Happy Hallowe'en everyone! Today i've got a very nicely themed post about whats called "Horrorgami". These 4 pieces are part of a 13 piece collection by Marc Hagan-Guirey, that will be privately shown tonight. The collection contains 13 famous horror movie houses all each made from a single sheet of A4 paper! The four pictures I have posted are locations from The Shining, Amityville Horror, Addams Family and The Exorcist.
So today Disney have bought LucasFilm for $4.5 Billion which includes every little piece of the company from LucasArts to Skywalker Sound and plan to release the 7th episode of the Star Wars saga in 2015 as well as carrying on the franchise with possibly another two films after that. Now as a fan of cinema and more importantly Star Wars, I am afraid of what will happen to the franchise. Will Disney turn it into just another money grabbing monster or will they do something special with it and carry on the saga the way it deserves? I am hoping Disney do it right like they did with Marvel studios.
Here's the new video to Jack White's latest single "I'm Shakin'" directed by Dori Oskowitz. I think the video uses some great art direction by showing two Jack Whites and two full bands playing against each other, one in black and the other in white. This is done to portray the echoing sound that the song has with Jack's singing and the doubled guitars as well as giving the image of a fight between two gangs with Jack and the other band members dressed in cliche gangster attire. The song is very good too!
I found this new ad for in car security cameras by DBS. The proposition for the advert is to expect the unexpected so in this case the unexpected is a lightsaber battle taking place in the centre of the car park! I think that the idea behind this is fantastic as it is funny and original and as the ad says, unexpected! The advert is credited to Tribal DDB Singapore. The advert was also accompanied by a poster ad which shows the car from a different point a view the day after, after it has been halved by the rogue light saber.
Monday, 29 October 2012
Today I found this very nice piece of type. Its a font named "Hipster" designed by Ale Paul. I really like this type as it conveys the style of the 'hipster' perfectly with its blend of modernism with the classic beatnik, coffee stained, record collecting old fashion that the hipsters have adopted combined with the arrogance of the copy to produce something that is very fun and original.
The picture above is of the sculpture named "Verity" meaning "the truth" in Italian. This is the first sculpture by British artist Damien Hirst. The sculpture is supposed to represent justice in the form of a cross sectioned pregnant woman holding up the sword of justice high above her head. What a dissected pregnant woman has to do with justice I do not know but its still a very powerful image and the sculpture is definitely quite possibly a landmark in British art!
British-born artist Katerina Jebb has started making a series of anti-ads that are supposed to challenge the idea and themes of advertising in the fashion industry. The idea of the ad I have posted is that of insuring your key assets of what makes you beautiful.The ad stars Kylie Minogue, who has become well known for her backside and so she flaunts it in a satirical way to express the ideas of the director.
Seen as though this week I've had a sudden interest in Mexican culture I thought I'd post these prints that I found by 'I Love Dust'. The pictures show two legendary Mexican wrestlers or Luchadores as they are know, who have passed away. The death of the famous wrestlers is represented by the Calvera patterns on the faces which also doubles as a mask similar to what the Luchadores wear during their fights. Calvera literally means "skull" in Spanish and they are small decorative skulls made out of sugar that are used in ceremonies such as 'Day of the dead' to celebrate the lives of the deceased.
Type is Art is a fantastic little site I found when messing around a few days ago. Its very fun and very addictive and it gives the chance to make some very interesting designs all with the power of typography! So if you've got some time to kill or you feel like getting creative, give it a go.
This is a Johnnie Walker ad for the 2012 London Paralympics created by BBH China. The majority of the ad is completely black and all the viewer can hear is the voice of people spurring on a runner as you hear his feet go and that's when we realise the ad is in the point of view of a blind runner and that's when the superb slogan "I can't see the world. So, I will let the world see me." comes in. The advert does so much and tells a great story with almost no visuals at all except the inner thoughts of a champion.
As a cat owner I know all too well that taking a cat anywhere in a car is hell for both the people and the cat! So Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand had the excellent idea of showing how comfortable the new Toyota Corolla is by having a cat that has fallen in love with the car so much that it goes to extreme lengths just to ride in it such as diving onto a dog, getting covered in cement and even rising from the dead! Then as the advert ends we see the cat happily riding shotgun with its head out the window like a dog.
We have here a very recent informational advert called "The Real Bears", The advert is about bringing awareness to the health dangers that come from drinking fizzy drinks. I think the ad does this well with its seemingly child friendly style which soon turns sour with quite graphic, uncomfortable scenes like a bear puling a tooth out and having its leg amputated with a chainsaw! The ad is quite obviously mimicking the classic Coca-Cola polar bears that have starred in many adverts over the years, as well as showing signs that are demanding the bears to "be happy" very much like Coca-Cola's 'Open Happiness' Campaign. The ad shows how badly fizzy drinks can ruin your health and ultimately make you void of happiness, a contradiction to what fizzy drinks are supposed to be for and that removing fizzy drinks from our diet can make us much more happy in the long run.
Say hello to "Susan Glenn". This is another fantastic advert from BBH New York. The advert is for Axe deodorant or Lynx if you're English. I think this ad works very well as it applies to almost every male from a young boy in high school to even fully grown men. It is an experience every guy has had and that is seeing a girl who is quite possibly the girl of his dreams and not having the confidence to talk to her but as the ad makes out, with Axe/Lynx you will have the confidence! The ad stars Kiefer Sutherland as a narrator and he also appears in it which acts as a comforter for the younger males as they see that even he had trouble with girls when he was a young guy.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Here we have a poster design by Johnson Banks. The brief given to them was to create a series of posters that represent how British art has changed over the years and I think that the poster does just that. on the left we see an 18th century painting by George Stubbs who also happens to be the same artist behind a certain family portrait that Josiah Wedgwood didn't approve of. The Stubbs paining shows the dark warmth of classic British art which totally juxtaposes and contrasts with the modern day Damian Hirst 'Formaldehyde sheep' with its cold, clinical and scientific style. This contrast in both classic and modern day art is also shown in the typography of the poster where we see the word "Britain" boxed off and styled with two very different fonts, on the left a classic 18th century font and on the right a solid sans-serif font which represents how even the art of type has changed over the centuries.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Because we were chatting today about Guinness I thought it'd be nice to kick off my blog with their new "Made of More" campaign. I think that this is a truly fantastic campaign by AMV BBDO with great, powerful copy by Alex Grieve. The whole campaign has a beautiful fairy tale theme especially in the video where we see the tale of a single cloud going on an adventure and becoming a great hero with a narration similar to that of a father telling a child a bed time story. The posters still keep true to the raw and earthy themes that have been a part of many Guinness campaigns in the past.
