Sunday, June 10, 2012

Unleashing the creative juices: People who have fun at work...

I think you can tell when people are having fun at work. From headline writers to ad copywriters, the creative ones always provide that extra pizzazz (without being offensive to anyone).

For example, you can write a straightforward headline...

 
Or, you can playfully write this wackier one...


But such creativity requires one to be curious, in this case, to understand American politics, to be aware that Dick Cheney is known to be a controversial unflinching ultra-right wing politician.

A wide knowledge of the music scene must have enabled this person to pen this headline below:


Sex always sells newspapers? How about sax, ie, to catch your attention?...


Here's yet another "damn good" play on words...


These two, from two rival papers, are equally good...



Vogue fashion magazine decided that it would not allow pictures of overly-skinny models to adorn its pages. You may think it was easy to come up with this headline below. It seemed obvious, but only after some bright spark thought of it!...


What do today's digital natives do when looking for love? Here's the answer (courtesy of a fan of the actor Hugh Grant?)...


Let's not leave all the fun to the newspapers. The online website xin.msn came up with this excellent one, about someone pulling a stunt and disrupting a boat race by jumping into the river...


People who write up ads have to attract eye-balls. Here's a really classy motoring ad, for BMW's convertible range...


Finally, budget airline Scoot's inaugural Singapore-Sydney flight was titillatingly announced thus:

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