OK, so this one turns out to be an oldie (well, it’s an oldie where I come from) from back in 2005, but I only just ffffound it, so it’s new to me.

It’s an ad campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi which looks like it was for a printer or paper company. There are some more details about the campaign here. It’s obviously a bit of a graphic design in-joke, but it does remind me of the numerous times I’ve found myself explaining the CMYK colour system to non-designers and clients. It can sound a bit odd to other people, the fact that everything they see is mostly printed just from 4 colours, and of course, the big issue of the fact that their own corporate colour can’t always be printed exactly the same with CMYK as they saw it in spot on their business card. Comments like ‘can we just make it a darker tint? What about 150%?’ or ‘can we print it in white’ sound funny at first but they’re perfectly valid thoughts if you don’t know how CMYK works. Colour really is a minefield…

Here are some more…

I bet they get the joke at Shillington College…

Another treat originally ffffound here. Also tracked back to here…

Thought this ad from the New South Wales police was quite funny. I guess that’s not really the point though…

It’s still a more dignified death than being run over by a 1970′s family saloon…

, originally uploaded by the decapitator.

Thanks to Ryan for this one, a great Flickr set showing how some guy is going round London chopping the heads off the people in adverts. Great idea and nicely done…

Here’s the Irn Bru Christmas advert, a Snowman pastiche and quite funny…

…personally I like the bit where he throws his nose away. (A carrot rather than an orange for contractual copyright reasons…)

Looks like I’ve wasted the last decade then…

I’m pretty fed up of hearing how amazing the Cadbury’s Phil Collins advert is by now. In fact I was fed up of hearing about it even before I’d seen it properly and had a chance to make up my own mind. It IS great but enough already. Having said that, you’ve got to admit that the Wonderbra pastiche is pretty inspired. Calm down, it’s only a bit of fun…