Nike gives Manuel Almunia a deceitful Photoshop makover
Before:
After:
Take one picture of Manuel Almunia conceding a goal. Open Photoshop, change the position of the ball (not a crucial detail, after all), change the kit, erase the hoarding sponsor, and – ta-dah! – you have one shiny, on-brand ad for Arsenal’s new goalkeeping kit.
The truth? Screw the truth.
‘By the way, if anyone here is in marketing or advertising…kill yourself. Thank you. Just planting seeds, planting seeds is all I’m doing. No joke here, really. Seriously, kill yourself, you have no rationalisation for what you do, you are Satan’s little helpers. Kill yourself, kill yourself, kill yourself now.’
Bill, your words always come in useful.
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We’re sure thats not a promotional for fargo?
Ha ha.
Ad men in using photoshop shocker.
Hardly news, or deceitful, for anyone with a modicum of common sense.
not occured to you that all the new arsenal away kit/third kit pictures are just re-edited pictures from last season!
great journalism there bud………
brilliant work by nike.
Nike has used the same graphics for the Villa and Arsenal launches this summer and they’re really smart – they look great. I’m sure this isn’t intended as news or journalism, I know my post wasn’t. It’s just a little chuckle because they’ve moved the ball.
Bantering football fans, whatever next?
Chris, I thought the Villa ones looked particularly good, even if by featuring Barry they now look dated.
Excuse me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this s**t one more time…
Oh no! They changed the colour of the ball too! BASTARDS!
You rant about advertisers and advertising, yet you your website and income is powered by them.
You succeed greatly in pretentious, pompous hypocrisy. Congrats!
yeah thanx for pointang this out cos otherwise i would have thought it was a photo from next season and the (b)ad men had teamed up with dr whonia
I guess you like advertisers then? poker rakeback
Still can’t get over it, how can you be raging against advertisers when they are the one paying you (or Anorak’s) bills?
It’s hilarious. You have zero credibility from here on out, well done.
@ Tim: “raging”! Ha, that’s tremendous. Did you even read what I like to call ‘the words’ to this post? There’s no rage here, young Timmy, just banter. Relax, it’s the summer. Stress kills.
To be fair to Nike, it was the only way they’d ever get a picture of Almunia making a save.
It’s almost as bad as someone slapping a bit of Bill Hicks on their blog to make it look funny.
@ MarkFlatts: almost, Mark, but not quite.
I think in Almunia’s mind, he was that close to the ball. Shot stopper. Not.
Bill Hicks.. Plagiarism is a disease…
I don’t understand why this is news. Pointless bit of blogging, come back when you have something interesting to say.
Would you refuse to buy your girlfriend some nice underwear because you discovered, the model actually has a pubic wart where there wasn’t one in the promo pic?
Hehe. I doubt it.
Haha well spotted. Thats pretty sick by Nike.
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