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I love this commercial. It’s for the Mini Clubman.
I love this commercial. It’s for the Mini Clubman.
LONDON – Publicis will this week launch its group trading unit, VivaKi UK Media Trading, with Starcom’s Chris Locke at the helm.
There's been some banter in the industry pubs lately about an uncommonly large number of older professionals being put out to pasture because they just don't get it anymore. While this is true in certain cases, I suspect that when examined critically, this blanket assertion is someone's attempt to sell papers.
LONDON – Former Army marketer Mark Bainbridge has been appointed as head of recruitment marketing at RBS Group. He will report to RBS Group director for human resources, Neil Roden.
LONDON – Truck advertising company In Your Space has signed a deal with Sainsbury’s to create a new ad platform on the side of the supermarket’s delivery vans.
LONDON – Lastminute.com has appointed Abbie Cranage as its new UK head of marketing.
The New York Times has its flaws (Maureen Dowd, anyone?), but one thing they consistently do well is info-graphics. Their latest centers around what the global economy is spending their discretionary income on from clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol and more.
“People in Greece spend almost 13 times more money on clothing as they do on electronics. People living in Japan spend more on recreation than they do on clothing, electronics and household goods combined. Americans spend a lot of money on everything.
It’s a very handy interactive chart. See the whole diagram here.
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LONDON – Clear Channel has secured the first outdoor campaign from leading Polish food manufacturer Maspex Wadowice Group.
I’m not really sure what to think about this video featuring Dave Stewart of 80s band The Eurythmics. Dave is now part of branding company, The Law Firm, which is named after the founder, Andy Law. The company – no sorry, all the materials say it is not company. It is a global network – no wait sorry. The Law Firm is a global nodal network that offers clients strategic insights from their staffers around the world.
Whatever. It’s weird. The whole thing. I stumbled across Stewart’s video where he takes you inside their Los Angeles office. It’s surreal. It’s mind boggling actually. So many questions come to mind: What’s Dave Stewart doing peddling his branding skills? The editing? The techno, dance party remix of “Sweet Dreams?” And lordy-lord, the diagram at the end for no reason?
As one friend of Agency Spy put it – “What is this? Putney Swope?” If only, if only.
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LONDON – Lastminute.com has hired Match.com marketing director Abbie Cranage as its head of marketing to replace Fleur Studd, who is returning to Australia.
Who could forget the email Carat accidentally sent around last week about an upcoming protocol for lay-offs? According to Adweek, their answer was to send around an apology memo to staffers and clients.
Aegis Media North America CEO Sarah Fay said there was “no integrity issue here at all,” and that “we have a model of total transparency” with clients. She swears that she hadn’t even seen the documents and that the released drafts were just part of a ongoing discussion on how to “position the layoffs.” Whatever. Ongoing discussion? This is what PR companies call “crisis management.” Spin, spin, spin. Fay must be dizzy. She added, “Management feels quite badly that people found out about it that way.”
I guess that’s the best one can expect. Really – what else can she do? Anyway, business is still business. The lay-offs will be completed by the end of the week.
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LONDON – CBS Outdoor has launched a new large-format bus advertising opportunity for customers looking to target consumers on the move.
Aya Hirano is a singer who is rocking Japan. Her handlers decided coming out with a calendar for 2009 would be a smart marketing move. Hirano, who apparently prefers school girl looks over a bikini has…
Publicis Groupe and the wonderful book publisher, TASCHEN, have announced the release of A History of Advertising, written by Stephane Pincas and Marc Loiseau. As the press release notes, both have several decades of experience working within Publicis Groupe in Paris.
The book lay outs iconic campaigns through the decades from Richard Avedon to Picasso and film directors such as Wong Kar Wai and Jean-Jacques Annaud. It also covers the evolution of big brand advertising (Coke, Nescafe, etc.) and their recent use of technology.
It’s a beautiful book. Get your coffee table ready.
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In 1956 Escher attempted to create a picture where there was a continuos frame linking the large image and the next smaller image in a spiral. He created a spiralling grid and used that as the basis for the unusual lithograph ‘Prentententoonstelling‘, the print room. It depicts a young man viewing a print on a wall of a gallery, but as he follows the image of the print he finds a repeated smaller image of himself standing in the same gallery. The centre of the image is an unfinished blank space, where Escher signed and mono-graphed the piece.
This “droste effect” (named after the Chocolate brand that featured a recursive image on it packaging way back in 1904) was the inspiration for OneInThree’s music video for the Wild Beasts. The Leiden University & the University of California at Berkeley initiated a joint project to decode the math of the drawing and attempted to develop a more satisfactory way of filling the ‘hole’ in Eschers drawing. As a result of their research they developed a formula which could complete the drawing. Josh Sommers translated this formula to into MathMap a program that allows one to distort images on a pixel by pixel basis based on instruction specified in a simple programming language. (more inside folks)
The impromptu rendering farm pictured above