You’d never know it living in America™, but there’s an Apple out there that’s edgier and more colorful than the company’s work-a-day iPod advertising and marketing would lead you to believe.

The mothership’s US iPod TV ads and print ads (advertolog) still regularly receive praise for their look and content, but there’s more to their image than silhouettes.

Examples of Apple thinking different, riffing on itself, can be found in South Africa.

In fact, these ads are so cool, innovative and, well, just completely different than anything else out there, that Apple going ’round the web asking anyone who displays them to remove them, creativebits.

Of course, Cupertino has a strong interest in maintaining consistency. In truth, it’s one of the company’s hallmarks and that’s to be respected.

But neither a strong sense of brand identity nor an active legal team can keep us from looking…

Got links to cool, “non-standard” Apple advertising? Drop us a line and / or post ‘em in comments!

via  http://www.itunesmuse.org/files/460863153b5b036432fce2f57ab78ca1-17.html