Gavin’s Gaily Gigest

Heinz have pulled this advert and apologised to viewers:

And so they should have done. Those sweet-as-candy kids and their doe-eyed innocence make me so angry I want to break my laptop screen in two just looking at them.
* I couldn’t think of a better twisting of their old slogan and I apologise.

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Uncovering the truly awful commercial uses of the blend, clone and other digital manipulation tools in Adobe Photoshop is the blog Photoshop Disasters. Their uncovering of Red Bull’s Hungarian advert caught my eye:

Red Bull gives you a bigger mouth as well as wings it would seem.

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Spotted on the London Underground, an advert for Coventry University:

So the best that can be said about Coventry University is that it’s only an hour away from London?

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Sarah Trentham, an aspiring graphic designer, has launched her own website, which provides plenty of her previous work, CV and contact information for anybody out there that wishes to hire her.
The reason for this seemingly random plug? She’s my girlfriend.

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I hate the new Mac adverts staring Mitchell and Webb. I have in fact hated them since I saw the US version (which is practically the same). So I loved this comic:

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Update:

Charlie Brooker and Millennium Elephant lay into the new Apple campaign.

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Okay, that’s it. I’ve had enough with all these debt management adverts that depressingly pop-up every single adbreak during the day.
Oh, so helpful
I’m okay with them touting for business in this way, we all need to pay the bills, feed the family, etc. I’m not okay with their explanation that they will use “government legislation” [...]

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