MADVERTISING - tales from a very strange industryMADVERTISING - tales from a very strange industryWorking as an advertising creative means living a life full of bizarre characters and weird stories. Read them in my blog. Articles
NUMBER OF THE DAY
2009-01-01 23:36:00 Total number of visitors to my blog. Today. On January 1st. At 1 p.m. No kidding!
INVISIBLE ? how a homeless man turns transparent
2008-12-21 20:35:00 Intelligent ambient media concepts examine new ways of interacting with their surroundings. They blend in to stand out. A good ambient installation beats every billboard in making a message visible. Or invisible! Here is how we made a man dissappear. CREDITS: Client: fiftyfifty street magazine Agency: Euro RSCG Duesseldorf Creative Directors: Florian Meimberg, Torsten Pollmann, ... More About: Homeless
NET NUGGETS 12/01/08
2008-12-01 23:49:00 How stuff works. After tagging Air Force One, DROGA 5 goes viral again. For Guitar Hero World Tour. At least one belongs on every christmas wish list: GENERAL ROBOTS Hypnotic and very very addictive: AUDITORIUM
BOOORING!
2008-11-30 22:13:00 A meme. Well. I was never gonna take part in any of those blog chain things. But because I like sneaker-seb and because he was the one who tagged me and because that movie that’s just on TV really sucks and because the cutest 12-weeks-old boy on this planet just just got tired of playing ...
WHODUNNIT?
2008-11-27 22:23:00 A whodunnit (for “Who done it?”) is a complex, plot-driven variety of the detective story in which the puzzle is the main feature of interest. The reader is provided with clues ... before the solution is revealed. (WIKIPEDIA) WHO DONE IT: Advertising Agency: WCRS, London, UK Creative Directors: Yan Elliott, Luke Williamson Art Director: Kit Dayaram ... More About: Whodunnit
WHO IS JOHNNY X?
2008-11-24 02:12:00 SONY ERICSSON enters the arena of branded entertainment. “Who is Johnny X” is a webisodic online thriller in 9 parts. A man wakes up in a nightly Bangkok street. The amnesiac hero tumbles through the Thai capital on his mission to rediscover his identity. His companion: SONY ERICSSON’s iPhone rival Xperia X1. The smatphone helps ...
QUOTE OF THE DAY
2008-11-01 19:17:00 People don’t read ads. They read what interests them. Sometimes it’s an ad. (Howard Gossage) More About: Quote Of The Day
NET NUGGETS 10/29/08
2008-10-29 23:40:00 UMERIC reloaded. The Sydney based motion design studio relaunched their website. A visual feast from down under. Explosive slow motion skateboarding directed by Spike Jonze. Epic. Revealed: The true secret of GUINNESS. MACHINE GUN IN WATER. Oil on canvas. The strange and beautiful art of Benjamin Anderson.
The visual voice of Guinness
2008-10-03 17:55:00 Wow. I just saw my personal commercial of the month. With “Spoken word” for Guinness beer, Saatchi & Saatchi London brings us a powerful piece of film whose impact doubtlessly exceeds its 60 second duration. US directing collective SHILO, known for their design-infused approach to storytelling, shot the stunning ad in a New Jersey harbor. ... More About: Voice , Beer , Visual
INSPIRATION TO GO ? PDF mags
2008-09-28 20:22:00 Print is dead. (the internet) They are easy to compile. They are space-saving. And they don’t wrinkle: PDF magazines are a powerful promotional tool for agencies and design collectives to showcase their work. Their content spreads from graphic design, illustration and typography works to in-depth articles and interviews on just about any field of visual ... More About: Inspiration
QUOTE OF THE DAY
2008-06-04 00:03:00 With $100,000, you could build a very nice house and live in it forever. Or, with that same amount of money, you could shoot a TV spot that’s 30 seconds long and will run for a few months and then go away forever. (Crispin Porter + Bogusky Employee Handbook) More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
NET NUGGETS 05/20/08
2008-05-20 19:47:00 Become a movie producer. In the world’s shortest film. “Cabin crew, prepare for landing.” A day in the life of air traffic over the continental U.S. Necessity is the mother of invention. 99Rooms. An “industrial art” project by Kim Köster. PAPERVISION 3D. Demo for the open source realtime 3D engine for flash.
THE F-WORD, REVISED.
2008-05-17 17:29:00 A couple of months ago I told you about a senior citizen bus travel provider who didn’t seem too aware of the impression it might leave to typographically abstract the two diacritic dots in his family name to create a company logo. I just spotted one of his buses again. I think he noticed. (For non-germans: The ... More About: Word , The F Word
STRANGE ATTRACTORS ? fashion meets digital art
2008-05-11 17:22:00 With his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high-art style and low-brow subjects, Cubitt sits at the photographic edge. (Eyemazing Journal) “Shock photographer” Clayton Cubitt, a.k.a. Siege, is known for his radical visual concepts that travel between fashion and porn. Together with generative artist Tom Carden, he created an eye-popping black and white series using an ... More About: Fashion , Strange , Digital Art , Digital
COMPUTERIZED TORTURE GARDEN
2008-05-11 00:27:00 Where do ideas come from? Sometimes they come from the sky. Sometimes they come from our dreams. And sometimes they come from a strange little machine called IDEA GENERATOR. The practical widget was developed by TDB Special Projects. Random three-word-combinations stimulate the brain and may be the seed for the next big idea. (VIA) ... More About: Garden , Torture
NET NUGGETS 05/07/08
2008-05-08 00:01:00 HELLO WORLD. A website for the Japanese telecom company SoftBank. Strange and beautiful. Made by THA. (Thanx, Till!) NEW: OLD! A collection of vintage logos. (VIA) Six feet under: A TV commercial for the Metro Madrid. Directed by Gabe Ibanez. Production Company: PELICULAS PONDER/MIAMI They are here…! A robot jellyfish. Fascinating.
CITROËN commercial ?Zipper?
2008-05-04 01:19:00 Another CITROËN promotion commercial, shot in Barcelona. Here’s the director’s cut: Agency: Euro RSCG Duesseldorf Creative Directors: Florian Meimberg, Torsten Pollmann Art Director: Jean-Pierre Gregor Copywriter: Till Koester Producer: Meike van Meegen Production: Markenfilm Berlin Director: Henry Littlechild >> MAKING OF << More About: Commercial , Zipper
NUMBER OF THE DAY
2008-05-03 20:16:00 Number of minutes before the projector broke down at the “Music Videos International” screening in the course of the OBERHAUSEN SHORTFILM FESTIVAL. The first 87 minutes however contained inspiring videos like this, this or this. More About: Number
NET NUGGETS 05/01/08
2008-05-01 21:35:00 Brooklin-based artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris explores the world’s diversity with experimental projects. Fascinating. Inspiring. Beautiful. number 27 - The work of Jonathan Harris All the Simpsons opening sequence couch-gags. Time-lapsed to 5 minutes. The guys who produced the Sony rabbits. One of the coolest production companies around. An unbelievable assembly of talent: PASSION PICTURES TRON. Animated with ...
HOMER SIMPSON UNTOONED
2008-05-01 00:54:00 It first emerged in 2007. It turned out to be highly contagious. And it was bright yellow ? SMPSONIZE ME! The online application launched by Burger King transformed portrait photographs into cartoon characters. And instantly went viral. The annoying aftermath can still be seen in countless online profile pictures. Now here’s a refreshing response: An anonymous ... More About: Simpson , Homer Simpson , Homer
6 BILLION OTHERS - the voice of the planet
2008-04-26 21:55:00 A couple of years ago, french photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand amazed us with a breathtaking perspective on ourselves: THE EARTH FROM ABOVE is a series of aerial photographs that reveal the stunning beauty of our planet. Now Yann is back. And he has landed his helicopter. To meet the people that inhabit the landscapes he’s been portraying ... More About: Voice , Planet , Billion , The Planet
AUTO COUTURE
2008-04-26 17:20:00 The all new Citroën C5 just hit Germany’s streets. Along with the launch commercial “THE TASTING”. MAKING OF ? Impressions from the shoot in L. A. CREDITS Agency: Euro RSCG Duesseldorf Creative Directors: Torsten Pollmann, Florian Meimberg, Felix Glauner Art Directors: Martin Staubach, Jean-Pierre Gregor Copywriters: Christoph Mueller, Till Koester Account Executive: Daniel Grube Agency Producer: Meike van Meegen Film Production: Radical Media Director: TARSEM ... More About: Auto , Couture
The power of the pen
2008-04-20 18:55:00 In a forgotten club on the outskirts of the universe, the PALM BEACH, an old cleaning lady found a box with curious content. Inside, there were hundreds of shiny metallic books, full of black and white illustrations. And on the cover ? in quirky letters ? it read: H-E-R-R-E-N-S-A-H-N-E The old cleaning lady had heard this word ... More About: Power
QUOTE OF THE DAY
2008-04-11 16:11:00 Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. (Hannah Arendt) More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
BEFORE / AFTER
2008-04-07 00:13:00 The before / after comparison ? Probably the oldest method of illustrating the effectiveness of a product. And the most boring one. Except when it happens in an unexpected place … An “ambient media cinema commercial”: Agency: Euro RSCG Duesseldorf Creative Directors: Torsten Pollmann, Florian Meimberg, Harald Linsenmeier Art Director: Jörg Sachtleben Producer: Christian Käutner ...
GOOGLE DISCREET VIEW
2008-04-06 02:02:00 A little off-topic, but this is just too funny! A couple of months ago, Google ’s web mapping service GOOGLE MAPS launched a new feature: GOOGLE STREET VIEW. A panoramic street level environment lets you descend from the sky and virtually travel through the streets. Impressive. And contentious! The feature has raised privacy concerns. This scene from a Chicago street shows why: (THANX ... More About: View
QUOTE OF THE DAY
2008-03-23 16:31:00 More than 24 hours per day not possible. (Error-message, displayed by the agency’s digital time recording system.) More About: Quote Of The Day , Quote
What you see isn?t exactly what you get ?
2008-03-23 15:54:00 Yes, advertising people are liars. I know. But Robert over at BASIC THINKING discloses one of the counless reasons why a slight exentuation can sometimes be quite advisable. At least when it comes to instant microwave dinners … The PUNDO 3000 project compares advertising food photography to the unsavory reality. ENJOY YOUR MEAL!
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