LONDON – The Post Office has created a MySpace page, which gives users the chance to interact with Ken Dawson, the fictional postmaster in its advertising campaign.
LONDON – McDonald’s is adding to its breakfast menu a Bacon roll made with British back bacon, replacing the streaky rashers favoured by Americans at breakfast.
LONDON – Manchester based digital and direct specialist If Agency has appointed Jo Whiteley, formerly of TBWA/Manchester, as its senior creative.
Eleven of the world’s top designers have been chosen to judge the One Show Design awards, the industry’s most prestigious international awards competition honoring the year’s best in advertising design, corporate identity, environmental design, publication design, direct mail and package design.
“Due to the increasing number of entries received from around the world and the growing emphasis placed upon good design in the consumer marketplace, last year marked the first time design was given its own separate event,†said Mary Warlick, CEO of The One Club. “One Show Design honors only the very best in design, so naturally, we only invite the very best designers to judge the work.â€
How god are they? Judge by checking out their homepages below. Judges for this year’s One Show Design competition are:
Marian Bantjes, Quatrifolio (Bowen Island, Canada) – Love that clock btw
Jenny Ehlers, King James (Cape Town, South Africa)
Vince Frost, Frost Design (Sydney, Australia)
Keiko Hirano, Communication Design Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan)
John Jay, Wieden + Kennedy (Portland)
Diti Katona, Concrete Design (Toronto, Canada)
Clement Mok (San Francisco)
Emily Oberman, Number 17 (New York)
Alvaro Rego, Mumedi (Mexico)
Laurie Rosenwald, Freelance (New York)
David Turner, Turner Duckworth (San Francisco and London, UK)
LONDON – Ask.com has appointed Google’s Cesar Mascaraque as managing director in Europe.
LONDON – Lightspeed Research has formed a partnership with EMI Music allowing it to offer respondents one free song or video download for each market research questionnaire they complete.
BEIJING – TNS China has merged its continuous research service with the panel service run by CTR Market Research, under the TNS Worldpanel brand.
LONDON – Media Corp has bought the sport.co.uk domain name for £135,000 and plans to develop the site as destination for sports statistics and information.
LONDON – Fiat has taken over all ad space on MSN’s homepage today to coincide with this evening’s launch of its new Fiat 500.
LONDON – Toshiba is launching its first TV ad in two years tonight, and the first created by Grey, which won the electronic manufacturer’s £25m European account in June last year.
LONDON – Channel 4’s experimental cookery show, ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Cookalong Live’, in which the celebrity chef challenged the nation to cook a three-course meal with him in one hour, pulled in an impressive 4.2m viewers.
LONDON – Box Television, Emap and Channel 4’s jointly owned music TV business, has appointed Gidon Katz from Virgin Media as managing director.
LONDON – British Gas’s commercial and marketing director Amanda Mackenzie is leaving the utilities company to join Aviva as group marketing director.
British artist Paul Fryer has a spectacular exhibition, In Loving Memory, at the Guido Costa Projects gallery in Turin.
Martyr, 2007, stainless steel, wax, Plexiglas, human hair, Tesla coils, computer, light system
The show features only one art piece: Martyr, created specifically for the gallery. This large scale installation represents the synthesis of Paul Fryer’s research into the origins of technology and the labyrinths of science. The actual elements used to construct the artwork – stainless steel, wax and glass – testify to this synthesis.
The origins of the work are bound up in an event which made news at the end of the 19th century. A Western Union lineman, John Feeks, employed alongside others to hang the thousands of kilometres of wire connecting one building to another and providing the city of New York with electricity and information. Freeks was accidental electrocuted and his corpse corpse dangled for hours in a tangle of wires above the Manhattan streets, to the horror of thousands of onlookers. His fate became symbol of the perils of technological advancement, a martyr of progress, and one of the most famous victims of the electromechanical revolution at the end of the 19th century.
What i found striking is that i was sure i had seen a photography of Freeks death somewhere. After some research i realized that what i had seen what a picture similar to the installation. But it wasn’t in the US, it was in Mexico. Jesus Bazaldua Barber, a telecommunications engineer, was electrocuted by more than 60,000 volts whilst installing a new phone line. Toluca, Mexico in 1971 and Enrique Metenides “immortalized” the scene.
Fryer’s installation is a sort of modern monument to the forgotten workers and their anonymous contribution to supplying the electricity to power modernity.
Like Ron Mueck, Fryer uses wax to render anatomical details. However, the reason why the artist chose wax was not to re-create life but rather because it the material that best communicates the rigidity of death.
I took many pictures.
Previously at GCP: The Velocity of Thought.
On view until 31 January 2008, at the Guido Costa Projects gallery in Turin.
LONDON – Gary Stolkin has been removed from his position as chief executive of The Talent Business following a dramatic fall in profits over the past year.
LONDON – Scottish Media Group has claimed to have received renewed interest in Virgin Radio from bidders understood to include GMG Radio and Global Radio.
LONDON – A hybrid lottery/bingo game is being launched next month by Gert Eklund, an entrepreneur who successfully created a similar game in Sweden. Consumers buy game cards and then watch a live, 60-minute TV game to win prizes of up to £100,000.
As Alistair Darling outlines government plans to save Northern Rock without apparently resorting to nationalisation, Stephen Foster looks at the deal, as well as the state of the markets.
LONDON – The internet is set to be the dominant force behind UK adspend growth in the next 12 years, in which time total spend is expected to increase by as much as 37.9%.
NEW YORK – Pizza Hut is testing whether politics can sell pizza in a new campaign encouraging America’s youth to use their vote in this year’s Presidential race.
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