(TrendHunter.com) Would you like to appear on a bottle of Grand Marnier? How about having your name up in lights in NYC, Vegas and La? Then you should enter Grand Marnier’s Grand Moments contest!
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(TrendHunter.com) Following its award winning animated Signatures campaign, Amnesty International has come up with an equally creative print campaign illustrating the power of your signature.
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LONDON – Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication has appointed design consultancy Lloyd Northover for the first phase of a strategic branding and identity programme.
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LONDON – LA tourist board, LA Inc, has teamed up with Cineworld as part of a European-wide partnership drive to promote the city as a brand.
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LONDON – Trinity Mirror has appointed David Higgerson as head of multimedia for its regional division.
(TrendHunter.com) This simple little piece of plastic and rubber could be the saviour of your cell phone. The Driinn, designed in Holland and manufactured in Italy, hangs between your charger and the wall socket providing an ultra handy little shelf to hold your phone, PDA or MP3 player while charging.
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(TrendHunter.com) A breakthrough new technique has been developed by Dutch researchers at University Medical Center Utrecht and the Hubrecht Institute to grow new heart muscle tissue from adult heart stem cells. According to the medical center website, the researchers were able to coax stem cells from the heart itsel…
There are very very few artists whose work i admire as much as Nathalie Djurberg’s. Actually there’s only one and she’s a woman too. Her name is GabrÃela Fridriksdóttir. These artists create universes which are dark and mysterious. But there stops my desire to compare one with the other.
Nathalie Djurberg, We are not two, we are one, 2008
I don’t know what happened to Djurberg since the first time i saw her work, at the 2006 Berlin Biennale but her twisted tales have grown crueler and more menacing .
Nathalie Djurberg, Once removed on my mother’s side, 2008
The protagonists of Djurberg’s stop-motion animations are hand-modeled plasticine puppets. If this reminds you of some cute tv programme you followed as a kid then let me crush any nostalgia you might have. Djurberg clearly didn’t see the same children animations as you and i. Her animations show human beings at their most crass, psychopath, sadistic and often disarming behaviour. The macabre atmosphere of her animations almost never come with words, just a languid and fidgety music composed by Hans Berg.
Nathalie Djurberg, Caveman Mike, 2008
Nathalie Djurberg, Caveman Mike, 2008
It often starts well. In one video, a mother plays in the bedroom with her kids. In a second video, three beautiful girls get naked to take a bath in the pond. A third film shows a pretty eskimo girl walking on thick ice. After a few seconds, the children start disappearing inside their mummy’s vagina turning her voluptuous, elastic and Fellini-esque body into a monster creature with multiple arms and legs, the girls chase and burn the young lad who was peeping at their nudity and the eskimo does what any eskimo is supposed to do: she harpoons a walrus, remove its bowels. Only that she won’t eat it. She sews herself inside the animal’s skin and quietly leaves for a crawl on the icefield.
Nathalie Djurberg, It’s the mother, 2008
Nathalie Djurberg, It’s the mother, 2008
The videos address a fair amount of intense issues such as violence, sexuality, sadism, cruelty, death and brutality. Made all the more upsetting by the fact that the artist messes with our moral codes and would never point to us where is the right and where is the wrong. She takes us on a roller-coaster and all we can to is try and keep track of our landmarks.
Nathalie Djurberg, Turn into me, 2008
Nathalie Djurberg, Turn into me, 2008
Nathalie Djurberg, Johnnny, 2008
The artists filled the exhibiting space of Fondazione Prada with models that work as counterparts to her videos, there’s a huge sprouting potato, the plump bum of a woman, a little house . These models become pavilions inside which the videos are projected.
The Potato (detail). Photo Attilio Maranzano
Das Waldhaeuschen, 2008. Photo Attilio Maranzano
You have until June 1 to check out the show. Previously at the Fondazione Prada in Milan: Tom Sachs.
Portrait of Nathalie Djurberg. Photo by Hans Berg
All images courtesy of the artist and Fondazione Prada, Milan.
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — OMD has recruited Alan Cohen, a senior executive at Interpublic Group of Cos.' Initiative, to become its U.S. CEO, executives at the Omnicom Group-owned media network said this morning.
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(TrendHunter.com) Extravagant, elegant and edgy – these rings can be worn individually or as a set. There is even a pinkie version available. Polished brass ‘nail rings’ are from the ‘Serpensive’ line by New York City-based accessory designer Jules Kim. The jewelry slithers up your finger with rock star sty…
(TrendHunter.com) Moving into a new place always takes much longer than you originally planned for. So why not make the best out of these numerous moving boxes by transforming them into an instant functional table with the Wannabe.
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Advertising Agency: Cerebro Y&R, Panama City, Panama
Creative Director / Copywriter: Jorge Heilbron
Art Director: Alberto Weand
Illustrator: Antonio Valdes
Published: September 2007
Here’s a beautifully produced spot from that global hub of erotic capitalism, Ho Chi Minh City. I won’t give away the admittedly underwhelming payoff, so you can enjoy the clip in all its naked glory. Via Ads of the World.
—Posted by David Griner
Advertising Agency: Cerebro Y&R, Panama City, Panama
Creative Director / Copywriter: Jorge Heilbron
Art Director: Alberto Weand
Illustrator: Antonio Valdes
Published: September 2007
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