Ahead of the annual Holi Festival in India, Reliance General Insurance rolled out a campaign that hopes to raise awareness of a stark truth, in an effort to create a safer festival for women.

Created by Ogilvy & Mather, the ‘#HoliNotHooliganism’ campaign puts the spotlight on an often ignored reality that men take the opportunity to harass, grope and molest women under the guise of colour.

The campaign centres around three print ads that show two images side by side – the first a colourful image of Holi alongside another highlighting the reality which often hides beneath the colour once stripped away.

Jumping on the popular Snapchat filter trend, Costa Rican TV and internet service provider Cabletica has released a new series of print ads, created by agency Jotabequ, using the popular filters to send out a message on the importance of setting up parental controls.

The creative draws on popular adult TV shows and films – including Game of Thrones, The Shining, Chucky and The Walking Dead – to create a series of ads that feature characters overlaid with a range of filters with a simple tagline “Some filters are not enough. Parental Control.”

Check out the series of ads below:

Lexus has challenged Time Out's social media editor to say 'Yes' to four UK cities in four days as part of a new 'Say Yes to the City' campaign for Lexus' self-charging CT Hybrid.  

As part of an action-packed four-day editorially-led challenge, spanning Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and London, Rosie Percy and her partner, radio presenter Dan Alani, have been tasked with packing in as many of Time Out's recommended activities as possible across the four UK cities – relying on the Lexus CT Hybrid for transport. 

Inspired by its minimalist Pictos campaign, McDonald's has gone one step further in a new print campaign for the night birds.

The creative, by TBWA\Paris, sees flashes of light glow together to take the shape of some of its most iconic products: Big Mac, Sundae and French Fries to announce the late opening of McDonald's restaurants until midnight or later.

Bimbo, the largest Mexican bakery in the world, has a range of products within its portfolio with different bread specialities each serving a specific purpose and benefit. 

In a new campaign by agency VectorB//McCann Mexico, entitled 'Slice by Slice', a series of print, OOH and digital ads have been released with their own visual resource to communicate the action and reaction of the benefits associated to each kind of bread.  

Check out the creative for the colourful and graphically engaging campaign below:

Read it and wipe… That’s literally what Neutrogena Brazil advised readers of Caras Magazine to do when they received a free sample of its Deep Clean wipes with their magazine recently.

To give consumers a deeper connection with the product, this was so much more than just a free sample as readers were able to remove the make-up from actress Giovanna Ewbank’s face on the front cover of the magazine by wiping it using the accompanying freebie.

Agency DM9DDB was behind the interactive front cover - an innovative and hands-on approach to print advertising where readers could actually see the product in action and experience it for themselves.

These new ads from Swiss human rights group Terre Des Femmes make a pretty bold and powerful statement about gender equality and feminism, by reminding us that a woman’s worth should not be measured by the length of her skirt or the height of her heels…

Released on Facebook earlier this week, the ads depict a faceless woman’s body, with an added layer of measurements printed on top ranging from ‘prude’ to ‘whore’. The campaign slogan simply states: ‘Don’t measure a woman’s worth by her clothes’.

The ads were designed by Theresa Wlokka and a group of students at Miami Ad School in Hamburg, Germany.

Check out all three ads in the series below and let us know what you think. 

Could you live in a world without paper?

I have to admit, nothing beats the smell and feel of a freshly printed magazine. But with technology becoming so prominent in people’s lives and many of us moving away from print towards digital to consume media, how can a magazine that writes about technology prove that paper is still the future?

Here’s how French mag Humanoïde did it…