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Posted by Eliza Williams, 18 December 2009, 12:08    Permalink    Comments (23)

Here at CR Towers we've been receiving lots of lovely Xmas messages from the design and advertising community - here's a selection of what's come through, with illustrator
Harriet Russell's Christmassy illustration up first...

 

 

Next is an iPhone app for the modern Christmas fan, designed by Atomic Antelope. The YouTube film above shows how it works, and you can download the app at atomicantelope.com.

 

 

Michael Johnson of johnsonbanks sent us these Xmas snowmen cards, created by recycling old magazines (including CR - not something we'd recommend anyone else doing, of course).

 

 

Karmarama's exec creative director Dave Buonaguidi has taken on the noble task of eating brussel sprouts for charity - for each £1 donated, Buonaguidi will consume one sprout. The site for Sprout Aid can be found here.

 

 

Fallon in London demonstrates what happens when you get carried away with wrapping in its digital Xmas card.

 

 

Cut + Run editing house channels Lady Gaga for its animated Xmas film.

 

 

Studio Output has created this festive screensaver.

 

 

While Lowe London offers the chance to 'Bling A King' here.

 

 

Bless design in London has created these letterpress Xmas cards.

 

 

Finally, the 'what were you thinking?' xmas film award this year goes to Publicis London for this sing-and-dance number that has been doing the rounds. After only being on YouTube for four days, it is already being mocked (alongside a few other cringey ad shorts) in a film by another ad agency, Iris, shown here...

 

Merry Christmas Everybody!

23 Comments

We just created http://uglysweateryourself.com/ ;-)
TC Conway
2009-12-18 14:23:30

hello!

very nice list of works. its fun to see how diverse these christmas wishes can look.

perhaps I can point you to our international advent calendar showcasing christmassy recipes each day in december:
http://xmas.tfoe.net/

all the best!
andreas
2009-12-18 14:29:27

link to the fallon card is wrong. would have loved to see that one...
eric
2009-12-18 15:07:46

@eric

Have fixed link but it just goes to Fallon's website - the card is the image, not a film
CR ElizaWilliams
2009-12-18 15:14:07

Nice stuff, we designed and sent out some wrapping paper to our clients...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fusedesign/sets/72157622979176056/
http://www.fuse-blog.co.uk/
Adam Head
2009-12-18 15:53:23

I was hoping to see some iPhone app holiday messaging this year. I gotta get that. The Fallon pic is also awesome... love this post.

Agency Dominion (where I work) launched a Save A Polar Bear campaign. You can check it out here: savethebears.agencydominion.com

and the making of here: http://mobile.agencydominion.com/?p=293

Happy Holidays to everyone at CR!
John Speed
2009-12-18 15:56:39

Thought this should be included on your list...http://www.merrynewsinator.com/3fz

It's a customizable holiday newsletter generator! Pretty sweet!
Tom
2009-12-18 16:34:08

Hey CR Blog.... we are a penniless, northern, jobless graduates... so we'll just give you a JPEG christmas card:

http://i50.tinypic.com/1z3ckk4.jpg

ArticleMagazine.co.uk x
Tom Heginbotham
2009-12-18 16:46:10

Isn't the Fallon work a rip-off of a christmas mailer Purpose design produces back in 07'? http://purpose.co.uk/main.html
Mark
2009-12-18 17:27:48

I just wanted to share our 2009 holiday card with you. The challenge was to create a holiday message that is unique, interesting and appropriate. The idea was simple— send happy holiday wishes not from one voice but from all of our voices. We created an online app that takes all of our holiday wishes, brings in some more from Twitter (albeit heavily filtered for appropriate content) and presents them in a really fun way.

http://www.jwt.com/atl/happyholidays

Just give the snow globe a little shake and click on a few snowflakes. Visitors can select to see JWT, web or all messages in the "Source" navigation tab.

I hope you enjoy it and keep up the good work.
Rory Partalis
2009-12-18 17:58:10

Sprout Aid is excellent. Hats off to you.
Vic @ Sell! Sell!
2009-12-18 20:02:55

any one for http://ihaveachristmastreeonmyhead.posterous.com/

johnson banks is very nice stuff
AP of CR.AP
2009-12-19 12:47:53

Brilliant! I don't even hate the Publicis one, it was cheesy in a good way - it looked fun, I felt festive despite the lack of Christmas tunes, and it was... very cheesy.

Sprout Aid, also, fantastic idea. But what happens if say, thousands of pounds were donated? Will video footage be released of every sprout being eaten?
Luci
2009-12-21 09:53:00

What will Johnson Banks do next year? My money is on a star made from recycled design magazines... ;0)

Collect the whole set!!
andy Russell
2009-12-21 10:30:21

That Publicis video looks familiar...

...oh yeah, they've completely ripped of UQAM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVyvATafORM

That was last month! Knowingly or unknowing it's still not a very original idea and UQAM did it better.
David
2009-12-21 13:01:54

We love Cade Martin's graceful ballet photograph on our holiday card:
http://www.wonderfulmachine.com/printmailers/holiday2009.html
Neil Binkley / Wonderful Machine
2009-12-21 14:32:47

Iris lampooning other agencies, that's like Jedward dissing Lennon and McCartney.
Sam Ball
2009-12-22 11:43:17

Loving SproutAid.

We decided to go with a 'Make your own tree' theme this year. Visit http://www.landaureece.com/xmas.php to participate.

Karsten Rowe
Karsten Rowe
2009-12-22 14:56:14

This is a really nice idea by BD, they're adopting a reindeer for every 50 people who click on their blog:

http://reindeer.thisisbd.com

Their message is that reindeer are not just for Christmas.
David
2009-12-22 17:47:27

Christmas in your facebook!

http://www.adfingers.lt/xmas_live_feed/

enjoy :)
Julius
2009-12-23 10:58:54

Some lovely work here.

Merry christmas love Disqo folks,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yPyyTTzRhM
joe
2009-12-24 12:11:36

And a nice Christmas video card blokes from these guys..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362iAcwDr5g
steve
2009-12-26 00:27:41

lovely list - I posted typographic christmas cards here...
http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2009/12/archive/typographic-christmas-card-inspiration/
fred design
2009-12-27 15:25:50

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