Hasta La Creative!

Go to the The TIME 100 special issue to see the series of special issue covers designed for TIME by a handful of acclaimed graphic designers, and a few jammy junior creatives at Euro RSCG New York. Who said that juniors never get to do anything fun?


Euro RSCG was the lone ad agency involved in this project, which also includes cover designs by Neville Brody, Chip Kidd and James Victore. So what did Euro do? Cut horizontal stripes of the faces of each of the top 100 people profiled by TIME this year and put them back together again. Cute.

Kudos to the kids at Euro: Ben Thoma, Katie Anne Naylon, Patrik Bolocek. North American CCO Jose Cabaco and New York ECD Hal Wolverton oversaw the project.

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Are your eyes ready for more colourful news?
The Times. Now with colour on every page.

Advertising Agency: CHI & Partners, London, UK
Executive Creative Director: Ewan Paterson
Creative Directors / Art Directors / Copwriters: Ed Edwards, Dave Masterman
Typographer: Dan Beckett

So, I was doing some gardening, that is weeding out linkrot, from the Collections of ads links in the adlinks spurred on by the sudden spike in emailed questions to me this past week asking “do you know any good ad collection sites?” Well, yeah, but the links I know of, like most other things in my ad-sticky brain are actually already online y’all, so if you missed it here’s me pointing with a giant foam finger at it. *points* —-> Adland’s ad links.

American Package Museum. Oh aren’t they so swell looking? “The primary objective of this site is to preserve and display specimens of American package design from the early decades of the 20th century.” And they do it so well with nicely lit photographs that makes it feel like we’ve taken the Delorian to the past.

Good Logo! You know when your client needs a mockup yesterday and then sends you the logo in the shape of a badly pixellated .jpg? Good logo has saved my ass plenty of times, and serves as a inspiration site when creating logos so I don’t make something far too similar to what is already out there.

Truth in advertising – Cigarette ads from back when “nine out of ten doctors smoke ’em”. How fab.

Ad Classix – where you can browse and buy retro ads from the early 1900s to the 1970s. “AdClassix.com has spent years gathering a unique collection of original, authentic print advertisements spanning the last century. We deal only in the original vintage advertisement produced for any given product. We do not deal in digital copies or mass produced duplicates.”

The History of Advertising Trust Archive:“Over our thirty years of existence we have brought together the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. From the outset our mission has been to make this material available for study and research at the lowest possible cost. HAT Archive houses unique collections and study resources dating from the early 1800s to the present day and we are always looking for ways to develop them and improve our services.”

You too, dear adgrunt, can add your link to the links, but you’ll have to be logged in to do so (spammers really love to try and get one past me there – they have carefully scripted automated bots that hammer the site for days at a time, for real). You can help weed out dead links too, just “report dead link” if you find one that is, this way we keep the link archive fresh and choc full of gems for all adgrunts in the world.

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It only takes a small detail to ruin a great film.

Advertising Agency: MSTF Partners, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Directors: Lourenço Thomaz, Susana Sequeira
Art Director: Tico Moraes
Copywriter: Rui Soares
Published: April 2008

Read today because tomorrow may be too late.

In Portuguese oje means today.

Advertising Agency: McCann, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Directors: Diogo Anahory, José Bomtempo
Art Director: Zeca
Copywriter: João Taveira
Photographer: Krypton Photo
Published: March 2008

Advertising Agency: JWT Sydney, Australia
Executive Creative Directors: Andy DiLallo, Jay Benjamin
Creative Group Head: Ben O’Brien
Copywriter: Rob Kleckner
Art Director: Dan Oliva
Director: Robin Walters
Production Co.: Curious Film
Sound: Nylon

Watch your fingers!

Advertising Agency: Imago, Zagreb, Croatia
Creative Director / Copywriter: Vanja Blumensajn
Art Director: Vesna Ibrisimovic
Illustrator: Sasa Peric
Photographer: Dorijan Kljun
Account Director: Renata Poljanac
Published: April 2008

Advertising Agency: DCS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Creative Directors: Roberto Callage, Régis Montagna
Art Director: André Pauletti
Copywriter: Patrick Matzenbacher
Photographer: Nana Moraes
Manipulation: Burti
Published: May 2008

Advertising Agency: Lifelounge, Melbourne, Australia
Creative Director: Daniel Pollock
Senior Art Director: David Ponce de Leon
Art Director: Dimitri Kalagas
Copywriter: Chris Cork
Outdoor Media: Adshell
Released: May 2008

Since Mothers day (USA) is rapidly approaching we thought we’d ask advertisings foremost expert on Mothers, Mother New York, a few questions about their dear moms.
All little children and by extension, creative grownups stem from somewhere, right? Yes that’s right, all come from mom.

Most creative gift you’ve given your Mum?

Krystle Loyland: “Breakfast in bed when I was 7 years old. I made the bowl of cereal first, then prepared the rest. She woke up to a soggy bowl of Total, juice, milk and a can of fruit with the can opener sitting next to it.”

Durk Barnhill : “5 hour scrabble marathon.”

Andrew Deitchman: “I made her a super-computer made entirely from noodles and popsicle sticks.”

Christine Santora: “Extra controller for the wii so she could box my dad in wii sports”

Ben Hughes: “My dad told me that women loved getting jewelry, so I made my mom some out of tinfoil when I was about seven. The whole deal — rings, bracelets, even a tiara. She was good enough to wear it all out to dinner one night; strangely, she didn’t have it on when she came home.”

Rob Deflorio: “Cash. No card, just cash
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Bobby Hershfield: My Mom is a writer and I bought her a vintage typewriter. I put a white sheet of paper in it and typed, “Dear Mom, thanks for getting pregnant and having me.”

DB: aaaaw….so sweet.

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