BlackBerry parts ways with global creative officer Alicia Keys after one year

BlackBerry is parting company with global creative officer Alicia Keys after just one year, after signing up the singer to the role to coincide with the launch of its BlackBerry 10 operating system.

Glass Room in Chamonix

Inspiré par l’excellent projet Skywalk du Grand Canyon, le designer français Pierre-Yves Chays a imaginé à Chamonix un sol en verre permettant une vue à 360° impressionnante sur les Alpes. Un cube de verre du plus bel effet, à découvrir en détails et en images dans la suite de l’article.

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Just Eat to sponsor Take Me Out

Just Eat, the takeaway ordering website and app, has signed a deal to sponsor the new series of ‘Take Me Out’, the ITV Saturday night dating show presented by Paddy McGuinness.

Facebook in legal row over alleged sharing of private message data

Facebook is facing legal action in the US over claims it divulges the content of users’ private messages to brands without their consent.

Blessed and Pasquale return as Underdog climbs legal mountain

National Accident Helpline has today launched its latest ad online, featuring the voice of the comedian Joe Pasquale as the injury-prone Underdog and the actor Brian Blessed as the booming voice of the law.

Good friends ‘don’t let friends smoke’ – says e-cig brand

From pulling off pranks together and getting each other out of pub brawls to making a best man’s speech, best friends look out for each other.

Asda value push challenges ‘expensive’ Aldi and Lidl

Asda has sounded the bell for another bout of value-based January marketing among UK supermarkets, vowing to invest £50m in price promotions that will make discounters such as Aldi look “expensive”.

Doom Diary #3

2021 – Year of the Ox.

From Adbusters #111: The Big Ideas of 2047

This is #3 of a series of diary entries that have arrived in our lap from beyond the horizon of now. The journey begins on July 3, 2020 and continues on March 6, 2020.

January 1, 2021

This year has a darkness about it . . . a deep mental funk has set in. This experiment of ours on planet Earth has finally reach some king of apogee. The dream of never ending progress, of successive generations always being better off, of technology and innovation somehow keeping the ball rolling forever, is finito!

The God of Growth is dead and now all the norms, axioms and taboos of the old world must be conjured up anew. The great unraveling is upon is.

January 3

The whole world has become a panopticon . . .  all eight billion of us have been recruited into the all seeing capitalist algorithm. There’s nowhere left to hide.

Jan 14

Anxiety, mood disorders, depression . . . mental illness has now grown into a bigger pandemic than alzheimer’s and dementia. Japanese government is encouraging people with terminal diseases to choose suicide.

February 1

A mad dash to stop the slide . . . flash trading banned, 24 hour rule on stock trades passed, 3% Robin Hood Tax adopted, billions now flowing into newly energized UN. And maybe the True-Cost Party of America will win in 2024! Here’s hoping.

September 17

Hundreds of thousands descended on Washington and stormed Capitol Hill this morning. Wall Street is going cookoo. A worthy 10th anniversary of Occupy.

30 September

Beijing is unilaterally shooting millions of tons of particulate sulphur into the atmosphere, turning the horizon grey, cooling the Earth. Howls of anger from the usual suspects, but many others are thanking China for finally breaking the Gordian knot.

Oct 22

Biggest tweet of all time . . . Indian philosopher Ramjit Singh electrifies the world with the slogan: There Will Be One World Or No World.

November 13

Religious cults popping up everywhere . . . dozens of charismatic characters around the world claim to be the new messiah . . . philosopher John Woo warns of a spiritual tipping point.

December 24

Pakistan preemptively nuked India today . . . the whole world is holding its breath.

Continue with us on the journey to 2047 with Part Four of the Doom Diary.

Passion and the pain facing Brazilians ahead of the World Cup: an insider’s view

As part of Marketing’s Window on the World series, Juliana Barbiero, marketing director of Just-Eat Brazil, explains the excitement and disappointment surrounding the public mood in the run up to the World Cup.

H-E-B: Laundry Sorting

Advertising Agency: Richards Group, USA
Group VP Advertising and Marketing: Cory Basso
Director of Advertising: Shelley Hannon
Senior Account Manager: Lena Delgado
Agency: The Richards Group
Brand Creative Group Head: Chris Smith
Art Director: Bo McCord
Copywriters: Wendy Mayes, Brittany Sarrett
Art Director: Kyle Kelley
Director of Broadcast: Greg Gibson
Agency Producer: Debbie Koppman
Business Affairs Managers: Sara Sax, Devona Mayeur
Brand Management: Howard Blevins
Production Company: Sugar Film Production
Director: Chris Smith
Executive Producer: Tony Miglini
Line Producer: Michelle Isbell
Editorial: Fast Cuts
Editorial Executive Producer: Lisa Hill
Editorial Senior Producer: Barbara Sanders
Offline Editor: Jason Payne

H-E-B: Tough Talk

Advertising Agency: Richards Group, USA
Group VP Advertising and Marketing: Cory Basso
Director of Advertising: Shelley Hannon
Senior Account Manager: Lena Delgado
Agency: The Richards Group
Brand Creative Group Head: Chris Smith
Art Director: Bo McCord
Copywriters: Wendy Mayes, Brittany Sarrett
Art Director: Kyle Kelley
Director of Broadcast: Greg Gibson
Agency Producer: Debbie Koppman
Business Affairs Managers: Sara Sax, Devona Mayeur
Brand Management: Howard Blevins
Production Company: Sugar Film Production
Director: Chris Smith
Executive Producer: Tony Miglini
Line Producer: Michelle Isbell
Editorial: Fast Cuts
Editorial Executive Producer: Lisa Hill
Editorial Senior Producer: Barbara Sanders
Offline Editor: Jason Payne

H-E-B: Splendid

Advertising Agency: Richards Group, USA
Group VP Advertising and Marketing: Cory Basso
Director of Advertising: Shelley Hannon
Senior Account Manager: Lena Delgado
Agency: The Richards Group
Brand Creative Group Head: Chris Smith
Art Director: Bo McCord
Copywriters: Wendy Mayes, Brittany Sarrett
Art Director: Kyle Kelley
Director of Broadcast: Greg Gibson
Agency Producer: Debbie Koppman
Business Affairs Managers: Sara Sax, Devona Mayeur
Brand Management: Howard Blevins
Production Company: Sugar Film Production
Director: Chris Smith
Executive Producer: Tony Miglini
Line Producer: Michelle Isbell
Editorial: Fast Cuts
Editorial Executive Producer: Lisa Hill
Editorial Senior Producer: Barbara Sanders
Offline Editor: Jason Payne

H-E-B: One for Each

Advertising Agency: Richards Group, USA
Group VP Advertising and Marketing: Cory Basso
Director of Advertising: Shelley Hannon
Senior Account Manager: Lena Delgado
Agency: The Richards Group
Brand Creative Group Head: Chris Smith
Art Director: Bo McCord
Copywriters: Wendy Mayes, Brittany Sarrett
Art Director: Kyle Kelley
Director of Broadcast: Greg Gibson
Agency Producer: Debbie Koppman
Business Affairs Managers: Sara Sax, Devona Mayeur
Brand Management: Howard Blevins
Production Company: Sugar Film Production
Director: Chris Smith
Executive Producer: Tony Miglini
Line Producer: Michelle Isbell
Editorial: Fast Cuts
Editorial Executive Producer: Lisa Hill
Editorial Senior Producer: Barbara Sanders
Offline Editor: Jason Payne

Harley-Davidson: Book Club, 2

Welcome to the Harley book club
The 2014 genuine motor parts & accessories catalogue is here. If there were more books like this, book clubs would make a lot more sense. This book has everything. It contains some of the most beautiful words in the english language. Words like “chrome”, “saddlebags” and “custom”. Not only that, It contains over 10,000 genuine h-d® accessories and a whole lot of pictures for inspiration. So what are you waiting for? Pick up your copy at your authorised harley-davidson® dealer now. Or if you can’t wait, simply download it at h-d.Com.Au

Harley-Davidson has created a “Book Club” with a difference, in a new campaign created by 303Lowe, Sydney. To promote the launch of the 2014 Harley Genuine Motor Accessoriescatalogue, the campaign features the Harley-Davidson-style ‘Book Club’ complete with Skull & Cross Bone China.

Advertising Agency: 303Lowe, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director: Richard Morgan
Art Directors: Adam Whitehead, Alex Haack
Copywriters: Sean Larkin, Kate Holdsworth
Illustrators: Adam Whitehead, Paula Cardona
Photographer: Sean Izzard
Head of Business Management: Matthew Clarke
Business Manager: Laura Dewey
Planner: Dan Clark

Harley-Davidson: Book Club, 1

Some books are for book people, this book is for bike people.
The 2014 genuine motor parts & accessories catalogue is here.

Harley-Davidson has created a “Book Club” with a difference, in a new campaign created by 303Lowe, Sydney. To promote the launch of the 2014 Harley Genuine Motor Accessoriescatalogue, the campaign features the Harley-Davidson-style ‘Book Club’ complete with Skull & Cross Bone China.

Advertising Agency: 303Lowe, Sydney, Australia
Creative Director: Richard Morgan
Art Directors: Adam Whitehead, Alex Haack
Copywriters: Sean Larkin, Kate Holdsworth
Illustrators: Adam Whitehead, Paula Cardona
Photographer: Sean Izzard
Head of Business Management: Matthew Clarke
Business Manager: Laura Dewey
Planner: Dan Clark

Treasury Wine Estates / 19 Crimes: How to braise a lamb shank

An Australian wine with a checkered past offers up advice to young males looking to try and bold wine with a good story.

Advertising Agency: Giants & Gentlemen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Director: Alanna Nathanson
Art Director: Dan Bache
Copywriter: Geoff Morgan
Production Company: Radke Films
Director: Shawn Zeytinoglu
Music: RMW
Editorial: Relish
Aired: October 2013

Treasury Wine Estates / 19 Crimes: Good advice from bad guys, 6

Advertising Agency: Giants & Gentlemen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Director: Alanna Nathanson
Art Director: Dan Bache
Copywriter: Geoff Morgan
Photographer: Robert Popkin
Published: October 2013

Treasury Wine Estates / 19 Crimes: Good advice from bad guys, 5

Advertising Agency: Giants & Gentlemen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Director: Alanna Nathanson
Art Director: Dan Bache
Copywriter: Geoff Morgan
Photographer: Robert Popkin
Published: October 2013

Treasury Wine Estates / 19 Crimes: Good advice from bad guys, 4

Advertising Agency: Giants & Gentlemen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Director: Alanna Nathanson
Art Director: Dan Bache
Copywriter: Geoff Morgan
Photographer: Robert Popkin
Published: October 2013

Treasury Wine Estates / 19 Crimes: Good advice from bad guys, 3

Advertising Agency: Giants & Gentlemen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Creative Director: Alanna Nathanson
Art Director: Dan Bache
Copywriter: Geoff Morgan
Photographer: Robert Popkin
Published: October 2013