Gideon Baws
We were immensely sad to learn today of the death of Gideon Baws from animation directing team Shynola.
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Green’s Grow for Royal Mail
Johnny Green’s Royal Mail ad has some of the charm of 1950s public information films
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Want To Appear At Our Click Conference?
On 13 November Creative Review is staging our next Click conference. We are looking for students or young creatives working in digital media to present their work…
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Ford’s Search For The Now
Ford Fiesta This Is Now ad, Agency: Ogilvy London, Creatives: Dom Sweeney, John Crozier, Production company: BlinkINK, Director: Noah Harris, Post-production: Framestore
The concept behind this ad for the new Ford Fiesta initially appears fairly straightforward. It opens with individual television screens appearing within a suburban setting, before coming together to form the rough shape of a car. The TVs then ‘drive’ through the city streets before morphing into the actual car at the end of the spot. So far, so car ad. What makes the commercial unusual, however, is what the television screens contain, and the way in which this content was created…
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Get your motor running… for Rock Band II
Remember the gravity-defying, car-surfing rock band that appeared in Passion Pictures‘ director Pete Candeland’s animated promo for the video game Rock Band? Well, the band is back but this time they take on members of a rival car-surfing, instrument-weilding bunch of rocking nutters for the craziest game of “chicken” you’ve ever seen… To promote the new edition of Harmonix’s game, of course, Rock Band 2.
Fasten your seatbelts!
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Dieting with Alex Bogusky
Advertising creatives are often known for their side projects, but Alex Bogusky, co-chairman at Crispin, Porter & Bogusky, has come up with a more unusual proposition than the norm - a diet book.
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Live From New York: Click
Creative Review is hosting it’s Click conference on digital advertising today in association with the Art Directors Club in New York. I’ll be blogging live from the event through the day..
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Microsoft shows some Pride
Microsoft Pride ad, agency: Crispin Porter & Bogusky, production company: Hungry Man, directors: Bryan Buckley, Marcos Siega, Scott Vincent, Brian Billow
Microsoft hits back against the smugness of the Mac Vs PC ads.
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Branding Camden
Watermill London has created this new marketing campaign for Camden Town, which aims to reassert the borough as a destination for international business and shopping, and put paid to the impression that it has “burnt down”.
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Beck’s Live Studio
Artists will be creating works live online this week as part of a campaign for Beck’s devised by Dare
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Illustrator James Joyce has a spanky new website, courtesy of design studio Proud Creative
What could be an interesting box set artwork-wise is set to be released to celebrate Factory Records’ 30th anniversary
“Gloves, it has been decided, make a reader paw at pages, with more potential to rip them.” Students get hands-on experience of rare illustrated books (link: DO)
Ben Terrett’s blog has lots of good advice for designers on how to cope with the recession, with some intelligent input from industry figures
The Central Illustration Agency now has an online print shop. Work by Johnny Hardstaff, McFaul, Tom Bagshaw and Sir Peter Blake features.
Shepard Fairey discusses his Obama poster with the Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell
Annex Films just posted up a short film, Remembrance Day by David Tennant, commemorating the 90th Anniversary of Armistice Day
Barack Obama has put up behind-the-scenes photos from his election night up on Flickr
The winner and two runners-up of Smoke & Mirrors’ 48-hour film competition are now online
“Game over, mmmOK?” South Park digests the post-election “change” forthcoming in the US
How might Obama’s win affect UK politics? asks Jeremy Paxman - to UK Hip Hop star Dizzee Rascal. That’s “Mr Rascal” to you, Paxman
Artists Emily Forgot, Sam Ratcliffe and Elliott Young have all signed up to new creative consultancy-cum-artist agency, Thick & Thin. All three artists will exhibit work from 7-21 November in London to help launch the startup…
Meat Water is new range of flavoured water with added protein. Flavours include English Breakfast, Dirty Hot Dog or Beef Jerky. Yummy. It launched at an art event (not a food and beverage event) in Cannes earlier this year…
Keith Schofield’s video for BPA’s Toejam has been reworked South Park stylee (link: Promo News)
The Guardian has a list of the top ten magazine covers of 2008. Weirdly CR has been overlooked