On this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi and Fundacao SOS Mata Atlantica ask Brazilians to pee in the shower for this water-conservation PSA; Wunderman/Team Detroit and First Born bring gaming and car customization together for Ford; the Help Remedies package design seems almost good enough to heal on its own; Quiksilver charges three of its pro skaters to turn a home page into a skatepark; and we revisit the short film that inspired this past weekend's top box-office earner "District 9."
On this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, Mother, London, recruits illustrator Robert McGinnis to lend his sultry '60s style to Stella Artois; Artist Jimena Oddi and director Jorge Jaramillo create visuals as frenetic and eclectic as the N.A.S.A. track it showcases; Grolsch challenges your sobriety with a mobile app; 42 Entertainment executes another ARG success for the upcoming "Tron: Legacy"; and Best Buy brings its customer service to the Twitterverse.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, McCann Erickson and Durex see the condom as an aphrodisiac; David O'Reilly expertly animates U2's latest single; Shynola directs a lo-fi fantasy land of chalk for Coldplay; RKCR/Y&R and Virgin Media go walking on a TV backlot; and Ghostly International releases a mood-inspired app for users to explore the record label's wares.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, Jonathan Glazer's music video for Jack White's band the Dead Weather, Stockholm Pride's Twitter gaydar and more.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, Barkley dresses up the Johnson County Library's delivery trucks with fake brands inspired by literary favorites; 2Degrees and TBWA/Whybin launches a mobile service in New Zealand; DDB, Stockholm, and North Kingdom test if web users are fit for the Swedish Armed Forces; VB and Droga5, Sydney, raise a glass to the Everyman; and Wieden & Kennedy, Nike and Livestrong create a robot that lets people from anywhere in the world chalk messages of inspiration, hope and encouragement directly on the course of the Tour de France.
This week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, a new campaign by Levi's and Wieden & Kennedy uses the winning combo of Walt Whitman and prancing nubiles to sell jeans; AMV BBDO and director Tom Carty show how balanced The Economist can be with a new high-wire spot; Venables Bell & Partners and director Nicolai Fuglsig give us a different kind of fake landscape for Barclays; Penguin Books encourages kids to tell their own stories online; and the BBC brings poetry to the Glastonbury music festival via Twitter.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, we take a look at some of the big winners from the 2009 Cannes Lions. A Wrangler campaign by Fred & Farid, Paris, won the Press Grand Prix. Nike's silk-screened posters nabbed the Design Grand Prix. A partnership between Nestle and Japan Post called "Kit Kat Mail" picked up the top Media prize. A billboard made of worthless currency made a statement for The Zimbabwean newspaper and TBWA/Hunt/Lascaris, South Africa, when it won the Outdoor Grand Prix. And then there's the Grand Prix magnet itself, Tourism Queensland's "Best Job in the World," which picked up the hardware hat-trick of PR, Direct and Cyber Grand Prix.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, we turn our gaze to the French Riviera and make our Cannes picks for top prizes, categories be damned! Among our favorites are BMW's Kinetic Sculpture; Droga5 and Sarah Silverman's pitch to young Jewish Americans to make "The Great Schlep"; Crispin Porter and Burger King's bribing Facebook users to trade in "friends" for free Whoppers; AKQA's innovative Eco Drive system for Fiat drivers; and, for many reasons, the campaign to elect President Barack Obama.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, director Ray Tintori brings nightmares alive for MGMT's "Kids"; digital artist Olivier Otten puts you in charge of his movements with a click of a mouse; VDJ act Eclectic Method balances the void between DJs and creative film editing; Logan takes the Date Farmers' art and creates a dark world for the NASA music project; and director Pete Candeland introduces the Beatles to "Rock Band."
This week's episode of Creativity's Top 5 features Boone Oakley's new agency home page created entirely on YouTube; Deutsch and director Nieto bring a graphic novel to life for the new PS3 game "Infamous"; director Patrick Daughters continues his music-video magic with Grizzly Bear; Uniqlo maps out some of its latest offerings online; and flash-audio artist Andre Michelle allows you to unleash your inner composer with a simple flash synthesizer.
In this week's Creativity Top 5, HBO partners with marketers and Gawker Media for the season premier of "True Blood"; Wieden & Kennedy and Stacy Wall's Imperial Woodpecker make LeBron and Kobe puppets for Nike Basketball; TBWA/Frederick, Chile, and Pedigree re-create the horrors of a dog shelter; GE and Ben Fry transform health statistics into interactive graphics; and Jorge Colombo paints a New Yorker cover with an iPhone app.
In this week's edition of the Creativity Top 5, Jon Kubik and Adam Noel hand-draw ad ideas to steal in their new blog; Apple and TBWA/Media Arts Lab rig up another video banner; director Sam Jones crafts an interactive music video online for the Cold War Kids; 180, Los Angeles, and director Hilton Tennant paint an animated web video for Adidas; and Dentsu, Tokyo and director Emil Moller mash up the city's stories for BeeTV.
This week's edition of the Creativity Top 5 features a platoon of retail vans for soccer boot upstart Nomis by Johannes Leonardo; a creative use of costumes that makes for some in-camera magic for Toyota; AKQA and Miracle Whip's branded browser plug-in that allows users to share comments on web content with Facebook friends; Dutch artist Evelien Lohbeck taking her high tech lo-fi with the help of a notebook; and MoMA's new short that draws a connection between artistic motivations and our everyday lives.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, a banner from Intel and Venables Bell & Partners imagines the New York Times of the future; Bos, Montreal, illustrates what it means by recycling paint for Rona; Old Spice opens a swag shop online; Bontrust Financial and Optix Kreation make a world of money and a new type of currency relations; and Saatchi, New York, and director Jim Jenkins document an angry Russian expat's grievances against TBS comedies.
On this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, Ogilvy & Mather, Paris, animates the beauty of words for Scrabble; Apple's latest banner ad lists all the ways PCs are easy to use; ACNE and Swedish Airport Coaches build a bus out of cars to prove a point; Blink director David Wilson spins a visual treat for Moray McLaren; and Anomaly teams with DIY YouTube star Lauren Luke to launch a line of makeup.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, the Bronx Zoo and Deutsch commission artists to sculpt animals from recycled material for Earth Day; Humble's Hydra collective glues, pastes and rips its way through a Passion Pit music video filled with in-camera wizardry; Cheetos and Goodby Silverstein show Chester testing out a new super-sized snack; Google Labs serves up the ability to search images by pictures instead of words; and Droga 5 and VB beer pay tribute to Australia and New Zealand's fallen military vets for Anzac Day.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, McDonald's in Sweden makes a play for the boozy young male demographic; Adidas gets beefy rugby stars to swap jerseys; online and in slow motion, Swedish paint brand Jotun gives one woman her very own A-Ha moment; director Adam Berg and Stink Digital depict an bank robbery online frame by frame for Philips; and Mullen offers dating advice to Boston Bruin fans.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, Heineken and Amsterdam-based agency Pink & Poodle introduce Jillz cider with help from a few singing beefcakes; Sprint and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners tell us what's going on right now; Grey, London, enlists Keira Knightley to deliver a powerful message for Women's Aid; the Barbarian Group chronicles its adventures within the GE machine; and Poke, London, uses Twitter to let people know just how hot the Albion Cafe's buns are.
In this week's episode of Creativity's Top 5, virtual models show off H&M's spring offerings online; no one does it for the Department of Eagles like director Patrick Daughters and artist Marcel Dzama; The Zimbabwean newspaper creates billboards out of worthless cash; KFC offers to fix the roads for some philanthropic publicity; and Orange traces a relationship back to that very first greeting.
This week's episode of Creativity's Top 5 features Fallon's new home page, now made with Skimmer. Also, Sky One parodies the Adidas Originals house party with the help of the hard-partying denizens of Springfield; Samsung and the Viral Factory let sheep do the lighting with some extreme shepherding; Honda and Wieden, Amsterdam, get in on the fun-with-lights action for the carmaker's new hybrid model; and Mother, London, creates a series of web films that translate some well-known TV and movie hits into French New Wave for Stella Artois.
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