US President Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela
A new campaign from Benetton recalls the brand's controversial heyday. A series of posters features world leaders with lips locked to launch the UNHATE project
Benetton, says the accompanying press material, is inviting "the leaders and citizens of the world to combat the 'culture of hatred'". The UNHATE campaign is the first initiative from a new Benetton foundation of the same name, launched by Alessandro Benetton, executive deputy chairman of the Benetton Group.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy
A series of posters, created by Benetton's 'research communication centre' Fabrica, features political and spiritual leaders kissing (shown above, The Pope and Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo. Below, US President Barack Obama and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
According to Benetton "These are symbolic images of reconciliation - with a touch of ironic hope and constructive provocation - to stimulate reflection on how politics, faith and ideas, even when they are divergent and mutually opposed, must still lead to dialogue and mediation."
The Pope and Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo
Hu Jintao, president of China and U.S. President Barack Obama
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Il and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak
Additional social media activity includes the Kiss Wall where users can upload images of themselves kissing.
Source: Creative Review
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
World Leader Porn: Benetton wants the world to UNHATE
What does an Art Director do?
This is very funny. As Jacques Séguéla said, "Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency. She thinks I play piano in a whorehouse."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
BA's latest ad: "To Fly. To Serve"
An industry email has just lead me to BA's latest ad, and my G-d they've pumped the pounds into this one. They're riding high with this "To fly. To serve" line and in my mind a bit too soon after the strikes for this type of ad campaign. 'To Fly, To Strike' is ringing through my head.
Additionally I dislike the gender stereotyping of male pilots and the way they've erased early female aviators from history. I do like flying BA but it's embarrassing that a major airline can still be so sexist.
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Special Tone of Voice award to Apple’s Siri on the new iPhone 4S
They’ve *really* thought this through.
Find all the gems at shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Own a colour, save a life
Dulux has launched a website initiative with Unicef in which users are asked to buy one of the 16.7 million colours that a smartphone screen can display in order to help the charity.
Through the website ownacolour.com, the public, for a donation of at least £1, can put their name to their favourite colour and see themselves featured up alongside famous donors.
I bought 'Heartbeat Red':
Source: Creative Review
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Facebook finally launches iPad app
Facebook has finally taken the wraps off its long-awaited app for the iPad, extending its presence in mobile devices.
The app features a new layout for the site, with games, apps, groups and lists in a left-hand menu, and messages and notifications at the top of every screen.
It is available in English, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish.
Facebook's iPhone app is the most downloaded iPhone app to date and with mobile usage of the social network rising, its move to tablet devices has been hotly anticipated.
Source: MediaWeek
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Friday, September 23, 2011
Latest Ad from T-Mobile - The Parking Ticket
A departure from T-Mobile's previous flash-mob style adverts, but just as good...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LDF 2011: design from all angles
LDF posters
This year's London Design Festival opened at the weekend, complete with an identity by Domenic Lippa and his team at Pentagram; their fifth iteration for the annual event...
The design is hooked around the phrase 'design from all angles'. Lippa and team created the identity by printing text on pieces of paper, folding them and then photographing them from different angles. "The differing angles enable the 2011 festival to have a flexible identity across the whole gamut of events whilst maintaining a consistent look and feel," say Pentagram. "Once more the identity leverages its ownership of red in order to create maximum impact."
More details of what's on when at londondesignfestival.com.
LDF guides
LDF invites
LDF badges
LDF map
Source: Mark Sinclair at Creative Review
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
BBC unveils new touch screen inspired bbc.co.uk homepage
The BBC has unveiled a new version of the bbc.co.uk. homepage It’s in beta, but is looking good and serves as a reminder of how much the BBC offers.
The new look now sports sliding screens, that are clearly inspired by touch screen phones and tablet computers, that sweep across the page allowing visitors to easily navigate a lot of content much.
The BBC home page has a big job to do in fighting to keep its traffic. At the moment it attracts 9 million unique users a week, but like all portal type homepages that is declining.
I personally never visit it, going instead straight to news, to BBC iPlayer via search and social links.
The change to the homepage comes after the BBC announced its plans to reorganise the BBC’s online service into ten product areas in January 2011 and also announced a 25% budget reduction for BBC Online, which resulted in 360 jobs losses over the next two years.
Would like great on an iPad but does it lack buzz?
You know this would look great on an iPad and that might be part of its problem as it is really designed for that more than your average PC. But that said I like the way it is very easy to navigate and design wise it draws you around the page. It is easy to jump around.
What I don’t like is that it feels utterly divorced from the web and social media. I know it has a most popular, but there is no sense of what people are saying about BBC programmes. In essence there is not buzz. There is no sign of social networking or social media at all that I noticed. I think you really have to have something of that.
Key changes
Some of the things the new look allows visitors to do include setting local preferences for information that is local to them, including news, weather and TV schedules.
The at-a-glance guide to top stories from BBC News and Sport and highlights from across BBC TV, Radio and Online.
You can choose the headings that appeal to see much more of what interests you (such as entertainment, news and sport). You can also see what stories and programmes are proving popular with other BBC users in terms of most read, watched and listened.
And of course, you can see what is being broadcast on TV and Radio right now, and look ahead to plan your viewing and listening.
You can find more out about the BBC Homepage here.
Source: The Wall
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Colour picker pen by jinsu park
Korean designer jinsu park has designed a concept pen that adopts the eyedropper tool from Photoshop for real life. The colour picker pen enables colours in the environment to be scanned and instantly used for drawing.
The sensor detects the colour and matches it to the colour display. Then the RGB cartridge located within the pen mixes the inks together to create the colour that has been scanned. 
Source: Design Boom
Thursday, September 8, 2011
The best responses to celebrities on Twitter
Merciless responses to celebrity tweets can be very satisfying...
Source: Happy Place
