Saturday, December 18, 2010

Play with Metaphor in Visual-driven ads

Visual-driven ads have done very well with metaphor. Here’s one lovely example, part of a campaign for Sony Noise Cancelling Headphones done by Bagby and Company, Chicago:

By directly equating a noisy child with a loudspeaker, the ad demonstrates Sony’s empathy with modern travelers, and thus predisposes those travelers to trust Sony’s solution over the competition’s.

But metaphor can just as easily live in words. Here’s a great metaphorical headline, produced by Martin/Williams, Minneapolis for L.L. Bean’s dog beds:

Another example, from Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis for Harley-Davidson:

Crispin & Porter produced this wonderfully minimalist campaign for a homeless mission in Miami:

And the Martin Agency in Richmond used metaphor to celebrate John F. Kennedy’s role in putting the first man on the moon:




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