Hung on a wall at Liljeholmen subway station, Stockholm:



Translation:

Dentist If you want to visit a very skilled dentist that also has humane prices, go to Västertorp Centrum across from the subway station.

Do you want a dentist that is desperate enough to hang hand made signs up with tape on subway station walls? I thought this country had some form of socialized health care. How can dentists be reduced to this...type of advertising.

Permalink    Labels: Whackiness, Stockholm, Advertisements

Occasionally (read at least once a month) I see advertisements on the subway here in Stockholm that completely throw me off. It's as if for a moment I am living in a parallel dimension where things I know shouldn't actually be allowed, happen anyways.

Enter this ad for the Rubik's Cube - note it is the original - that appeared some time back as part of a campaign for Teknik Magasinet. I was hoping that additional items, such as the Lite Brite or Etcha-a-Sketch, would also be considered "Orginal gangsta shit!" but alas the Cube was the only product to receive the honors.

Who it was in the chain of reviewers and designers that thought that this was:

A good idea

Good marketing

deserves some credit. If I hadn't actually seen this numerous times with my own two eyes I would have thought the image was Photoshopped. But, trust me here folks, this is just too bizarre....

* Yes, it's true, an original Rubik's Cube does cost like $30 in Sweden.

Permalink    Labels: Stockholm, Advertisements, Whackiness