Friday, February 9, 2007
Renault - number 1 in safety
Agency: Publicis LADO C
Executive Creative Director: Marcelo Vergara, Fabio Mazia
Agency Producer: Hector Palacio, Cristina Español
Production company: Landia
Director: Andy Fogwill
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Need For Speed Carbon
Client: Toys R Us
Product: Need For Speed Carbon
Agency: Volcano Advertising South Africa
Creative Director: Bradley Copeman, Glenn Jeffery
Art Director: Greig Watt, Jade Manning
Copy Writer: Cheryl Davies
Photographer: Micheal Knight
Production Company: Hue and Grey
Make the most of now - Vodafone
Agency: BBH/London
Creative Director: Nick Gill
Agency Producer: Amy Sugdon
Production Company: Biscuit Filmworks — Los Angeles, Independent — London
Director: Noam Murro
Director of Photography: Toby Irwin
Production Designer: John Beard
Executive Producer: Richard Packer, Jani Guest, Shawn Lacy Tessaro, Eric Stern Line Producer: Jay Veal
Editorial Company: Robota — London
Editor: Filip Malasek
VFX: Glassworks — London
VFX Supervisor: Hector McLeod
«Pitman» Animation: A Band Apart — Los Angeles
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Coca-Cola NZ - Sharpen up
Lift+ "Vase"
Agency: Publicis Mojo, New Zealand
Creative: Karl Fleet, Derrick Kim
Production company: Curious Film, New Zealand
Director: Robin Walters
Director of Photography: Adam Clark
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Garmin Releases 'Maposaurus' Super Bowl Spot
We think people are going to like this new Super Bowl commercial from first-time advertiser Garmin which is promoting personal GPS. We saw the music video of the spot earlier but here is the finished :30. It's 50's-style battle between a monster than emanates from a driver's wind blown road map and the driver whose personal GPS device converts him into a monster fighting super hero. It's just weirdly different enough to achieve some decent recall. Though, it might suffer from the dreaded "what was that commercial selling?" problem the morning after.
Fallon created the commercial for the first time Super Bowl advertiser and will launch a corresponding microsite this Saturday before the game. There's also a blog that digs deeper into the world of the Maposaurus.
Japan subway ad
Japan subway ads (video and prints)
Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo’s train stations
Here are our top 10 choises of advertisement in Tokyo’s trains or stations
1. Create your own stage
Picking a seriously busy station such as Shibuya should give you proper exposure for a start. Here, we discovered a very decorative ad by Meisei University that takes up the entire wall space in Shibuya. It functions as a pretty backdrop for everyone waiting on the platform.
Meisei University billboard covers Shibuya’s Toyoko line all along
2. Mega Stickers
In case all wall space is already taken, try placing your ad as a mega sticker on the ground. That adds some nice color to the gray concrete as well.
giant sticker on the ground advertising for the Haruhi DVD release
3. Take-away goodies poster campaign
We have covered the seriously impressive iPod nano campaign on PingMag a while ago. Those “goodies on posters” are always in great demand. Here is a little picture story of a recent Canon ad inside Shibuya station (between Toyoko and JR Yamanote line - a good catch), which offered small packets mounted on a poster.
worker revealing the Canon campaign at around 10.30am
Someone must have been talking… Nikon had a big and beautiful ad right next to the Canon ad
here is a detail of all the little packs mounted on the poster before people started grabbing….
after the official press shots were taken, people were allowed to step closer - and they did!
sweet grandpa grabbing one pack of every kind - like most people
within seconds the missing packets revealed the image underneath
Althought the graphics were quite funky, I must confess that I was pretty disappointed by the contents of this mysterious little black pack: a small brochure about a new range of Canon cameras in an entirely un-matching design. A few more images about this ad and other “take away poster campaigns” on our Flickr page.
4. Product Sculptures
Create your own product sculpture! I had a good laugh when finding all those over-over-sized Ucon-Tea bottles in Shinjuku decorating the pillars. Those were not to be missed by anyone!
huge Ucon (Tumeric) Tea bottles inside Shinjuku station which look as if they are holding up the roof
5. Use what’s left
If all places seem taken, look again!
advertisement on the last free spots of the ticket gates
I just noticed advertising on the ticket gates at some train stations, too. Placed right next to the slots to insert your cards, the ads for TV magazine TV Japan certainly get noticed, even though they look like they could be warning signs as a part of the ticket gates.
6. Info-ride
A very elegant and often refreshing solution is to decorate the moving handrails of escalators. Aap! offer some nice solutions for this alternative display. (Takes about 1 hour to install!)
These handrails are simply decorative to give you the idea of what it might look like. Picture in the Lumine Department Store, Tokyo, Photo © Aap!
Aap! installed an interesting handrail ad model inside Nogizaka station in Tokyo: these handrails lists all sorts of brief information about shops, restaurants and attractions around the area. People can easily scan the matching QR-code to receive more information of a certain place of interest on their mobile phone while more information slowly “drives by”.
handrails installed in Nogizaka with little info or advertising units about shops, restaurants and information about the area Photo © Aap!
scan the QR code with your phone and get map and more information about a place of interest Photo © Aap!
7. Trains!
Train Jacking (buying the entire advertisement space inside a whole train for a certain period) or Train Wrapping (covering the entire outside of a train) are extremly popular in Tokyo. If you ever found yourself in one of these trains for a few stops only, you will know why people are willing to pay so much at once. An entire train telling you the same thing is impossible not to notice. There are a lot of funky ones around, here we show a rather minimal and “calm” train from Ikea. The first thing I noticed when stepping on board was, that the wagon felt so unusually peaceful….
very minimal color on white posters for Ikea turned the entire train into a relaxing zone almost…
it felt a bit like flipping through the Ikea cataloge, which - I suppose - was their intention
other wagons had colorful Ikea patterns
even on the outside they remained minimal: Let’s enjoy color and pattern!
8. It’s real!
Since everyone spends so much time in trains, little surprises are always welcome! Adding some “real-factor” to flat posters always seems to do the trick! Here is a small selection.
Prigles ad inside a train with two pringles flying into a bowl of soup
the poster next to that one with paired up ‘real’ Pringles on their way to the soup bowl
Notice the ‘real-component’: a glitter ponpon mounted on a cheerleader poster for Fuji TV’s drama Dandori. Amazing that no-one steals it!
leaves arranged to a quite unusual poster for Green Tea
detail of the plastic autumn leaves hanging from the train ceiling
9. Handle tricks
Not only posters “get real”. Handles inside trains can also a popular and fun medium to create some attention. Here is our favorite one: the neck tie promising you more money… well! It is an ad for a loan company…
decorated handle in a subway advertising for a loan company (Photo:Maris Mezulis)
10. Tunnel Movies
Last the creme de la creme of entertaining advertisement to find in trains are not exactly inside the trains, but inside the tunnels. When desperately trying to come up with more advertising space since everything else is full already, someone came up with an installation that works similar to a flip-book: a series of still images is the base for a short movies and it is you who moves, in this case - the train. Installed on the sides of a tunnel, the movement of the train and the perfectly timed highlighting of each still frame after another creates an up to 7 second movie viewed by looking out of the window. A little demo shows how it works best.
single frames are installed inside a tunnel… © Aap!
… lining up next to each other.© Aap!
when driving by, a sensor measures the speed of the train and lights up each frame accordingly © Aap!
here a still of a tunnel movie for Adidas viewed from within the train © Aap!
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Agency: Zig
Creative Directors: Elspeth Lynn, Lorraine Tao
Art Director: Elspeth Lynn
Copywriter: Lorraine Tao
Agency Producer: Dave Medlock
Production Company: Sugino Studios
Director: Shin Sugino
Director of Photography: Shin Sugino
Executive Producer: Andy MacLeod
Editor: Brian Noone, Traffik Edit — Toronto
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