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Meet Shota Kotake: Guinness World Record-Breaking Artist

Well, that’s the aim, anyway. Japanese-born Shota Kotake is on a mission. Not quite a holy mission, but one that nonetheless involves him painting the portrait of a priest every day for three years. That priest, though, is Father Ted, the...

Posted by: Ashley Morrison
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Experience a music festival as the Festival Buddy Robot

In my youth (I'm approaching 30 so feel I've just about earned the right to use that phrase) I would typically spend almost every weekend during the summer at a music festival. Sometimes knee-deep in mud and excrement whilst gleefully nodding along...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Top Ads of the Week

W+K London raise their glasses to unsung household heroes The aim of Finish’s new campaign, created with Wieden+Kennedy London to promote the brand’s Dishwasher Cleaner product, is to make consumers think about the cleanliness of their...

Posted by: Creativepool Editorial
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Agency of the Week: Ogilvy & Mather

Sending Eric Cantona across the English Channel for Kronenbourg Heineken has revealed the outcome of the #LeBigSwim digitally-led campaign starring Eric Cantona for its premium lager brand Kronenbourg 1664. The campaign from Ogilvy & Mather London...

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Kristofer Ström creates surreal characters on his iPhone

The London offices of CHI & Partners have been given a surreal edge this week with the addition of some incredibly bizarre, and yet oddly beautiful images designed by Swedish artist Kristofer Ström. With a style that brings to mind (for me at...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Muppets take a selfie with the Blair Witch

I clearly remember my experience watching The Blair Witch Project when it first came out back in 1999. It arrived on the scene around the time my generation were just about starting to “Get” the internet, and the marketing campaign behind it was...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Is this your great-great-great-grandfather?

The past is a potentially dangerous place in advertising. If you go too far back everything is rife for parody, but if you don’t go back far enough, nostalgia can dilute your message. VCCP Sydney have opened a unique window to the past here,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Angry Birds 2 gets bigger, badder, birdier

Whilst it probably won’t go down in history as one of the very best video games of all time, Angry Birds is arguably one of the most important and influential, especially of recent years. Indeed, years before it was dethroned by the godawful...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Harvey Nichols redefine luxury with the help of Virgile+Partners

Harvey Nichols unveiled the new look of its stores across the globe this week with a new outlet in Birmingham designed by Virgile+Partners. The consultancy has worked on the design of the store for six months, looking to redefine luxury with a...

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Features

Happy 75th birthday! 10 things you didn't know about Bugs Bunny

July 27, 2015 was the 75th birthday of Bugs Bunny, one of the best-known cartoon characters ever created. As suave as Raffles, and as witty as Oscar Wilde, he's a gifted dancer, and famous for his ability to avoid hunters - particularly the lisping...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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Top Ads of the Week

Coca-Cola get into the spirit of the Rugby World Cup Coca-Cola Great Britain has launched its Rugby World Cup 2015 campaign, which looks to excite the nation ahead of the Tournament later this year. As official soft drink, water and sport drinks...

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John Cooper Clarke asks you to complete his latest poem

Celebrated British punk poet John Cooper Clarke has teamed up with 18 Feet & Rising and Agile Film to launch a new campaign for the National Trust, in which he shares his love of the British coastlines to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Neptune...

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Agency of the Week: DDB Worldwide

Real shoplifters given animated makeover for Harvey Nichols A new spot by adam&eveDDB for Harvey Nichols uses CCTV captured footage of actual shoplifters getting caught in the act, but gives the footage a defiantly cheeky makeover. The “Love...

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Meet Marcus Haney: The man who breaks into festivals for a living

This modern world has brought us a swathe of unusual job titles. Certainly our grandparents wouldn't have a clue what a Social Media Manager does, much less an SEO Executive. So how about a Professional Fence Jumper? This is how a man called Marcus...

Posted by: Magnus Shaw
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How to WING IT this summer

Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam has teamed up with AKQA London to get people out and about for the holidays in a new integrated campaign for Booking.com, the online travel agency. The campaign encourages spontaneity, with Booking.com urging people to get...

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Amazing In Motion: The new Lexus Hoverboard

Back to the Future 2 promised much of 2015. It promised us self-tying shoelaces, flying cars, 19 Jaws films, and hoverboards, neither of which have materialised in the public realm at the time of writing. This could all be set to change though,...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Saatchi's NDS returns to its roots for 25th anniversary

At the Palais des Festivals in Cannes yesterday (Thursday 25 June) as part of this year's Cannes Lions festival, Saatchi & Saatchi celebrated 25 years of the New Directors’ Showcase with a one-off screening of a brand new film. The idea was to...

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Wieden + Kennedy supports the LGBTQA community and pilots

Wieden + Kennedy New York launched a couple of wilfully eclectic, but equally inspiring campaigns this week. First off, their social media & outdoor campaign for the Equinox gym launched with bespoke murals by Los Angeles based artist and designer...

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Awards Roundup: Top 5 wins of the week

1. Baltic Regions Leading International Adversiting Festival Awards Announced Latvia’s Jūrmala was host to the Golden Hammer awards, cementing it’s reputation as the Baltic region’s leading international advertising festival....

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Top 5 London exhibitions to inspire graphic design: June 2015

London is over-stuffed with gallery choices, one of the many great things about the city. But where to go when you want a dash of visual inspiration or a calligraphy calm down? We've scoured around for the best design-led exhibitions on in London...

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Awards Roundup

Effie Awards Ogilvy & Mather was recognised with top accolades this week as both O&M North America and the New York office were recognised as the most effective individual office and agency network of the year in their respective categories at the...

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Saatchi celebrate 25 years of the New Directors' Showcase

The world was a different place in 1991. But aside from the breakup of the Soviet Union, the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the assassination of Gandhi and Operation Desert Storm, 1991 also marked the inaugural Saatchi & Saatchi New...

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Top 5 Awards Of The Week

DDB Mudra Group are the Black Elephants of the Kyoorius Awards Kyoorius, in association with D&AD, has announced the winners of the 2015 Kyoorius Advertising & Digital Awards, which took place at the NSCI stadium in Mumbai on the 22nd of May, and...

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Top 10 Hires of the Week

Publicis London Publicis London has hired Phil Dowgierd as managing director of digital as part of its ongoing commitment to champion creative leadership and excellence within Publicis UK. Dowgierd joins from Tribal Worldwide Sydney where he was...

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Inspiration

jelly London launch award-winning director Effie Pappa

This week, jelly London welcome award-winning animator, Effie Pappa, to their exclusive team of directors. Effie specialises in all ranges of Stop Motion as well as 2D animation. She is best known for her short film “My Stuffed Granny”,...

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Durex caught vlogging off for new campaign

The last few years have thrown up a new kind of professional personality; the “YouTube celebrity.” These video bloggers (or “Vloggers”) make a living by posting short videos online that cover a range of topics from video games and films to...

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt supports the National Parks

The North American National Park Service (as so lovingly portrayed on the sadly now defunct sitcom “Parks & Recreation") has teamed up with the National Park Foundation and Dark Knight Rises actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt's collaborative online...

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EasyJet highlight digital innovation in new campaign

Whilst it began life back in the mid-90's as an easy punchline, thanks largely to the larger than life public persona of its founder Stelios Haji-loannou, EasyJet has evolved in the ensuing 20 years to become Europe's leading airline. It's also...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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DDB reach out to parents to prevent child drug abuse

The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids (PDFK) is a national nonprofit organisation in the US that works to reduce substance abuse among adolescents by supporting families and reaching out to at-risk teenagers. DDB California is collaborating with them on...

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Fancy using Sonic the Hedgehog in your next ad campaign?

“Video games are the new cinema.” A common statement, especially in certain corners of the internet, and one that I don't necessarily disagree with. Irregardless of your stance on the gaming industry however, it cannot be denied that the...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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The Caledonian Sleeper service gets a luxurious makeover

The London-to-Scotland rail Caledonian Sleeper service that exists to carry Londoners and Scots back and forth in great comfort, is to be given a complete overhaul with new branding by Weber Shandwick and new train interior designs from Ian Smith...

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What are you capable of?

AMV BBDO has created a new integrated campaign for The Open University, the first since it won the OU account in a competitive pitch last year. Leagas Delaney was Open University’s previous pan-European ad agency, having won the account in...

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The Week in Tech

Large Hadron Collider: Round Two Remember a few years ago when they turned the Large Hadron Collider at CERN on for the first time and half the population seemed to fear that a global catastrophe was imminent? We all just, kind of forgot about it...

Posted by: Benjamin Hiorns
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Preparing for Launch: Launches of the Week

KBS Shanghai KBS officially opened its doors in Shanghai this week, marking its formal entry into the Chinese market. The new office is led by Douglas Lin, partner and CEO, and Jonathan Ip, partner and chief creative officer. KBS has already begun...

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