Awesomeness!!

BBDO/Proximity

Amazing!!

House of Cards

I recently came across this ad campaign by Leo Burnett for Shelter homeless charity called House of Cards. They commissioned 52 artists to design a card and then had a big exhibition in London, auctioning off the originals and selling packs of the cards. I think this is such a good idea for pro-bono work - it's fresh and different and not just a typical charity ad, but raises awareness and probably raised a lot of cash too. These are some of the cards below:

Vivienne Westwood

Rankin

Polly Morgan

Marc Quin

Julie verhoeven

Gillian Wearing

David Bailey

Damien Hirst

Boo Ritson

Alexandre McQueen

Antoni and Alison

And here's a link to the TV spot - not as good as the commissioned cards I don't think, but the whole campaign links nicely together!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsY2EVQZ5ek

Advertising that has caught my eye this month...

Well I still don't know how to upload videos from You Tube so they show up, i'm still sticking in links. I know its a pain but I hope you click on them, there's some good stuff to watch!

Rocky biscuits: BBAB (British biscuit advisory board). I love this, think it is quirky and funny, nice piss take with the BBAB. I don't think it would make me actually buy rocky's though, but I guess it will raise the profile amongst the young people targeted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbsC_D8-Ic

Secondly... Can't believe I am saying this, but this advert for the Sun newspaper is great. Witty, clever, nice copy and it is so true. I think they've got it spot on, an inspired piece of advertising that I reckon will make people chuckle and probably buy the paper again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVMnmTFxAjA

Some lovely things from the last few months...

I have just had a spring/winter clean of my laptop ready to get windows 7 and lots of nice new things, and it took me 3 hours. I find these pics from two London exhibitions that I have been looking for for ages! I realised they're rubbish pictures, don't know what I was doing with the camera, but they were both really great exhibitions so I thought I'd put them up. I'm sure there were more somewhere...

The Design Museum - Super Contemporary

London thinks, designs and makes like no other city; it creates and the world follows. A magnet for mavericks and freethinkers, London has nurtured a creative community that continues to rival all other design capitals. So, Design Museum joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London's greatest creative minds, past and present.

I am sorry the pics were not better (not sure what an earth I was doing with the camera this day) because I spent about 4 hours looking round this one exhibition, it was one of the most interesting and informative exhibitions I have ever been too and I learnt loads.

The history of underwear at the Textile museum in London. A bit pricy to get in considering the size but it was good. I love timelines because I am such a geek and this one was really great- the history of underwear contextualised with important historical events concerning women, politics and design. There was some very old (1600's) and some very expensive (diamond encrusted chanel) under garments on display, some crazy totally impractical ones and some beautifully exquisitely designed pieces. I never realised how closely women's underwear and politics related!

P.S now I have windows 7 and CS4 and have fallen in love with my computer all over again =) Speedy Gonzalez!