Wednesday, December 02, 2009

14 Brilliant Minimalist Ads

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It’s not difficult to love minimalist ads, but to create one requires a brilliant idea. Most successful minimalist ads depend a lot on iconic brands, items, places and people.

Just an image (or traces) of it would trigger a whole chain of associations and no more than that is enough to grab the attention of consumers. What advertisers need to do is to capture that one image without overdoing it.

Now, that’s the difficult part isn’t it?

1. Faber-Castell: Permanent Markers

faberdoll.preview

fabershoes.preview

2. Hut Weber: Hitler or Chaplin? – It’s the hat

HutWeberHitlerChaplin.preview

3. Tzomet: Disconnect for awhile, Read a book

tzometfaceabook.preview

4. WWF: Polluted river water kills as many people as a nuclear explosion

stillad-wwfriverpollution-560x792

5. McDonald’s WIFI

Wi-Fries.preview

McD_Wi_Fi

6. McDonald’s 24/7 drive thru

McDonaldsdrivethru

7. Children of Offenders: Help us break the cycle

childrenspoon.preview

childrenprints.preview

8. fitvibe: We really know how to make you work out

Bidifit_FitVibe.preview

9. Veet: Hairless bar of soap

VeetHairllesssoap.preview

10. The Economist: Pressure peers.

pressure-peers-Poster.preview

11. Jeternel beauty clinic: “beautiful”

jeternel_beautiful_eng.preview

jeternel-beauty-clinic-fast-wrinkle-removal-eyes

12. Google: Find more easily

33-cool-and-creative-ads-part-i-google-keys

13. HAtree: Parents say, children do

HAtree.preview

HAstairs.preview

HAcookies.preview

14. LEGO: Imagine

Final

Final

Final

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Credits to: Trendhunter, Ads of The World, Creative Bits, thedesigner.co.za