The concept of urban creativity isn’t just about street fashion, irreverent ideals or young kids dressing like hip-hop stars. Urban creativity is about culture. And, as people, we’re all a part of culture.
Category: Ad Culture
Creativity is nothing if not a feeling
A piece of urban culture is created when an entity steps out of its comfort zone and creates something with a message that makes people feel something. A message that is common to everyone and that a lot of people can relate to.
Brand creativity has the power to build new culture
Most of the times, what comes out of polemical issues like racism, social exclusion and gender inequality is usually more racism, social exclusion and gender inequality. But then, I found Lido Pimienta and Wayvy Baby.
What happens when brands actually listen to people’s needs
There’s a thing that happens when you don’t consider human behavior and another that happens when you do.
Reinventing classic to make it trendy again
When we hear “original”, we usually hear “old” or even “vintage”. But this campaign by Adidas really opens our eyes to a whole new meaning of the concept.
It’s rough, it’s authentic, it’s Da Da Ding
To feel empowered by a brand, to be inspired by their content and to feel like they not only understand you, but also give you the elements you need to fight for what you believe in can only mean one thing: that brand is doing one hell of a job with their content.
This ad doesn’t sell a product, it creates culture
You know a brand is more than a brand when what they create becomes part of urban culture. That’s Beats by Dre’s case.
Watch out for Londoners
The thing about London is that it sets trends just by existing. It’s full of different people from all over the world that have influenced their own culture, which makes it the perfect source of trends that Nike needed to properly represent the people from this city in an ad.
Jimmy Choo wants you to be in love with his shoes
It doesn’t matter who’s wearing them, they are so amazing on their own that the only thing you’ll be looking at will be the shoes. That’s the story Jimmy Choo tells in this ad starring Cara Delevingne. And it makes you want to be in it.
There’s no such thing as too many dance video ads
These days, brands are focusing a lot on showing their creativity and products through music. It could seem like too much, but it’s worth it.
The best dressed Postman’s Dreams ever
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a brand displaying their products on social media without using influencers. But specially, doing it in such a clever way, drawing our attention to every bit of detail that is displayed in each scene, not to mention using famous people to tell the postman’s dreams.
