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Francois Robert: Stop the Violence
GlobalHue ranked No.1 African-American advertising agency by Advertising Age
(April 28, 2010) In its Agency Report 2010 published on April 25, Advertising Age ranks multicultural advertising agency GlobalHue as the No.1 African-American agency and the No.3 Hispanic agency for 2009.
While this is the second consecutive year that GlobalHue has placed first in African-American, the agency's third place in Hispanic is new, up from fourth place in 2008.
"We are honored to have achieved this position of industry leadership through strong partnerships with some of the nation's leading brands," says Donald Coleman, founder and CEO of GlobalHue. "When African-American and Hispanic segments are combined, GlobalHue is the largest US multicultural agency. As multicultural audiences increasingly define all of America, our understanding of African-Americans and Hispanics' evolving self-identification means GlobalHue is poised to continue its growth even more significantly in years to come."
GlobalHue ( www.globalhue.com ) is a full-service marketing communications agency with total market and cultural expertise. The agency handles total market for Jeep, MGM Grand Detroit and the Bermuda Department of Tourism and for decades has been acknowledged for its multicultural advertising leadership. Most recently GlobalHue was recognized as the "Multicultural Advertising Agency of the Decade" by Adweek. The agency has four divisions that together provide clients with a flexible approach to marketing to ethnic-specific segments and the total market: GlobalHue Africanic; GlobalHue Latino; GlobalHue Asian; and GlobalHue Next.
GlobalHue offices in Detroit (Southfield), New York and Los Angeles are complemented by satellite offices in other key markets. Together the agencies have more than 390 employees who handle full-service marketing, advertising, media planning and buying, digital, events and promotions, and public relations for many clients. In 2009, GlobalHue's capitalized billings were $833.7 million. GlobalHue boasts several blue-chip clients, including Verizon, Walmart, Chrysler Group LLC, U.S. Navy, Bermuda Department of Tourism, U.S. Census Bureau, FedEx, MGM Grand Detroit and Subway. To learn more, visit the company's web site at www.globalhue.com.
Congrats guys!
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Kiss My White Ads
Seriously? In the year Twenty-- F'n -- Ten, this is still a campaign position. I guess it's just not closeted language any more, huh? Thanks Glenn Beck.
Jersey (for distant) Shores
One Eighty Amsterdam & LA recently took a long & thoughtful moment to reach out beyond the usual client work for compensation. The team thought up a simple and meaningful way to give to some of the most needy among us. At the core of sports worship is team and the hallmark of any team is Colors & jersey. The 180 team seized upon this insight to instill more than team pride. They elevated a clothing garment and permanent dye into self pride, worth and value. Kudos to the entire team.
Stefan Sagmeister: Chartered Bank "Here for Good"
Stefan Sagmeister is considered by many as the greatest designer of all time and certainly one of my favorites. He does highly conceptual work and he's from Austria. Sagmeister works in New York and is recognized for the diversity of his projects, having worked for clients like Adobe, Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, Aerosmith, and have won major awards, like the recent Lucky Strike Award 2009 .
Anyway, the guy's new project is somewhat ambitious. In partnership with TBWA, Sagmeister can be considered the star of the new global campaign for Standard Chartered Bank, called Here For Good .
For 40 years the brand of the investment bank Standard Chartered had not released a global campaign. The recent sponsorship of Liverpool is now the reason for launching the slogan "Here for good." Africa, Asia and the Middle East already receive a campaign to emphasize the brand promise to be a positive force in every business and assist communities in creating a prosperous and sustainable future.
TV ads, billboards, print and even digital, everything has the unmistakable touch of Sagmeister. There is no denying. The guy is THE GUY. And if you enjoy his work, be sure to buy the book " Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far ", the Ypsilon2 recommends.
Campagne WaSH 2010 d'UNICEF Belgique
This cinema spot from UNICEF in Belgium dramatically makes the point that unsafe water kills lots of kids around the world every day. The spot shows one child wrestling with a river, but despite the fantastical premise, the life-and-death struggle never seems cartoonish. The quiet piano soundtrack provides a disturbing counterpoint to the violence, which becomes more harrowing as no one in the spot notices what's going on. They calmly continue filling their buckets. Any one of them could be the next to wind up floating in the shallows, killed by the very thing that's supposed to give them life. Via Osocio.
—Posted by David Gianatasio
Coca-Cola: Quest
Beautiful video created by SANTO Buenos Aires as part of the campaign celebration of Coca-Cola for the 2010 World Cup . As always fantastic production of Paranoid U.S., directed by Edouard Salier, animation of the crowd of theDigital District and track official World Cup song, artist K'NAAN.
Mookie n 'Nem say...
The animation in this Coke extravaganza can't be justly described by our typical and preferred street vernacular. We must dig deep into the vaults of Webster to describe this animation.
It's...it's...it's...IT'S CRACK!!! OK, so we didn't dig so deep. But we're being truthful and honest. The animation is crack in that it makes you want to get a hit of it over and over and over and over again. It's a frickin' dope ass piece of art. It's one of those classic, "We wish we had done that" type of thangs.
Now the story, well...that's the downfall here. It doesn't dig deep enough. Their couldn't have been much soul searching involved to come up with such a trite tale.
No matter. Just turn off the sound and watch the pretty pictures, see the Coke bottle and insert your own story. Sometimes it's better that way, anyway.
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Hocus Pocus: Beautiful Loser
The french Jazzy Hiphop band Hocus Pocus released recently their album “16 pieces” (16 pieces), already a big success. On tour in France, they just made public their new video “Beautiful Loser”. An amazing graphic work by Yué Wu. Amazing. That's Alice Russell wailing the "beautiful people" refrain.
Jazz Infinite Concerts by Architectural Club Kiev: Cross Cap
"Mathematical precision meets jazz improvisation"
Jazz improvisation is infinite and unique. Like a very famous figure -- a Cross Cap.
cred:
Klinika, Kiev, Ukraine
Creative: Dima Tsapko
Creative: Dima Tsapko
Advantage Y&R: Magazine
cred:
Advantage Y&R, Windhoek, Namibia
Creative Director: Patrick Held
Art Director: Johan de Jager
Copywriter: Cobus Theyse
Photographer: Johan de Jager
Leeds Counselling: Say/Speak
"Speak to someone before you unravel."
cred:
McCann Erickson, Manchester, UK
Executive Creative Director: Dave Price
Art Director: Richard Irving
Copywriter: Gerard Edmondson
Photographer: Steve Deer
Typographers: Jamie Axford, Richard Irving
Designer: Ryan Alexander
Executive Creative Director: Dave Price
Art Director: Richard Irving
Copywriter: Gerard Edmondson
Photographer: Steve Deer
Typographers: Jamie Axford, Richard Irving
Designer: Ryan Alexander
The one hit wonder continues to wander
Sir Mix-A-Lot comes back, this time to talk about his love of big Butt-a-fingers. As you could imagine it's just kinda so-so. I couldn't even get through one viewing. So move along nothing new to see here just a different way for unimaginative agencies to do Frat-boy rap and avoid the backlash. I'm glad Sir Mix-A-Lot can continue to cash checks.
ISHR "Chinese ideographs"
cred:
Client: International Society For Human Rights (ISHR/IGFM)
Agency: Jung von Matt AG, Germany
Creative Directors: Jacques Pense, Michael Ohanian
Art Director: Thomas Lupo
Copywriter: Norman Scholl
Graphic Artists: Michael Mack, Thomas Lupo
Account Managers: Daniel Adolph, Susanne Vanselow
Shepard Fairey: May Day
18 Wooster Street, New York
Deitch Projects is pleased to present May Day, an exhibition of new work by Shepard Fairey, as its final project. Titled not only in reference to the day of the exhibition’s opening, the multiple meanings of May Dayresonate throughout the artist's new body of work. Originally a celebration of spring and the rebirth it represents, May Day is also observed in many countries as International Worker's Day or Labor Day, a day of political demonstrations and celebrations coordinated by unions and socialist groups. “Mayday” is also the distress signal used by pilots, police and firefighters in times of emergency.
With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of each of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate some of the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Says Fairey, "These people I'm portraying were all revolutionary, in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future."
Many of the steps Fairey refers to involve the advocacy of the working class, put forth in the songs of Joe Strummer and Woody Guthrie and the writings of Cornel West, and among the works of other heroes portrayed in May Day. International Worker's Day celebrated in nearly 100 countries throughout the world, commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago when a peaceful rally supporting workers on strike was disrupted by a bomb, and then a barrage of police gunfire. Because of negative sentiment surrounding the incident, U.S. President Grover Cleveland decided it was best to avoid celebrating the day, but it is precisely such sentiment that Fairey believes must be voiced: "It's a day to express frustration with the powers that be, but also a day for activists to pursue ideals." In May Day, he does both, with images supporting free speech and bemoaning the U.S. two party political system, pushing for renewable energy and critiquing corporate propaganda.
In Fairey's mind, the persistence of difficulties across all of these arenas—political, environmental, economic, cultural—points to that third meaning of May Day: a distress signal. "By now we thought we would be in post-Bush utopia, but we're still having to call attention to these problems,” he remarks. Like any mayday call, however, the sounding of the alarm also brings hope for help on the way. "If we stay silent, there's no hope,” Fairey muses. "But if we make noise, if we put our ideas out there, then maybe we can make a change like the people in the portraits have done."
Shepard Fairey is the man behind OBEY GIANT, the graphics that have changed the way people see art and the urban landscape. Fairey’s art reached a new level of recognition in 2008, when his “HOPE” portrait of Barack Obama became the iconic image of the presidential campaign and helped inspire an unprecedented political movement. As Shepard Fairey’s body of work reached its 20-year mark in 2009, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston honored him with a full-scale solo retrospective, which drew a record number of visitors for the museum. Entitled Supply and Demand, the exhibition shares its name with Fairey’s career-chronicling book, now in its second edition (Gingko Press). The exhibition traveled to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and will move to the Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, on view through August 22nd, 2010.
Illustrator: Wendelin
Check out these beautiful Native American illustrations by Wendelin. I fully expect to see these pop up on plenty of African American natural hair care sites, because you know we all got a lil bit of "inian" in us. That's right inian.
see the entire set here.
Bangalore traffic police: Talk them dead
cred:
Mudra Group, India
Executive Creative Director: Joono Simon
Art Director: Vinci Raj
Copywriter: Akhilesh Bagri
Photographer: Mallikarjun
Retouching : Sathish
DSCF/COI: C*ck & Tosser
He didn't have any so he didn't get any.
Want respect? Use a condom.
Too drunk to remember a condom last night. Too sober to forget it today.
Want respect? Use a condom.
cred:
Advertising Agency: DLKW, UK
Creative Director:s Rj Warren, Paul Hancock
Art Director: Dylan Hewitt
Copywriter: John Comber
Illustrators: Ryca, Jimi Crayon, Teck 1, Alfa
Photographer: Angus Fraser
Advertising Agency: DLKW, UK
Creative Director:s Rj Warren, Paul Hancock
Art Director: Dylan Hewitt
Copywriter: John Comber
Illustrators: Ryca, Jimi Crayon, Teck 1, Alfa
Photographer: Angus Fraser
Centric Presents: Funk 101 w/Bootsy Collins
I'm there.
Mookie n 'Nem say...
Good evening
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong
We have taken control as to bring you this special show
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving
Welcome to station W E F U N K, better known as We-Funk
Or deeper still, the Mothership Connection
Home of the extraterrestrial brothers
Dealers of funky music, P.Funk, uncut funk, the bomb
Coming you directly from the Mothership
Top of the chocolate milky way, 500, 000 kilowatts of P.Funk power
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums
And me? I'm known as Lollipop Man
Alias, The Long Haired Sucker, my motto is
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Yeah, W E F U N K, y'all now this is what I want you all to do
If you got faults, defects or shortcomings you know
Like arthritis, rheumatism or migraines
Whatever part of your body it is, I want you to lay it on your radio
Let the vibes flow through, funk not only moves, it can remove, dig?
The desired effect is what you get
When you improve your Interplanetary Funksmanship
Sir Lollipop Man, chocolate coated, freaky and habit forming
Doin' it to you in 3-D, so groovy that I dig me
Once upon a time called, 'Now'
Somebody say, "Is there funk after the death? "
I say, "Is Seven Up? ", yeah, P.Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Yeah, I dig, let me put my sunglasses on
That's the law around here, you got to wear your sunglasses
So you can feel cool, gangster lean, y'all should dig my sunroof top
Well, alright, hey I was diggin' on y'all funk for a while
Sounds like it got a three on it though to me
Then I was down South and I heard some funk
With some main ingredients like
Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Bowie
It was cool, but can you imagine Doobie-in' your funk?
W E F U N K, We-Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Gettin' deep
Once upon a time called 'Right Now'
Ain't it funky now?
Far around
Hey, doin' it to you in the ear hole
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Yeah
We're not leavin' y'all, I want you all to stay tuned for Starchild
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Don't stop, get down
Talk, blow your horn
Pee you
Wants to get funked up
Well alright
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Welcome to station W E F U N K, better known as
We-Funk or deeper still, the Mothership Connection
Home of the extra terrestrial brothers
Dealers of funky music, P.Funk, uncut funk, the bomb
Lollipop Man here, alias, the Long Haired Sucker
Chocolate coated, freaky and habit forming
Coming to you in 3-D, so groovy that I dig me
Yeah, yeah, P.Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Do not attempt to adjust your radio, there is nothing wrong
We have taken control as to bring you this special show
We will return it to you as soon as you are grooving
Welcome to station W E F U N K, better known as We-Funk
Or deeper still, the Mothership Connection
Home of the extraterrestrial brothers
Dealers of funky music, P.Funk, uncut funk, the bomb
Coming you directly from the Mothership
Top of the chocolate milky way, 500, 000 kilowatts of P.Funk power
So kick back, dig, while we do it to you in your eardrums
And me? I'm known as Lollipop Man
Alias, The Long Haired Sucker, my motto is
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Yeah, W E F U N K, y'all now this is what I want you all to do
If you got faults, defects or shortcomings you know
Like arthritis, rheumatism or migraines
Whatever part of your body it is, I want you to lay it on your radio
Let the vibes flow through, funk not only moves, it can remove, dig?
The desired effect is what you get
When you improve your Interplanetary Funksmanship
Sir Lollipop Man, chocolate coated, freaky and habit forming
Doin' it to you in 3-D, so groovy that I dig me
Once upon a time called, 'Now'
Somebody say, "Is there funk after the death? "
I say, "Is Seven Up? ", yeah, P.Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Yeah, I dig, let me put my sunglasses on
That's the law around here, you got to wear your sunglasses
So you can feel cool, gangster lean, y'all should dig my sunroof top
Well, alright, hey I was diggin' on y'all funk for a while
Sounds like it got a three on it though to me
Then I was down South and I heard some funk
With some main ingredients like
Doobie Brothers, Blue Magic, David Bowie
It was cool, but can you imagine Doobie-in' your funk?
W E F U N K, We-Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Gettin' deep
Once upon a time called 'Right Now'
Ain't it funky now?
Far around
Hey, doin' it to you in the ear hole
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Yeah
We're not leavin' y'all, I want you all to stay tuned for Starchild
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
Don't stop, get down
Talk, blow your horn
Pee you
Wants to get funked up
Well alright
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
Welcome to station W E F U N K, better known as
We-Funk or deeper still, the Mothership Connection
Home of the extra terrestrial brothers
Dealers of funky music, P.Funk, uncut funk, the bomb
Lollipop Man here, alias, the Long Haired Sucker
Chocolate coated, freaky and habit forming
Coming to you in 3-D, so groovy that I dig me
Yeah, yeah, P.Funk
Make my funk the P.Funk, I want my funk uncut
Make my funk the P.Funk, I wants to get funked up
I want the bomb, I want the P.Funk, don't want my funk stepped on
Make my funk the P.Funk before I take it home
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