Audi: When four rings is all you need (fake ad mocking Sochi)

Brilliant response from a Reddit user to the opening ceremony of Winter Olympics in Sochi where a snowflake malfuctioned thus leaving only four rings. A fake ad but a great viral for Audi.

Lisbon City Council: LX Type. The official font of Lisbon.

LX Type is the world's first typography made from tracing Lisbon's tram wires. Lisbon's trams are an iconic element of the city. Their wires that blends with the sky emerged the idea of creating a typography based on them. A very interesting project from Leo Burnett Lisboa with the support of the Lisbon City Council. You can test and download from lxtype.pt the fonts for free. You can also find out a place associated with each letter, transforming words in spontaneous and personalized guides of the city.

Advertising Agency: Leo Burnett, Lisbon, Portugal
Executive Creative Director: Luciana Cani
Head Of Art: Nuno Salvaterra
Copywriter: Jaime Nascimento
Art Direct: Guilherme Nunes
Photography: Guilherme Nunes
Head Of Digital Production: Nuno Frade
Direction and editing: Hugo Lage
Collaborators: Freddie Brando, André Mota, Joana Bruno, Natasha Hellegouarch
Music: Dead Combo

The Sunday Times: Icons

Grey London made a seamless single take spot for The Sunday Times that recreates iconic moments from art, music and film. From Rodin’s The Thinker to Forrest Gump, to Mad Men, to Michelangelo’s The Creation Of Adam, to Reservoir Dogs and Daft Punk. Perfect!

The Sunday Times - Icons from Us on Vimeo.

Watch the making of.

The Sunday Times - Making of Icons from Us on Vimeo.


Credits:
Advertising Agency: Grey, London, UK
Executive Creative Director: Nils Leonard
Creative Director: Dave Monk
Creatives: Jonathan Rands, Johan Leandersson
Agency producer: Debbie Impett
Business director: Tamsine Foggin
Account manager: Albert Ponnelle
Senior planner: Matt Gladstone
Planner: Hamish Cameron
Media agency: M/Six
Production company: Academy Films
Director: Us
Editor: David Stevens
Producer: Juliette harris
DoP: Ben Fordesman
Post production: Electric Theatre Collective
Audio post production: String & Tins

Bell’s Whisky: The Reader

Heartwarming! An elderly man who doesn't know how to read, picks up a book from a bookstore and he begins a journey from illiteracy to literacy. From learning the first letters of the alphabet to reading the entire book. A true man of character. He finally meets the author. The tagline, Give that man a Bell's, comes as a reward.

Advertising Agency: King James, Cape Town, South Africa
Directors: Greg Gray, Velocity Films
Production House TV Producer: Helena Woodfine
Executive Creative Director: Devin Kennedy
Creative Director: Mike Wilson
Art Director: Cameron Watson
Agency TV Producer: Caz Friedman
Client Service: Sheri Cook

Learn For Life Foundation: Set Yourself Free

Stay in school or die horribly! This is what happens when you slack off.
This is not the usual public service announcement you'd expect. It's more like a splatter movie. And a big viral hit.

Credits:
Written & Directed by Henry Inglis and Aaron McCann.
Produced by Lauren Elliott.

Kia K900: The Truth (Super Bowl 2014)

Laurence Fishburne returns to the role of Morpheus for Kia's Super Bowl commercial. He acts as a valet who ask a rich couple to make a choice between the luxury they know and a kind of luxury. There is a blue and a red key (remember the blue/red pills from Matrix?). "Take the blue key and go back to the luxury you know. You take the red key and you'll never look at luxury the same again."

They take the red key and while they drive Kia's K900 luxury sedan, Morpheus sings Nessum Dorma while cars explode!

Credits:
Advertising Agency: David&Goliath, USA

Newcastle Brown Ale: The Teaser for the Trailer for Newcastle's Mega Huge Football Game Ad

I love the ingenuity of Droga5. He makes fun of Super Bowl teaser campaigns with this trailer for the Mega Huge Football Game Ad Newcastle Brown Ale would've made if they had a mega huge advertising budget.

Without having an ad in the Super Bowl he managed to top the list for teasers.

Advertising Agency: Droga5, New York