The Best Use Of Tattoos In Ads

It’s one of the most overused and abused creative linchpins in advertising.

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The best ad from a 2010 award-winning campaign for Pilot extra fine pens.
By Grey, Barcelona.

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One of a series of 2010 ads for a French organ donor organization.

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Ad via Canada was produced just two months before bin Laden was killed.
WHAT DID YOU KNOW, CANADA?

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Best ad from a 2008 campaign for the Schick Quattro.
Ad agency: JWT, NYC.

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2008 ad for a Charlotte, NC tattoo removal business.
Stop laughing, this is horrible.

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Great installation from 2007 to promote the Discovery show, “London Ink.”
Second one below.
Ad agency: Mother, London.

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Translation: Not all traditions deserve to be preserved. Put an end to whaling in Japan.
Spiritual tattooing dates to 10,000 BC in Japan, according to Wikipedia.
Ad agency: Leo Burnett, Hong Kong.