"Difficult is worth doing"

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The power of image

On the streets of Istanbul ...

[Via: Wooster Collective]

"Antiques"

Client: BBC HD
Agency: Fallon London

Nike "Art of Football"

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Very "Clockwork Orangesque"

Justice | "Stress"

It's incredible to see how violence can be "sexy" and still attract the human being, even when he denies so.

Everything in life has a Ranking

Millward Brown's "Top 100 Most Powerful Brands 08"


In the "first" places you'll find the usual suspects:
- Google
- GE
- Microsoft
- Coca-Cola
- China Mobile (is it because of the number of consumers!?)
- IBM
- Apple
- McDonald’s
- Nokia
- Marlboro

And the “Top Ten Risers”:
- Blackberry
- Apple
- Amazon

"Qashqai Car Games"

A Japanese car, a pilot-dog and some stunts.

-- check the rest here --

Client: Nissan
Agency: TBWA\London

YouTubian (strange) stuff

Nicholas White, trapped in an elevator for forty-one hours.

"Sk8 or home"

We already knew that the skateboarding universe has a tremendous influence and impact in the current urban culture (graphic design, clothing, language, etc.).
Now "recycling" sk8 decks, trucks and wheels and turn them into house furniture, is indeed a novelty.

[Source: Skate Study House]

Mr. Lovemarks

"You never get insight from formal research. For most consumer companies, consumer insight is just an agglomeration of facts. Every company has tons and tons of data, but they are all asking the same questions. Information and knowledge are table stakes. Insight and foresight win."

[Source: "Aiming for Blue, not Green" in Knowledge@Wharton]

"The Future is Unwritten"

Churchill-isms

"There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction."
-- Winston Churchill

Today's videoclip

-----> The Mekons, "Ghosts of American Astronauts"

"We're better, connected"

Client: O2
Agency: VCCP

"Fishing"

Client: Toronto Blue Jays
Agency: Publicis, Toronto

Etnographic safari

-- SuperBikes, Valencia, Spain.

"Heroes & Villains"

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"Food for thought"

"This isn't a business of TV ads, print campaigns, billboards anymore. It's 200 different things and places and media and opportunities to engage in a conversation with consumers. The more diverse the spectrum of the company the better you communicate."
-- José Cabaço, (new) CCO Euro RSCG, North America

"Creativity Now"

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"Splendid"

Client: Schneider
Agency: La Comunidad, Buenos Aires

"Shout"

Client: Guardian UK
Agency: Wieden Kennedy, London

Ryu Itadani

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"Food for thought"

"Each time the medium changes, our relationship to the message changes. In case you haven't noticed, the medium has been changing a lot lately." --Nick Law, R/GA

In Memoriam

-------------------------- "Paul Arden dies at 67" --------------------------

"Play doh"