May 28, 2012 Leave a comment
This short animated film ‘Happy Food’ by Yum Yum is great fun and anyone who likes ketchup will be able to remember a time when they found themselves in this situation.
Luckily there would probably not have been any giant hot dogs around.
We featured one of their other films, Parallel Parking some time ago.
Plus, if you like the film you can also get the characters.
Enjoy!
May 20, 2012 Leave a comment
If you’re looking forward to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee then what better way to celebration than with the perfect cup of tea in these gorgeous mugs featuring a London Skyline design.
These stunning homewares were created by Tobyboo and are decorated with unique designs from free hand embroidered illustrations enhanced digitally for printing.
They feature on tea cups, tea pots and a range of tea towels and soft furnishings to complete the perfect tea party. But it doesn’t stop there you can then use the patterned sticky tape with city skylines ranging from London, Glasgow and Manchester to wrap as a gift.
Find out more here.
May 15, 2012 Leave a comment
If you, like us, have never had the pleasure of travelling Upper Class with Virgin Atlantic then see what you’ve been missing.
The first Virgin Atlantic A330 flight took off from London to New York recently with a brand new bar and Upper Class cabin designed by VW + BS Studio in partnership with the Virgin Atlantic team.
Definitely not what you expect to see at 30,000ft.
See more of this amazing new cabin on Design Boom.
May 15, 2012 Leave a comment
This collection of miniature figurines frozen in small-scale narratives by Hampshire based sculptor Nic Joly are entitled ‘Under Foot’.
The concept originally started as a hobby in 2006, creating miniature toys to entertain his two children. It’s now become a full-time occupation, creating sculptures of tiny people, typically moulded at a height of one centimeter.
These are just a few of his interesting pieces – see a lot more here on Design Boom.
May 9, 2012 Leave a comment
Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising in Thailand engaged Supermachine Studio to revamp their offices and have come up with a very creative space.
The brief was to enhance the social atmosphere within the space and encourage staff’s creativity and imagination. Everyday objects have been used throughout and the office has been separated into two zones: the creative zone and the managing zone.
Arch Daily reviews the space and says, ‘The creative zone was designed to be open and bright where people can communicate broadly, share ideas and get inspired together as it was important for them to work as a family. On the other side, the managing zone has a darker tone atmosphere yet with colorful decorations in order to show that they too need excitement at work. In between, their lies a playful trophy wall and a bicycle wall for passer-by and facility zone with pink colored walls to create liveliness for the lifeless programs.’
Great fun and very inspiring – see more on Arch Daily.
Photographs © Wison Tungthunya
May 9, 2012 Leave a comment
To prove just how good their air freshners are, Febreze held a live commercial in New York city, inviting blindfolded New Yorkers to guess where they were.
The venue was an old sea container that originally held fish – but not what the audience thought.
See how it went below:
http://creativity-online.com/video/player.swf
May 5, 2012 Leave a comment
This Australian ad for Ford brings two new stars to our screens – native cane toads.
Produced by JWT Melbourne it is quite humorous and reminiscent of the old Budweiser ads that ran some years ago putting toads (or were they frogs) in the limelight.
Enjoy.
April 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Ever worried about not having enough colours to choose from? Then this will make your day.
Pantone has issued an additional 336 colours in its ‘plus’ range to reflect the selection of points within the existing colour spaces to add nuances of tone.
More choice for the creative team to mull over!
Find out more here.
April 6, 2012 Leave a comment
These wall stickers are great fun for any home – you could even buy them for the kids!
They are designed by Dan Golden Studio and available from Blik.
April 6, 2012 1 Comment
Fancy a bit of running romantic comedy – well this Nike ad will be a treat.
Featuring a couple living on opposite coasts in the US, it starts off quite cheesy but soon brings on the humour.
It is quite similar in style though to the Match.com ads running in the UK.
Directed by Rattling Stick’s Ringan Ledwidge, the film promotes the Nike Free Run+ 3.
April 6, 2012 Leave a comment
Skype has launched a new ad campaign challenging the lack of humanity in social media and focussing on the theory that technology makes communication more efficient, but less personal.
In a $12 million campaign Skype looks to leverage consumer anxiety about alienation promoting that it is better to talk face to face than via text or Twitter. The campaign launched last week in transport hubs, like Heathrow Airport, with a series of ads by Pereira & O’Dell which challenge the superficiality of text-based technology like Facebook, Twitter and SMS.
These are quite challenging and make you think about how social channels are changing our lives, similar to the impact that email had a few years back. We often talk in the office about how email has killed the art of conversation. How will social channles eventually change the way we communicate?
What do you think?
March 11, 2012 1 Comment
How 30 Great Ads Were Made: From Idea To Campaign, is a new book by Creative Review’s Eliza Williams.
It takes readers behind the scenes of 30 of the last decade’s most successful ad campaigns and features interviews with the key creatives, directors and clients for each campaign. The book offers an insight into how great ad campaigns get made, along with some surprising facts about some of the most popular ads of recent times: for example, did you know that the children’s brows in the Cadbury’s Eyebrows spot were manipulated by puppeteers rather than CGI?
Each campaign featured is illustrated with imagery showing the stages it went through in development – including sketches and early ideas that may have been abandoned, storyboards, animatics and photos from shoots, and shots of the final ads.
This is a great present for ad addicts. Find out more on Creative Review.
February 5, 2012 Leave a comment
Camenzind Evolution, a Swiss interior design agency that focusses upon ‘emotional comfort’ and how it influences our living and working environments, has designed a rather unusual new office interior for Unilever’s headquarters in Switzerland.
This interesting interior design has been created to inspire the highest levels of creativity and innovation. What do you think?
See a complete range of images on Contemporist.
Photography by Soguel Fotograf
February 3, 2012 Leave a comment
This is a great ad for Bounce with a few surprises! We’ll leave it at that.
Good viewing.
January 21, 2012 Leave a comment
Here is a great new mini digial camera called Clap. Small in size it has a retro feel without an LCD screen but for those nights out it is ideal for popping in your pocket or handbag.
It apparently records up to 30 seconds of video, has storage of betwen 2Gb and 16Gb and also acts as a USB drive.
It has been available through Amazon however they are a bit short on supply at the moment so if you want one you will have to keep hunting.
December 27, 2011 Leave a comment
Marking its 50th birthday, D&AD has delved into its archive to highlight significant pieces of work that have featured in the awards. Creative Review will be publishing one a week.
This time, it’s the turn of Mather & Crowther’s ‘Go to work on an egg’ campaign which started in 1957 but was first awarded by D&AD in 1965. A classic Hancock.
See a celebration of 50 years of great design and advertising here
November 3, 2011 Leave a comment
Even the most creative business card design cannot guarantee your business success, however as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impressions, so you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to show your best qualities. Here are some of the quirkiest, original and funny business card ideas we’ve seen in a long time. To see the whole collection click here.
1. Lush: Business Card Filled With Seeds
2. Business Card For Fitness Trainer
3. Divorce Lawyer: Hand-Tearable Business Card
4. Bombay Bakery
November 3, 2011 Leave a comment
Even the most creative business card design cannot guarantee your business success, however as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impressions, so you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to show your best qualities. Here are some of the quirkiest, original and funny business card ideas we’ve seen in a long time. To see the whole collection click here.
1. Lush: Business Card Filled With Seeds
2. Business Card For Fitness Trainer
3. Divorce Lawyer: Hand-Tearable Business Card
4. Bombay Bakery
June 13, 2011 Leave a comment
The Think Tank is looking for a Creative Designer/Art Director with a strong design portfolio to work within our creative team. This role will involve the creation of a diverse range of marketing material as well as brand development work.
Candidates will have worked in a similar agency environment and possess excellent knowledge of Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator and In-Design. A knowledge of digital design would also be a benefit but not essential.
We are growing rapidly and have an immediate need for an individual with a strong design and communications background who can add to our creative team that has a great reputation.
This is a fulltime position for a person with outstanding design skills to put their mark on a wide range of marketing media, aiding the growth of the agency.
Salary £25k – £30k pa
Contact Shaun Madle with covering letter, CV and portfolio vis email – shaunm@thinktank.org.uk
March 3, 2011 Leave a comment
For those of you who appreciate innovative and creative design as much as we do, especially when it is around the corner from the Think Tank Office, we wish to share that the dates for Clerkenwell Design Week have now been officially set for 24-26 May 2011.
Look forward to the return to The Farmiloe Building on St John Street in 2011. This year the exhibition will be even bigger with the elegant building, once the home of Victorian lead and glass merchants, set to house some of the most exciting names in design! Exhibitions include the House of Detention, a Victorian prison, hosting an international design exhibition for the diverse and most innocative contemporary talent. The nature of both spaces will ensure the product is presented in new and creative ways and will act as a canvas for site specific installations.
For an exciting overview of those exhibiting and what to expect, please click here.
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