Amazing cutout dioramas by Hari & Deepti

Layers of paper are illuminated from the back creating a sensational depth and atmosphere. Originally from India and now based in Denver, Hari and Deepti, believe that “Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal and intricate. It reflects light, creates depth and illusions in a way that it takes the artist through a journey with limitless possibilities.”

Bordo Bello NYC // Making of Rise and Skate from Harikrishnan on Vimeo.

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The Hunter and the Bear in Pharrell Williams' book

The hunter and the bear, heroes of one of the most acclaimed digital campaigns of the last decade are back with another friend, the amazing Pharrell Williams. Get ready for an exhilarating adventure...

This year, Tipp-Ex®, N°1 correction brand in Europe,Bic® and Pharrell Williams go together to make history by creating the first participatory book instantly translated into 5 languages. A real technological feat imagined by Buzzman agency for a world first!

The idea: Tipp-Ex® and Buzzman asked Pharrell to write a book about the source of his inspiration. A few hours before the book launch, struck by panic due to fierce readers seeking to steal the book, the bear decided to cover the whole book with Tipp-Ex® to protect its contents.

With this blunder starts a new Tipp-Ex® adventure ... To participate, you will have to enter the cabin of the hunter and the bear and help find the thousands of words, which have been covered in the book.

Obviously, the hunter, the bear and even Pharrell will be there at every moment with hints to help you complete the book. The more words you find, the closer your name will be in the credits alongside Pharrell Williams.

Once completed by users, the “Social Book” will be printed and published.

Profits will be donated to an organization supporting disadvantaged children as they attempt to, hopefully, rewrite their lives.

Help them at http://www.tippexsocialbook.com/ 

Credits:
Agency: Buzzman
CEO and Creative Director : Georges Mohammed-Cherif
General Manager : Thomas Granger
Associate Director : Julien Levilain
Creatives : Santiago Cosme, Miguel Durão
Account Managers : Olivier Lopez, Loïc Coelho
Social Media Managers : Julien Scaglione, Joeffrey Arruyer
PR and Communication : Cyril Paglino, Clara Bascoul-Gauthier
Digital Producers : Laurent Marcus, Lara Jane Lelievre
TV Producers : Vanessa Barbel, Elodie Poupeau
TV Production : Iconoclast
Director : Adrien Armanet
Digital Production : We are Anonymous
Artistic Direction : We are from L.A.

Castrol Footkhana: Neymar Jr. v Ken Block

Football meets gymkhana and Footkhana is born. A shootout between Neymar Jr. and Ken Block. Juggling with the ball meets smoking tires and spins in this experiment from Castrol, an official sponsor of the World Cup 2014.

Seth & Riley's Garage: Kind of genius. Kind of.

Duval Guillaume have gone completely mad for the launch of Seth & Riley’s Garage, the new hard lemonade drink of Carlsberg Breweries. They have created a kind of genius campaign featuring a funeral, crazy penguins and a lot of slow motion. Check it out.

Credits:
Agency: Duval Guillaume, Antwerp
Production Company: Hobby Film
Director: Oskar Bård. 

Powerade: Nico's Story

The emotional backstory of Nico Calabria who was born with one leg but had the power to pursue his love for football, is Powerade's great spot for 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Amsterdam
Executive Creative Directors: Mark Bernath, Eric Quennoy
Creative Directors: Alvaro Sotomayor, Rosie Bardales
Art Director: Mike Bond
Copywriter: Bernard Hunter
Head of Broadcast Production: Erik Verheijen
Broadcast Producers: Tony Stearns, Lars Fabery de Jonge
Planner: Ben Armistead
Group Account Director: Kirk Johnson
Account Director: Courtney Trull
Account Manager: Alex Allcott
Art Buyer: Maud Klarenbeek
Project Manager: Stacey Prudden
Business Affairs: Emilie Douque
Production Company: Caviar Los Angeles
Director: AG Rojas
Directors of Photography: Frederick Backar, Michael Ragan
Producer: Geoff McLean
Executive Producers: Michael Sagol, Jasper Thomlinson
Editing Company: Whitehouse Post London
Editor: Russel Icke, Charlie Harvey
Audio Post: Wave Amsterdam
Sound Designer/Mixer: Alex Nicolls-Lee
Music TVC: Schmooz France
Artist TVC: Sanj SEN – Powerade 2014 Composition
Music Company TVC: Ultraschmooz
Postproduction: Glassworks Amsterdam
Flame: Kyle Obley, Jesper Nybroe, Bob Rojien
3D: Tim Bolland, Simon Glas, Eva Kuehlmann
Telecine: Scott Harris
Producer: Armand Weeresinghe
Print Production: Photographer: Levon Biss
Photographers Agent: Seamus O’Cleary @ Bonakdar Cleary
Production Company: Widescope Productions

Thai Life Insurance: Unsung Hero

This heartwarming spot from Thailand will encourage you to do small acts of kindness. The unsung hero is young man who don't have much but he is generous enough to help a little girl begging for education, to feed a stray dog, to leave bananas to the old neighbor, to give his seat on the bus, without expecting something in return. He will not get rich or be famous or featured on TV. He just keeps doing good and as time goes by we see that all his good deeds starts to pay off.

Credits:

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy Thailand, Bangkok.

Lurpak Cook's Range: Adventure Awaits

The new Lurpak spot proves once more that you can have great advertising with any product. Even butter. Wieden + Kennedy London transformed the cooking preparation to space exploration in this brilliantly directed spot for Lurpak Cook's range. Close ups turn food to planets and carrots to spaceships in an adventurous quest to reach new frontiers in cooking. If you missed the previous Lurpak work check here, here and here.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Wieden+Kennedy, London, UK
Creative Directors: Sam Heath, Dan Norris, Ray Shaughnessy
Copywriters / Art Directors: Freddie Powell, Hollie Walker
Producers: Emma Wright, Chloe Roseman
Group Account Director: Helen Foulder
Account Directors / Managers / Planners: Katja Dienel, Angharad Thomas, Jennifer Lewis
Executive Creative Directors: Tony Davidson, Kim Papworth
Agency Executive Producer: Danielle Stewart
Production Company: Blink Productions
Director: Dougal Wilson
Executive Producer: Ewen Brown
Director of Photography: Stephen King Roach
Set Design: Lightning + Kinglyface
Editorial Company: Final Cut
Editor: Joe Guest
VFX Company: The Moving Picture Company
VFX Supervisor: Tom Harding
Flame Artist: Tom Harding
VFX Producer: Marianna Bruynseels
Shoot Supervisor: Bill McNamara
Grade: Jean-Clément Soret
Music+Sound Company: Wave Studios
Composer: Richard Strauss
Sound Designer: Aaron Reynolds

HootSuite: A Game of Social Thrones

The seven kingdoms in the Game of Thrones opening sequence are reimagined as social networks in this fantastic animated clip from HootSuite. The social networks were not placed randomly but based to the unique characteristics of each kingdom. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Google, Google+, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat and LinkedIn battle in the Game of Social Thrones!

Credits:
Producer/Director: Evan Aagaard, HootSuite
Lead Animator/Motion Designer: Clément Morin
Music Composer: Etienne Forget
Executive Producer: Cameron Uganec, HootSuite
Concept: Evan LePage, Hootsuite

Volkswagen Kombi: Last Wishes

VW pays tribute to the iconic VW Type 2 (Kombi). The last Kombi was produced in Brazil in December 2013 and AlmapBBDO Brasil run a campaign for the "de-launch" of the model. They also gathered stories from the Kombi's drivers and made the following film with Kombi's last 15 wishes. The documentary took six months in the making.

From the legendary Woodstock painted Type 2, to the first drawing of the car from Ben Pon, the 4 minute film is full of special moments. The last wish fulfills Kombi's journey.

Credits:
Advertising Agency:AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil
Production:Spray Filmes
Director:Fernando Grostein Andrade
Creative Director:Andre Kassu, Marcos Medeiros
Executive Creative Director:Luiz Sanches
Art Director:Benjamin Yung Junior, Marcelo Tolentino
Copywriter:Marcelo Nogueira, Marcelo Pignatari Rosa
Executive Producer:Lucia Leite
Photographer:Fernando Grostein Andrade

Neue Zürcher Zeitung: The Digital Newspaper Holder

Convincing conservative newspaper readers about the advantages of a digital publication can be a hard task. Jung von Matt turned the classic wooden newspaper holders into a digital tool to surprise readers. With the use of LED boards inside the holders and the programming needed in order to receive RSS-feeds through an infrared transmitter, they managed to surprise readers and record a 2.7% increase in its digital readership for Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August to October 2013.

The Digital Newspaper Holder from not-enough on Vimeo.

Credits:
Jung von Matt/Limnat Zürich, Switzerland
Executive Creative Director: Alexander Jaggy
Copywriter: Cyrill Wirz
Art Director: Adrian Merz
Art Director: David Hanselmann
Graphic: Aude Kohler
Account Supervisor: Sabrina Arthur
Account Manager: Petra Moser
Social Media: Oliver Vedolin

SXSW 2014: 10 Trends from Cake Group & Havas Media

Insights and trends delived from SXSW. From personal data ownership and anti-social media to cryptocurrency and earned media planning, this presentation from Cake Group worth the read.

SXSW 2014: 10 Trends from Cake Group & Havas Media from Cake New York

PlayStation: Shock Belgium

Would you put your fingers in an electrical socket? Chances are you would if you wanted to win the new inFAMOUS: Second Son game for Playstation and have a little bit of fun doing it.

Playstation in Belgium, created an installation where you inserted two fingers in a socket and had to stand the electrical shock for 5 seconds to win.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: TBWA 

All Facebook Image Dimensions infographic

A very useful infographic by Jon Loomer with all the dimensions you need in order to optimize your Facebook timeline, posts and ads.

Courtesy of: JonLoomer.com

Dissolve: This Is a Generic Brand Video

If you work in advertising then you'll find this very funny and true. This is a generic brand video made of stock footage by Dissolve that mocks all corporate advertising videos. Full of advertising cliches, the video is based on "This is a generic brand video" by Kendra Eash. Enjoy!!

Credits:
Video: Dissolve Footage
Narrated by Dallas McClain
Music: "Piano Work 02" by rysktchkw

Rushes: Tiny Worlds

Imagine tiny worlds come to life under our feet. The CG team at Rushes made just that with this very interesting and humorous trilogy.

Credits:
Agency: Rushes, London
Executive Producer:  Norra Abdul Rahim
Producer:  Caroline Laing
Production Assistant:  Alexina Davidson
Head of CG:  Andy Nicholas
Lead CG:  Andy Hargreaves
Director: Chris Hutchison
CG Artists:  Chris Hutchison, Craig Travis, David Drese, Liam Hoflay, Andrea Scibetta, Nimesh Patel
Nuke:  Noel Harmes
Flame:  Martin Goodwin
Sound Design:  Tom Martin @ Mcasso

Pampers Daipers: ZZZ Radio

A radio station that airs only white noise is a brilliant idea from Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Manila for Pampers Diapers. It is scientifically proven that white noise has sleep-inducing effects on babies. Since radio static is white noise Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Manila reinvented how radio can be used and made 99.1FM "ZZZ Radio". They helped babies to sleep and let moms take it to social media and gain the impressive 2011% increase in engagement.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Ace Saatchi & Saatchi Manila

Nokia challenges Sony to a #Cameraduel

Α western style #CAMERADUEL.
Sony made the following tweet:

Sony Xperia GB        ✔ @sonyxperiagb

Picture-perfect moments deserve award-winning camera technology, see how with #XperiaZ2 http://bddy.me/1g6hpBd  pic.twitter.com/Vvn82e05lY

and nokia challenged Sony to a #cameraduel

Old Spice: Get Shaved in the Face

Terry Crews is shaving a tiny Terry Crews. Old Spice gets surreal again. Enjoy.

Credits:
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore.
Creative Directors: Craig Allen, Jason Bagley
Copywriter: Andy Laugenour
Art Director: Matt Sorrell
Broadcast Producer: Jennifer Hundis
Director of Broadcast Production: Ben Grylewicz
Account Team: Georgina Gooley, Nick Pirtle, Michael Dalton, Jessica Monsey
Executive Creative Directors: Susan Hoffman, Joe Staples
Production Company: Gifted Youth
Direction, Editing, Visual Effects: Fatal Farm
Sound Mix: Charlie Keating, Joint Editorial

Coor Down: Dear Future Mom

A very emotional spot for World Down Syndrome Day on March 21st. Coor Down, Italy's national organization for people with Down syndrome received a letter from a mother who learned that her son will be born with Down syndrome. She asked "I'm scared: What kind of life will my child have?"

The answer came from Saatchi & Saatchi with this emotional video where 15 people with Down syndrome respond to her. "Everyone has the right to be happy" as the tagline says.

Credits:
Client: CoorDown
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Italy
Executive Creative Director: Agostino Toscana
Creative Directors: Luca Lorenzini, Luca Pannese
Art Director: Luca Pannese
Copywriter: Luca Lorenzini
Director: Luca Lucini
Production Company: The Family Film
Agency Producer: Sabrina Sanfratello
Head of TV: Raffaella Scarpetti
Original Music: Alessandro Cristofori, Diego Perugini for Stabbiolo Music
Postproduction: XChanges Vfx
Color Grading: Band
Audio Postproduction: Top Digital; Cat Sound International
Voiceover: Pasquale Anselmo

Canal+: ‘Wilhelm Scream’ Mockumentary

"The Woman Who Can’t Watch Movies" is the widow of Sheb Wooley and she can't watch movies because he keeps hearing her husband's screem. “The Wilhelm scream,” is a legendary stock audio scream, recorded by Sheb Wooley and used  in the 1951 film Distant Drums. It was named after the character Private Wilhelm in the 1953 western The Charge of the Feather River. It has been used in over 200 films since then (including Star Wars, Toy Story, Indana Jones, Lord of the Rings and more).

Canal+ made a Scream Bank, a catalog of donated screams for industry professionals to use in place of Sheb’s and invites users to record their own screams and help Linda Dotson Wooley see films again. The video is a teaser for Leave Wilhelm Alone, an upcoming documentary on the “Wilhelm scream.”

Credits
Client: Canal+

Agency: FCB Spain & FCB Los Angeles
Campaign: “Leave Wilhelm Alone”
Client Contact: Iñaki Martikorena, Bernardo Melero, Purification González
Executive Creative Directors: Pedro Soler, Eric Springer
Creative Team: Beatriz Pedrosa, Peio Azkoaga, Joao Freitas
Producers: Brendan Kiernan, Steve Devore, Thomas Anderson, Kate Borkowski, Kepa Vizcay
Production Company: Helo
Director: Alex Grossman
Lighting: Seamus Tierney
Sound: Sam Tornero Pulido
Web Developers: Carlos Lainez, Miguel Iglesias
App Developers: Joan Arbó, Jorge Cubillo
Social Media Strategy: Mauro Rodriguez, Jose Olivares
Poster: Beatriz Pedrosa, Marian de la Fuente
Planner: Manuel López

Carlsberg: HappyBeerTime

Blending social with on premise sales is not an easy task but Carlsberg's Happy Hour 2.0 campaign seems to make everybody happy. Bars have a HappyBeerTime USB stick that when plugged in Happy Hour appears on screen for a limited amount of time. Then people take a photo, upload it to Instagram tagged with #HappyBeerTime and the bar's name and they get extra Happy Hour time. So, bars sell beers and get on Instagram, customers gets discounts, Carlsberg gets content. Everybody's happy.

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Credits:
Advertising agency: Konstellation, Copenhagen

Wren: First Kiss

20 strangers kissing for the first time in front of a camera. This short film from L.A. fashion brand Wren, got over 22.000.000 views on YouTube in just 2 days. The 20 strangers where hesitant at first, they felt awkward but when they started to kiss it all changed. Director Tatia Pilieva managed to make a touching film that went viral because the majority of the people just saw the transformative power of a kiss. They believed in the "strangers kissing story".

The reality is that these strangers are not common people but professional performers. Slate says:
"The cast includes models Natalia Bonifacci, Ingrid Schram, and Langley Fox (daughter of actress Mariel Hemingway and sister of model Dree); musicians Z Berg of The Like, Damian Kulash of OK Go, Justin Kennedy of Army Navy, singer Nicole Simone, and singer-actress Soko (who also performed the melancholy indie music that accompanies the short); and actors Karim Saleh, Matthew Carey, Jill Larson, Corby Griesenbeck, Elisabetta Tedla, Luke Cook, and Marianna Palka." 

Knowing this ruins the feelings you get out of the film but I guess only people in advertising will know.

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Norlis Bookstore: Unplug with a book

We can't escape the Internet but we must be able to unplug ourselves at least for a few hours. Norlis, a bookstore in Norway, urges us to do so with a book with this nice print campaign.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Anti, Oslo, Norway
Art Director: Jason Kinsella
Copywriters: Jason Kinsella, Erik Heisholt
Assistant Art Director: Charlotte Bakken
Photographer: Glenn Rokeberg

The Famous Grouse: The Famous Sculpture

Famous Grouse whiskey asked whiskey fans the following question: "What would you like to be famous for?". The most original hopes and dreams where carved with laser in the aluminium strips that where used to built this innovative scuplture. A motion sensitive light project the answers around the gallery. Impressive work.

The Famous Grouse Sculpture from Marshmallow Laser Feast on Vimeo.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: AMV BBDO, London
Production Company: PRETTYBIRD
Director: Marshmallow Laser Feast
Producer: Margo Mars
Sculpture Design: Marshmallow Laser Feast & Studio Roso
Kinetic Design: Ruairi Glynn
Final sculpture DOP: Brett Turnbull
Additional footage: Sandra Ciampone
Editor: Sandra Ciampone
Music: Dave Cooke 

Save the Children: One second a day

The life of an 8 years old girl changes dramatically within a year in this hard one-second-a-day spot. Save the Children charity brings the day-to-day life of kids in Syria to London to showcase that just because it isn't happening here doesn't mean it isn't happening.

Credist:
Client: Save the Children
Agency: Don't Panic, London
Production Company: Unit9

Cream-O: Cookie Mug

This must be the ultimate mug for drinking milk. It is made from digestive cookies and dark chocolate. It also helps parents motivate their children in order to drink 2 mugs of milk. Great move from Cream-O, a cookie brand in Malaysia, and Grey. The edible mug came free with 2 packs of Cream-O. The campaign run for a month with a succesful 19% increase in sales.

Credits:
Advertising agency: Grey Kuala Lumpur

Coke Zero: What do pétanque, knitting and fishing have in common?

Zero. A magic number which when added it can mean nothing or change everything. In Duval Guillaume's latest stunt for the Coca-Cola Zero "Just Add Zero" campaign they did just that. They added zero and changed everything.

They asked ordinary people playing pétanque, knitting and fishing to film them. As you can imagine all of these hobbies have non-to-a-few spectators only. Then they added zero. 6 spectators became 60 then 600. Fishermen, knitting ladies and petanque players felt like superstars when, out of nowhere, supporters started to appear, cheering, creating a crazy atmosphere. (Thanks Sophie)

Advertising Agency: Duval Guillaume Modem

Polar Beer: Polar Cell Phone Nullifier

The problem: smartphones in a bar. The solution: The Polar Cell Phone Nullifier. People tend to go to a bar but instead of talking with their friends they get absorved by their smartphones. So, Polar, a Brazilian beer brand teamed up with creative agency Paim Comunicação and made a beer cooler that blocks 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and GSM signals to any device within a 1.5 meter radius.

Credits
Advertising Agency: Paim Comunicação, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Creative Directors: Rodrigo Pinto, Carlos Thunm
Copywriters: Márcio Blank, Rodrigo Rocha
Art Director: José Pedro Bortolini
Head of Digital: Willian Zanette
Social Media Manager: Pedro Migotto
Agency Producers: Ana Paula Luce, Juliana de Barros Lima, Lucas Holderbaum
Graphic Designer: José Pedro Bortolini
Art Buyers: Marta Mendonça, Alexandro Souza, Daniela Pertille
Account Manegers: Daniela Flores, Mariana Balestra
Media Buyers: Claudia Mello, Patricia Angeletti
Account Planning: Eduardo Flores, Henrique Scholz
Technical Producers: Álvaro Heller, Diogo Thum de Oliveira
Photographer: Complex Studio Image
Production Company: SQMA Film Delivery, TGD Films
Film Director: Guilherme Petry
Music&Sound: Batuque Música, Loop Reclame

P&G Thank you, Mom: Tough Love

The world’s toughest moms, raise the world’s toughest kids. Wieden + Kennedy, Portland made another great spot in the P&G Thank you, Mom campaign. This time for the Paralympic Games. The comments of moms in the thank you mom facebook page show how moms appreciate this spot. They feel that P&G honors them.

"You could have protected me. You could have taken every hit. You could have turned the world upside down so that I would never feel pain. But you didn't. You gave me my freedom because you were strong. And now, so am I." The narration comes from the Paralympic snowboarder Amy Purdy.

Credits:
Advertising Agency: Wieden + Kennedy Portland

DHL: Trojan Mailing

Guerilla marketing at its best. DHL made its rivals UPS, TNT and DPD advertise DHL's services. They hired the competition to deliver large black packages taped all over with thermoactive foil. When competitors went to deliver the packages, the heat worked its magic and the message DHL is faster appeared.

Advertising Agency: Jung von Matt/Neckar, Stuttgart, Germany
Creative Directors: Holger Oehrlich, Philipp Barth
Art Director: Raphaela Sigg
Copywriters: Kai Schmelzle, Jan-Erik Scheibner
Director: Tim Steffan
Editor: Tim Steffan
Project Manager: Susanne Barthel
Additional credits: Till Beckert
Published: January 2014
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Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 mocks Apple's Pencil ad

I love the way Samsung mocks Apple products and fanboys. In case you don't remember check here and here. Now, Samsung takes Apple's Pencil ad that featured the iPad Air which is thinner than a pencil and compares it with the new Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 which is thinner that the iPad. The Galaxy Tab features a 2560-by-1600 at 299 ppi screen compared to the iPad Air’s 2048-by-1536 resolution at 264 ppi. It also has multitasking abilities.

Then, the mocking continue. Now it's iPhone's 4.0" non-HD turn to be humiliated by the 5.7'' HD Galaxy Note 3. We see the 2 phones side by side and LeBron James working his magic.

Coca-Cola: Social Media Guard

Coca Cola has found the perfect way to take the social out of media and put it back into your life. The Social Media Guard. Actually it is a dog neck collar painted in Coca Cola's red. It seems that the world spends 4 millions years online every month, so grab the Coke's Guard and put your smartphone down.

Terre des Hommes: Sweetie Case film

Webcam Child Sex Tourism (WCST) is spreading like an epidemic. Men from rich countries pay children in poor countries to perform sexual acts in front of webcams. While there are tens of thousands victims every day, there are only 6 convictions.

Lems, an Amsterdam based creative agency wanted to help so they teamed-up with Terre des Hommes Netherlands and they really helped. Not with an advertising campaign but with hard work that brought real results.

They developed "Sweetie", a 3D model that looked like a 10-year-old Filipino girl, interacted with over 20,000 predators, gathered incriminating evidence for 1,000 predators from 71 countries and urged goverments to act upon this. They managed to make Webcam Child Sex Tourism a globally recognized problem, make the Philippines national police consider it as the No1 crime, bring predators to justice and save children.

Excellent work from Lems.

Terre des Hommes - Sweetie Case film from Lemz on Vimeo.

Credits:
Advertsing Agency: Lems

Pause Home Entertainment: Speaker Cards

Pause, a Stockholm based high-end hifi store developed a business card that transforms into a battery-free speaker for smartphones, delivering a 17% increase in volume. Pause promise is that they can create customized sound systems for every wallet. This card delivers the message literally.

Pause Speaker Cards from Ourwork on Vimeo.

Credits:
Advertising Agency:  Åkestam Holst

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

How to Increase Your Pinterest Engagement by 275% (infographic)

With 70.000.000 users, you can't afford to ignore Pinterest. So let's see how you could increase engagement with this helpful infographic from Neil Patel.

Credits:
Infographic by Neil Patel from QuickSprout

Gregory Pouy: 2013's best digital campaigns

A nice round up of the best digital campaigns of 2013 from Gregory Pouy.

2013's best digital campaigns from Gregory Pouy

Guinness: Sapeurs

These incredible well-dressed everyday people called the "Sapeurs" form the Society of Elegant Persons of the Kongo.



Credits:
Agency: AMV BBDO

Global Digital Statistics 2014 presentation

The reports from We Are Social Singapore are always a great read. This report presents all the key statistics, data and behavioural indicators for social, digital and mobile channels around the world.

Social, Digital & Mobile Around The World (January 2014) from We Are Social Singapore

P&G Thank You Mom: Pick Them Back Up

The tribute to moms continues with the sequel of the awesome "Best Job" spot from P&G in 2012. Wieden + Kennedy made another great commercial for the "Thank You, Mom" campaign, this time for February's Sochi Winter Olympics. We see the mothers of Olympic athletes who were always picking their children back up, teaching them that falling makes you stronger, encourage them to try again and bringing them to glory.

Credits:
Client: Procter & Gamble
Agency: Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, Ore.
Production Company: Park Pictures
Director/DP: Lance Acord
VFX Company: A52
Mix Company: Eleven

NZ Transport Agency: Mistakes

Time froze. An inevitable crash. A simple mistake. The two drivers involved are talking about it but there is nothing they can do any more. Crash. 


"No one should pay for a mistake with their life." Very dramatic and emotional spot from Clemenger BBDO Wwllington for the new Zealand Transport Agency based on the idea that when we drive, we share the road with others, so the speed we choose to travel at needs to leave room for any potential error.

Credits:
Client: New Zealand Transport Agency

Agency: Clemenger BBDO, Wellington

Executive Creative Director: Philip Andrew

Creative Director: Brigid Alkema

Copywriter: Emily Beautrais

Art Director: Emily Beautrais, Philip Andrew

Agency Producer: Marty Gray

Group Account Director: Linda Major

Account Manager: Bethany Omeri

Director of Digital Innovation: Thomas Scovell

Media Business Director: Annabelle Wilkinson

Media Account Director: Emily Goulden

Principal Scientist (NZTA): Paul Graham

Advertising Manager (NZTA): Rachel Prince

Production Company: Finch

Director: Derin Seale

Producer: Karen Bryson

Executive Producer: Rob Galluzzo

DoP: Stefan Duscio 

Offline: Toybox

Editor: Drew Thompson (Method Studios)

VFX: Fin Design + Effects

VFX Supervisor: Stuart White

Colourist: Ben Eagleton 

Sound Design: Simon Lister

Sound Design Studio: Nylon Studios