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LONDON – Publicis will this week launch its group trading unit, VivaKi UK Media Trading, with Starcom’s Chris Locke at the helm.

(TrendHunter.com) How much fun would it be to go on a Godzilla type chocolate rampage through these chocolate cites?

This is just one piece from the the Chocolate exhibition in Tokyo last year. Other pieces featured…

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — In one of the first public displays of opposition to the Google-Yahoo search deal on behalf of marketers — as opposed to agencies or competitive media sellers — the Association of National Advertisers has come out against the proposed partnership.

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.

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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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.

LONDON – CBS Outdoor has launched a new large-format bus advertising opportunity for customers looking to target consumers on the move.

(TrendHunter.com) On Saturday night, the state-of-the-art CBS Scene Restaurant and Bar opened at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The opening gala was attended by celebrities from the sports and entertainment…

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

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