Hasta La Creative!

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Advertising Agency: Huxley Quayle von Bismark, Toronto, Canada
Creative Directors: Andy Shortt, Chris Hall, Mark Tawse-Smith
Art Director: Chris Hall
Copywriters: Andy Shortt, Mark Tawse-Smith
Photographer: Philip Rostron
Published: January 2008

Advertising Agency: Tbwa\Hunt\Lascaris, South Africa
Executive Creative Director: Damon Stapleton
Creative Director: Bibi Lotter
Art Directors: Chris Crawford, Kursten Meyer, Tammy Matisonn
Copywriter: Dan Parmenter
Illustrator: Ben Crossman
Retoucher: Rob Frew
Published: December 2007

Fit into your old clothes.

Advertising Agency: Cummins Nitro, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director: James Procter
Art Director: Jason Hynes
Copywriter: Julie Poulter
Photographer: Mat Baker
Published: February 2008

Venture Capital wear has a T-shirt that reads Your mom is not a valid test market.

The NYT: celebrating the semicolon

One of the school system’s most notorious graduates, David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer who taunted police and the press with rambling handwritten notes, was, as the columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote, the only murderer he ever encountered who could wield a semicolon just as well as a revolver. (Mr. Berkowitz, by the way, is now serving an even longer sentence.)

The La Comunidad’s Mollá brothers (José and Joaquín) are featured in Mens Vogue this month, posing on their cool boat down in sunny Miami no less.

Ideas on Ideas says fuck style, and by that they pity the fools who think that style is “design”.

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LONDON – Reed Elsevier’s share price jumped 7.5% yesterday as it announced plans to sell off its business titles, including established names such as Variety, Computer Weekly and Farmers Weekly.

Your skin is amazing.

Advertising Agency: Bartle Bogle & Hegarty Asia
Executive Creative Director / Copywriter: Steve Elrick
Creative Director: Todd Waldron
Art Director: Joseph Tay
Production Manager: Asmanic Yang
Business Director: Christina Chong
Released: February 2008

LONDON – Sony Ericsson has selected emerging rock band Van Tramp’s debut single as the soundtrack for its first ad on its download music service PlayNow Arena, which launches later this year.

NEW YORK – Dissident shareholders in the New York Times Company have boosted their stake to more than 15%, to become the largest shareholder, saying they are unhappy with the media company’s board candidates and are preparing a proxy battle.

An upscale joint.

Advertising Agency: 3, Albuquerque, USA
Creative Director / Copywriter: Sam Maclay
Art Director: Tim McGrath
Photographer: Michael Barley
Published: December 2007

SINGAPORE – Batey executive creative director Robert Gaxiola (pictured) has joined San Francisco-based agency Goodby, Silverstein & Partners as a senior copywriter.