Hilton Hotels & Resorts: China, 1

Advertising Agency: Hilton Corporate, USA
Art Director / Designer: Stacey Norkun
Photographer / Production: Steve Beaudet
Published: March 2013

Hilton Hotels & Resorts: Bangkok, 2

Advertising Agency: Hilton Corporate, USA
Art Director / Designer: Stacey Norkun
Photographer / Production: Steve Beaudet
Published: March 2013

Hilton Hotels & Resorts: Bangkok, 1

Advertising Agency: Hilton Corporate, USA
Art Director / Designer: Stacey Norkun
Photographer / Production: Steve Beaudet
Published: March 2013

Rashers: Bacon Take One

Take one and bring it in for your free bacon sandwich.

To get bacon lover to crave a Rashers bacon sandwich we affixed real, cooked in-house bacon strips to posters to be used as tearaway coupons.

Advertising Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Toronto, Canada
Chief Creative Officer: Ian MacKellar
Art Director: Todd Cornelius
Copywriter: Jamie Marcovitch
Published: February 2013

37 Wacky Sink Designs – From City Grid Sinks to Rubber Tire Sinks (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re looking to outfit your kitchen with some quirky and usually designed fixtures, then these wacky sink designs are sure to add some eclectic touches to your overall decor.

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Texas Tourism: Live Music

Advertising Agency: Slingshot, USA
Executive Creative Director: Susan Levine
Art Director: Clay Coleman
Executive Producer: Ann Vorlicky
Production Company: Directorz
Director: Jeff Bednarz
DP: Mark Thomas
EP: John Gilliland
Editorial / Post: Lucky Post
Editor: Marc Chartrand
Sound Design: Scottie Richardson
Account Services: Tony Balmer
Group Account Director: Drew Holmgreen
Account Supervisor: Danielle Rector
Account Executive: Rachel Massey

Texas Tourism: The Cowboy Experience

Advertising Agency: Slingshot, USA
Executive Creative Director: Susan Levine
Art Director: Clay Coleman
Executive Producer: Ann Vorlicky
Production Company: Directorz
Director: Jeff Bednarz
DP: Mark Thomas
EP: John Gilliland
Editorial / Post: Lucky Post
Editor: Marc Chartrand
Sound Design: Scottie Richardson
Account Services: Tony Balmer
Group Account Director: Drew Holmgreen
Account Supervisor: Danielle Rector
Account Executive: Rachel Massey

Texas Tourism: The Great Outdoors

Advertising Agency: Slingshot, USA
Executive Creative Director: Susan Levine
Art Director: Clay Coleman
Executive Producer: Ann Vorlicky
Production Company: Directorz
Director: Jeff Bednarz
DP: Mark Thomas
EP: John Gilliland
Editorial / Post: Lucky Post
Editor: Marc Chartrand
Sound Design: Scottie Richardson
Account Services: Tony Balmer
Group Account Director: Drew Holmgreen
Account Supervisor: Danielle Rector
Account Executive: Rachel Massey

Soda Consumption Down to Levels Last Seen 1996


Consumers are swilling less soda, leading the category to decline for the eighth straight year.

The amount of soda consumed declined 1.2% in 2012 — down to 1996 levels, with per capita consumption in the U.S. falling to 1987 levels. Still, the major brands increased pricing, leading to a 1.8% rise in retail sales. According to Beverage Digest, the category, which includes energy drinks is worth about $77 billion.

Soda consumption was steady throughout the 1990s, rising about 3% per year, before slowing in 1999. The category has been in decline since 2005.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Fábrica: Christmas Timeline Gift

URL: http://www.fabrica.com.br/timelinedepresente

Advertising Agency: Fábrica, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Daniel Santander
Vp of Innovation: Marisa Furtado
Creative Supervisor: Rubens Carvalho
Art Director: Diego Aneiros, Rafael Rosa
Online Creative Director: Carol Gleich
Account Manager: Janaina Zanardi

Beckman, Burkle Form Branded Entertainment Company, Revive ‘Fashion Rocks’


Former Conde Nast exec Richard Beckman and billionaire investor Ron Burkle have formed a branded entertainment company called Three Lions Entertainment, a spokeswoman for the new venture said today.

The company’s first projects will be revivals of Fashion Rocks and Movies Rock, concerts produced by Mr. Beckman when he was was president of the Conde Nast Media Group.

Fashion Rocks’ five annual concerts evolved into lavish events at Radio City Music Hall in New York, CBS broadcasts and elaborate after-parties. Sponsors got ad pages in the Fashion Rocks print supplement to 16 Conde Nast titles’ September issues. Performers over the years included Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Jennifer Lopez, David Bowie, the Pussycat Dolls, Arcade Fire, Tim McGraw, Duran Duran, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris, Carrie Underwood, Fergie and Aerosmith.

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After Lights Out

Après les très réussies Back To Childhood et Hopeless Romantic, le photographe français Julien Mauve présente sa dernière série « After Lights Out ». Une superbe sélection de clichés où une petite source de lumière, au milieu d’environnements assombris par le crépuscule, attire le regard du spectateur.

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Robot Copters Hovering Over London Form Starfleet Logo to Promote Next Star Trek Film

Considering how much you hear about drones these days, it's surprising we haven't seen more marketing stunts using remote-controlled hoverbots. But Paramount Pictures pulled off an interesting trick this weekend by using glowing quadrotors to create a Star Trek logo over London. The promotion, for the franchise's latest film, Star Trek Into Darkness, was timed to mark the end of the World Wildlife Fund's annual Earth Hour, which encourages cities to turn off nonessential lights for environmental awareness. As the hour of darkness ended, the 30 drones' LED lights (charged through renewable energy sources) turned on to form the insignia of Star Trek's Starfleet. Created by Ars Electonica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies, the result is pretty impressive—when viewed from the right angle, at least. Check out a video below, and enjoy the moment at 1:20 when two of the drones at the bottom of the frame seem to collide, sending one plummeting out of the sky.

HP: The HP Photoball

HP presented the new strapline “Making Memories Last” by creating an interactive experience during São Paulo’s biggest music fest. The HP Photoball was equipped with a wi-fi antenna and a HD camera, registeringfan’s reaction from an entirely new point of view. These images were transmitted in real time to the stage, FB fan page, and to over 3 millions viewers via live online broadcast.

Advertising Agency: AlmapBBDO, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Executive Creative Director: Marcello Serpa, Luiz Sanches
Creative Directors: Marcos Medeiros, Andre Kassu
Art Directors: Guiga Giacomo, Marcos Kothlar
Copywriter: Ricardo Wolff

Hachette Delaying Goodall Book With Borrowed Passages

The famed primatologist has apologized for borrowing passages from Web sites for her new book, “Seeds of Hope,’’ and vows to correct any unintentional errors.

Spotify tenta explicar o poder da música em sua primeira campanha publicitária

Em sua primeira campanha publicitária, o Spotify tenta definir o que a música significa. Tarefa ambiciosa, é claro, e por isso começa com um comercial-manifesto imerso em uma atmosfera obscura enquanto a multidão carrega um fã durante um show.

Sem usar uma trilha sonora específica, apenas um som indistinguível que ecoa, a intenção da campanha é comunicar a universalidade da música, e como ela exerce um poder particular em cada um de nós. Apoiado em metáforas, o texto diz que as melhores canções não nos dão respostas, mas fazem perguntas. “Porque a música é uma força. Para o bem. Para a mudança.”

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“Because music can’t be stopped. Can’t be contained. It’s never finished. Because music makes us scream ‘Coo coo ca choo’ and mean it.”

Assim como outros manifestos publicitários, o texto pode soar genérico, tentando criar artificialmente um significado maior para um produto ou marca. Porém, o Spotify sai beneficiado por tratar de algo que realmente é capaz de comover as pessoas, sem precisa explicitar a ferramenta ou modo de funcionamento.

A criação da Droga5 de Nova York estreia hoje na televisão norte-americana, e inclui ainda peças impressas e ações em redes sociais.

Vale lembrar que antes do Spotify, outro serviço de streaming de música lançou um comercial. O Deezer, que recentemente chegou ao Brasil, fala “que nada pode parar a música”, uma ideia também presente no discurso do concorrente.

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Confira abaixo o texto completo do manifesto do Spotify, em inglês, e outros dois filmes da campanha:

“It’s been said that the best songs don’t give answers but instead ask questions. So, why? Why does music stop us in our tracks? Dictate if we pump a fist or swing it? Why can a song change the world? Because music is a force. For good. For change. For whatever. It’s a magnifying glass. A bullhorn. A stick in the gears and the tools to fix it. Because music is a need. An urge to be vindicated. It’s bigger than us. It lives inside us. Because we were all conceived to a 4:4 beat. Because music can’t be stopped. Can’t be contained. It’s never finished. Because music makes us scream ‘Coo coo ca choo’ and mean it. Because music is worth fighting for. Why? Because it’s music.”

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Google Chrome Turns Any Website Into a 3-D Marble Maze Game

Google's latest innovation in time-wasting fun—this time out of Japan—is the Chrome World Wide Maze, a browser experiment that turns any Web page of your choosing into a 3-D marble maze. You need a smartphone for this to work properly (and, of course, Chrome for Mobile), since it becomes your controller once you've synced it up with your computer. The mobile-phone-as-game-controller idea has promise, and isn't much different from the Wii U's current setup. But they'll have to do more than this to make up for axing Google Reader. Jerks.

Chrome Is for Stewie’s Mom, and the Parents of Teething Infants


Google Chrome uses memes to nice effect in a new series of spots promoting the browser, which is touted as a seamless experience between multiple devices thanks to a syncing feature that lets you switch between laptop, phone and tablet. From Family Guy’s infamous “mom!” sequence (above) to the viral of a baby chewing up a laptop (below), the short, sweet new ads show that even if you’re interrupted, or your device is currently in use by your teething baby, you can just switch over, or pause, without losing any of your work.

See the other two commercials in the four-spot campaign on Creativity-Online.com, and follow @creativitymag on Twitter.

Continue reading at AdAge.com

Art Directors Club to Host ‘Art Battle’

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At this year’s Art Directors Club Awards, held April 2-4 in Miami Beach, design heavyweights of the world will square off against one another in the Adobe-sponsored event entitled Secret Walls: A Live Digital X Physical Art battle on Creative Cloud.

Each team will gather together their creative tools and face off in a live art competition. Two teams will use Adobe Creative Cloud to create live art pieces in front of an audience.

Check out all the festival details here and register.

Gatorade mostra o que significa ser o pior pesadelo de alguém

Kevin Durant, do Oklahoma City Thunder, tem um pesadelo. Sua jogada é interceptada por Dwyane Wade do Miami Heat.

Segue-se então momentos clichês de treinamento extenuante, onde o protagonista antes derrotado agora vai se esforçar ao máximo para vencer. E vence. Fim da história.

Não aqui nesse comercial de Gatorade, que pra mim é o melhor da marca em anos, desde que resolveram emular a atmosfera Nike de superação esportiva.

A criação é da TBWA/Chiat/Day, com produção da MJZ.

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