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Puma Social

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Beautiful copy writing from Droga5. Directed by Fredrik Bond.

The Guardian’s Three Little Piggies

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty

Cartier: Fantastical Journey

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Agency: Marcel Agency, Director: Bruno Aveillan

The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo Title Sequence

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Produced by Blur Studio in Venice, Calif. by Creative Director Tim Miller for David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo‘s opening title sequence.
Soundtrack by Karen O and Trent Reznor’s Immigrant Song.

Smoothness in a bottle?

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

From Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors.

Johnny Walker — Important Men

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

From Leo Burnett Sydney.

McFly’s Kicks

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Monday, September 12th, 2011

Hottest Ice Cream Ever — by Nestlé

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

A nice, simple and elegant idea wonderfully executed. From Geller-Nessis Publicis, Israel.

Puma Shala Collection

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Beautiful pictures from Puma's Black Label Shala Yoga Collection 2011

Fake Apple Stores in China

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

Three fake Apple stores spotted in Kunming, China. Hilarious or down right scary?

A simple creative idea cannot be beat.

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

The always wonderful and insighful work of Christoph Niemann, expatriate New Yorker now working in Berlin.

http://www.christophniemann.com/

Le Cidre. Not Le Cider.

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Monday, July 11th, 2011

iPhones in Space

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Monday, July 11th, 2011

 

The crew of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station are trying to find out if the iPhone 4 and an app called “SpaceLab for iOS” are up to the rigors of space science and will be used to help measure altitude and the curvature of the earth. Astronauts will also test the iPhone’s ability to geolocate itself using images of familiar coastline produced by the iPhone’s built-in camera. If the iPhone performs reliably and accurately, it could prove to be an inexpensive alternative to bulkier custom-made machinery. 
iPhone users might be wondering what in-space roaming and searching for a signal does to the phone’s battery life, but engineers have already anticipated concerns and equipped the devices with large external batteries to prevent any disruption while conducting experiments.

Happy 4th George.

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Monday, July 4th, 2011

Nike hires Annie Leibovitz for 2011 ad campaign

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Thursday, June 30th, 2011

Nike hired Annie Leibovitz to photograph the new Women Nike Fall 2011 print ad campaign.

The athletes featured are tennis players Maria Sharapova and Li Na, runners Allyson Felix and Perri Shakes-Drayton, soccer player Hope Solo, dancer Sofia Boutella, and surfer Laura Enever.

 

Samsonite: Heaven and Hell

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Simple, Concise and Beautiful

2011 Cannes Grand Prix, Press Advertising by JWT Shanghai

In intricate detail, the top half of the ad depicts heaven, where passengers on an airplane relax in cool, white comfort. The bottom half is hell, or the baggage compartment, full of tormented souls and several sleek, sturdy Samsonite suitcases that can withstand even the inferno. Any traveler whose bag has ever been abused by an airline would be touched by this ad.

The art of storytelling: Orange telecom promotional movie feature

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

In France, customers of telecom Orange can buy one movie ticket and get one free every Tuesday—perfect if you want to bring a friend along.

The brief for advertising this promotion was simple: dramatize the idea of getting closer to the richness of cinema. The agency, Publicis Conseil in Paris, crafted an extravagant trailer for a fictional 18th-century war-romance film and threw a wide-eyed, modern-day moviegoer into the fray. The contemporary interloper is a constant, unexplained presence throughout the trailer, which teases a story of love, war, and betrayal between two brothers.

At the end, the preview turns from epic to goofy, as one warring brother explains to the other, who’s lying wounded on a battlefield, that the stranger who’s been following them is “Fred,” the friend he’s brought along to the movie.

Who said a simple marketing promo drive needs to be an oversized postcard?

Can you bring the Supermarket to the Consumers?

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

The South Korean “Homeplus Subway Virtual Store” was an idea conceived to persuade consumers to visit the supermarket stores. The agency Cheil had the idea to bring the store to the busy people by recreating lifelike images of store aisles in subway stations that were interactive and allowed people to shop from the store simply by taking pictures of the products with their mobile phones. Their orders were later delivered to their homes. Online sales for Homeplus jumped by 130%, according to client.

The effort captured a trend that sees the convergence of innovative media and shopper-marketing ideas, and solved a real business problem for the client and eventually won the campaign the highly coveted Cannes Grand Prix for Media.

FDA New Cigarette Warnings

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

The above graphic is one of nine new different warnings to be applied to cigarette packagings by september 2012. Other graphics include images of blackened lungs, stained teeth, cadavers, open wounds and so forth. You get the idea. This is by far the most significant change to cigarette packaging warnings in more than 25 years.

http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/CigaretteWarningLabels/default.htm

By September 2012, all cigarette packs, cartons, and advertising must display the labels, which must also include a warning accompanied by a phone number: 1-800-QUIT-NOW

Who said environmental graphics cannot be fun AND functional?

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, June 17th, 2011

The wonderful work of Paula Scher from Pentagram

Dressed to impress

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, June 15th, 2011

The latest addition to our overall branding effort for First Preston HT. Dashing Car Wrap if i may say so myself.

Mountain Dew – Pinball Machine Skate Park in New Zealand

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Thursday, June 9th, 2011

MOUNTAIN DEW SKATE PINBALL from Jae Morrison on Vimeo.

I don’t skate and probably never will, but man that is coolness.

Nike – Chosen

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Thursday, June 9th, 2011

From 72andSunny agency in Los Angeles and directed by Lance Acord.

Filmed all at night. Simply beautiful.

Inflatable Airbag in Print Ad for Peugeot

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Impressive organization, logistics, manufacturing, fulfillment, packaging to support and execute an “out-of-the-box” creative gem from Loducca agency in São Paulo, Brazil.

Return on Investment?

Darth Vader visits Disneyland

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Monday, June 6th, 2011

Memory Lane: Charal Commercials

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Jogging down memory lane, one of the first ad campaign I was privileged to be part of at Roux Seguela Cayzac & Goudard (RSCG), Paris in 1992.
Directed by Tarsem (The famed director of the first R.E.M. video).

Charal 1
Charal 2
Charal 3

All Time Classics: Chanel N°5 Commercial by Ridley Scott – Blue Sky

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, June 3rd, 2011

Chanel °5 (1980), Directed by Ridley Scott — “I am made of blue sky and golden light”
Quite possibly one of the reasons I grew up wanting to work in advertising.

Must be seen in french for full effect — “Je suis d’azur et de lumière blonde”
http://www.ina.fr/video/PUB3254160097/chanel-5-parfum.fr.html

Audi A6 Avant Commercial knockoff of Chrysler’s “Imported from Detroit”?

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, June 3rd, 2011

You be the judge…

We are no Neanderthals.

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Friday, April 29th, 2011

Very nice work from Young & Rubicam, NY and directed by Johnny Kelly.

Imagination meets Engineering

Posted By Greg Lakloufi on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011

From BBH London, directed by Bl:nd and features the Basement Jaxx track “Dracula” which the band remixed for the project.