Sonorad: Therapy

Divorce is not always the solution.

Advertising Agency: El Living, Chile
Creative Director: José Francisco Tapia
Art Director: Sebastián Pamplona
Copywriter: Sebastián Leyton

Poetry in Collages by Caroline Attan

L’artiste anglaise Caroline Attan combine le paper art, l’origami, les collages et la poésie pour en faire des compositions circulaires très colorées. Entre les papiers collés et pliés, on peut lire la poésie de Pablo Neruda. Un travail qui rappelle les calligrammes d’Apollinaire réactualisés à la tendance du paper art.

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Stunning Geometrical Desert Art – The ‘Desert Breath’ Project Looks Surreal and Other Worldly (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Looking like mystical art from above, this stunning geometrical desert art piece by installation artist Danae Stratou looks surreal and other worldly.

The ‘Desert Breath’ project in…

Coke Drops Unsuspecting Moviegoers Into Sex Scene for Real-Time Ad

What's more refreshing: A Coca-Cola, or a Coca-Cola ad poking fun at the brand's consumers?

To encourage moviegoers to stay quiet during a film, Saatchi Denmark filmed audience members milling around the lobby sipping soda through straws and pulling stupid faces, then quickly edited the footage into the background of a fake movie trailer. In the middle of the supposed preview, viewers suddenly saw themselves on the screen, ruining a perfectly cheesy sex scene with their odd expressions and obnoxious slurping sounds.

It's hard not to wonder if the stunt is staged, or if everybody who goes to the cinema in Copenhagen just happens to look like they could work at an ad agency. Regardless, the point—don't make yourself part of the movie by being a noisy jerk—holds up well enough, both in the case study and in a handful of related clips. The other spots, which you can watch after the jump, aren't real-time editing stunts, but they're still pretty amusing, especially when the young woman offers a perfectly smug deadpan, munching popcorn while she gets buried alive alongside a cop.

Of course, when it comes to customer-shaming ads that encourage considerate moviegoing, the gold standard will forever be Alamo Drafthouse's transcript of an ejected texter's irate voicemail. Because sometimes the truth is just too good to beat.


    



Minimalist Food Packaging by BVD

Le studio BVD a réalisé pour une marque de fast-food cette série de packagings « Reitan », avec un rendu esthétique qui donne envie et qui informe sur les ingrédients du sandwich visible ou non. Une jolie découverte d’emballages alimentaires (Minimalist Food Packaging) à découvrir ci-dessous.

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Lanes Health: Let Mama Lanes Vending Machine


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This cool promo is the much awaited sequel of a successful facebook activation created by Lanes Health and called “Let Mama Lanes” (where “Lanes” is a pun because it sounds just like “say” in Greek). Through the facebook app, we gave users the opportunity to talk about their over-protective mothers in public and share their most epic “Mama quotes”, in a fun and engaging way. But a truly great idea –let alone the Greek Mama herself- can’t be restricted to the narrow context of a digital campaign. This is why the activation was led to a highpoint with the conception of an interactive vending machine which was placed in the biggest shopping mall in Athens (The Mall Athens). Visitors were given the chance to meet the Greek Mama up close and personal, and take part in the one and only “Mama knows best so you’d better listen to what she says if you want to get a treat” experience. The vending machine was “armed” with dozens of Mama-quotes ready to be fired at will to unsuspecting passers-by in order to convince them to join in the fun and play. All they had to do was follow Mama’s orders to the T and, if they proved to be good, they would be rewarded. How? With Lanes vitamins, of course. The result? Mama was the star of the show and offered –apart from vitamins- lots and lots of smiles, while the vitamins themselves won the heart of the public. Mama approves!

Advertising Agency:Socialab, Greece
Art Director:Tonia Loran
Copywriter:Irini Georgi
Designer:Mariana Evmolpidou
Account Director:Tasos Veliadis, George Anagnostopoulos
Account Manager:Eva Mpouzi, Despoina Skordili, Fragiskos Kavroudakis
Director:Antonis Antoniadis

Olympic Skier Ted Ligety Chats With a Snowflake Depressed About Climate Change

Olympic skier Ted Ligety plays straight man to a sullen, animated snowflake in this 90-second spot from Al Gore's Climate Reality Project.

It's part of CRP's "I Am Pro Snow" campaign featuring winter sports stars. Ligety's side of the conversation was created from footage of the gold medalist chatting with a technician while shooting a segment for Warren Miller's documentary Ticket to Ride.

Copywriter Jim Heekin voices the snowflake, who's just not cool with global warming. "For me, 2013—not the best year," he says. "I had a lot of my friends, close friends, melt way before their time." The flake tries to get a grip, telling Ligety: "Sorry, dude. This is my stuff. I should be a better friend to you."

The absurdity continues as the skier provides thigh-drum accompaniment while the flake raps, "Yo, my name is snow/And my beats got flow/And, yo, these winters gettin' hotter/'Case you didn't know." (Climate change skeptics will, of course, point to the fact that early 2014 has been one of the coldest winters for most of the U.S.)

Props to CRP for taking an unconventional approach, though the spot might be a bit too flaky for its own good.


    



EZPlastic Rehab Clinic: Silence


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Advertising Agency:Mota Comunicacao, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Creative Director:Orlando Mota, Thomaz Fernandes
Art Director:Thomaz Fernandes, Diego Bernardes, André Rodrigues
Copywriter:Orlando Mota, Thomaz Costa, David Paiva
Studio:Polegar Opositor
Director:Rafael Neves, Jonathas Alpoim
Photography:João Luis
Sound Design:Dsan

3 coisas que fiz errado no #SXSW14

A experiência do SXSW na cidade de Austin é algo como tomar água em um hidrante de rua, correndo uma maratona de 50k ao som de 10 bandas tocando ao mesmo tempo no seu fone de ouvido. Tudo é em excesso e isso é bom, mas não é fácil.

A sensação de perder algo legal toda hora, às vezes, é menor do que a sensação de que não vai caber mais nada na sua cabeça. Ou seu corpo não vai mais aguentar e ainda são dez da noite. Nomes, temas, as ruas, os brasileiros, o jack’n’coke, as bandas, o RSVP, a conversa no taxi, o happy hour no hotel de alguém. Tudo é aproveitado e tudo é muito. Muita informação, marcas, idéias, contatos e malucos.

O badge no pescoço vira um convite para alguém vir falar com você e você falar com alguém a qualquer instante em lugar. Até no banheiro. A cabeça está sempre tentando desfragmentar o que rolou há 10 minutos e tentando planejar os próximos 20. Anotações, tweets, cartões trocados. Wearables, Awards, Assange, Snowden. As fichas vão caindo devagar enquanto as coisas acontecem sem parar.

Mesmo com a sensação de ter acertado na maior parte do tempo, aproveitei uma pausa de quatro horas no aeroporto de Atlanta para escrever este post e ver se ele me ajuda a lembrar das coisas que acredito que errei.

1. Não ter paciência para filas gigantes

Em Austin tudo é fila. Chega a ser engraçado. As pessoas gostam de fila e aproveitam ela de alguma forma. Pra dar risada, comer, beber, trocar ideias, olhar o celular… Acho que eu não soube administrar da melhor maneira e só depois cheguei a conclusão que é melhor enfrentar uma fila e entrar onde você quer, do que tentar e desistir de duas ou três e seguir perdendo tempo. Tenha paciência, escolha uma fila e fique nela, mesmo sendo um saco.

2. Ficar longe do centro

Fiquei em uma casa linda e aconchegante na periferia de Austin, próximo ao Metrô Martin Luther King Jr. O problema é que não da para contar toda hora com o metrô da cidade, a não ser pela manhã. O metrô não funciona aos domingos. Depender de taxi então, esquece. Alugar carro muito menos, pelo trânsito e pela quantidade de gente na rua não vale a pena. Fique em algum lugar em downtown e prepare suas pernas.

3. Não ter o badge de Music

Fui somente com o Badge de Interactive consciente de que era um risco. Mas queria aproveitar a categoria e deixar pra explorar música nas ruas conforme fosse possível. Dei muita sorte e vi muitos shows bons. Mas assim que acabou o Interactive, a coisa complicou. Considere o badge Music ou vá logo de Platinum.

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Animação conta a aventura de um herói do WiFi

Em janeiro de 2012, Mike Lacher publicou um divertido texto no site McSweeney chamado “In Which I Fix My Girlfriend’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed As a Conquering Hero”, em que contava sobre sua aventura para consertar o WiFi dos avós de sua namorada, mas como se fosse um herói de alguma fantasia. Recentemente, a história foi adaptada em uma animação para os sites Vulture e McSweeney.

Animada por Jesse Benjamin, “Ballad of a WiFi Hero” tem uma pegada meio anos 1980, meio 1990, lembrando alguns games épicos, com imagens pixeladas.

A história, perfeitamente narrada por H. Jon Benjamin (de “Bob’s Burgers” e “Archer”) conta a aventura de um herói moderno (mas com visual medieval, com direito a capa e espada) que aceita a missão de consertar a rede WiFi dos avós de sua namorada, que são completamente dependentes da tecnologia e ficam completamente arrasados com a falta dela.

A graça fica por conta da forma como Lacher resolveu contar a história, transformando emaranhados de fios e instalações ultrapassadas em grandes perigos. Tudo ao som da música criada por Paul Sprangers.

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Watch ‘Ellie’ take control of her life with the help of Barnardo’s

As a young boy gets stage fright before performing in a school assembly, a young girl, ‘Ellie’ is fighting her need for help.

Hottest virals: Samsung showcases Galaxy S5, plus Chevrolet and Hugo Boss

The latest viral ads from Samsung, Chevrolet and Hugo Boss

Rory Sutherland: ‘It’s mildly exciting to pay my gas bill from a café in Paris – for a digital native this is banal’ #web25

To mark 25 years of the World Wide Web, Rory Sutherland, vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK, explains why he’s grateful he wasn’t born 15 years later and remembers a time when people paid attention to those they shared an office with, not just to a computer screen.

Surreal Food Maps – Unique Maps Made Entirely Of Food (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fruit and geography have come together beautifully in this truly unique collaboration by New Zealand artist Henry Hargreaves and New York-based stylist Caitlin Levin. With typography created by…

Smiljan Radic turns to Oscar Wilde story for Serpentine Gallery Pavilion design

Chilean architect Smiljan Radic has designed a semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell resting on large quarry stones for the latest iteration of the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.

Cadbury – Passport Control

Voici la dernière publicité télévisée Cadbury réalisé par le créatif anglais David Wilson. Il y a des moments où nous avons tous besoin d’une pause, dans cette vidéo, l’officier mange son Cadbury Dairy Milk Ritz, qui lui déclenche spontanément une danse exubérante autour de l’aéroport dans ses chaussures violettes.

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Canal+ pede que pessoas doem gritos para ajudar viúva de astro desconhecido

Linda Dotson Wooley é a viúva de Wilhelm Wooley, um desconhecido astro do cinema. Mas como é que pode alguém ser um astro e desconhecido ao mesmo tempo? A resposta está em “Leave Wilhelm Alone”, campanha que a FCB criou para o Canal+ da Espanha: Wilhelm é a voz que você ouve em mais de 200 filmes, quando alguém grita. E sua viúva, Linda, simplesmente não consegue assistir a nenhum filme por conta disso.

De Toy Story a Star Wars, passando por O Senhor dos Anéis, Kill Bill e até Poltergeist, desde 1951 é a voz de Wilhelm que ouvimos – quando o filme não é dublado, é claro. Linda conta sua triste história em “The Woman Who Can´t Watch Movies”, um documentário curto que convoca pessoas do mundo inteiro a “doar” seus gritos para um banco de voz a ser utilizado em filmes, o que permitiria à viuva voltar a assisti-los sem a preocupação de ouvir seu falecido Sheb gritando em um deles.

É claro que o projeto todo é uma grande sátira, que de tão dramático e trágico se torna cômico. No site da campanha é possível ouvir alguns dos melhores gritos doados por filme. Para contribuir com o seu próprio grito, basta acessar o site, escolher três filmes, assistir à cena e começar a gritar. Quem será o próximo Wilhelm?

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How GM Can Steer Through Crisis of Ignition-Switch Recall


In a letter to employees, General Motors CEO Mary Barra wrote the company’s “reputation” won’t be determined by the ongoing recall of 1.6 million vehicles with potentially fatal ignition switch problems — but how it addresses the “problem going forward.”

If that’s Ms. Barra’s litmus test, then GM’s efforts at reputation management are still idling in neutral, warn some Crisis PR experts.

One of the first rules of reputation management is to be proactive, not reactive. Reputation experts say GM’s response seems to have been a day late and a dollar short since the first field reports started trickling in about the faulty ignition switches that have been linked to at least 12 deaths.

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Toy-Fair Lesson: Crowdfunding Is Much More Than Child’s Play


Much has been written about the disruptive power of crowdfunding. Websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have given innovative products a viable alternative to traditional funding models. But a recent walk around the 2014 New York Toy Fair revealed a much more important value for opening up your product to community investment — social engagement that puts traditional social platforms to shame.

Take, for instance, the story of the High Roller. This adult-sized “Big-Wheel-Like” toy took to Kickstarter in 2011. Founder Matt Armbruster not only built up the funding he needed to launch, he also committed to the follow-through. He connected with his highly engaged audience throughout the production process via email and blog posts, creating a wealth of rabid fans along the way and continued product buzz three years later. As one advocate put it, “It’s genius. Social is baked in. You’re always recommending to your friends, because who wants to ride one of these things alone?”

Then there’s the new startup, SoapSox. In any other scenario these plush bath toys that have a pocket for soap would have been just another cute idea that was quickly forgotten. But the crowdfunding campaign by Ray Phillips and Alvin Uy allowed them to tell a backstory. Their heartwarming tale about how these toys were developed to help make troubled kids in a southern California group home feel more comfortable is inspiring. Now a financially invested audience is not just recommending a product prior to launch, they are part of a continuing story and ongoing dialog about helping kids in distress.

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Fashion magazine Centrefold shoots entire issue on Nokia Lumia 1020

The gritty New York art scene and a Saint Laurent shoot are among the moments captured for the tenth issue of Centrefold magazine, with all the imagery featured in the magazine taken on a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone.