Got Ads Blog & Al Murphy

For my research for the PJ smotthies brief i have been looking at creative advertising, especially ads that use illustration. I have mostly been looking at adsoftheworld.com and also came across a blog called got-ads. Here there is loads of creative advertising from all over the world. My favourites were these ones by The Jupiter Drawing Room, South Africa for the AAA school of advertising - 'when you know you're a creative thinker.'






I also came across adverts for perrier water which are illustrated by Al Murphy and Paul Davis. (Paul on the left and Al on the right below) I like them because the drawing, especially Al murphy's, reminds me of david Shrigley :) The brand was trying to appeal to a younger audience and based these adverts around a series of words - healthier , riskier, younger etc. Usually you would see this kind of campaign for beer so its nice to see a non alcoholic drink with such a strong campaign.



As well as print ads there are some tv ones which use the same concept:




Al Murphy graduated from Liverpool School of art in 1999 and has been living in London. His current and past clients include, MTV, Universal, EMI, Parlophone and Merury Records, the BBC, Orange telecommunications and Coca Cola. For the past couple of years Al has been lucky enough to work in the studio owned by Tank Girl and Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett who i also love. Here are some of his illustrations on Tshirts