Autobiographies usually focus around the life story of a main character. However, In the case of these clever ads, the books take the shape of the actual characters’ faces.
Dutch ad agency Van Wanten Etcetera created the campaign to promote the annual Dutch Book Week.
Vincent van Gogh can be seen above.
Creative Bookstore Ads.
Bookstore Mint Vinetu worked with Love Agency in Lithuania to come up with this brilliant series with the tagline “Become someone else. Pick your hero at Mint Vinetu.”
I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York isa new book by Avery Monsen and Jory John. The authors of the national bestseller, All My Friends Are Dead, created this light-hearted book that sets the record straight with “semi-informed opinions, questionable charts, and some slapdash Photoshop work.”
Why did the two decide to create a book? “We’ve always been a little skeptical when people say they love something unconditionally,” Monsen says. “Call us jaded, but we have a hard time believing that anything’s perfect. Even our families, who we’d take a bullet for, drive us bananas sometimes. So when we heard people going on and on about how New York is the greatest city in the world, how it’s the center of culture, fashion, art, and food, we were a little incredulous.
“We’re not saying there’s no neat stuff in New York. There obviously is. Our point, though, is that maybe it’s not all great. And maybe you can appreciate the good stuff a little more if you don’t just say you heart it all. Maybe your love for New York will be stronger if you can admit that some parts of it are a total hassle. Good point, right? We thought so. There are tons of awesome cities out there! Do you think Chicago likes being called Second City all the time? Probably not. Give Chicago some love, people!”
Snow White and Sherlock Holmes
With a tagline “Come with a story and leave with another,” Colsubsidio worked with Lowe/SSP3, an ad agency in Bogota, Columbia to come up with these clever advertisements that will make you do a double-take. They are meant to illustrate a service Colsubsidio’s libraries provide, namely a book exchange.
This series based on “The Numbers” from Chicago-based photographer and designer Paul Octavious is oddly charming.
The numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 frequently recurred in Lost. Each corresponded with one of the final candidates to replace Jacob as protector of the Island. The numbers also formed the coefficients in an equation that predicted mankind’s extinction.
Slovakian artist Matej Kren‘s installation Scanner is like a bookworm childhood fantasy sprung to life: It’s a giant fort made out of thousands of books.
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The line is a reference to The Smiths’ song ‘Cemetry Gates’, from their seminal 1986 album ‘The Queen Is Dead’, where Morrissey sings: “Keats and Yeats are on your side/While Wilde is on mine.”
