anonymous: just douche it.

So this little puppy turned up on Adrants today. Apparently it’s about to appear in a yet unnamed international publication, and the equally anonymous tipster told them “We prefer to keep the publication anonymous for now but this will be going to print in the very near future and we expect it to provoke some discussion and probably some threats of legal action.”

Looks very Adbusters-ish to me, but who knows. I like Nike. I wear Nikes. So I’m not posting this to trash them. Because the only thing I like more than my right to enjoy and support a brand, no matter how ubiquitous it may be, is the right of anyone else to hate it enough to make fun of it.

UPDATE: Thanks to Jake for letting me know that Just Douche It did actually turn up as the back cover on the latest issue of Adbusters. Sweet.

nike: no excuses.

It’s oh so easy to line up all those New Year’s resolutions on Dec. 27th, with egg-nog in one hand and paté knife in the other, readying yourself for the inevitable devouring of another cheeseball. Once all the late-night Toblerone wrappers have been discarded and you’re back in the office wondering where the holidays went… then it’s a whole other story.

It’s that very collision between the good intentions of your resolutions and the reality that mere days before you thought nothing of eating half a tin of shortbread…at midnight…with stuffing on the side, where Nike steps in.

Under it’s iconic and now permanently entrenched Just Do It umbrella (I’m pretty sure if you showed infants in Mongolia a swoosh their first words would be “just do it”), the No Excuses campaign is based on making you feel like shit for giving up so easily.

(Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Portland)

Starring US Paralympian Matt Scott, the spot is simple, honest, and to the point. There really are no excuses. Maybe not the most groundbreaking work Nike’s ever done, but the message is true and the emotion behind it is genuine. The campaign has corresponding outdoor as well. I think the billboard, though pleasingly minimalist, would be sort of dull if you hadn’t seen the TV ad. But maybe that’s because I’m a lazy mofo…