What if you combine the interactive commands technique like Subservient Chicken with a YouTube takeover like The Expandables? You get a brilliantly simpel and fun campaign for Tipp Ex.
The new experimental interactive videoclip from Arcade Fire for the song The Wilderness Downton shows the true power of html5. Directed by Chris Milk with a little help from Google. Check here how it’s made and the site only works in Chrome.
Vodafone is challenging F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, to race on the 13th of september against 28.800 Facebook users who can join the race in a virtual car. The campaign is created by Achtung!
Sevendots is an innovative brand management & marketing consultancy with a highly visual approach. We just put the finishing touches on their equally visual new site.
What if 1500 copies isn’t limited enough? Check out how this publisher took care of it.
From september 11th you can get yours at the American Book Centre or the release party.
This afternoon in the Trouw building in Amsterdam Alter Ego took place, an expo by photographer Melissa Scholten. She portrayed 120 Dutch graffiti writers, old school kings and less know writers. Music by Serch and Suez, Cat22 and Zender, and opening words by Diana Ozon. A great get together – respect to Melissa for throwing this initiative.
There’s a competition going on to rebrand the US Dollar. This is the entry from the UK/US agency Dowling Duncan. I love the idea of the vertical format.
When he was a schoolboy he made gifts for friends by carving out their names on pencils. Nowadays 45-year-old Dalton J. Paul Getty sometimes works for months on one pencil.
Tasty stuff! ”Timba Smits is a Melbourne born, London based graphic designer, artist, illustrator, independent publisher, self confessed magazine whore and wannabe olympic ping-pong playa.”
These images are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations between 1939 and 1943.
Walking as it’s meant to be: barefoot. Vibram FiveFingers are runningshoes that totally fit your feet. And they’ve made an awesome looking site for it.
In Munich, Germany, you have a legal graffiti wall known as the Tumblingerstraße. Here you see how a miniature graffiti piece is getting sprayed on the wall.
Sadly, one of the best calligraphers of modern age – Raphael Boguslav – is no longer with us. Still, his fabulous work should not be forgotten.
Check out the works of João Oliveira, a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator with an impressive client list. Really like his unique Tron-style graphics.
Tomas Mankovsky made this promo for the band Dancing Pigeons, that Diesel supports through Diesel U:Music. A longer short film version will be released on Diesel.com soon. The film is based on Diesel’s theme for their new collection “Fire & Water”.
Comic-Con saw the surprise announcement of an alliance between Capcom and Namco that’s slated to bring you 2 monster games: Capcom X Tekken and Tekken X Capcom. This is the first teaser trailer.
Check out these very cool alternative poster designs for some classic movies. They’re made by Ibraheem Youssef a graphic designer from Toronto. I love the little story line hints in the designs and wonder why the big studio’s always go for the same layout.
We know Twitter can be used for marketing, but I really like this video visualization, made at Northeastern University and Harvard University, showing the pulse of the US, the moods as they fluctuate over time.
On saturday the 14th of august it’s time for the second edition of Stekker Fest in Utrecht. Douwe Dijkstra was asked to create a videoflyer for the festival and he did a great job! Make sure you check out his other videoflyers.
DJ Cheeba performs an exclusive live mix using Beck’s Vier beer taps to trigger audio samples and lighting effects across a grid of 600 LED-lit Beck’s bottles. The video for Beck’s Vier Music Inspires Art Programme is created by Outside Line.
Day Trip is a bimonthly publication that is curated, designed, published and distributed to W+K offices and clients by Attack. Limited to 125 copies per issue, Day Trip offers a unique look into the lifestyles, work and perspectives of the individuals who push New York’s creative culture forward.
UK phone provider Orange is aiming for the Guinness World Record for the ‘most people tagged in an online photo’, from a photo taken at the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury. Where you there?!
Just incase you are missing the sound of the vuvuzelas, The Natural Confectionery Co. have re-recorded the ‘trumpets’ advert. It’s great, but then again, I’m bias!
Triangle is a video work done for the book ‘Black Material’ which showcases NYC artist Robert Knoke’s artwork. Curator Jens Karlson asked Onur Senturk to make a short animation and get Robert Knoke’s black and white artwork as base for video.
Very nice videoclip from the song MmmHmm from Flying Lotus featuring Thundercat. Directed by Special Problems. The track is taken from the album ‘Cosmogramma’. Flying Lotus is also performing at Lowlands!
$6.000 and she’s yours! Not a cheap date, but after seeing this mini-documentary by the ever-exquisite California Is A Place you’ll recogn she’s a work of labour. Beautiful.
Not often do I post my own stuff. To make up for that, here is some shameless self-promotion: After years of working at agencies and doing projects on the side I am now starting my one man motion graphics studio. To get an idea of what I do please check out my showreel and website. Thank you.
The Roots released at the end of June a new album and I must say I really like it. On this album I found the perfect song to keep your focus on the final on Sunday. Damn I’m excited, can’t wait for it to start. If you want an Oranje tracklist you can ofcourse hop over to our friends at 22 Tracks who made a very inspirational Oranje playlist.
I’ve seen a lot of video’s with architectural projection mapping lately. I would like to share these two with you: AC/DC vs. Iron Man 2 and Kraftwork in Autostadt. Both created by Seeper, check out their site.