Japan-based art collective NAM shot this series of advertisements showing gravity-defying chocolate confections. What's interesting about the concept is that they decided to do everything without digital trickery, opting instead to hang the various foods from thin strings.
For a recent advertising campaign to bring attention to its hydrogen-powered cars, Mercedes-Benz decided to make a car “invisible” …
Here’s something that’ll blow your mind (sorry that it’s an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl’s …
Back in May 2011, Canadian camera shop The Camera Store released …
There might be a giant corporate scandal hovering over its head, but that’s not stopping Olympus from …
Polaroid and Chase Jarvis teamed up to create this “Will It Blend“-style advertisement …
As newspapers and magazines struggle to keep eyeballs from turning to the free world of the Web, more and more blogs are rising up to fill the niches once dominated by print. Despite the changing landscape, magazines are still able to command high advertising rates that blogs can't match (yet).
Team Detroit came up with a clever series of anti-drug-style advertisements for the College of Creative Studies. Have you talked to your kids about Photoshopping?
Japanese camera ads are sometimes very different from those you might see in the US. We’re still trying to …
Award winning Korean photo studio Indylab shot this award winning advertisement without the aid of computer generated imagery. Instead, they manually tossed and photographed phones one at a time, and then composited all the images afterward.
Here’s a “2 minute love story” Canon commercial that aired in Thailand. In other parts of the world, this …
Photographer duo Joachim Guanzon and Marden Blake (AKA aesonica) created this short behind-the-scenes …
In this social media age, companies are constantly dreaming up all kinds of random ideas for demonstrating the benefits of their products, and hoping that the videos will go viral (an example would be this bulletproof glass CEO that literally stood behind his product).
Samsung made this creative paper camera ad a couple years ago to promote its WB500 compact camera. The magical …
In 1986, Texaco’s gas stations ran a promotion where you received free Fujifilm film every time you filled up …
There hasn't been much activity in the PetaPixel Store since we launched the Leica Look-Alike skins in September 2010, but today that changes -- we're pleased to announce the new Polaroid Picture Frame and Mirror! It's an awesome picture frame for your desk that looks just like Polaroid 600 instant film, and when there isn't a photo inside it doubles as a mirror.
Freelance videographer Dave Wallace made this creative stop-motion video for …
Wedding photographer Kirk Mastin hired Shep Films …
It's not a microscope stop-motion animation, but this stop-motion ad Kia created for its 2012 Picanto is pretty incredible. Over the course of 25 days and nights, they used 1200 bottles of nail polish to paint 900 individual fake fingernails. Each nail took a whopping 2 hours to paint.
Here’s another ad from Olympus’ Get a Real Camera campaign spotted by …
Photographer Mark Matthews of Sydney, Australia spotted the above plaque on a sidewalk …
Nikon has been doing a pretty good job with its “I AM NIKON” advertising campaign in Europe — so …
One of our keen-eyed readers named Daniel recently opened up his July issue …
Nikon is running a new “Man of Action” commercial starring Ashton Kutcher in the US that features the same …
Samsung created this humorous ad a couple years ago teaching how you can take better self-portraits of yourself for …
Vodafone recently ran a pretty creative advertising campaign called “Pixel Hunt” for the purpose of illustrating how many pixels …
This epic advertisement for The Camera Store imagines what would be like if …
This advertisement might not seem too special or difficult to do at first glance, until you …
Here’s a neat blast from the past — a Kodak Instamatic commercial from the 1960s, when the latest technology …
Copywriter Jean Saxon Morrow created with these clever advertisements for Canon's Digital ELPH compact cameras. The tagline is "Remember your story".
Nikon created this beautiful video promoting Nikkor lenses, and included interesting looks into how their lenses are manufactured. Previously …
Canon published this humorous advertisement for the 40D in Digital Photographer magazine back …
Last November NYC firefighter Robert Keiley posed for a stock photograph that showed him covered with soot and holding …
Samsung recently partnered up with viral marketing agency The Viral Factory to launch 200 paper airplanes carrying SD cards from the edges of space. We first reported on this experiment back in September of last year, but they followed through with the plans and just published this video this week showing how they accomplished it. The balloon was launched in Germany, and each SD Card carried a message for the finder to prove how durable they are.
“Freeze Tag” is an award-winning commercial by Canon in which people play the popular children’s game using Canon DSLR …
This is a Kodak advertisement that ran in the The Saturday Evening Post …
Maybe this is what "Photoshop" would be like if computers had never been invented. This workspace has it all -- tools, rulers, layers, etc... These are probably the tools the "I Have PSD" guy uses.
Nikon created this short video to introduce the various Nikon cameras that have …
Here’s a pretty clever ad by Panasonic promoting their Lumix G2 camera. It’s fun seeing photographic terms appear in …
Dentsu London, the same ad agency that recently experimented with iPad …