a sex shop – not quite what you would choose So, you should “know before you go”… Credits: Agency: BBDO, [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design Tags: Advertising, BBDO, Design, Google Maps, moscow, print, russia, Street View No Comments » For certain reasons, many of you may know about the forthcoming President election (or should we call it “President appointment”) in Russia. The popular Russian job announcement website Superjob.ru was very fast to take the opportunity of the news to advertise themselves. The viral idea was to post the announcement of the job of the [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Marketing Tags: announcement, job, President, recruitment, russia, SuperJob.ru No Comments » This ad calls you to think twice before driving unsafe. A billboard extender noticed in the Russian city of Nizhniy Novgorod, features a body that has broken the billboard after a car accident. This could be your body, – the billboard reads. The witnesses say that the billboard was removed after about 4 days. This [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design Tags: billboard, Design, outdoor, russia, safe driving, social ad No Comments » The last days of 2010 some of Moscovites could enjoy the New Year greetings written right on the snow in different areas of the city. Turns out the idea belongs to EcoLogo agency, they call themselves “the natural advertising agency”, and, obviously, the look for the natural surrounding to turn them into the advertising media. [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising Tags: Advertising, EcoLogo, moscow, natural advertising, russia, snow No Comments » Martini Gold by Dolce&Gabbana and agency Media Instinct have presented an interesting project – the December issue of Vogue magazine in Russia has an insert – a booklet with a Martini logo. Open the booklet to be introduced to an atmosphere of black-and-white Rome a-la Fellini, made by Swedish director Jonas Okerlund, with Monica Bellucci as [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Innovations Tags: Advertising, Dolce&Gabbana, Jonas Okerlund, Martini Gold, Monica Bellucci, print, russia, video, Vogue No Comments » Coty Beauty LCC is running an interesting outdoor campaign for new male fragrance Davidoff Champion. They have turned some of Moscow’s bus stops into fitness clubs. Davidoff’s brand manager, Elena Milenbach, says: Davidoff Champion demonstrates a man’s desire to be strong both physically and mentally, to be a Champion. Sports is a vital part of [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design Tags: Advertising, Coty Beauty LCC, Davidoff, Davidoff Champion, Design, moscow, outdoor advertising, russia No Comments » Putting political issues aside, this is a nice piece of ad. Following the recent great campaign against death sentece, Amnesty International have come up with a video against Russian violations of human rights. The agency that has developed the ad is La Chose (Paris) while the production was done by Rods Films. The video, on [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Design Tags: Advertising, Amnesty International, Design, La Chose, matreshka, print, Rods Films, russia, TV ad No Comments » There’s a very beautiful ad aired on the Russian TV, which was made for Dove chocolate brand, and strangely I couldn’t find an agency that has prepared it. It’s very nice, you should see it. Enjoy it here: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video According to Henry Ooi, who [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising Tags: Advertising, chocolate, dove, music, russia, Sia, TV ad, video 15 Comments » If I ask you to list the Russian words that you know, where do you start? Babushka, matreshka, balalayka, ikra… That seems it. McDonalds have played this well in Canada during the Olympics. For the Russian delegation that had settled near the restaurant, they’ve prepared something that one would call a McMatreshka. The idea is [...]
Zalim Posted in Advertising, Culture, Design, Marketing Tags: Advertising, coupon, Design, Marketing, matreshka, mcdonalds, olympic games, packaging, russia No Comments » 
