Arkadia Custom Jewels: Anniversary

Jewels that fits your problems.

Advertising Agency: LOWE/Delta, Quito, Ecuador
Creative Director: Rodrigo Ramírez Comte
Art Directors: Rodrigo Mejía Vera, Alejandro Bottas
Illustrator: Nelson Rodríguez
Art Buyer: Fernando Paz
Account Supervisor: Carlos Manuel Pachano
Account Manager: Doris Segovia

Apple iPhone 5C: Designed Together

Advertising Agency: TBWA\Media Arts Lab, USA

‘Breaking Bad’ Props to Be Auctioned

Screenbid.com sees a market in the stuff movie and TV shows are made of, including the dull green Aztek used by the show’s meth-dealing antihero, Walter White.

    



Advertising: Old Slogan Returns as United Asserts It Is Customer-Focused

United has resurrected its “fly the friendly skies” tagline.

    



Petit Gateau Filmes: Girl

Petit Gateau. A Company of Kids Movies and Entertainment.

Advertising Agency: Ampla, Recife, Brazil
Creative Directors: Manuel Cavalcanti, Rafael Nântua, Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues
Art Directors: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Copywriter: Rafael Nântua
Illustrators: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Published: September 2013

Petit Gateau Filmes: Unicorn

Petit Gateau. A Company of Kids Movies and Entertainment.

Advertising Agency: Ampla, Recife, Brazil
Creative Directors: Manuel Cavalcanti, Rafael Nântua, Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues
Art Directors: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Copywriter: Rafael Nântua
Illustrators: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Published: September 2013

Petit Gateau Filmes: Cat

Petit Gateau. a Company of Kids Movies and Entertainment.

Advertising Agency: Ampla, Recife, Brazil
Creative Directors: Manuel Cavalcanti, Rafael Nântua, Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues
Art Directors: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Copywriter: Rafael Nântua
Illustrators: Ricardo Kadito Rodrigues, Laryssa Wannelle
Published: September 2013

2 Top Technology Writers Are Leaving Dow Jones

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, co-editors of the All Things Digital news site, will depart at the end of the year.

    



Sun: Player

With the start of the English Premier League fast approaching, Grey London is rolling out the latest campaign to promote The Sun’s £500,000 Dream Team, a fantasy football league where the winning team receives £125,000.

Advertising Agency: Grey, London, United Kingdom
Creative Director: Dave Monk
Creatives: Johan Leandersson, Erik Uvhagen
Business Director: Tamsine Foggin
Account Manager: Albert Ponnelle
Planners: Hamish Cameron, Matt Gladstone
Creative producer: Kevin Noble
Designers: Ryan Connolly, Chris Chapman
Retoucher: Tom Fryer
Photographer: Paul O’Connor

Expressive Tattoo Editorials – The Editorial ‘Expressionism’ Reveals AmazingTattoo Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The editorial ‘Expressionism’ by Theresa Manchester and Lucas Passmore for ‘FE Magazine’ showcases colorful, eye-catching tattoos within stunning photographs. With heavy…

Wall Street Journal and All Things D to Split


The people behind the All Things Digital news website and conference will part ways with The Wall Street Journal at the end of the year, ending a two-decade run for personal tech columnist Walt Mossberg at the Journal, after failing to reach a new deal.

Mr. Mossberg and journalist Kara Swisher, who both led the AllThingsD events and news outlet owned by Dow Jones & Co., won’t renew their contracts when they expire by the end of this year, according to a statement from the company, confirming a report by Fortune. In their absence, Dow Jones said it will expand its technology coverage and conference business.

Mr. Mossberg’s weekly technology column was a first-read for consumers deciding whether to buy the latest iPhone or upgrade computer software. The AllThingsD conference has been lucrative for the past decade, consistently selling out its limited 500-seat event every year with guests such as Apple’s Steve Jobs, Microsoft.’s Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch, who controls Dow Jones parent News Corp.

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New York Times Company to Pay a 4-Cent Dividend

The president and chief executive of The Times, Mark Thompson, said that while the company would maintain a cautious financial strategy, the strength of the balance sheet justified a dividend.

    



Progress

The modern obsession.

From Adbusters #109: The Epic Human Journey: Part 3, Endless Summer


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Our present age is the final act of the modern obsession with the promise of more.

The desire for increase was the impulse at the heart of Caesar Augustus, the Mongol conquest of Asia, the Bantu migration in Central Africa, the rise of the Aztec and Inca kingdoms in the Americas, the British Empire and the current American and Chinese century. At the end of every battle was the promise of pillage. Battle now, get paid later. This makes empire financially possible.

It is the identical philosophy of the “buy now, pay later” and “zero-percent-down” schemes so ubiquitous throughout the West. The relationship between empire and pillage has changed little, save for the fact that the ability to exploit nature has now outpaced humanity’s ability to exploit one another (though it hasn’t replaced it).

Where there is a center, there must also be a frontier to feed the center. This translates into a new set of mutually dependent entities: where there is a shopping mall, there must be a factory; where there is energy, there must be ecocide; where there is health, there must be sickness; where there is consumption, there must be waste; where there is pristine, there must be polluted; where there is progress, there must be regression and desire.

This material reality has a mental parallel. Within each of us there is also an insatiable thirst for increase and abundance. This is fuelled by advertising, propaganda and, increasingly, self-delusion.

This internalized graph of progress, one that points exponentially up, governs our relationships, our careers, our sex lives, our friendships, our families, our waste lines, our jobs, our purchasing, our houses, our cars, our travels … everything.

According to this way of thinking, satisfaction is a sign of weakness. Poverty is a sign of laziness and ineptitude. Wealth is a sign of attraction and prowess.

This new moral compass of modernity, the consciousness of our world today, is dependent on a single paradoxical truth: infinite growth.

Virtual Facial Hair Apps – Test Out These Virtual Looks Before You Freak Out Your Girlfriend

(TrendHunter.com) The Philip’s Style Yourself app is an entertaining way to check out what you’d look like in a variety of different facial hair styles. If you’re not ready to experiment with a new look in…

Rewind: See the Original Storyboard for ‘Twinkie the Kid’


Twinkie fans have had a roller-coaster of a time as the Hostess brand entered bankruptcies, flirted with death and then was revived again.

When Twinkies made their much-hyped return in July, Twinkie the Kid was along for the ride, making high-profile appearances aimed at adults like this one on the “The Today Show.” But the mascot’s original target was children. The Kid came to life in this 1970’s ad below, which is the subject of this week’s edition of “Ad Age Rewind”.

The campaign, “You Get a Big Delight in Every Bite,” was born on this storyboard created more than four decades ago by Donald Michelson of the Ted Bates ad agency, who died in 2012 at the age of 80.

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Pinterest Will Test Promoted Pins — but Won’t Charge for Them (Yet)


Pinterest’s inevitable march toward an ad business now seems more imminent.

The social-bookmarking company announced today in a blog post bylined by CEO Ben Silbermann that it plans to start testing promoted pins. The message was also emailed to Pinterest users. The company, however, didn’t give a start date or divulge the names of the participating businesses.

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Romita Restaurant Design

Romita Comedor est un restaurant situé à Mexico City dont le design est à la croisée des chemins entre détente et tradition. Les meubles en bois se mêlent aux carrelages noir et blanc pour donner un aspect chic et décontracté. Un très bel endroit à découvrir en images dans la suite de l’article.

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Claire Danes’ Audi Adventure Reunites Her With ‘My So-Called Life’ Love

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If you decide to watch this four minute Mediacom-created Audi ad that touts the vehicle’s awesome gas mileage and which features Homeland star Claire Danes, you’ll have to wait until the very end for the payoff. But if you were a fan of Danes when she played Angela Chase on My So-Called Life, you’ll absolutely love it.

Head-Mounted Displays promovem renascença na maneira com que jogamos

Assim que o Oculus Rift, periférico da Oculus VR, chegar ao mercado, exclusivamente para PC, os donos do PlayStation 4 também poderão esperar para por as mãos em uma tecnologia semelhante, em 2014, mas própria da Sony – durante a Tokyo Game Show 2013, feira que tem início nesta quinta-feira (19), a empresa exibirá ao público seu próprio Head-Mounted Display (HMD), ainda não batizado oficialmente. Em termos de desenvolvimento, o periférico projetado pela Sony não aparenta ser tão difícil de ser executado, em vista da arquitetura semelhante a um PC do novo console da companhia.

O fantasma que cerca ambos lançamentos é o benchmark fraco de produtos do segmento. O Virtual Boy, da Nintendo, foi uma falha em proporções espetaculares para a empresa nos anos 90 – o que ocorreu, devido opinião pública, pelo desconforto ao usar o equipamento, que não possuía ergonomia alguma. Outro produto que falhou é o Pomo, da Xybernaut. Um PC “usável“, amarrado na cintura, projetando uma imagem 800×600 em um dos olhos dos usuários.

E por quê a Sony quer entrar de cabeça neste cemitério? As explorações da empresa na área tiveram início com um Personal 3D Viewer, aparelho etiquetado no valor de US$750 para o varejo norte-americano, que serve como uma espécie de TV pessoal. Há quem especule que a chegada dos HMDs será uma mudança de mercado equivalente ao que foi proporcionado pelo Wii e os gráficos 3D, mudança proveniente de capacidades de CPU cada vez maiores.

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Com o apoio de grandes nomes da indústria, o aparelho promete ser uma maneira inédita de experimentar jogos

O sucesso do Oculus Rift durante o período de experimentações do projeto, é uma das bandeiras do interesse do público no periférico. A possibilidade de aumentar ainda mais a imersão, tal como a capacidade tecnológica da falta de barreiras de usabilidade, significa que não demorará muito para que mais e mais jogadores queiram experimentar a novidade – o que renderá, possivelmente, um interesse maior por parte das desenvolvedoras.

Por dentro do Rift

Após uma geração marcada por controles de movimentos, o plano da Oculus VR é lançar no mercado um capacete de realidade virtual, chamado Oculus Rift, adaptado para jogos de PC. O projeto gerou US$ 16 milhões, dos quais US$ 2,4 milhões foram provenientes do Kickstarter – pelo site, era possível adquirir uma versão especial para desenvolvedores ao preço de US$ 300.

Com o apoio de grandes nomes da indústria, como John Carmack, da id Software, e Gabe Newell, CEO da Valve, o aparelho promete ser uma maneira inédita de experimentar jogos. A tela do kit para desenvolvedores do Rift possui 7 polegadas e foca em otimizações como a redução da latência ou de efeitos borrados quando o usuário vira a cabeça de maneira rápida.

O visor LCD, com profundidade de cor de 24 bits por pixel e resolução de 1280×800 (o plano da companhia é lançar a versão para consumidores com capacidade de gerar imagens em 1920×1080), simula a visão humana, de maneira que os efeitos 3D estereoscópios sejam ajustados como nossos olhos na vida real. O capacete é muito mais leve que o esperado: no total, 379 gramas.

A imagem gerada pelo Oculus Rift é, basicamente, uma sobreposição de telas enxergada diretamente nas lentes do periférico. Em comparação com o Wii Remote, que possui um acelerômetro de eixo triplo para medir ângulos estáticos, o Rift combina a tecnologia já utilizada com um giroscópio também de eixo triplo, capturando movimentos tão rápidos quanto 2 mil graus por segundo – além de um magnetômetro, medindo os campos magnéticos ao redor do aparelho.

Mesmo que ainda não tenha sido lançado, o Oculus Rift já possui uma extensa lista de jogos com suporte a tecnologia, comprovando um interesse do mercado na área. De “Team Fortress 2″ e “Half-Life 2″ a obras indies, como “Minecraft”, “Surgeon Simulator” e “Hawken”, a biblioteca do aparelho já está afinada para os consumidores. Ainda assim, a vontade é de ver outros títulos equipados para a tecnologia. A ação nas skylines de  “BioShock Infinite”, o terror e os sustos de “OutLast”, a beleza dos ventos e da luminosidade de “Flower”, a velocidade das corridas de Faith em “Mirror’s Edge”

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Former Googler Penry Price Is LinkedIn’s New Ad Sales Chief


Penry Price — a former top sales executive at Google who left two years ago to helm the ad-targeting firm Media6Degrees (recently renamed Dstillery) — has been tapped to lead ad sales for LinkedIn.

Mr. Price will step into the role of VP-global sales for LinkedIn’s marketing solutions business. Sales from that division composed 24% of LinkedIn’s revenue in the second quarter, but advertising is considered to be a growing area of focus for the company, which makes most of its money on tools for recruiters.

The hire of Mr. Price in an equivalent role to the one held by Facebook’s Carolyn Everson and Twitter’s Adam Bain is a signal to brands and agencies that LinkedIn has serious ambitions for its ad business, which had already become apparent through its new positioning as a content-marketing platform. Earlier this year, it introduced sponsored updates, its version of native ads that appear in users’ news feeds. It’s busily pitching them to marketers who are intrigued by the proliferation of content on the platform, which includes contributed pieces by the likes of Bill Gates and Richard Branson and business headlines served in the “LinkedIn Today” module at the top of the home page.

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