Spot-on Apple spoof from Wieden + Kennedy for American gum brand
If the sign of any good spoof is its ability to create uncertainty then this new spot for Mintacular is spot-on. So well-observed is Wieden + Kennedy’s piece that for quite a while I was not entirely sure if it even was a spoof, until things started to unravel. Clearly a fond homage to Apple’s advertising, the job titles are brilliant and there’s an excellent line in David Brent style apparently-impressive but utterly meaningless or trite sound-bites – “From the moment you pick it up you instinctively know how to use it,” is a particular favourite. Very nicely done.
Wieden + Kennedy: Mintacular (still)
Wieden + Kennedy: Mintacular (still)
Wieden + Kennedy: Mintacular (still)
Wieden + Kennedy: Mintacular (still)
Wieden + Kennedy: Mintacular (still)
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

