Cannes Lions 2017: The Winners
Find out all the major winners from this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity here.
Branding for a life in paradox
When we crave both instant gratification and deeper experiences, how can brands respond? James Ramsden, ECD and John Clark, Planning Director at design agency Coley Porter Bell look at how brands are addressing increasingly conflicting opportunities
Is this the end for brand purpose?
Pepsi, Heineken, Dove and McDonald’s have all run into trouble recently by combining social purpose with a sales message. Is this the end for brand purpose?
Catching up with Graham
As the extraordinary Meet Graham road safety campaign looks set to continue its triumphant march through the world’s advertising awards shows, we look back at how it all came together
Rewriting the rules of election campaigning
Last week’s UK General Election was unusual in many ways. We saw the abandonment of many election traditions, particularly in the way the various parties marketed and promoted themselves. Instead we saw creative and unusual ways of talking to the public, especially via social media channels. In this article, we focus on one such example, with Ella Saltmarshe of The Comms Lab explaining how she and a group of friends used creative thinking to encourage young women to vote.
June Laffey on Cannes Lions 2017
The second instalment in our series of interviews with jury presidents at this year’s Cannes Lions festival sees us chat with June Laffey, Executive Creative Director at McCann Health Australia & SE Asia, who gives us insights on what she hopes to see in the Health Jury this year.
Remember when the week was neatly divided into a cycle of manageable chunks?
A freelancer’s working life has little regard for the traditional calendar. So how to get those daily markers back in place? Start watching TV
Tham Khai Meng on Cannes Lions 2017
Ahead of this year’s Cannes Lions, which begins on Saturday, we talk to two of this year’s awards jury presidents, and ask their views of the festival. First up is Ogilvy & Mather’s Worldwide Co-Chairman and CCO Tham Khai Meng, who is leading the Titanium jury this year.
We need to talk about porn: Rashida Jones on making Netflix series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
Actor, writer and producer Rashida Jones is hoping to spark a conversation about the impact of online porn and dating apps through Netflix series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
Why Emigre mattered – and still matters
Massimo Vignelli once called it a “factory of garbage” but for 20 years Emigre magazine provided a vital forum for fierce debate about the future of graphic design. As the first UK exhibition about the title opens, Rick Poynor looks at its enduring influence
Life goes on, even with cancer, says Macmillan
VCCP’s new campaign for Macmillan is beautifully observed and rooted in an important insight
The 2017 UK General Election in Ads, Memes and LOLs
Election day in Britain is here at last. As the country takes to the polls, we take a look how this bumpy and bruising battle has played out in advertising and on social media