The Olympic Games would not exist without sponsors, that’s a fact. They bring the millions, they make it happen. But since early January, Burrard Skytrain station has turned into a giant ad for McDonalds and I hate it. Really, it is [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, January 29th, 2010
Categories: Advertising, Vancouver | 6 Comments »
A few months ago, Mac Donald’s launched a new TV campaign in France ‘come as you are’. The campaign itself, created by EuroRSCG, is pretty nice but what really caught my attention was the logo: it has turned green!! Just [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Food, Marketing, Sustainability | No Comments »
To celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 8 in France, Windows has joined forces with…Speed Rabbit Pizza, a leading pizza company. Explore and devour the IE8 pizza! 8 slices, 8 ingredients, 8 euros. I can totally see the rational [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Friday, March 27th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Branding, Marketing | No Comments »
What do you get when you cross LED technology, sheep and guys with a lot of time on their hands? How about one of the coolest campaigns by Samsung. Check it out here. Thanks to my buddy Steve for the link.
Posted by: Alex Leynes on Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Art, Fun, Technology | No Comments »
I guess this isn’t anything new since we’ve seen choreographed dancing en mass (in a Philippines jail), performance in subway stations (Joshua Bell), and flash mob performance in many other forms the advertising side of this is [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, January 16th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Inspiration, Pop Culture, We love | No Comments »
I totally dig this movie Poster. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a story of a man who is born as a 70 year old, and grows younger through his life; essentially aging in reverse. The movie posters are, for the most part, generic and [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, January 12th, 2009
Categories: Advertising, Design, Inspiration | No Comments »
Corporate level Viral marketing has, for the most part, appeared insincere and often completely backfired. Tiger Woods ‘08 was released by EA sport and earlier this year a fan posted a video outlining a bug where a player could walk [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Soccer meets martial arts – a great combo. This is a commercial or promo vid for Fifa Street 3 video game, check it out. Someone wondered if it uses CG but I’d rather believe in good old fashion skill and lots of practice.
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Monday, October 20th, 2008
Categories: Advertising | No Comments »
Fill in the blank has never really been that fun for me until I stumbled on “Blank is like Blank” a blog by copywriter Justin Feinstein. You might remember him from his “If Taglines were Honest” post a few years bac [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, August 1st, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Fun | No Comments »
We just sent our summer newsletter and all the prime cuts are going fast. Hopefully you have a copy of the newsletter in your inbox but if you don’t you can view it online, or contact us to be added for the next blast.
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Categories: Advertising, Industrial Brand | No Comments »
RT @bengarf: Bit old now so maybe you've seen, but Banksy is brilliant (Link)
RT @COURAGEOUSb: 'Branding is giving an idea not just to the customer but to the company itself, of who they are, a sense of themselves' ...
RT @MarkBusse: Doing design research for nutrition/fitness client looking for examples of brands with gritty/intensity + human/simplicit ...
Congrats to Porte Development for selling over 30% of the @OriginSFU units on Burnaby Mountain in the opening weekend. http://liveorigin.com
Slow motion will always be cool (love the ones using humans) (Link)
We recently launched a new brand identity and website for our client Gramercy Developments. Great job team! (Link)
Beautiful chocolate packaging (Link)
Nice to be recognized by @Icograda for the District South Main identity & campaign we designed for Amacon. (Link)
Industrial Brand is looking for the next senior member of their communication design team. (Link)
RT @interestingvan: Interesting Vancouver website is now live & tickets are now on sale. Buy yours today! http://interestingvancouver.com
Congrats to our client Porte Development for the official launch of Origin, their new project on Burnaby Mountain: http://liveorigin.com
RT @MarkBusse: @GuyKawasaki read article "Welcome to the Era of Creative Meritocracy" by Behance's Scott Belsky called (Link)
@markbusse & @bengarf talk about www.Foodists.ca w/ Randall Mark on CKNW's The World Today Weekend Sunday at 5:30 (Link)
Likemind Vancouver August event to be hosted by Kafka’s Coffee & Tea House at 2525 Main Street (at Broadway) (Link)
Great to see @ElysianCoffee (Broadway) listed on Living Social's website as the best neighbourhood coffeehouse. (Link)
