Think wins contract for Sing Up magazine

LONDON – Sing Up, a Government-funded initiative aimed at promoting signing among schoolchildren, has appointed Think Publishing to relaunch its magazine.

Channel 4 to spend extra £20 million on drama after axing Big Brother

LONDON – Channel 4 is claiming that is decision to axe Big Brother will lead to the “most significant creative transformation” in its history.

Channel 4 confirms Big Brother will be axed

LONDON – Big Brother will disappear from Channel 4 after next summer after the broadcaster confirmed next year’s series of Celebrity Big Brother and Big Brother would be the last to air on the network.

Five posts first-half loss of £16.7m

LONDON – Five posted a pre-tax loss of €19m (£16.7m) in the first half of 2009, as parent RTL Group warned the UK TV market has been “strongly affected” by the recession.

Snack a Jacks launches Breast Cancer Awareness campaign

LONDON – Crisp brand Snack a Jacks has tied up with the breast cancer charity The Pink Ribbon Foundation to run an on-pack promotion offering the chance to win fashion items donated by celebrities.

St Pancras launches magazine as part of campaign to promote station as a retail destination

LONDON – Network Rail is launching a magazine for St Pancras International as part of its continuing campaign to promote the venue as ‘destination station’.

WPP suffers 47% plunge in pre-tax profit

LONDON – WPP’s UK revenue fell 5.3% year on year in the first six months of 2009, although this was better than its North American and continental European operations.

Danny Yount

Le nouveau showreel du designer Danny Yount, spécialisé dans les génériques TV et les bandes annonces de cinéma. Des créations pour Six Feet Under, Pushing Daisies ou Iron Man. Sur une bande son de Venetian Snares. A découvrir dans la suite.



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Music thiefs spend more on movies than you (probably)

LONDON – People who share music and movies online through P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing sites buy more entertainment online than the average internet user.

Profits at WPP, parent of OgilvyOne and Wunderman, down by nearly 50% with growth “unlikely” in 2010

LONDON – WPP, parent of DM agencies OgilvyOne and Wunderman, saw pre-tax profits fall 47% to £179m in the first six months of 2009, with like-for-like revenues falling 8.3% as the recession accelerated.

International growth drives Twitter past 50m unique users

NEW YORK – Twitter’s popularity continues to soar with the site’s worldwide traffic rising to a record 51.6m unique users in July, according to comScore, with the vast majority of new visitors coming from outside the US.

RoyalTea: Tea bags

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The RoyalTea Tea bags designed by German design company Donkey Products. You can have a “TeaParty” with you favorite characters or strippers with the RoyalTea, DemocraTea and StripTea sets. Each one has five tea bag sachets.

Waterstones offer free Dan Brown book with new Sony Reader

LONDON – Waterstones is offering the latest novel by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown to customers who pre-order one of the latest e-reader products from Sony.

La Liste

Plusieurs spots et univers réalisés par l’artiste Karim Charlebois-Zariffa. Des concepts d’habillages en technique stop-motion pour la série TV “La Liste”. Tout les plans sont réels, exceptés la typographie 3D de Charles Delisle. A découvrir dans la suite.



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Kama Sutra: the doggystyle kiss video

Mentos is introducing to the Kama Sutra of kissing in video. My favorite is the doggystyle kiss and what about yours? Advertiser: Mentos

American Apparel Snatches Tutorial Market Away from Teens with Web Cams

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American Apparel is using YouTube to push a series of tutorials that teach all the different ways you can wear Le Sac, a versatile little sheath with string.

Retro Illustration Resurgences – George Petty’s 1950s Art Becoming Popular Once More (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We are seeing a big return to the 1950s way of living. Perhaps this fact is due to the new third season of “Mad Men” or just a natural cycle of fads, but it seems everyone wants a piece of this traditional…

Noseless Celebrities – Photoshop Contest Turns Famous Faces Into Reptiles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who would have thought the removal of a nose and eyebrows could have such a freaky effect on someone’s appearance? Does that sound strange? Let me explain.

Freaking News is a site that operates much like…

Discipline Editorials – Lara Stone Controls Steven Klein’s Academy in W Magazine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The September issue of W Magazine packs a powerful punch with Academy, a striking discipline-themed editorial by Steven Klein.

Academy features top model Lara Stone as the head of the academy, make sure…

Nude Sidekicks – Carmen Kass Keeps Scantily-Clad ‘Wild Things’ on Hand for V Magazine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This ‘Wild Things’ editorial in V Magazine is hotter than an August afternoon. The incomparable Mario Testino captured Carmen Kass and Anne Vyalitsyna surrounded by a nude Tommy Dunn, Brett Robinson, Cameron…