some great work coming out of Dentsu London


Just seen this work for the Cannon Pixmas – Bringing colour to life. It’s absolutely stunning, epic, beautiful stuff and works so well at dramatising the vivid colours:

Canon Pixma: Bringing colour to life from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Also, I recently saw the following film which Dentsu, in conjunction with BERG, made to promote themselves. It’s a lovely bit of work, using iPads and Stop frame animation to extrude 3d light shapes.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

There is also an interesting post on their blog where they talk about 10 spartan rules which are 10 principles written in 1951 by President Yoshida to guide behaviour at Dentsu in Japan. They seem just as relevant today. Sadly, the 10 new ones which they added beneath it are utter BS and seem totally contrived. The original 10 are below:

1.  Create work for yourself; don’t wait for work to be assigned to you.
2.  Take an active role in all your endeavours, not a passive one.
3.  Seek out large and complex jobs.  Trivial tasks debase you.
4.  Welcome difficult assignments.  Choose them.  Progress lies in accomplishing difficult work.
5.  Once you begin a task, complete it.  Never give up.
6.  Lead your fellow workers.  Be an example for them to follow.
7.  Set goals for yourself to ensure a constant sense of purpose.  This will give you perseverance and hope for the future.
8.  Move with confidence.  Confidence gives your work force, focus and substance.
9.  Find new solutions.  This is the way we ensure satisfactory service.
10.  When conflict is necessary don’t shy away from it or be afraid.  Conflict is the mother of progress and the source of aggressive enterprise.  If you fear conflict, you will become timid and servile.


The Wilderness Downtown


This is amazing: thewildernessdowntown.com check it out.
arcade fire

It’s the video for Arcade Fire’s track, “we used to wait” and has taken things to the next level. It uses Google maps integration to pull in pictures and create video of your home town and integrate it seamlessly into the experience. It massively improves the context and effect of the song by personalising the experience and bringing the lyrics to life.

It also exclusively uses HTML5, rather than flash. This means it’s safest to view this on Chrome, as many browsers are not supporting it fully yet. However, it does mean that it should run on iPads etc – as Apple has famously snubbed flash in favour of the emerging HTML5. Certainly, it’s is very impressive indeed. However, some of the visual effects would be a lot slicker if they were done with flash. Also, ironically, the accessibility of this experience is actually less because it doesn’t use flash. Far less people have an HTML5 enabled browser than a flash plugin installed.

That said, I’m totally blown away by this and it’s good to show people the potential of HTML 5. Doing things like this speeds up the support for HTML5 which will benefit everyone.

Hats off to Google, Arcade Fire and everyone involved in the project.



HP – Hit Print


Awards for Recode | Decode


Saint picked up a bronze Cannes Lion (yes, I was there and it was great!)

Plus the NMA effectiveness award!

Plus, finalist and “in book” for the D&AD awards!

All for our work on: V&A Recode | Decode

Vid hereMy earlier post on it is here here and David Gamble’s interview with the D&AD here

To say I’m proud would be an understatement. We have had creativity and effectiveness rewarded for the same peice of work and it’s precisely the sort of work that we have been banging on about for ages. So, it’s a total vindication and hopefully will help us get more of our clients to buy into what we know is the right approach. Big up the team. You are all legends!




Hand from above Chris O Shea | Times square billboard Space 150


Check out this interactive billboard. It’s a great bit of work.

It’s VERY similar to this by Chris O’Shea

Hand from Above from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.

For a funny but sad commentary / discussion / slanging match between much of the respected digital arts community and one “douchebag” director, who didnt need to get involved, go here

It’s a real shame that advertising agencies rip off people’s work so blatantly – without so much as a credit. I’m sure, half the time, that the artist involved wouldn’t even expect money if he were given some recognition.




Augmented Shadow


This is lovely. Just lovely.

Augmented Shadow_document from Joon Y Moon on Vimeo.



Nuit Blanche


Beautiful piece of animation. Full screen, sound up.

http://www.spyfilms.com – Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy. Watch the “Making of” here – http://www.vimeo.com/9076775Directed by: Arev ManoukianCinematographer: Arev Manoukian

more about “Nuit Blanche“, posted with vodpod


The Third & The Seventh


High Quality video that needs full screen to be appreciated fully.

Unbelievable that it’s all CGI

via The Third & The Seventh on Vimeo.



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