(TrendHunter.com) This is the most impressive Bed/ Home theater combo I have come across. Italian designer Edoardo Carlino has created Hi-Can, a High Fidelity Canopy that features integrated flaps, ventilation along with a hi-fi system and a screen with DVD player. You can even surf the internet on a humangous screen…
Congratulations to GKV and the Maryland Lottery for being the first agency/client team in 2008 to employ a “Pull my finger†joke in its produced work—following in the proud footsteps of Dairy Queen. See another spot from the campaign here.
—Posted by Tim Nudd
Every agency wants to prove its green credentials nowadays, whether it’s by getting Al Gore to come to Cannes or including those “Think before you print†footer messages on e-mails. Avenue A/Razorfish’s New York office is no different. The agency claims to be “almost entirely paperless†and boasts that it has sensors that turn out the lights in unused conference rooms. (Didn’t people used to turn off the lights when they left a room?) Now, it’s putting its digital skills to use to save the world with a cutesy animated “documentary†on the plight of the snowman. See, snowmen are endangered because of global warming. The story might be a little hokey for some tastes, but the animation is pretty cool.
—Posted by Brian Morrissey
What Spinner‘s list of the most effective band logos doesn’t document that well is that a good band logo should be something simple as well as eye-catching. The Ramones logo, synonymous as it is with the band, isn’t as effective as the Black Flag logo because 8th graders can’t draw it all over their notebooks when they’re bored in math class. Kiss had a good logo for that, too, as did Van Halen. And so did Prince, although using it in place of his name was a bit much. Even more surprising than the inclusion of mediocre fare like the Beatles logo (their name) and Yes’s logo (their name in a puffy, illegible font) were the omissions, like the famous Dead Kennedys insignia or the eternally awesome Flipper fish. Via American Copywriter.
—Posted by David Kiefaber
LONDON – The Financial Services Authority has launched a direct campaign offering new parents advice on budgeting for childcare.
LONDON – Landor Associates Paris has created a new packaging design for Uniross’s range of Hybiro technology batteries, focusing on the environment and the endorsement of wildlife charity WWF.
LONDON – The Carphone Warehouse’s home phone and broadband company TalkTalk is to launch a customer acquisition campaign to complement its existing direct activity.
LONDON – Broadcasting watchdog Ofcom has announced plans to reclassify TV gambling channels as teleshopping or advertising, in a move designed to protect viewers.
LONDON – MySpaceTV is introducing pre- and post-roll ads for the first time with its airing of the Mark Brown featuring Sarah Cracknell single, ‘The Journey Continues’, which samples the theme music from a Lloyds TSB ad.
LONDON – HarperCollins Publishers has appointed Charlie Redmayne from BSkyB as its director of digital development.
LONDON – The RSPCA has appointed Mark Watts as its new chief executive after 28 years at the animal welfare charity.
TM issued an inter-agency YouTube challenge open to anyone in the agency. The rules were simple, any original content Video with the most tallied views or sheer creativity won prizes ranging From Itunes gift cards to Ipods. Our webisodes helped drive more than 60 original films created by creatives, account people and mailroom guys, To grab a camera and start making user generated content. Recently the Webisodes made it into the One Show film fest, One Screen. They are Silly little shorts, but that’s what YouTube is all about.
Advertising Agency: TM, Dallas, Texas USA
Art Director: Silver Cuellar
Copywriter: Brian Dunaway
Production Company: T3RR! Collective
Aired: November 2007
TM issued an inter-agency YouTube challenge open to anyone in the agency. The rules were simple, any original content Video with the most tallied views or sheer creativity won prizes ranging From Itunes gift cards to Ipods. Our webisodes helped drive more than 60 original films created by creatives, account people and mailroom guys, To grab a camera and start making user generated content. Recently the Webisodes made it into the One Show film fest, One Screen. They are Silly little shorts, but that’s what YouTube is all about.
Advertising Agency: TM, Dallas, Texas USA
Art Director: Silver Cuellar
Copywriter: Brian Dunaway
Production Company: T3RR! Collective
Aired: November 2007
TM issued an inter-agency YouTube challenge open to anyone in the agency. The rules were simple, any original content Video with the most tallied views or sheer creativity won prizes ranging From Itunes gift cards to Ipods. Our webisodes helped drive more than 60 original films created by creatives, account people and mailroom guys, To grab a camera and start making user generated content. Recently the Webisodes made it into the One Show film fest, One Screen. They are Silly little shorts, but that’s what YouTube is all about.
Advertising Agency: TM, Dallas, Texas USA
Art Director: Silver Cuellar
Copywriter: Brian Dunaway
Production Company: T3RR! Collective
Aired: November 2007
TM issued an inter-agency YouTube challenge open to anyone in the agency. The rules were simple, any original content Video with the most tallied views or sheer creativity won prizes ranging From Itunes gift cards to Ipods. Our webisodes helped drive more than 60 original films created by creatives, account people and mailroom guys, To grab a camera and start making user generated content. Recently the Webisodes made it into the One Show film fest, One Screen. They are Silly little shorts, but that’s what YouTube is all about.
Advertising Agency: TM, Dallas, Texas USA
Art Director: Silver Cuellar
Copywriter: Brian Dunaway
Production Company: T3RR! Collective
Aired: November 2007
LONDON – ITV1’s live coverage of Liverpool’s Champions League win over Italian league leaders Inter Milan netted an impressive 6.1m viewers last night, according to unofficial overnight figures.
LONDON – The Observer and The Wall Street Journal have been banned in Egypt after they printed pictures linked to the controversial caricature of the prophet Muhammad.
LONDON – More than 2.2m people used the BBC’s iPlayer to watch a TV programme in January, streaming or downloading an average of five shows each during the month, with ‘Doctor Who’ and spin-off ‘Torchwood’ leading the attractions.
Advertising agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Stockholm, Sweden
Creative directors: Adam Kerj, Fredrik Preisler
Art directors / Copywriters: Gustav Egerstedt, Nima Stillerud
Production company: TRAKTOR/The producers
Director: TRAKTOR
DOP: Crille Forsberg
Advertising agency: Saatchi & Saatchi Stockholm, Sweden
Creative directors: Adam Kerj, Fredrik Preisler
Art directors / Copywriters: Gustav Egerstedt, Nima Stillerud
Production company: TRAKTOR/The producers
Director: TRAKTOR
DOP: Crille Forsberg
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