Kraft Invents a Past That Never Existed for ‘New-stalgic’ Mac & Cheese Flavors

Here's a fun bit of false advertising from Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Kraft Mac & Cheese.

After 75 years, the brand is adding four new flavors: Garlic & Herb Alfredo, Buffalo Cheddar, Three Cheese Jalapeño and Cheesy Southwest Chipotle. They flavors were just invented, but Kraft wants them to feel like they've been around forever—as rich in history and nostalgic in feel as the original. So, it has invented a whole imagined history around them—one that never existed. "Even though it's new, it's nostalgic. It's new-stalgic," the agency explains.

Over at new-stalgic.com, you can scroll through a whole historical timeline of vintage photos, videos and ads dating back to 1938, showing milestones in the history of the four flavors. Seems they've been a fond part of everyone's life for decades, despite not actually being in anyone's life ever. As they say, never forget the times you can't remember.

The campaign extends to Pandora, where a radio station, New-stalgic Tunes, will play new covers of old hits, and of course to Facebook, where the brand is having fun updating past decades of its timeline.

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Kraft Mac & Cheese’s New Flavors Feel Like They’ve Been Around for Years


What was the secret of the American Team’s domination of the European Circuit of the Grand Cycle of 1954? Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, of course. The Three Cheese Jalapeno flavor, to be exact. But being that that flavor, along with Garlic & Herb Alfredo, Buffalo Cheddar and Cheesy Southwest Chipotle, was only introduced this year, how can this be?

Crispin Porter & Bogusky pull off a pretty clever campaign for Kraft with New-Stalgic, an attempt to make the new flavors feel like they’ve always been around. At New-Stalgic.com, you can scroll through fake historic moments like the Grand Cycle, or the time a box of mac & cheese became a piece of pop art in 1962, of when people suffering during the NYC Blackout of 1965 were fed the gooey concoction to help keep warm, and how the noodle could have been repurposed into a phone in 1987 (shown right).

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Campbell’s Soup’s On! the Coffee Pot?


Campbell Soup Co. wants consumers to add some soup to the coffee pot as part of a new deal with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.

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State of the Art: No Strings on a Piano, but the Tone Is Grand

To its line of hybrid grand and upright pianos, Yamaha adds the NU1 — more compact and less expensive, but with real piano sound, not digital noise.

    



Documentário passeia pelos 25 anos de Street Fighter

Pode pegar a pipoca e se acomodar confortavelmente diante de seu computador. Está sendo disponibilizado no YouTube, na íntegra, o documentário I Am Street Fighter. Lançado no ano passado, como parte das comemorações pelos 25 anos do game, o filme passeia pelo universo de criadores, produtores e fãs, revelando curiosidades e ótimas histórias para quem curte a franquia, games em geral ou se interessa por design de games.

É interessante descobrir detalhes do game e perceber como eles evoluíram, do Arcade para os consoles, as adaptações visuais e sonoras necessárias para que Street Fighter continuasse conquistando novas gerações. Não é à toa que este é um dos jogos mais importantes da história dos games, apesar até mesmo das trágicas adaptações cinematográficas em torno de seus personagens.

Sem mais blá-blá-blá, dê o play e divirta-se. O documentário é em inglês, sem legendas.

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A-B InBev Heads to Campus with Big Data-Focused ‘Bud Lab’


Anheuser-Busch InBev is pairing beer, college students and big data at a new analytics center at the University of Illinois Research Park.

The initiative, called “Bud Lab,” will focus on data analytics, data research and innovation to “solve problems ranging from assortment optimization, social media and market trends to large-scale data initiatives, ” according to a statement posted on the website of the research park.

The program is the latest example of a marketer relying on a university to help boost its access to talent in the fast-growing data sciences field. IBM, for instance, partners with academic programs across the globe, including some that are developed in conjunction with clients such as General Motors (at Michigan State University) and GlaxoSmithKline (at Yale).

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Meet Galaxy Gear, Samsung’s Entry Into the New ‘Smartwatch’ Fray


The next big thing in consumer tech isn’t a smartphone, but a smartwatch. Or at least that’s the growing hope as growth in smartphones cools.

Samsung on Wednesday used its second high-profile event this year to pitch the Galaxy Note III, the latest iteration of large-screened smartphone, and Galaxy Gear, its foray into selling a “smartwatch.”

Gear, which will run on Android software, lets users to track their health data, get social media notifications and take photos via a 1.9-megapixel camera. The device will also be able to run apps including Evernote, Path and Pocket.

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Baylor University: Mission

Advertising Agency: Proof Advertising, USA
Creative Director: Craig Mikes
Associate Creative Directors: George Ellis, Rob Story
Account Director: Sparky Witte
Executive Producer: Vicki Russell
Broadcast Intern: Danny Nouri
Production/Design/Animation Company: Stardust
Managing Director/Co-Owner: Dexton Deboree
Creative Director/Co-Owner: Seth Epstein
Executive Producer: Blythe Dalton Klippsten
Producer: Paul Winze
Art Director/Senior Designer: Angela Ko
2D Animators / Compositors: Sandy Chang, Mark Kim, Taekyu Kim

Yes, The Nancy Grace Show Actually Created The Hashtag #ToiletBaby


Late last month a Pennsylvania woman made national news when, as the AP reported on Aug. 26, she allegedly “gave birth to a son in the bathroom of a sports bar, then abandoned him to die in the restaurant’s toilet.”

The team at “Nancy Grace” — as Grace’s HLN current-affairs cable show is called — saw in this story not just a horrific tragedy, but a social-media opportunity. Last night at 7:55 p.m. ET, to promote a segment on the story, the official @NancyGraceHLN Twitter account tweeted,

That hashtag prompted immediate negative reaction from the Twittersphere, including “I think that hash is very insensitive” and “Sensationalism above all else” and “omg I can’t believe the hashtag!That is awful & insensitive !!!”

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InfiniScroll App quer transformar como pais contam histórias aos filhos antes de dormir

Uma boa alternativa para o mercado de ebooks se popularizar cada vez mais tanto entre adultos como crianças é justamente unir forças ao livro impresso, como uma poderosa peça de hardware capaz de contar infinitas histórias, guiadas pela imaginação das crianças.

Porém, em meio a diversas invenções digitais de storytelling, poucas entregam uma riqueza em detalhes e funções como o aplicativo InfiniScroll.

Com a interface do app e seus desenhos que surgem ao longo do scroll, é possível criar histórias infinitas, determinadas de acordo com a imaginação da criança.

O aplicativo carrega uma variedade de 80 ilustrações, todas montadas em partes separadas para que a história seja criada conforme a interação da criança com o tablet. Cada desenho se refere a um personagem ou objeto diferente. Combinando-os, é possível levar a narrativa para diversos caminhos.

Com a interface centrada no movimento vertical, cada história consiste em cinco painéis que se desdobram do topo. Ou seja, ao rolar a tela para cima, um novo desenho aparece. Se rolada para baixo, a história dá um passo para trás, porém com um personagem diferente do anterior. As ilustrações podem ser travadas caso o usuário determine. Além disso, também é possível gravar e inserir sons, dando vida às cenas criadas.

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“Queríamos quebrar a linearidade do storytelling tradicional com um app que engaje tanto visualmente quanto pelo controle da narrativa” – CEO Luca Passo

As artes do aplicativo foram criadas pelo ilustrador italiano Francesco Chiacchio, que produziu um elenco de personagens cujas formas e estilos podem ser facilmente mixados. Com o progresso da história, se torna impossível dizer onde uma ilustração termina e a outra começa.

Com InfiniScroll, os aparelhos móveis permitem levar o usuário para além da experiência passiva de assistir filmes ou ler um livro. Aqui, essa interatividade e liberdade de criar acaba por conectar pais e filhos, além de abrir portar para muitas outras oportunidades significativas no campo da educação e interação entre leitor-livro e leitor-leitor.

InfiniScroll está disponível para iPad e iPhone por $1,99.

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Would You Encourage Your Children to Work in Advertising?


Labor Day got me thinking. About working and my profession.

For the past 15 years, I’ve worked at the same agency. Recently, I moved into a new role, and before I took the gig, I asked a more experienced colleague of mine who’d held a similar post if he’d do it all over again. He said no, and added: “I told my kids to avoid advertising altogether.”

Ouch!

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Gregoire De Lafforest décide de casser les conventions en intégrant à une console, une cage à oiseaux et des cloches de verre communiquant entre elles. Inspiré notamment des cabinets de curiosités et réalisé par les Ateliers Seewhy, son incroyable projet est exposé en ce moment à la Galerie Gosserez.

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Super Pell Floor Cleaner: No mess, Oil

What mess?

Advertising Agency: Lowe, Jakarta, Indonesia
Creative Directors: Din Sumedi, Firman Halim
Art Directors: Aji Bekti, Reza Maulana
Copywriter: Kurniawan Hatigoran
Photographer: Nurulita
Account Supervisor: Raufi Khaerunnisa, Dewi Yullyanti, Putty Chaeronissa
DI Artist: Panji Simanjuntak
Published: October 2012

Super Pell Floor Cleaner: No mess, Cereal

What mess?

Advertising Agency: Lowe, Jakarta, Indonesia
Creative Directors: Din Sumedi, Firman Halim
Art Directors: Aji Bekti, Reza Maulana
Copywriter: Kurniawan Hatigoran
Photographer: Nurulita
Account Supervisor: Raufi Khaerunnisa, Dewi Yullyanti, Putty Chaeronissa
DI Artist: Panji Simanjuntak
Published: October 2012

Super Pell Floor Cleaner: No mess, Coffee

What mess?

Advertising Agency: Lowe, Jakarta, Indonesia
Creative Directors: Din Sumedi, Firman Halim
Art Directors: Aji Bekti, Reza Maulana
Copywriter: Kurniawan Hatigoran
Photographer: Nurulita
Account Supervisor: Raufi Khaerunnisa, Dewi Yullyanti, Putty Chaeronissa
DI Artist: Panji Simanjuntak
Published: October 2012

Hercule Poirot to Return in a New Christie Mystery

The novel, by Sophie Hannah, is authorized by the Agatha Christie estate and is to be released next year.

    



John Lewis puts on street art and coding exhibit for TV range

Inkie, a London-based street artist, and Paolo Ceric, a Croatian coder and programmer, are among the artists featured at a John Lewis digital art exhibition seeking to show off the capabilities of ultra high definition TVs.

New Zealand Telecom Prepaid: Snap out of your prepaid daze

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Auckland / Wellington, New Zealand
Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand
Executive Creative Director: Antonio Navas
Creative Directors: Brad Collet, Slade Gill
Accounts: Ben Fielding, Brendon McLean, Rachael Williams
Planner: Janisa Parag
Agency Producer: Megan Poppelwell
Production Company: Thick as Thieves
Director: Alex Sutherland
Executive Producer: Nik Beachman
Producer: Claire Kelly
Cinematographer: Marty Williams
Hands: Glasshammer
Post Facility: Blockhead
Editor: Julian Curran
Grade: Pete Ritchie
Online: Nigel Mortimer, Puck Murphy
Music Composition: Peter van der Fluit / Liquid Studios
Audio Post: Craig Matuschka / Liquid Studios
Producers: Tamara O’Neill, Sarah Yetton
Published: September 2013

PRWeek to unveil landmark relaunch in October

The communication industry’s leading title PRWeek is preparing the biggest overhaul in its near 30-year history with the launch of a monthly magazine and a series of digital products next month.

The A.1. Steak Sauce Card: It’s Everywhere You Want to Eat

If anyone out there considers themselves a card-carrying A.1. steak sauce enthusiast, you'll soon have the actual card to prove it. The venerable steak sauce and Crispin Porter + Bogusky have launched the A.1. for Life campaign, which rewards hard-core A.1. brand loyalists with perks like a VIP card that can get you steak sauce whenever you want it, wherever you are. Not bad. The campaign also offers swank Major League Baseball seats and—for the simple cost of your dignity—tickets to any Live Nation concert in America. (You have to upload a video of yourself singing an "A.1. Love Song" to get those.) Finally, you could win a belt buckle, watch or fedora with secret hatches for smuggling sauce packets around town. This seems like the most natural fit, because I feel like anyone who would call themselves an A.1. enthusiast also owns a fedora and wears it with casual clothes.

Via Co.Create.