Nandos: Confederation poster

This poster was created around the hosting of the confed cup by south africa. At south african soccer matches, fans wear a hat called a makarapa. These hats are a purely SA thing and are hand made out of the miner's hard hats. It's a culturally SA thing. We've exaggerated the hats to comment on South Africa, politically, socially and culturally. "Mzanzi" is vernacular for South Africa.

cred:

Blackriver FC, South Africa

Creative Director: Ahmed Tilly

Art Director: Justin Joshua
Copywriter: Iain Thomas
Illustrators: Peet Pienaar, Jono Garrett, Justin Joshua, Meryke Naude.
Producer/Art Buyer: Hilary Simpson

Soulful Six Degrees

Thanks Shaun.

Fiat: See what’s really there

“See what’s really there. Fiat Stilo with Xenon headlights.”





cred:
Leo Burnett Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Creative Director: Ruy Lindenberg
Art Director: Breno Balbino
Copywriter: Fabio Nagano

[Agency Spy post] Levi's: This Country Was Built By Slaves

The above Levi's campaign, which was lauded by AdWeek and lambasted by AdAge, is summed up by one black magic marker and the unknown source of the scrawled words, "by slaves".




On her site, Director of Global Trends at Global Hue Christine Huang put it like this. "Levis (or rather W+K) is glorifying these centuries old American ideals — Optimism! Egoism! Manifest Destiny! — while making paltry gestures towards the reality of American history and what America is today. Besides the few ethnic actors in the video, their print campaign is disappointingly monochromatic and seems almost unapologetically alienating. It would have been really amazing to see Levis pay homage to the symbols of true individuality from our past — the Freedom riders, abolitionists, Suffragists, veterans. 'The Frontier' is sexy and all, but how about some real American heroes?"

Now you go.

Note: The "by slaves" remark was not part of the original poster. Someone passing by added it, we presume.

I saw the spot and was frankly, underwhelmed. Levi's is trying to up it's cool to maybe it's former 80's stature with some 90's arty style. I understand what the hub-bub is all about. But I honestly feel just as "left-out" when I view commercials by 99% of advertisers. So this campaign and it's improptu addendum does me nothing. Actually the unskilled tag artist did us a favor to remind common folk of the fact; this country was built in large inseparable part by slaves. Watching this commercial, in spite of the casting just makes me feel like they are not speaking to Black people. They are in some distant way indifferent. So... yawn.

Finally a new website for Culture Advertising Design

We've been plugging along for months (years) at my little agency (teeny) with an old website. You see I am not a web designer (at all) and my interns (slaves) haven't been able to (ever) produce a web site we were happy with. I'm (a picky bastard) proud to announce we didn't design one at all (crowd roars). Instead we just bought a wordpress (cheap bastard too) template and tricked it out. So now you can see our (attempts at ) great work and there is even a place for (cuss-outs) comments. We've actually been working on a lot of web sites (plugging things to wordpress templates) these days. I may go so far as to say we (can get over) offer this service!
So see our stuff and (laugh) hire us for creative direction, art direction, graphic design (blah, blah, blah) etc. We do it for (that's right keep selling) Radio, TV and Print. We've won many awards (don't get me started on awards, but that's another parenthetic) and are cost friendly.


http://culture-ad.com

If there's one thing I've learnt: Share the love

cred:
Republic of Everyone
Art Director: Leonardo Barbosa

LiNing: Oneal, Calderon, Davis

In July 2009, Li Ning will hold Style Fighter 3+1 Basketball Challenge and NBA Stars’ Meet in Beijing, Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Changsha and Chengdu. Three different thematic basketball courts will be set up representing the styles of Shaq O'neal, Baron Davis and Jose Calderon respectively. Considering various interest of young basketball fans, different competitions are designed for them,including 3+1 contest, one-to-one contest, slam dunk competition, skill competition, and so on. It is a good opportunity for the youth to learn from the NBA stars.





cred:
Creatim, Beijing, China
Creative / Illustrator / Retouch: Huang Cheng
Creative Director: Liu Fang
Art Directors: HuangCheng, Gao Xin
Copywriters: Wang YueMing, Bob Li,

Afro Saxons: Movie

It screened at the ongoing Afro-Punk Festival in Brooklyn, NY yesterday, in what I believe was its first non-UK premiere, but I was busy elsewhere, so I missed it.

In short… 7 years ago, Black British filmmakers Rachel Wang and Mark Currie, formed Chocolate Films, to develop and create their own projects. Much of their documentary work is about the diverse array of peoples and communities who live and work in London. Afro-Saxons, produced in 2008, is their debut feature length documentary. It screened in limited release in London last fall. No DVD on the market yet.

Afro-Saxons follows four Afro hair salons from across the UK, as they prepare for the prestigious Black Beauty and Hair Awards. Described as as “a warm inspirational and touching film that delves into the professional and home lives of the stylists while they express themselves with mind-blowing gravity-defying hair designs.”

Watch the trailer below…



Picked up and blown out @ Shadow and Act

Uncle Funky's Daughter

A great looking online marketing tool. UncIe Funky's Daughter is a cleverly written and wisely targeted site. The graphics and the imagery are a smart direction. They are poised to do good things with the burgeoning natural hair set. I think we will be hearing a lot more from UFD!

Comb through the curls here: http://unclefunkysdaughter.com

ABSOLUT iDrink - the iPhone app that helps you select & mix drinks. Really.

Posted by Dabitch on Jul 2 2009 | Filed under: advertising news

Fine, so they didn't call it iDrink but they should have, because it opens up for countless gags - but today Absolut Vodka has launched an iPhone app, called Drinkspiration, which you can download for free from the app store. It's there to help you when you're too sloshed at the bar to figure out what to drink.
"Who hasn't stood at the bar without knowing what to order? Our hopes is that Drinkspiration by ABSOLUT will become the ultimate bar-buddy. The App gives advice, personal recommendations and is an inspiring road into the world of mixed drinks."
said Fredrick Tallroth, Senior Manager Interactive Marketing at The Absolut Company.

With "Drinkspiration" you can also share on twitter and facebook what drinks you have chosen and announce to the world what a barfly you are. ;)




I got tipsy @ Adland.com