Freeview claims households spend £200 a year on unwatched TV

Freeview is to launch a TV ad campaign that questions whether customers are paying too much to watch their favourite programmes, after finding the average household is spending almost £200 a year on unwatched pay-TV channels.

Retro Secretary Catwalks – Orla Kiely AW13 London Fashion Week Show Turns Models into Office-Workers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The way in which the Orla Kiely AW13 collection was presented at this year’s London Fashion Week was a dream. The Irish designer, known for her repeated pattern flower motifs and heavy 60s…

Claire Droppert Photography

Claire Droppert est une photographe et graphiste freelance résidant aux Pays-Bas. Cherchant l’inspiration à travers tous les paysages qu’elle observe, cette artiste toujours inspirées par la simplicité et le minimalisme nous offre des clichés absolument magnifiques à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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STV makes pre-tax profit of £9.1m

STV made pre-tax profits of £9.1m in 2012, its first full-year profit since 2010, following the end of its legal wrangle with ITV and a “broadly flat” airtime revenue performance.

4G auction result set to prompt marketing war

Vodafone, 02, EE, Three and BT are the winning bidders for the much-trumpeted 4G mobile spectrum, which is expected to kick-start a major marketing war.

Water is Life: Grapefruit, Dentist, Toy, Movie

Advertising Agency: DDB, New York, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Matt Eastwood
Executive Creative Director: Menno Kluin
Copywriter: Frank Cartagena
Art Director: Sam Shepherd
Head of Content TVP: Ed Zazzera
Photographer: Alec Helm, JT Elbracht
Retoucher: John Cason
Designer: Juan Carlos Pagan

Scrabble: Letters and people

Advertising Agency: Pereira & O’Dell, USA
Chief Creative Officer: PJ Pereira
Executive Creative Director: Jaime Robinson
Creative Directors: Aricio Fortes, Paulo Coelho
Art Director: Keli Linehan
Copywriter: Charlie Wolff
Executive Agency Producer: Jeff Ferro
Agency Producer: Monica Wilkins
Director of Client Services: Gary Theut
Account Director: Henry Arlander
Director of Strategy: Nick Chapman
Brand Strategist: Alina Shabashevich
Photographer: Rodrigo Pirim
3D Artist: Eduardo Gomes
Illustrators: Rafael Gil, Flavio Luiz

Call it Spring: Bus station karaoke

To raise awareness to the new Call It Spring store, we transformed a regular bus station into a Karaoke station, making our fans the stars, giving them their 15 minutes of fame and spreading the word of the new Call it Spring store.

Advertising Agency: smoyz, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Creative Director: Yael Renne-Assaf
Account manager: Maayan Elbogen
Copywriter: Niko Watts
Designer: Tom-Lee Maimaran
Additional credits: Michal Hanan, Liron Bashan, Natali Tal Waisman

OGGI: Kitchenware

Advertising Agency: Think Factory, Bangkok, Thailand
Creative Director: Aniruth Assawanapanon
Art Directors: Nuttawut Rattanajeena, Aniruth Assawanapanon
Copywriter: Permboon Malaiwan
Illustrator: Nuttawut Rattanajeena

Golden Cross Business Health Care: Dollar, Euro, Real

“Money: the more you earn, the more you need us.”

Advertising Agency: Giovanni+DraftFCB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Creative Director: Felipe Rodrigues
Art Directors: Felipe Gomes, Thiago Di Gregorio
Copywriters: Daniel Japa, Otto Pajunk
Illustrator / 3d: Iluminata
Published: February 2013

The Silent City

L’artiste chinois Yang Yongliang a dévoilé récemment une partie des ses clichés qui seront présentés à la Galerie Paris-Beijing à partir du 14 mars 2013. Des images d’une beauté saisissante réunies sous le nom de « The Silent City » à découvrir en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.

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Editor celebrates ‘minor miracle’ as i continues to grow

In a welcome growth story for old Fleet Street, The Independent’s 20p offshoot i recorded a 32% lift in readership over the past year, an achievement dubbed a “minor miracle” by executive editor, Stefano Hatfield.

Flexible Wooden Shelving – Chuck by Natascha Harra-Frischkorn is at Once Simple and Artistic (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Chuck by Natascha Harra-Frischkorn, a designer hailing from Germany, is a wall-mounted shelf that has a fun trick up its sleeve. Even though it is made up of multiple four millimeter thick planks of…

War Child: Gun, Grenade, Machete

Advertising Agency: John St, Toronto, Canada

Euglena: The Euglena catering van

Advertising Agency: Dentsu, Tokyo, Japan
Creative Director: Yoji Sakamoto
Art Director: Yoshikatsu Miyasaka
Copywriter: Hirofumi Hayashi
Strategists: Norihito Sako, Kazuki Tsuburaku
Account Executive: Satoshi Takasugi
Art Director: Taiki Kawase
Director: Futoshi Takashima

Seductive Solo Bathroom Shoots – The Vogue Paris March 2013 Editorial Features Lavatory Fashion (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Brushing your teeth and taking a shower are part of a normal everyday routine, but the Vogue Paris March 2013 editorial makes it look like a steamy session with yourself that could go on for hours….

Nivea: A date to remember

Emily is on a first date with her dream guy. What could possibly go wrong? You decide in this cross-platform, interactive YouTube video where you can click anything in the scene to cause a stressful situation.

URL: http://www.youtube.com/niveauk

Advertising Agency: Agency Republic, London, United Kingdom
Creative Director: Alistair Campbell
Art Director: Jason Keet
Copywriter: James Hodson
Director: Ben Gregor
Production Company: Knucklehead

Bleak Barren Field Editorials – The Michael Thompson W March Photo Shoot is Minimalist Chic (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Entitled ‘Clean Living,’ this Michael Thompson W March editorial is the epitome of simple and clean beauty.

Shot in black and white by photographer Michael Thompson with styling done by…

#Killcap in Berlin

Jammers in Germany set the tone.


ANARCHIST NEWS

“This act is concrete sabotage against the system of surveillance and control.”
– CAMOVER Mission Statement

It started in Germany, where activists in black bloc garb hit the streets of Berlin at nightfall to tear down surveillance cameras. As different anarchists joined in on the task, posting videos and photos of their exploits online, it turned into a game: Camover. Players first form a team, name their brigade, and then get busy trashing the cameras that loom in public spaces – the omnipresent eye of Big Daddy. Points are given out for each sacked camera, with bonus scores for the most innovative modes of destruction. Some vigilantes use their bare hands, others use axes, or most impressively, string lassoes (see video below).

The number of CCTV surveillance cameras on the streets of Germany is on the rise, and “Camover” came in at the perfect moment, disrupting the silent rise of a totalizing panopticism, with its catchy blend of reality-gaming and activism.

The situation in Germany is case and point at to why we have to give up our reliance on staid lefty tactics. German citizens who oppose CCTV found that petitions, letters, marches and solemn documentaries can achieve very little. A group of 40 protestors march the streets of Berlin in June, protesting the Orwellian level of surveillance in the city, and another group screened documentaries about the rise of CCTV months later. But Camover’s direct-action approach has been the only effective measure. They took down over 50 cameras in just the first few weeks of actions, and successfully shifted public dialogue about surveillance – internationally.

It didn’t taken long for this flame to catch. The game spread quickly throughout Germany, to Finland, Greece and just hit the Northwest Coast of the USA this month.

What other gaming-activism hybrid initiatives will emerge from the rumbling global imagination this spring? Is #Camover but the first wave of many? The clever and potent mix of reality-game and direct-action could be a game-changer for the political left.

. . . Oh, and keep an eye out for #Killcap games being played elsewhere around the world.

Read more on Adbusters.org

Teardrops with Vegetables

Le musicien et producteur Jonathan Dagan, plus connu sous le pseudonyme de J.Viewz, s’amuse dans cette excellente vidéo tournée par Roy Rochlin à reprendre « Teardrop » de Massive Attack avec des fruits et légumes. Une idée saugrenue avec un rendu très réussie à découvrir en vidéo dans la suite de l’article.

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