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Advertising School:Brother Ad School, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Creative Director:Lissette Guzman, Freddy Montero Galva
Art Director:Freddy Montero Galva
Copywriter:Lissette Guzman
Additional Credits:Joan Bueno, Alejandro Capellán

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PLAY THE GAME BUT PLAY IT SAFE. www.bangtris.com

Advertising Agency:MAYD, Hamburg, Germany
Creative Director:Behnaz Pakravesh, Bahador Pakravesh, Christian Anhut
Art Director:Machmut Vati, Lissy Heckel
Illustrator:Andrew Morgan, Liz Hanke
Coding:HAREMO UG
Animation:Digitalesleben, Michael Kronenberg
Sound Production:The Soundshack GmbH
Sound Engineer:Tobias Sauer
Music:NIGHTKRAFT

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Advertising Agency:Area 23, USA
Creatives:Andy Gerchak, Kent Wilkinson, Austin Sabattis, Samantha Quiles
Artist:Henry Hargreaves
Dp:David Claessen

Argos claims that more than half of all traffic to its website today, dubbed Cyber Monday, will come from phones and tablets as it ramps up for a shopping “frenzy”.

Omnicom Media Group has hired Azon Howie, the head of commercial at the Denstu Aegis Network trading arm Amplifi, as its trading director EMEA, replacing Marc Bignell.

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From Adbusters #117: Blueprint for a New World, Part 6: Aesthetico

My children are in school. For longer than they’ve been alive, their country has been at war.

And yet, for them, war remains abstract and largely invisible, because it’s been so relentlessly stage–managed to keep its true face hidden. Instead of a real sense of what war is, they get action movies and shooter games. When they see anything of war, it is itself a kind of movie: selected, spectacular imagery that fits a narrative and an agenda. The agenda is for war to go on. For the massive transfer of wealth that war allows and promotes to continue unabated.

Looking at the gruesome videos from Al Qaeda or ISIS, one might see them as a contrast to our controlled, sanitized presentation of war?—?as if they perversely displayed the full measure of its actual horror. If our media act like a superego, the videos seem to come straight from the id?—?a grotesque message from the abyss of human cruelty.

But then, you realize that the two faces of war are joined. Censorship is the other side of pornography. Western spin fuels Jihadi gruesomeness. By obfuscating our violence?—?our drone strikes, our secret prisons, our “enhanced interrogation techniques”?—?we lure radical “Islamists” into flaunting their own. Conversely, by forcing us to stare at our countrymen being murdered, they give us an excuse to stay on the war path. The only winner is war itself. (With sexual imagery we seem to trade roles: the more we flaunt it, the more our “Islamist” Other screams “haram.” The more we objectify women, the more they imprison them in the name of “virtue.” The roles are switched but the game is the same. The parties are specular and codependent.)

We are a society of spectacle: We can turn anything into a movie, a game or a TV show. But terrorism is also about spectacle. It’s about the manipulation of media through shocking events. We are the audience, captive and addicted, primed by a diet of casual violent entertainment. Watch an ISIS video and you will see Hollywood aesthetics at work. Watch it on Youtube, and you might have to watch a commercial first.

That’s why we have a choice to make. We can sit back and enjoy the show until the bitter end. (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t end. We do.) Or we can change the rules. Become a radically critical, noncompliant, subversive public. A public that will watch on its own terms or not watch at all. A public that will break the wall, document its own reality, invent its own future. A public that will shake off complacency, glibness and pseudo–irony to create a new aesthetic of life?—?where war makes no sense and violence is a discarded legacy.

It will take time. We will get it wrong before we get it right. We will be misled. But there will be hope.

— Alessandro Camon is an author, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer who has worked on such films as American Psycho, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Messenger.

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Barclays has launched Barclays Video Banking to provide customers with a digital face-to-face service, which it claims is a “watershed” moment for the industry.

Ami Hasan, the chairman of the Scandinavian agencies Hasan & Partners and Perfect Fools, has called on industry leaders to speak out “against the shady practices” in awards judging.

Dans la même lignée que la superbe Carrousels Series où l’on pouvait admirer les devantures d’attractions de fêtes foraines, cette série réalisée par Jaume Albert Marti montre cet univers lumineux et atypique en dressant également un portrait des forains qui y travaillent la nuit. À découvrir.