How The Avengers should have ended

How The Dark Knight Rises should have ended

How Iron Man 3 should have ended

Does anyone have an original idea for a movie poster?

Everyday I use West Kensington tube station either going to or coming from work. As in most tube stations there are a numbers of posters up, most of them movie posters. 

Just recently, this one's gone up...

Upon seeing it I was struck with a sense that I'd seen this poster before, but for something else. And then I recalled these two from the 'not at all distant past'...

Strikingly similar. Which then got me further thinking. Is it coincidence? Is it a current trend that movie posters should look this way? Or is it that movie posters do, and have always, fallen into cliched styling?

So I did some research (by which I mean a quick Google search) and it turns out that they do. 

They really do.

For instance...

The 'between the legs' style

Or...

The 'back-to-back' style

How about...

The 'on a bench' style

You can see where I'm going but in the interest of labouring the point I'll continue with a few more...

The 'from behind' style

The 'one big head in the sky looking down over numerous little people' style

The 'black and white with coloured flames' style

The 'one big eye' style

The 'reflective sunglasses' style

The 'indie yellow' style

The 'red dress' style

So it's not so much that the posters are becoming as unoriginal as the movies themselves, more that they always have been and most of us just hadn't really noticed it.

Numbers like these make my tiny brain hurt

Q: What will happen on the internet in the next 60 seconds?

A:

Ouch.

Mating season

Coming (no pun intended) soon to Channel 4.

Legendary Journey

I hate rugby, I simply don't get all the fuss about it. I guess a lot of people feel the same about football.

But I do love good advertising, and these spots for The British Lions tour of South Africa are really rather good.

Created by JWT London.

30 hours, 1 drawing

Here's the drawing...

...and the accompanying video...

Amazing.

Street Fighter motion sculptures

This is frickin' awesome!

Art Director DanTheAdMan decided to teach himself how to use Vray and create Cinema 4D. As an inspired choice, he used the characters of Street Fighter as a reference.

Arch Nemesis

An exhibit currently on view at the Hero Complex Gallery in Los Angeles.

By Ale Giorgini

By Dan Lazarow

By Eric Dyer

By Jakob Staermose

By Mark Reihill

By Paul Shipper

By Rey Taira

By Rey Taira

By T-bone and Ajax

By Tim Anderson

Argentinian sex workers

86% of them are mothers, didn't you know?

So, the second execution is a little comical - pretty sure that's not the point of the campaign -  but it's still a clever piece of advertising and use of media.

Banksy slams advertising...with an advert

Irony abounds...

This is a beach not a bin

Initiative by the Surfrider Foundation in Morocco.

More from The Lonely Island (with a little Zach Galifianakis and James Franco)

Further hilarity from K-Mart

Buzzfeed knows too much about my life

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/27-things-advertising-people-know-to-be-true

"Lucky Man"

New ad for the VW Passat.

It's good.

Use physics to talk yourself out of a tight spot. Or not.

Windows 8: Apparently it's both beautiful and fast

Real-life Whacky Races

New ad for Peugeot revisits one of my favourite childhood cartoons - good times.

Geeky font gag alert

London 1927 - in colour

So awesome.

Words of wisdom from David Foster Wallace

And a cracking video to accompany them.

Pop culture icons as superheroes

Has there ever been a set of images created that's more up my street than theses? I don't think so!

I&S BBDO reinvent funeral advertising in Japan

Beautiful imagery with an equally beautiful rationale.

“In the terrifying wake of 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, funerals become a commonplace ordeal as the nation dealt with unprecedented loss. Like most cultures, Japanese funerals are somber affairs punctuated with black and white with any deviation considered taboo or inappropriate. Reflecting on the enormity of recent events, funeral home Nishinihon Tenrei approached Tokyo-based ad agency I&S BBDO to create an ad for a trade show that would buck the trend of muted colors so prevalent in the industry. The agency responded with this unprecedented figure of a skeleton made with pressed flowers that overtly celebrates the cycle of life by introducing color and elements of nature that are often avoided in such services. The image was considered so successful it went on to win a design merit award from the 2013 One Club Awards.”

(Source: Colossal)

Aussie Expedia ad

The history of typography

In 3 minutes worth of beautiful stop-frame animation.

Greenbox - a building designed to be consumed by vegetation

How stunning is this?

X-men girls club - no boys allowed

Powerful, and heartbreaking, stuff

Favourite ad of the moment

Not far? Leave the car.

The Scottish government encourage those lazy Jocks to use their legs.

Robinsons 'Pals'

Nice new ad from Robinsons created by BBH.

Giant rubber duck arrives in Hong Kong

No, seriously...

And here's what the locals thought...

Raw Data

Hand-drawn animation by Jake Fried using ink, gouache, white-out and coffee.

Teddy has an operation

Slightly disturbing but also rather wonderful.

Peugeot 208 Wacky Races

Used to love this cartoon as a kid so naturally drawn towards a real-life version.

Quite like the ad (not the car) but think the v/o is a bit dodgy and I'm not overly keen on the line either.

We Pick Cherries

Lovely animation for wepickcherries.com

Happy Street Day

Zoe Green took it upon herself to cheer up her entire street. And I'm sure it worked.