Hasta La Creative!

SINGAPORE – BBDO/Proximity Singapore has hired Catherine Lim (pictured) from Leo Burnett Shanghai as business director to run its SingTel account.

This is part of a four-sided pullout for Benjamin Moore’s line of Aura paints. The first side reads, “Your life is your inspiration.” The spread, which is here, reads, “Your walls are your canvas.”

SINGAPORE – A brutal year of judging at The World Press Awards 2008 saw just a solitary campaign – for Procter & Gamble’s Tide brand by Saatchi & Saatchi New York – win gold, but Asia emerged as the most awarded region.

MUMBAI – P&G India has consolidated its US$80 million media buying and planning business with a new Madison-Mediacom combine that sees Sam Balsara’s independent agency take a 51 per cent stake in the GroupM shop.

By Kids for Kids (BKFK) and DoSomething.org have launched a contest called “Advertise Your Cause Media Challenge.” It’s geared to kids who feel a burning desire to make a difference.

If you’re into sexy lingerie and games with a name such as Peep in Paris, head over to Agent Provocateur.

The innovative lingerie brand’s site has put out a new adventure peep game with episodic video installments for you to enjoy for free.

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The long awaited Microsoft Surface table is about to get its first rollout on 17 April, 2008 at 12 select AT&T;stores in four cities.

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How creative are these print ads?

In order to show how you will get an extremely close shave using Schick quadruple razors, “the power of 4” campaign shows the tattoos themselves being ‘shaved.’

And by shaved we mean a tiger is skinned, an ancient warrior’s beard is shaved and two sexy girls’ head…

During the Middle Age and Renaissance tapestries had a role similar to the one wallpapers have today. You would not use them as carpet and just throw them on the floor, no no no, you would hang them on the walls to decorate the room, insulate the walls of your castle during winter, and delight your guests. Kings and noblemen would roll up and transport tapestries from one residence to another.

Margret Eicher, Eins, Zwei, Drei (not part of the DAM exhibition)

Margret Eicher has revamped the old tradition of the gobelins tapestry (which dates back to the 15th century but keeps receiving some attention from contemporary artists) except that instead of hand-embroidered tapestries, sewed by skilled craftsmen/craftswomen, the tapestries are refined industrial products, woven by a computer.

Scenes depicted in the Gobelins were usually inspired from famous paintings or religious art. Eicher remained truthful to this inspiration and uses the pillars of modern days religion and visual culture -TV series, video game and luxury- to set the scene of her tapestries.

Margret Eicher, Die 5 Tugenden (The 5 Virtues), Tapestry, 2008

The three large-format tapestries exhibited until May 17 at the [DAM] gallery in Berlin, show different aspects of femininity. Desperate Housewives Bree, Gabrielle, Suzan, Linette and Edie hold freshly-baked cookies and show their best profile, on another tapestry high-heeled ladies wrapped and coiffed in fur defiantly look at you and on the third one young couples frolic under the bored gaze of Lara Croft.

Eicher’s digitally woven collages compile pictures with a political background with sexy D&G style advertisement found in the pages of glossy fashion magazines to realize astute portraits of our times.

Margret Eicher, Erste Nacht, 2008

Some more images of the tapestries. I couldn’t help taking others.
The exhibition runs at [DAM]Berlin until May 17, 2008.

Previously at [DAM]Berlin : A conversation about exhibiting and selling digital fine art and Generator x – Beyond the Screen.