Monday, November 29, 2010

"Weird Art" Takes its Toll on the Market

An anti-smoking advertisement

So I stumbled upon a small trivial website called "Fun Forever" and found a few interesting pieces done by various retailers as an attempt to sell their products. What has customers confused, however, is how the extremity of the ads can help the retailer instead of stealing all the attention away from the original product.

Chanel Ads:

Chanel designer Erwin Olaf brings the jazzy denim boot to center stage by putting some heads together
On FunForever's list of the top 10 weirdest artists in marketing, Erwin Olaf topped the list. His unique photographs are famous not for their brand-name fashion specifics, but rather for their ability to catch peoples' eye and draw attention almost immediately. Not only do his pictures fuse the heads of beautiful women with the walls behind them, but also bizzarre ideas with the marketplace. To view his entire online gallery, visit his website.


PS2 Ads

PlayStation's recent ad with Sony technology...quite the eye catcher

With a little help from some of Sony's latest technology,  the PlayStation video gaming retailers put together advertisements that have effectively gotten customers' attention. Thanks to an online video gaming forum, NetGeo.com, I was able to view peoples' responses to some of the ads that were being produced by the company. Customers reveal that while the pictures definitely grabbed their attention, they were a little too creepy for someone who doesn't know about PlayStation's new marketing trend.


Pepsi Ads

Pepsi's new topsy-turby taste

Although Pepsi is no stranger to the art world, its new compilations of ordinary pictures and Photoshop certainly are. This particular picture is a few years old and is still getting attention from online forums and discussion boards, such as MG's Blog and Ad Busters. 

Here are a few of Pepsi's newest and weirdest ads:

For the Mini Cans

Pepsi Twist advertisement
For the Pepsi Lite
Those were a few of the weird advertisements I found earlier tonight...if anyone wants to see more let me know!





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2 comments:

  1. Kalico89November 30, 2010 at 10:19 AM

    I really enjoyed this post. I love "weird" art so it was cool to see some of the things that are out there. Plus I actually don't normally see strange ads from popular companies too often unless its in a commercial on television. I think one of the weirdest ones i'd seen was from Sprite or something with the lemon and lime theme.

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  2. Heather MNovember 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM

    Haha yeah I remember that commercial, where they split Drake's head into a thousand pieces and it was really odd...I'm glad you enjoyed my post though! :)

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