Friday, April 10, 2015

Trex Magic Marker Deck Ad

Hey, this is like the children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon.

A couple draws the design of a deck they’d like on their sliding glass doors, and then it becomes real. Maybe they’re Harold’s parents? Or maybe they captured Harold and forced him to reveal how to get magic markers to make what they draw real like his purple crayon. Who knows?

But one thing I am pretty certain of is that it was a bitch to clean all the permanent marker marks off of those glass doors.

Cute idea: well realized. And it makes me nostalgic for Harold and the Purple Crayon.

(I wonder if Harold became an architect when he grew up. Just think of all the money he could have saved on material and contractors with his magic drafting implements!)

Here’s the marker marketing message: