As a counterpoint to this thread, let’s look at some beautiful adverts instead.
I’ll begin with this one - a tv ad for TV…
I’ve been seeing this one recently. It’s for Delta Airlines. It shows a closeup of a runway, with the lines and tire marks passing by faster and faster until the plane takes off, all while Donald Sutherland does a voice-over.
I’m not sure I’d call it lovely, but I like it because I recognize that runway.34L at Everett, Washington.
The Hamlet cigar ads. Note the second one.
That is nice. Reminds me of the Guinness White Horses ad, for some reason.
Harvey and Rabbit
This is a special time. Little Baby’s Ice Cream
Oh yes, the bouncy balls ad was very uplifting and beautiful.
Irn-Bru sometimes do good ads for their vile spew. This one is based on The Snowman:
"I'm falling through the air..." etcMikkeler Brewing/Evil Twin Brewing has an interesting history.
There was a German shipping company called the Beluga Group that had a beautiful ad on their site – sadly the company is now defunct and I can’t find it online though I have a copy. They were forward-thinking and environmentally conscious in many ways, funded academic research, and were the first company to introduced “skysails” on their ships, which harnessed the wind to improve fuel economy. The ad begins with footage of Beluga whales and dissolves to imagery of a fleet of majestic ships against the sunset, with a cinematic score that gives it the feel of a full-scale feature movie production. It ends with an image of a diving Beluga whale with just its fin sticking out of the water, which transforms into the stylized Beluga Group logo. Not a word is said throughout, just music and imagery. It was very well done.
But since I can’t find it here’s a consolation – another defunct company, 3DFX, which used to make computer video cards, had a series of ingeniously funny ads – here are two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooLO2xeyJZAI love thisone with little kids playing hockey; maybe not what some consider beautiful but I do.
Willie Nelson doing a cover of the Coldplay song, The Scientist, called, Back To The Start
an animated ad for Chipoltae