Category Archives: Agencies & people

Barbarian Group: The first 10 years

I think an agency has a good culture when it can lay stuff bare. Look back on the successes as well as the weird things that happened along the way. An example of this would be Barbarian Group. They are the creators of (amongst many other things) the legendary ‘Subservient Chicken” and have celebrated their first 10 years with this little online album.

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Crash Weddings like a Pro

R/GA’s Eric Schlakman has come up with an evil genius app that might change the face of many wedding parties to come. Using publicly available data from wedding directories ‘Crash Corsage’ lets you find weddings in your vicinity, tells you the couple’s names, a few details about how they met and the required dress code. Read more…

King of the Bull

Danish agency Konstellation organised a socially-enhanced bull ride in their agency. Via image recognition every clumsy fall off the electronic bull was automatically photographed, commented on and uploaded onto Facebook and Twitter. So your way down off the bull was potentially your way up in social media. Read more…

Race through the agency

Visual Jazz have created a racing game that lets you explore a 3D model of their agency. Via the popular 3D game engine Unity users will get a tour-de-force through all the departments of their Melbourne head office.

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Interactive Christmas with W+K, HOST and IdeaWorks

This Christmas the theme among agencies seems to be connecting the physical with the virtual. Have a look at these examples by Wieden + Kennedy, HOST and IdeaWorks. Klick and tap around for some festive songs and cheerful interactivity. Read more…

BGH Quick Chef Music

Always nice to see that after decades of marketing and advertising people still come up with great simple ideas.

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Meet me half way – in the Amazon

Like so many other agencies ‘La Comunidad’ has offices in several cities and consequently a family of employees miles apart. For their 10 year anniversary they decided to surprise two creatives with a trip to meet half way. Which in their case was smack bang in the middle of the Amazon region. Read more…

8 Hours in Brooklyn

Jonathan Bregel was lucky enough to get his hands on the high-speed camera Phantom Flex for the weekend and documented 8 hours in Brooklyn – with zero pre-production and only a small crew. Add nice grading and a massive sound track by Skream and you got yourself a kick ass super slo-mo neighbourhood documentary (if such a thing exists). Read more…

Be Vidazzled by Sir John Hegarty

BBH wanted to give their co-founder Sir John Hegarty‘s talk at Cannes some extra love. So instead of uploading his speech to YouTube and posting it onto their blog, they developed a website called Vidazzl.  Read more…

Interview Series v19 : Georges Mohammed-Cherif

Today we are in France, not in Cannes but in Paris, asking our questions to Georges Mohammed-Cherif, founder-president & creative director of Buzzman, a successful independent agency, known, among other things, for the Hunter shoots a bear/Tipp-Ex Experience.

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