LVHRD’s offices are close in the heart of Soho, and there are an increasing number of Chase banks in the area. I personally spend the occasional 10 minutes or so in line a few times a week. Behind the tellers, CHASE recently installed three synchronized hi-def screens that are generally filled with bubbly marketing messages pushing the latest product or service offering.
Just recently they were marketing their mobile alert service, which allows customers to text their account number to a short code and receive an instant balance on your account. The…
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Today on my way to work, I passed our old office, which is now a hole in the ground. While I was walking up to it, I saw Hillary Clinton. From afar it was hard to tell what was on her hat, was it a moon or a space station? It was an Obama Logo. Upon looking at the wonderful wheat-paste, I couldn’t help but notice she wasn’t wearing the official merch, she must have bought it in china town.
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The multimedia campaign for Halo 3 ate lunch and dinner at the 87th Annual Art Directors Club Awards, taking home 5 Gold Awards in Broadcast Advertising, Broadcast Art Direction and Integrated Advertising. It is one of the most decorated art projects in history.
For the launch the third game in the Halo series Bungie and Microsoft assembled a truly breathtaking breadth of diorama, video and audio that takes viewers through the Battle for New Mombasa where Earth’s forces clashed with the invading Covenant alien fleet.
The story of battle is…
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And we must treat them as such. Especially when their interiors are veined with “rich Corinthian leather.”
This is like the Tony Montana of car commercials.
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I mean, Optometry, really? Don’t you have to be able to see to read the letters?
But this movie’s about people going blind, so, no one will be going to the eye doctor, but even if they did: are you really promoting a novel by a Nobel Prize Winning author with OPTOMETRY CHARTS?
Incredible, such a sea change of cinematic and literary inspiration. The production meeting went like this:
“So. Blindness.”
“Yeah. No one can see.”
“No one?”
“Nope.”
“Alright, so, no visuals.”
“Well, it’s just a story. We have to…
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Oh Google.
You know us too well. See just how well after the jump.
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Another gem of a press release for you kids:
FISCHERSPOONER - NEW RELEASES ON KITSUNÉ
After two full-length albums, #1 and Odyssey (featuring the hit
“Emerge” ) Casey Spooner and Warren Fischer team up with Kitsuné to
release two singles.
So Fischerspooner are back, returning to fill that hole they left in
‘theatrical electro’, with energetic, finely spun electropop tracks
that all the fans have been waiting for.
The releases, “Danse en France” and “The Best Revenge,” preview tracks
from their upcoming 3rd album and also include great remixes from…
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Banksy built three stories of scaffolding in London to pull off this piece directly under a pair of CCTV cameras and no one did anything.
Wah-wuh.
Kind of a smack in the face for ol’ Banksy. Doubtful “big brother” was unaware of what he was up to, but they picked the perfect response: do nothing, turn the site into a landmark, put it in tourist guides to London. Don’t fight the rebels - embrace them, put them in museums, strip them of all revolutionary credibility.
Also: are people really still…
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He takes care of me and he was so sweet to my mom when she came to visit….
In the Name of Dov
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Two kids play some variation of California Cruisin’ at the Fun Zone inside the International Arrivals Terminal at JFK.
A man, perhaps a guardian (though the remove at which he watches suggests he is a stranger) has been drawn from his seat towards the whirring glow.
The placement of the Fun Zone, in the middle-smack of a smooth swath of terminal linoleum, suggests that its makers understood the Zone’s resplendent, almost monolithic quality. It seems to radiate prophecy, the potential for salvation.
The placement of the Mastercard advertisement on the…
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There is a small African child drinking from a hose on the back of my Volvic bottle.
Apparently, when you drink Volvic water something happens with UNICEF and children don’t have to drink hose water (it’s spelled out in a mess of copy I can’t be bothered to read or believe).
Volvic might want to reconsider depicting a person consuming a better version of their product on their packaging: I wish Volvic Volcano Water tasted like hose water. Hose water is good and sunny.
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Bluetooth headset manufacturer, Jawbone has blown gold everywhere with their new viral video ad campaign, cooked up by our neighbors at Anomaly.
In this one a business man goes Patrick Bateman on some Asian laundry folk with horrifying results
Halfway through the video you’re wondering when the headset’s going to come in. And then it does. And oh. Amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gH04iBcDdc
You can watch the other Jawbone ads here. They pretty much all have men meeting a gruesome end after disrespecting women. Well, almost all of them.
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