Credit: Hasan Jaber You can always count in advertising to tell you the story. Always. Lately there was a campaign spreading, for better or ...

So I escaped unharmed. Of all days when I could go out, I decided to do it yesterday. 30 minutes before the explosion, I was stuck with Mich...

Army Day came and went without a whimper this year, thankfully. For a while, any company that could dip anything in camouflage did so and br...

Brilliant and heart-stopping ad by Nike. Watch here . Let me first say it's been done before. The mix and match technique of two images....

Recently many people were sharing an article about Lebanon that dates back to 1963 which qualifies it as the fourth most prosperous nation i...

At the beginning of the year, trusted media and advertising personality Naji Boulos forecasted that the 2020 expenditure in Lebanon was goin...

I am not someone prone to easy superlatives, but without any doubt the crisis currently hitting Lebanon and affecting people so totally dras...

Watch HERE : Based on the philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard. This art project is an attempt to retrace the history of Lebanon throu...

At a time when any new ad is worth talking about due to their scarcity, this USAID ad about protecting water in Lebanon "no matter what...

Well, here is your solution to when counting large amounts of money - presumably Lebanese currency. Because if you were that awash in cash y...

The only global creative award judged by the press goes ahead with its €100 “early bird” discount until August 31st. As they face rocky econ...

An Arab Child reads an average of 6 minutes a year. Compared to 12,000 minutes to their western counterpart. Am not inventing this, this is ...

Ramco, the company handling the sweeping and cleaning in Lebanon wants to recruit Lebanese workers. Copied verbatim from here : "Rememb...

Natgaz sells incandescent lamps and gas lanterns. Repeat: incandescent lamps and gas lanterns. With fuel problems, electricity shortages and...

Well with ads so rare and in between these days it is great to see anyone doing anything, and so much the better, anything good. So it is a ...

The UAE Mars Mission called Hope Probe (nice name), will launch on July 15 - the Emirates produced a rather predictable ad to accompany the ...

Three months later, the AdForum PHNX Tribute is a reality, with a list of Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners. They were announced d...

And sometimes it just works! You can turn it, flip it, analyze it, dissect it, etc.... The end result is something you identify with. Oh tha...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly based on Albrecht Durer Lately, I have been accused of being an optimist - specifically due to this piece . Trust m...

With the Dollar exchange price varying daily here are some cases I witnessed: A store owner I know is opening his shop haphazardly with no f...

Concord, the Lebanese white good manufacturer, has an ad that combines staying at home and patriotic slogans. "Stay home and shop onlin...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly based on a Chinese cultural Revolution porcelain statue Never a dull day. Right after news broke that talks between...

Scars mean you survived - Hussein Hajj (Artwork by Tarek Chemaly) I shall begin with the old adage: "This too shall pass". Well, I...

The PHNX festival just closed its jury grading window. I must have graded more than 2500 ads. The PHNX was a bit of an anomaly though: Being...

Al Hurra TV goes against stereotype in a new ad. Part of this new wave of short-destined-destined-for-internet ads, the Hurra output crams a...

For a long while this was the only new campaign running practically everywhere in town. The idea is simple, Lebanese (rather well-known, or ...

Malak Al Tawouk has certainly been branching out and revamping its menu away from the "tawouk" (chicken skewer) which made its nam...

SKeyes (SK stands for slain journalist Samur Kassir) gets director Roy  Dib to speak of censorship in Lebanon. Dib whose work was exhibited ...

National Mental Health Program (NMHP) in Lebanon has a beautifully shot, well done film related to the Coronavirus. The film plays on parano...

How can I tell you how great the Home Centre father's day ad is without revealing the plot twist. The very moving plot twist. Suffice to...

The Floward father's day ad starts as an ode to mothers - who gave the baby the milk bottle? Who gave him his lunch to school? Who chose...

When times are a tough as they are today in Lebanon - economically, socially, politically - any small bit helps. The other day when shopping...

Ksara just played the optimism card with an ad that goes "keep your glass raised" (khalli kesak marfou3) a riff on the typical Leb...

Artwork by Tarek Chemaly from the series "History of Lebanon" Next to our house in Beirut (Achrafieh) in the 80s there was somethi...

#NotABlugSplat - Reprieve A well-known, multi-multi-awarded creative director at a Lebanese agency would go inside the junior art directors&...

Artwork by the talented Jad Chidiac For a blog whose main material is talking about ads, the fact that there are no ads to talk about should...

It has emerged that worldwide, there are murals celebrating George Floyd. Including one in Idlib, Syria . Including.One.In.Idlib.Syria. I me...

And what if Pepsi is the answer? It seems someone tried to imitate the now infamous Kendal Jenner Pepsi ad   by actually offering the soda d...

Source The incredibly talented Tania Saleh found herself in hot water.  Here is how she captioned her image: كل عمري كنت احلم كون سوداء I wi...

Image credit: Cult couturier Ziad Ghanem "Be yourself everyone else is taken" - so said the incredibly talented Oscar Wilde, OK, y...

Source OK - Nike went on the offensive with "for once don't do it" in the light of George Floyd's death/murder, and Adidas...

Bill Reed:   Arraignment of 18 of 21 men implicated in the murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner "President Bush ...