Hasta La Creative!

Naturally spicy like one of Peter Piper’s peppers.

Advertising Agency: Academy of Art University
Creative Directors / Art Directors / Copywriters: Kimi Rosenthal, Lori Louie
Published: October 2008

LONDON – Trinity Mirror is preparing to unveil a campaign supporting the biggest revamp in the 150-year history of its flagship regional title, The Birmingham Post.

It doesn’t hurt to speak up.

Advertising Agency: Grey, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director: Nigel Dawson
Art Director: Peter Becker
Copywriter: Nigel Dawson
Photographer: Hugh Peachey
Prosthetics and Effects: Nic Dorning
Published: October 2008

It doesn’t hurt to speak up.

Advertising Agency: Grey, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director: Nigel Dawson
Art Director: Peter Becker
Copywriter: Nigel Dawson
Photographer: Hugh Peachey
Prosthetics and Effects: Nic Dorning
Published: October 2008

I have never seen eyes as beautiful as his. I noticed his pupils enlarging, the moment I held out my hand. I know now, that he likes me too.
Dare to be closer. Rexona Teens.

Advertising Agency: Lowe Jakarta, Indonesia
Executive Creative Director: Din Sumedi
Creative Director: Hanny Shinta
Art Director: Stephani Pribangun
Copywriter: Wury Handayani
Photographer: Mike Ting
Retoucher: Abun
Agency Producer: Haning Mila
Published: August 2008

Wired’s Gadget Blog has broken a story about the possible poaching of a Silver Lion-winning iPhone app called iPint by advertising agency, Beattie McGuinness, and Coors. The company suing them for $12.5M is Hottrix, a company that develops applications for mobile devices. They filed a lawsuit that copyright infringement has taken place when Coors ripped off its app, iBeer.

Nick Parish, Associate Editor at Creativity, sums it up well:

“According to the lawsuit, Beattie McGuinness Bungay contacted Hottrix to license the developer’s $2.99 iBeer application, which uses the accelerometer inside the iPhone to simulate drinking a beer, but was rebuffed by Hottrix, whose application was one of the most downloaded in the iPhone App Store. BMB then went around Hottrix, creating a near copy with iPint and releasing it for free, causing iBeer sales to suffer.”

Oooh. That so does not look good for Beattie McGuinness Bungay. The agency, run by elite ad man, Trevor Beattie, was in talks with TBWA to be acquired, but those talks went south last week. Trevor is not having a good week.

Why do advertising agencies feel it’s okay to rip off small companies and independent artists? First of all, you’re gonna get caught. It’s 2008. The internet is here. Hello? Secondly, the brands (generally) pay agencies enough to give original creators a bit of cash for the use of their tech or design. Stealing creative is one reason why advertising gets such a bad rap. Hey kids, lets knock this shit off. It’s so not cool.

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LONDON – Online grocery business Ocado is aiming to price match Tesco with its new children’s toys and games range in the run up to Christmas.

Who doesn’t love peering into some advertising agencies office space? Is it better than yours? Better than mine? W+K London has just signed the lease on a new East Wing for the ever growing staff. Big open spaces with lots of windows? Those are the parameters for a neo-classic advertising office, for sure.

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LONDON – IPC’s flagship music brand NME has secured a deal with Virgin Atlantic to provide content for Virgin’s in-flight entertainment channel and magazine.

This may sound improbable, but “goddess of money” Ivanka Trump (don’t you love PR people?) gives a damn what you have for lunch at work every day.