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Hotshot: Cultural Cringe
21 July 2010We step back to the eighties for the promos for the This Is England television series.
read more28 July 2010
It's Not Rocket Science... But it is.
In a school where the most popular kid is the captain of the robotics team and the football team is non-existent, you'd be forgiven for assuming that the student body didn't know how to have a blast once in a while. How wrong you would be.
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Alpha Males
Ubisoft has sourced the Oscar-winning talents of Little Minx directing duo Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy to create a 30 minute film to accompany the launch of the new Tom Clancy inspired video game Ghost Recon: Future Soldier.
more27 July 2010
Water Sports
We remember the Super Soaker 500 as being the top brass when it came to weapon of choice for a water fight on a summer's afternoon. Its quick pump action and compact size made for easy release in the tightest of situations when confronted by the enemy. It was also a bit of a design classic as far as water pistols go.
more21 July 2010
Hotshot: Cultural Cringe
For this week's Hotshot we step back in time to the 80s (yes, the 80s) to sample a series of promo pieces for the forthcoming television extension of Shane Meadow's 2006 film This Is England, which will be released as a four part series set around the 1986 Mexico World Cup.
more16 July 2010
Back to the Roots
So the World Cup has come to an end with Spain joining the vuvuzelas as world conquerors and England earning their six figure salaries with lacklustre performances in each of their four games.
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Golden Boot
Despite some intense criticism of their Jabulani ball at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa, adidas shone with its F50 Adizero which featured as the top scoring boot at the tournament. The success of the boot proved the perfect platform for agency 180 to showcase the brand's triumph in a short film illustrating a young boy's love of the beautiful game.
more14 July 2010
Daydreaming with James Lavelle
The Bank Holiday weekend at the end of August would usually consist of Londoners seeking to occupy the finest patch of greenery in one of the capital's beautiful park spaces. Or better more, flocking to the coast for some rare domestic beach action.
more12 July 2010
Face to Face with... David Wilson
Fresh off the back of creating a killer new music video for London dubstep outfit Skream, we catch up with Blinkink wunderkind David Wilson to talk pitching, promos, and what went on behind the scenes.
more08 July 2010
To the Victor, the Spoils
Specialist crowd-sourced agency Victors & Spoils has developed an online stunt to generate excitement for Virgin America's first international destination, Toronto.
more07 July 2010
Hotshot: Always Take the Weather with You
For this week's Hotshot we bite into a tasty morsel from McDonalds as HLA director Simon Ratigan and Leo Burnett London channel the British weather for inspiration and steer the fast-food brand in a very different direction.
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News in Brief
Image Conscious; Photography Book Now Entry Deadline; Great Guns Globally Expand; Rushes Soho Shorts Announces Full Festival Programme; YoungGuns Celebrates 10 Years; Spikes Asia 2010 Co-operates with Confederation of Asian Advertising; Golden Drum Call for Entries
more06 July 2010
Behind the Grand Prix for Good
With a Grand Prix ban on charity and PSA work, for the first time this year Cannes Lions introduced the Grand Prix for Good, which was scooped up by AMV BBDO and Mad Cow Films in London for their anti-knife crime campaign Choose A Different Ending. Here we catch up with the creatives and director to find out more about the project.
more02 July 2010
Cannes Lions Creativity Festival 2011?
Phil Thomas, CEO of the Cannes Lions, talks about the changes planned for next year's festival and why Advertising is, like, so 2010.
more30 June 2010
D&AD New Blood Conquers Shoreditch
The annual D&AD New Blood student event found a new home this year as the week-long talent showcase moved to the Old Truman Brewery in Shoreditch. On display was a wide selection of work from 278 colleges submitted from a total of 41 different countries.
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News in Brief
Academy Films gets Stationed; YoungGuns of the Month; Collaborative Trio hope to CAUSE AN EFFECT; MPC Digital Host Architecture Installation; Animal Logic Wins Silver World Medal at New York Festivals Awards; I Can't Believe It's Not Gutter.
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Winners Watch the Cannes Film Craft Lions Winners too
Parallel Lines scooped the first Grand Prix, and it wasn't the only standout piece of work in the inaugural year of the Film Craft category - check out the Philips films and all the gold winners here.
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The Impossible Brief
Now here's a challenge - BBR Saatchi & Saatchi Tel Aviv have called upon the advertising community to help solve what could be the most difficult brief in the world: to end 60 years of conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
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