Junior Art Director Meme

This new meme about junior art directors is full of true, sad and fun stuff.

The Robbin Waldemar song

Once upon a time a creative team discovered fiverr.com and the fact that you can order the silliest things for just 5 bucks. For example a song written and performed by a musician on a topic of your choice. Sing along if you like. 

London Advertising Monopoly

Admonopoly is a fun take on the London advertising scene where most agency are represented as properties on a game-board. Follow them on twitter if you like these sort of things: @admonopoly

Korean Rip off

Boy were we surprise when Robbin and I received an email from a Korean advertising creative last week. He's seen our Google Fashion Show ad that we did at W+K Tokyo and pointed us towards this fabulously bad rip off by a beverage company in Korea.

Our spot:

And below's the new spot from Korea:

I guess we should feel flattered? And our cast was much cuter.

Glow in the dark

My sister invited me to paint along on her new canvas in her flat. Fluorescent color, UV lights and face paint – above's a video of the process.

There's also a video of her first painting action here.

Long but great

Some of the latest web content out there. All three videos are a bit long (3-5 minutes) but of all of them are worth watching. One is smart, one is funny and the third one is beautiful.

Rockabilly awesomeness

On today's late sunday afternoon just outside Yoyogi park near Harajuku Station some Tokyo Rockabillies are having some fun. My favourite dancing part starts 2 minutes and 5 seconds in. I should learn some of those dancemoves.

Japan – a strange country

An info-graphic motion peace I stumbled upon. I have yet to see how much of it applies.

Battle of the Blogs

Well, I'm up for the battle of the blogs with this Creative in London. Against an architecture blog. It looks like a David/Goliath scenario, and I'm the little one. But hey, why not vote for me so I can put that in my resume? Seriously, why not? Go and vote now: http://www.thebattleoftheblogs.com

Before you die

From the makers of the other exquisite music video 'Baby Baby Baby'.

Where the creative things are

Last week we discovered a new way of researching (stalking) ad agencies that we like – by checking up on their office via Google street view. It's a bit of fun and gives you a glimpse into the area they are located in and how different their buildings are. Below are some of the offices we found:

Droga5 in New York

Wieden+Kennedy in Portland

Anomaly in New York

Crispin, Porter + Bogusky in Boulder

Crispin, Porter + Bogusky in Miami

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Fransico

If you should find any other creative offices around the world with Streetview, please share with us.

HyperDesk Part Two

After a long week filled by work with brands, brands and more brands I decided to take a couple of hours to clear my head with a drawing session and continued on my desk design that I started two months ago.

Motion Week

We just ended motion week, wich I could not fully enjoyed as my Macbook crashed on me on monday. RIP hard drive. So I only joined in the After Effects fun yesterday and made this short contribution above. The brief was to do any kind of film with the topic swine flu for 5-10 seconds.

HyperHats

Counting the days

Since I'm leaving London on Monday to work for IKEA we had a little Swedish farewell party last Friday which was awesome! Cheers.

Svenska Dansband

While in Sweden I could join a Swedish boy band, right?

You ain't seen sexy till you've seen us

Jai & Wal will be doing the same thing today at Regent Street at 4pm, come and watch ;)

Drawing of Spikey

Since installing the Brushes application I can't stop playing around with it, sketching random things. It's a super simple program that lets you paint with your fingers on the iPhone. But it just got better as I discovered you can use the free Brushes viewer that tracks every single stroke of your painting so you convert it into a movie. Here's the time lapse of my first effort, Spikey the cactus.



Have a look at the finished painting.

Brainsnacks

The weekend was great, Pink Floyd music, snow in hamburg, foreign movies, fish, crazy americans and friends. Now catching up with Mad Men and mulling over the notes from todays bookcrit, we saw another creative director. More about this tomorrow.

Happy 2009!

Happy new year to all our readers – we hope everyone's celebrating this one properly, we certainly are. Jai Wal will be back next week when we're together again in London. So long, fill the first days of this year with fun and happiness.