PunnyPixels Valentine Day Cards

Afin de célébrer la Saint Valentin d’une façon originale, les équipes de PunnyPixels ont eu l’idée de composer des cartes au graphisme sympathique, proposant des éléments et jeux de mots qui feront rire les plus geeks d’entre nous. Des créations originales, que vous pouvez acquérir sur leur boutique Etsy, à découvrir dans la suite.

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empty frames and old photo on the wooden table; Shutterstock ID 128619539
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Top 40 Retail Trends in February – From Auto Buyer E-Commerce to Personalized 3D Printing Shops (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) These February 2015 retail trends range from auto buyer e-commerce sites to 3D printing stations that allow consumers to create a personalized product. As experiential and responsive retail takes off,…

Destination British Columbia: The wild within

Advertising Agency: Dare Digital, Vancouver, Canada
President / Executive Creative Director: Richard Hadden
Broadcast Producer: Leslie Stovall
Production Company: Circle Productions
Executive Producer: Chris Bowell
Producer: Rita LeRoux
Director / Cinematographer: Sean Thonson

Bold Black and White Exhibition

Le graphiste danois Emil Kozak a exploité une pièce blanche et carrée de la galerie LYNfabrikken au Danemark, pour son exposition « Reality Is A Shared Hallucination ». Cette exposition présente ses différentes peintures et sérigraphies noires et blanches réalisées à l’encre. Un espace rendu graphique et saturé de motifs visuellement riches, à découvrir jusqu’au 15 février.

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Urban Photography by Marius Vieth

Marius Vieth est un photographe allemand talentueux spécialisé dans la photographie de rue. Son art s’articule essentiellement autour de l’élément humain plongé dans un monde urbain qu’il présente sous un engouement poétique, une profonde admiration et un surréalisme mystique.

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Sarcastic Valentine's Day Cookies – Sogi's Honey Bakeshop Says I Love You With Hilarious Treats (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sogoal Zolghadri is the founder of Sogi’s Honey Bakeshop, a purveyor of pop culture-themed confections like these sarcastic Valentine’s Day cookies. With quotes like ‘Valentine&#…

Taylormade "Aeroburner" (2015) :30 (USA)

Taylormade freezes time to show off its Aeroburner driver in this spot starring Camilo Villegas. Dude is not messing around.

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Taylormade "RSI" (2015) L30 (USA)

Starring Sergio Garcia, this spot extols the fun and power of golf. It’s a game of millimeters and one which players strive to get better, by increments. Starring Sergio Garcia.

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Kia OPtima "Fighter Pilot" (2015) 1:00 (USA)

“The bad guys are expecting me to be in a fighter jet, not a mid-sized sedan.” Says Blake Griffin, NBA partner of KIA and not a pilot. Very silly. “You don’t have to keep saying over.” Problem is there’s two spots here.

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Laser-Cut Lace Accessories – These Statement Necklaces Resemble Colorful Lace Fabrics (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Etsy’s EPUU shop specializes in lace statement necklaces that are inspired by the elegant and intricately crafted textile. Priced at $56, this accessory is available in four colors that…

10 Gigi Hadid Editorials – From Vampy Vixen Editorials to Bareskin Perfume Campaigns (TOPLIST)

(TrendHunter.com) 2015 is quickly becoming model-saturated with Gigi Hadid who was named Model of the Year by The Daily Front Row Fashion Awards. The 19-year-old has landed numerous high fashion campaigns and beat…

Hot 97, a Hip-Hop Pioneer on Radio, Reaches a Crossroads

Some recognizable names have left, while outside voices have come in. And that raises concerns about the station’s status as a top rap outlet.

David&Goliath, Blake Griffin Revisit Top Gun for Kia

Rather than revisiting Pierce Brosnan’s Bond-ish Super Bowl spot, David&Goliath takes the highway to the danger zone in its newest ad for Kia starring everyone’s favorite action star Blake Griffin.

The first ad in this campaign, which dropped in December, cast Griffin as an actor/turned Tombstone gunslinger who insists on including his Kia in the scene.

He’s even more of a “maverick” in this one, and he insists that the Kia Optima will go wherever he wants it to go while fulfilling his need for speed.

Come on, Blake, do some of that pilot shit!

Note the final disclaimer: “Do not attempt. Optimas don’t fly.”

Griffin isn’t really an actor or a pilot, but he can still be Kia’s pitchman anytime.

 

Credits

 

Founder & Chairman: David Angelo

Chief Creative Officer: Colin Jeffery

Creative Director: Driscoll Reid

Creative Director: Chris Hutchinson

Digital Creative Director: Chris Robertson

Associate Creative Director: Basil Douglas Cowieson

Associate Creative Director: Greg Buri

Art Director: Marc Wilson

President: Brian Dunbar

Group Account Director: Brook Dore

Account Director: Mike O’Malley

Director of Digital: Josh Crick

Director of Digital Technology: Robert Boucher

Digital Account Director: Jeanann Grubbs

Account Executive: Kylie Lemasters

Digital Account Executive: Sarah Kirsch

Assistant Account Executive: Lauren Kelley

Director of Broadcast Production: Paul Albanese

Executive Producer: Curt O’Brien

Executive Producer: Christopher Coleman

Digital Producer: Anna Cobban

Director of Art Production: Andrea Mariash

Project Manager: Kemit Ray

Director Business Affairs: Rodney Pizarro

Associate Business Affairs Manager: Camara Price

Associate Business Affairs Manager: Ann Shelton

Product Information Manager: Russ Wortman

 

Production Company: Imperial Woodpecker

Director: Stacy Wall

Executive Producer/Managing Partner: Doug Halbert

Executive Producer: Charlie Cocuzza

Producer: Candace Tomarken

 

Editorial: Spinach

Editor: Grant Surmi

Producer: Jonathan Carpio

Asst. Editor: Ben Reesing

 

Visual Effects: The Mill

Executive Producer: Jo Arghiris

Executive Color Producer: Thatcher Peterson

Producer: Will Lemmon

Color Producer: Natalie Westerfield

Creative Director: Robert Sethi

Production Coordinator: Benjamin Sposato

Colorist: David Ludlam

2D Lead: Andy Dill

3D Lead: Robert Chapman

2D artists: Nicholas Tayler, Gareth Parr, Trent Shumway, Lisa Ryan, Narbeh Mardirossian

3D artist: Kelvin Liang, Joshua Frankel, Mike Di Nocco, Matt Neapolitan, Katie Yancey.

Concept Artist: Lynn Yang

Matte Painter: Thom Price, Andy Wheater, Rasha Shalaby,

 

Music/Sound Design: Barking Owl

Executive Producer/Creative Director: Kelly Bayett

Sound Designer: Michael Anastasi

 

Digital Production Company: Wildlife LA

Executive Producer: Brandon Del Nero

Creative Director: Jake Friedman

Creative Director: Scott Friedman

 

Photographer: Chris Hornbecker

Executive ‘Restructuring’ at Starcom’s LiquidThread

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A source tells us that this week’s “globally streamlined” management shakeup at StarCom MediaVest Group branded content unit LiquidThread came as a shock to most staffers, though the agency’s own take positions it as more of a standard restructuring.

London-based Global President Olivier Gers showed up at LiquidThread’s Chicago office to tell employees that several executives would receive promotions and a few would be fired.

Brent Poer, who served as creative director at Jack Morton in the late 90s before beginning his move up the StarCom ladder, will now be global creative director. PR/entertainment veteran Juan Davila, who had been handling the U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets, has been promoted to MD/global head of business development. John Doyle, who directed strategy at Cramer-Krasselt Chicago from 2008 to 2012, will be SVP/managing director of US, while Jill Griffin, who handled marketing for Anomaly, OMD and Martha Stewart Living(!) before jumping to Starcom in 2008, will be MD of operations for that locale.

A handful of high-ranking employees lost their jobs as well. Thomas Weeks, who spent the last 17-plus years with StarCom and moved up to the group director of branded content role in early 2010 just months before the company combined its three content units to create LiquidThread, is no longer with the agency.

Other layoffs include several unnamed staffers spread across the agency’s Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles offices; a spokesperson says the move affected less than five percent of LiquidThread’s total workforce.

Our source claims there will be more changes to come.

Active Volcano Photography

Le photographe islandais, Tomas Freyr Kristjánsson, a récemment bravé les hautes températures du magma en fusion afin de pouvoir se rapprocher le plus près possible d’un volcan en éruption. Capturées au volcan Holuhraun au cœur de l’Islande, ces photographies extraordinaires montrent des cratères de magma en pleine explosion dans les airs.

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adidas "take it" (2015) 1:00 (USA)

There comes a point where you see so many anthem spots, so many slow motion walks through stadium tunnels, so many moments-before-you-make-your-moves, so many endless montages of all different kinds of sports, and hear so many Very Important Voice Overs™ that the familiarit

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Huggies Turns to Pandora to Encourage Baby-Making for Valentine's Day


The declining U.S. birth rate has dogged baby-care marketers since the recession began in 2007. Now Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s Huggies and its agency, Ogilvy, Chicago, have decided to do something about it: Create a Huggies Baby-Making Station on Pandora for Valentine’s Day, playing tunes aimed at getting couples in the mood.

Think of it as a digital-age millennial version of the old make-out tape, replete with entries from Barry White and heavy on other R&B classics, including Stevie Wonder’s “My Cherie Amour.”

Millennials clearly need all the help they can get. The U.S. birth rate fell to 62.5 per 1,000 women ages 18 to 44 in 2013, the last year for which data is available, from 69.3 in 2007, according to the Centers for Disease Control (maybe lumping pregnancy in with disease control is part of the problem). Recent increases in birth rate among women over 30 have been too small to offset the decline among women under 30.

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ICYMI: Watch John Oliver Eviscerate Big Pharma Marketing


John Oliver hilariously lampooned the practice of native advertising in a segment for his HBO show “Last Week Tonight” last summer. His show returned from a break on Sunday, when Mr. Oliver threw a spotlight on another corner of the marketing world: Big Pharma’s marketing to doctors.

You’re busy, but this video is very much worth it.

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Vivaki Overhauls Its Trading Desk


Publicis’ programmatic arm Vivaki no longer wants to buy ads.

The organization has completed a major reassignment of its ad traders, sending 120 employees out to individual Publicis agencies, and taking them off its own books. Vivaki CEO Stephan Beringer confirmed the moves.

“If you’re a marketer, do you want your programmatic decisions siloed and balkanized from everything else that you’re doing? No. You want it integrated,” said Laura Desmond CEO of Starcom MediaVest Group, which owns Vivaki.

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Shipping Container Campuses – Pop Brixton Aims to Bring A Sense of Community to the District (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Pop Brixton is a vibrant project aiming to revitalize the south London district designed with low-cost, low-energy shipping containers by Cal Turner Architects, a firm known for its work on small-…