Minimalist Iconic Candy Rebranding – Alyssa Phillips Does a Complete Packaging Redesign for M&Ms (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Student Alyssa Phillips did a complete packaging redesign of M&M candies as a school assignment. Changing the name simply to M’s, her packaging features a resealable tear strip so that you…

Trend of the day: Life: delayed

Marketers can no longer rely on outdated notions of a consumer’s typical life journey, writes Nicola Kemp in today’s entry in our ‘Forward 50’ trends series.

Orange: Movie day

Orange Movie Day on tuesday buy one movie and get one free.

Advertising Agency: Facto Saatchi & Saatchi, Sainte-Clotide, France
Creative Director: Fabrice Boutin
Art Director: Elodie Le Bourvellec
Copywriter: Gaël Bidegaray
CGI : Pixel Dealer
Published: November 2013

Space Channel: Frightening October, Elevator

Advertising Agency: AGE Isobar, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Carlos Domingos
Art Directors: Cristiano Rodrigues, Cícero Souza
Copywriters: Ricardo Porto, Daguito Rodrigues, Nicholas Bergantin
Account Managers: Lilly Mattão, Melissa Volk
Media: Alice Orlando, André Zanetti, Lucas Marques
Agency Producers: Juliana Dantino, Virgínia Machado
Production Company: Easy Filmes
Director: Alessandro Yamada
Sound Producer: Jamute
Published: October 2013

Space Channel: Frightening October, Theater

Advertising Agency: AGE Isobar, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Carlos Domingos
Art Directors: Cristiano Rodrigues, Cícero Souza
Copywriters: Ricardo Porto, Daguito Rodrigues, Nicholas Bergantin
Account Managers: Lilly Mattão, Melissa Volk
Media: Alice Orlando, André Zanetti, Lucas Marques
Agency Producers: Juliana Dantino, Virgínia Machado
Production Company: Easy Filmes
Director: Alessandro Yamada
Sound Producer: Jamute
Published: October 2013

Pelephone: Cloud

Advertising Agency: Grey Adler Chomsky & Warshavsky, Israel
Director: Eli Sverdlov
DOP: Mano Kadosh
Production Company: Mulla Productions
CG / VFX: Gravity, Ilan Boun
Editor: Dedan Uziel
Sound: Soundhouse

Santander: Movie Marathon

Advertising Agency: Arnold Worldwide, USA
Chief Creative Officer: Pete Favat
Creative Directors: John Kearse, Rob Kottkamp
Art Director: Matt Sharpe
Copywriter: Pete Shamon
Producer: Spring Clinton-Smith
Assistant Producer: Alex Saevitz
Business Affairs: Jen Wrentmore
Planners: Amie Owens and Marissa Kelley
Strategy: Lauren Murphy, Justin Stone
Marketing Producers: Barb Reilly, Karen Morales, Renee Herendeen, Allie Curtis
Production Company: O Positive
Production Company Executive Producer: Ralph Laucella
Production Company Producers: Marc Grill, Devon Clark
Director: Jim Jenkins
Editorial Company: Big Sky Edit
Editor: Chris Franklin
Sound Design: big sky/Heard city for record/mix
VFX: Big sky

Henkel Persil: Sport man

Persil Gel. No powder residues.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Cairo, Egypt
Creative Director: Bassem Sabry
Art Directors: Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Gaber, Bassem Sabry
Copywriters: Ramy Badr, Heba Elhabashy
Illustrators: Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Gaber
Photographer: Bassem Sabry
Published: July 2013

Henkel Persil: Workman

Persil Gel. No powder residues.

Advertising Agency: DDB, Cairo, Egypt
Creative Director: Bassem Sabry
Art Directors: Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Gaber, Bassem Sabry
Copywriters: Ramy Badr, Heba Elhabashy
Illustrators: Mohamed Kamel, Mohamed Gaber
Photographer: Bassem Sabry
Published: July 2013

Spectro Skin Care: The Smile Shop

Installation for Spectro Skin Care, called The Smile Shop. It’s situated in Queen West, Toronto’s hipster hangout. The installation is a part of a wider campaign about inner happiness. Teenage girls are being asked to instagram something that made them smile. The instagram feed is linked to a series of 1960’s and 1970’s TV’s in the Smile Shop gallery window. We really like that it takes digital and makes it analogue.

Advertising Agency: Blammo, Canada
Creative Director: Michael Murray
Creatives: Victoria Sturgess, Vanessa Heber
Account Supervisor: Ashley Weber
Head of Production. Gord Cathmoir

Venezuela Releases U.S. Journalist After 2 Days

Venezuelan officials released Jim Wyss, a bureau chief for The Miami Herald, after he was detained Thursday near the Colombian border.

    



Richard Witkin, 95, Witness to the History of Aviation, Dies

Mr. Witkin worked for The Times for three decades and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer for coverage of the Challenger disaster.

    

Chunky Lumber Stairs – The Wooden Block Staircase is an Architectural Paradox of Bulk and Lightness (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) On the one hand, this wooden block staircase bears this sense of near weightlessness, thanks to its apparently supportless assembly. On the other hand, you can tell that you’re looking at…

BCN Typography

L’illustrateur Simon Prades a mélangé ses trois passions : l’architecture, la typographie et Barcelone pour créer cette création BCN composée de blocs d’immeubles de la ville catalane. Une typographie d’une grande qualité « BCN Typography » réalisée à la main, à découvrir entièrement dans la suite de l’article.

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The Haggler: Mug-Shot Websites, Retreating or Adapting

After an October article, at least one big site has stopped charging fees for removing arrest photographs. But another has resumed the practice.

    

Compartmentalizing Timber Escritoires – The Private Desk Meets Your Needs In Beauty and Business (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A desk should be a fundamentally flexible piece of furniture that allows you to carry out a wide range of tasks. The Private Desk goes above and beyond what one might expect out of a writing table,…

37 Surreal Spiralling Structures – From Spiralling Auto Garages to Elegant Spiralling Abodes (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These surreal spiralling structures are showcasing how curved design and coiled features can have a profound visual impact on architectural buildings.

Modern day architects are all about creating…

A Ballet Performed by Birds

Après la belle vidéo de Neels Castillon : A Bird Ballet, c’est au tour d’Alain Delorme de rendre hommage aux mouvements aériens des oiseaux avec la série Murmurations – Ephemeral Plastic Sculptures. Ce sont en réalité des sacs plastiques représentant les oiseaux, l’artiste cherchant à questionner la fragilité de l’écosystème face à la pollution.

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Reporter for Reuters Won’t Receive China Visa

The rejection comes amid rising tensions between foreign news organizations and the Chinese government, which has been using various means to express displeasure with coverage it deems unflattering.

    



Peeled-Back Parkitecture – Echoing Plateau Manipulates a City’s Landscape to Raise its Tired State (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Echoing Plateau project demonstrates a literal lift to the waterfront of New Rochelle, New York. This project was an attempt to bring life and activity into an underused and underdeveloped area…