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Florals? For Spring? Groundbreaking, we know. However, one look at Prada’s supermodel-packed Spring/Summer ‘13 ad campaign and you’ll understand why the Italian fashion house worked with blank backdrops and kept the focus on the flowers. See the full campaign here.

Brazilian ad agency Moma channeled Don Draper and Peggy Olson with a set of fictional ads that have been floating around the Internet. With posters for Facebook, Youtube and Skype, the ads imagine how these modern technologies would be marketed circa 1963—and the results are appropriately Jetsons-inspired. The sepia-toned posters boast such chipper slogans as, “Striking, Miraculous Social Team-up!” and are as clean as an episode of Leave it to Beaver. Regardless of the white bread tone, there’s something rather refreshing about the mom and pop attitude—when the world was as simple as a line of good copy. Read on to see them all.

Burberry is letting customers behind the shiny veneer of its Fall/Winter ad campaign. Usually the stuff of glossy magazine pages and fantasy-inducing dreams, Burberry has pulled the curtain back to reveal the philosophy and strategy behind its advertising, straight from the mouth of Creative Director Christopher Bailey. Burberry reveals the process through a documentary-style video with Bailey, and one that details the models, musicians and actors that make up the cast of the campaign (including model-turned-Megan Fox-replacement, Rosie Huntington Whiteley).