Sleek Smart Flip Phones – The Plumage Smartphone Combines the Best of Old and New Mobile Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There are reasons to reminisce over your old flip phone, but the vision shatters quickly the next moment you pick up your sensational new handset. Interestingly, the Plumage smartphone appears to be…

Honors for ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Modern Family’

It was a night of upsets at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, in which several HBO series won unexpected victories.

    



The TV Watch: The Old Guard Keeps Its Grip

Despite all the fear and anxiety, Netflix didn’t steal Emmy night in the end as established series like AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and “Modern Family” on ABC took top awards.

    



Collectors of Royalties for Music Publishers May See Better Results

Broadcast Music Inc. will report a 5 percent uptick in revenues to around $944 million for the year ended in June.

    



Susan Lyne Earns Media Maven Stripes for Improving AOL’s Content


One of the issues AOL has been wrestling with during its prolonged transition to digital media company from dial-up internet provider is that people are increasingly coming to its sites through search and social networks rather than the AOL home page. Susan Lyne’s charge is to offer more compelling content that make AOL and its sites places readers want to be — regardless of how they got there.

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Jim Bankoff Brings Lush Print-Design Ethic to Web


Count Vox Media among those spurring online media’s continuing makeover. The digital-media company’s properties, like sports-blog network SB Nation and tech-news site The Verge, have garnered praise for designs descended from print magazines and reimagined digitally.

At the center of Vox’s ascent is CEO Jim Bankoff, 44, who has made a top priority the development of technological tools its editors and designers need to create the content they want to see online.

“We started embracing premium, high-fidelity design at a time when design was ignored on the web and it was all about optimizing pixels and not thinking about aesthetics,” said CEO Jim Bankoff. “Now more publishers and media companies understand the importance of design.” You see a lot of copycat stuff out there.”

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KIT KAT: Have a seat

The creators of the world’s most popular mobile platform have teamed up with the world’s biggest food and beverage company to name the next release of the platform ‘Android Kit Kat’. To celebrate this collaboration, JWT Amsterdam created a campaign, which fits seamlessly with both brands. We placed special outdoor ads at various locations in Amsterdam and Utrecht. Then from Wednesday, September 11th to Saturday, September 14th we simply invited people to have a break, by sitting on the special bench we’d placed on the ad. Anyone who was having this special break at the given moment on Saturday, September 14th, won a new Nexus 7 tablet.

Advertising Agency: JWT Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Executive Creative Director: Bas Korsten
Art Directors / Copywriter: Maarten Vrouwes, Friso Ludenhoff
Creative Strategist: Simon van Oldenbeek
Acitvation Producer: Vera Korsten
Digital Director: Jesse Houweling
Digital Producers: Susanne Meier, Elisah Boektje
Published: September 2013

@home compartmentalised lunch box: River

They will never meet.

Advertising Agency: Makani Creatives, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Ashish Makani, Sameer Makani
Art Director / Illustrator: Prasad Rao, Rahul Patel
Copywriter: Prasad Rao
Published: November 2012

@home compartmentalised lunch box: Border

They will never meet.

Advertising Agency: Makani Creatives, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Ashish Makani, Sameer Makani
Art Director / Illustrator: Prasad Rao, Rahul Patel
Copywriter: Prasad Rao
Published: November 2012

@home compartmentalised lunch box: Cliff

They will never meet.

Advertising Agency: Makani Creatives, Mumbai, India
Creative Directors: Ashish Makani, Sameer Makani
Art Director / Illustrator: Prasad Rao, Rahul Patel
Copywriter: Prasad Rao
Published: November 2012

Chinese Titan Takes Aim at Hollywood

Wang Jianlin, reputed to be China’s richest man, announced plans to build a movie-themed real estate development in what he billed as China’s effort to become the world leader in filmmaking.

    

Futuristic Planet Couture Editorials – ‘The Third Planet from the Sun’ is Out of This World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) ‘The Third Planet from the Sun’ editorial is photographed by MI-ZO and attempts to defy gravity with fashion. The photo shoot doesn’t take place here on earth, but on a colorful…

Miami Ad School ESPM: Pilot

Quarter Away Internship Program. Here you learn by doing.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho
Executive Creative Officer: Flavio Casarotti
Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti
Art Director: Leon Valente
Copywriter: Marina Erthal
Photographer: Donaire Roberto

Miami Ad School ESPM: Surgery

Quarter Away Internship Program. Here you learn by doing.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho
Executive Creative Officer: Flavio Casarotti
Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti
Art Director: Leon Valente
Copywriter: Marina Erthal
Photographer: Donaire Roberto

Miami Ad School ESPM: Bomb

Quarter Away Internship Program. Here you learn by doing.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, São Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho
Executive Creative Officer: Flavio Casarotti
Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti
Art Director: Leon Valente
Copywriter: Marina Erthal
Photographer: Donaire Roberto

Networks Go to Extremes to Promote New Shows for the Fall Season

Broadcast networks have been challenged by a continuing decline in ratings, so marketing executives have left no stone unturned in the pursuit of promotional ideas.

    



PugetSoundStartsHere.org: Infographic, 3

Advertising Agency: EnviroMedia Social Marketing
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Jim Raleigh
Senior Art Director: Sean-Paul Westfall
Illustrator: Sean-Paul Westfall / Stock
Published: June 2013

PugetSoundStartsHere.org: Infographic, 2

Advertising Agency: EnviroMedia Social Marketing, USA
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Jim Raleigh
Senior Art Director: Sean-Paul Westfall
Illustrator: Sean-Paul Westfall / Stock
Published: June 2013

PugetSoundStartsHere.org: Infographic, 1

Advertising Agency: EnviroMedia Social Marketing, USA
Associate Creative Director / Copywriter: Jim Raleigh
Senior Art Director: Sean-Paul Westfall
Illustrator: Sean-Paul Westfall / Stock
Published: June 2013

International Beer Club: Trip around the world

“A trip around the world in every round.”

Advertising Agency: OFF­, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Andrei Ivanoff
Art Director: Giulio Pinotti
Copywriter: Mario Jorge de Oliveira
Graphic Producer: Carlos Alberto de Francis Filho
Account Executives: Caline Fonteneau, Renata Zani Laina
Media Director: Carlos Querino