David Currie will step down from his position as the chairman of the communications regulator Ofcom after Easter next year. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform will decide on Currie’s successor after advertising the post from September this year.
Work Club has hired Lawrence Weber, a project director at Fallon’s Hyper Happen, and Jo Dillon, a producer at 4Creative, to spearhead production at the digital agency. Dillon will take up the role of head of film on 1 July, following Weber, who joined the agency this week as its new production director.
ESPA is on the hunt for a below-the-line agency and is in the process of inviting a shortlist of agencies to compete for the business. Archibald Ingall Stretton, Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw and Good Technology are all understood to be involved in the chemistry meeting stage.
Iris has appointed the managing director of the Engine Group’s Woo Communications, Mark Reardon, as its chief client officer. Reardon will take on responsibility for strengthening the agency’s global and strategic relationship with its key clients, which include Sony Ericsson, Adidas, ING and Shell.
Telenor, the Scandinavian mobile network, is talking to a number of London-based agencies with a view to holding a pitch for its pan-European above-the-line account. It is thought the company is looking to branch out across Central and Eastern Europe.
ITV2 is to broadcast the iTunes music festival throughout July. The deal between ITV2, iTunes and Initial was brokered by New State, the new brand partnerships division within Endemol UK.
Earlier we explored messages that only appear in photographs.
Advertising Agency: Ponto de Criacao, Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Guto Araki
Art Director: Keila Akemi
Copywriter: Angela Ribeiro
Tech Guru: Fipa Freitas
Released: November 2007
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Walt Disney Co., which has kept its own Disney Channel ad free as a way to cater to families, isn't above forcing people to watch ads they might otherwise avoid on its other networks. Through its ABC TV network, Disney has taken a leadership position in scoping out new venues where consumers can watch TV, then devising systems that make advertising part of the experience.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — It's hard to find a company that reorganizes more than Yahoo. Today, it unveiled its fourth go-round in 18 months that includes changes it hopes will make it execute better and help it move products along faster.
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Succumbing to pressure from state attorneys general and activists, Anheuser-Busch will stop selling alcoholic energy drinks — and putting rivals who market them in an awkward position.
LONDON – Saatchi & Saatchi has created a new integrated campaign for T-Mobile, challenging viewers to find a better deal for their money.
BusinessWeek canvassed a broad range of Internet luminaries to discover the design rules they live by.
1. Thou shalt not abuse Flash.
2. Thou shalt not hide content.
3. Thou shalt not clutter.
4. Thou shalt not overuse glassy reflections.
5. Thou shalt not name your Web 2.0 company with an unnecessary surplus or dearth of vowels.
6. Thou shalt worship at the altar of typography.
7. Thou shalt create immersive experiences.
8. Thou shalt be social.
9. Thou shalt embrace proven technologies.
10. Thou shalt make content king.
Contributors ranged from the guru of Web usability, Don Norman, to the design director of NYTimes.com, Khoi Vinh, and John Maeda, president-elect of the Rhode Island School of Design.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — McKinney, the Durham, N.C.-based creative agency, is set to become an independent again, following a deal struck by agency management to re-acquire 100% interest from Havas, its French parent.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Turner Entertainment's TNT has emerged as a leading player in branded entertainment by co-creating customized microseries with its ad partners over the last 18 months. Now the network has recruited Hollywood vet Dean Devlin for its latest effort in ad engagement, "Blank Slate," a microseries sponsored by Acura.
Capitalizing on culture junkies accustomed to a world they can manipulate with ease, AKQA launched Nike PHOTOiD.
News from the graduate summer show at the Royal College of Art in London.
Yuri Suzuki and the Prepared Turntable
Quite a few projects made my day over there. The ones of Yuri Suzuki for example. That guy is so talented it should be illegal. He’s an artist, musician and now a fresh graduate from the Design Products department. His project is concerned with revamping and giving new forms and meanings to the almost obsolete turntable, a device which very few of us still have in their house. We don’t buy disks of CDs anymore either. Nowadays music is more abstract and immaterial than ever. Sound has been reduced to data.
Sound Chaser
Sound Chaser
Sound Chaser looks like a little toy train that rides on record rails. You can align and connect each chipped pieces of second-hand records one to another and compose a new track that the train will play.
Tip Tap
The TipTap, developed in collaboration with Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad, is a little hammer that reveals the dormant sounds around us.
A small metal tapper housed in the object taps out a rhythm on any object or surface that you hold it near to. The rhythm is set either by the user or can be defined by the controller. Alternatively, a beat can be taken from your favourite record, allowing you to play along while keeping perfectly in time. The TipTap can also synchronise with other users to make a social tapping experience.
Prepared Truntable
The Prepared Turntable is an analogue answer to the digitalized DJ. The turntable has 5 tone arms, each of which can have its volume controlled by its own fader. Users can make or play music with special loop groove records.
Finger Player
The Finger Player is a wearable record player. Insert your fingers into one of the little rings, play the record just by holding your hand over the disk and feel the physicality of making sound.
Sound Jewellery
Sound Jewellery conceives sound as something precious that you can offer to a friend or wear as a memory of a shared laugher, a romantic conversation, any sound moment from your daily life. The record is made up of components which of course you can play but they can also be worn as bracelet, brooch or other pieces of jewellery.
Related: Turntable Orchestra, Computer/Turntable hybrid, The Turnatable Microwave, video turntable, the Tri-phonic Turntable, etc.
All images courtesy of Yuri Suzuki.
The works are on view at RCA until July 5, 2008.
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