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180 Amsterdam: DHL 'Everything FC Bayern Munich'
Brand: DHL
Title(s): Everything FC Bayern Munich
Agency: 180 Amsterdam
Agency website: http://www.180amsterdam.com/
President and Chief Creative Officer: Al Moseley
Managing Director: Stephen Corlett
Executive Creative Director: Dan Treichel, Dave Canning
Creative Director: John Messum
Creative: Ed Ryder, Luke Stone
Additional Credits: Producer: Bethany Papenbrock, Eleanor Fitzgerald
Brand Director: Katharina Schablitzki
Account Manager: Nicole Scopes
Planner: Clare Satterthwaite, Paul Chauvin
Business Affairs: Akvilina Jaskunaite
Production Company: Caviar Content
Director: Robert Jitzmark
Producer: Neil Cray
Executive Producer: Louise Gagen
DOP: Daniel Bronks
Sound Design: Wave Amsterdam
Sound Mixer/Designer: Randall Macdonald
Editor: Fiona Fuchs
Online: MPC Amsterdam
2D Lead / Nuke: Tom van Dop
Flame: Dirk Riesenfeld
Additional Nuke: Amresh Kumar, Sabanayagam Veerasekaran, Rajinikanth R, Daniel Cowley
Producer: Gwenn Hardouin
Production Company: Fischerman Friends
Local Production Company: 27 Kilometre
Photographer: Paul Ripke
Post Production: Loupe Amsterdam
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale: The campaign, created by 180 Amsterdam, will launch the DHL FC Bayern Munich online fan shop in China on 27th May, as well as being premiered online and at the Allianz Arena in Munich, at the FC Bayern vs. Mainz match.
Creative agency 180 Amsterdam, was tasked with creating a launch campaign that would truly reflect the enormous passion Chinese football fans have for FC Bayern Munich and give them a unique perspective on the stars of their favourite club.
The film at the centre of the campaign presents some of Bayern Munich’s most famous players in a range of surprising and hilarious scenes alongside a selection of the FC Bayern Munich merchandise from the new fan shop.
While we see the usual club shirts, balls and towels being modeled by the players, we also see midfielder Arjen Robben determinedly dunking his tea bag in an FC Bayern Munich mug, club goalkeeper Manuel Neuer lunging to catch a novelty gnome and forward Thomas Müller dons lederhosen for a traditional Bavarian slap dance.
Doner: Alfa Romeo 'Made of Red'
Brand: Alfa Romeo
Title(s): Made of Red
Agency: Doner
Agency website: http://doner.com/
Art Director: Nick Scott
Additional Credits: Planner: Nick Gill
Media Agency: Maxus Partnerships
Published: June 2015
Short Rationale: Full service creative agency, Doner, has unveiled an integrated campaign for Alfa Romeo – ‘Made of Red’ – encapsulating the passion and attitude evoked by the colour red, which is integral to the brand’s identity.
The new creative will run across TV, press, online and social; the campaign celebrates the colour red – identified by Alfa Romeo as a characteristic integral to its brand, and part of its DNA – and the sense of adrenaline, sensuality, temptation and emotion associated with it.
As part of the integrated campaign Doner will this week launch an Instagram initiative to drive engagement with Alfa Romeo fans and leverage the Made of Red messaging.
Fallon: Alzheimer’s Society 'Fade'
Brand: Alzheimer’s Society
Title(s): Fade
Agency: Fallon
Agency website: http://www.fallon.co.uk/
Executive Creative Director: Nick Bell
Creative/Copywriter/Art Director: Oli Rimoldi, Sigi Egedal
Designer/Typographer: Dan Montgomery
Editor (for digital OOH): Alex Hinx
Account Director: Lucy Kozak
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale: Alzheimer’s Society launches the next phase of its national brand campaign, to support the launch of the emotional ‘Gone’ TVC.
The emotive print ads, are creatively in line with the ‘Fade’ Cinema commercial, which preceded screenings of the Oscar and BAFTA winning film ‘Still Alice’, starring Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with earlyonset Alzheimer’s.
The three executions are running nationally in standard press, OOH formats and digital OOH. Created by Oli Rimoldi and Sigi Egedal, and designed by Dan Montgomery, each execution shows copy fading to illustrate the stark reality of life for those with the disorder. For example, the text "It's dreadfully irritating when my husband forgets to pick me up from the station" fades to "It's dreadful when my husband forgets me", showing the progression of Alzheimer's.
The campaign aims to not only portray the devastating and isolating effects of living with dementia, but also to reassure people that through care, advice and research, Alzheimer’s Society can help keep people connected to those they love for longer and that life doesn’t end when dementia begins.
BETC Paris: Evian 'Little big baby
Brand: Evian
Title(s): Little big baby
Agency: BETC Paris
Agency website: http://www.betc-life.com/
Executive Creative Director: Filip Nilsson
Creative Director: Agnès Cavard
Copywriter: Valérie Chidlovsky
Photographer: Jean-Yves Lemoigne
Additional Credits: Creative Director’s Assistant: Felix Falzon
Film Editor: Pierrick Guenneugues (Sparklink)
Purchase of Arts: Isabelle Mocq-Orain, Nathalie Gruselle
Producer: Sarah Belhadj, Isabelle Severi
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale: BETC has created a new outdoor campaign for Evian, consisting of 4 twin visuals.
The posters are designed to be displayed side by side, with an extensive media buying on closing doors in for example the metro and on elevators.
The first visual shows a pair of adult legs with a bottle of Evian and on the visual next to it, we see a baby’s torso and head. A sort of live before and after.
Now: New York Bakery Company 'Taste of New York'
New York Bakery Co - Taste of New York from thisisnow on Vimeo.
Brand: New York Bakery Company
Title: Taste of New York
Agency: Now, London, UK
Agency Website: http://www.thisisnow.biz/
Creative Director: Steve Paskin
Creative team: Juliet Kent and Clinton Harding
Agency Producer: Susie Innes
Production Co: Rattling Stick
Director: Ed Morris
Production Company Producer: Chris Harrison
Account Director: Jack Howker Account Executive: Katy Stanage
Planner: Tom Patterson
Additional Credits:Post Production Sound Engineer: Ben Leeves - Grand Central Studios
Editor: Flaura Atkinson - The Quarry
Post Production – nineteentwenty
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale (optional): New York Bakery Company’s new campaign ‘A Taste of New York’ promotes the bran;s growing range of bakery products, including the introduction of new Bagel Sandwich Thins.
The TV ad, directed by Ed Morris, sees a man delivering an impassioned ode to his city from the very top of a skyscraper with views of Central Park, The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building.
Filming it himself from up high, we see the camera flit from his face to the views across town, and straight down to the city’s streets beneath him. The denouement, as he takes a bite of bagel at the end is that ‘you don’t have to be in it to feel it, you just need a little taste of New York.’
Krow Communications: Le Creuset 'A thousand memories shared'
Brand: Le Creuset
Title(s): A thousand memories shared
Agency: Krow Communications
Agency website: http://www.krowcommunications.com
Creative Director: Nick Hastings
Art Director: Georg Thesmann
Copywriter: Tara Button
Photographer: Adam Hinton
Published: June 2015
Short Rationale: Le Creuset unveiled its new advertising campaign in June 2015, celebrating 90 years as a world-leading cookware brand, whilst repositioning the brand with a new and emotionally engaging communication that breaks the mould for cookware.
Entitled ‘A Thousand Memories Shared’, the campaign moves the brand away from just being rooted in the cookware category and instead reflects how people see Le Creuset as a benchmark for uncompromising quality and a desired, lifestyle brand. The new campaign centres on celebrating the life-long memories created with family and friends around food and Le Creuset has created a unique idea focused more on the emotional reasons to buy or invest in the brand.
Targeting affluent, style-conscious consumers with a passion for cooking and creating a lifetime of memories, the campaign is brought to life via three executions capturing authentic moments in time, including a group of millennial friends, a three generation family, and two life-long friends.
Iris Worldwide: Shell 'Staying ahead'
Brand: Shell
Title(s): Staying ahead
Agency: Iris Worldwide
Agency website: http://www.iris-worldwide.com/
Executive Creative Director: Chris Baylis
Creative Director: Simon Mannion
Senior Art Director: Pete Sanna
Senior Copywriter: Matt Weston
Additional Credits: TV Producer: Jonny Hall
Director / DOP: Ivan Bird
Production Company: Rattling Stick
Producer: Polly Ruskin
Post Production: Finish
Post Producer: Louise Unwin
Audio: Wave Studios
Sound Designer: Parv Thind
Sound Producer: Rebecca Boswell
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale: Shell lifts the lid on the lives of some of the world’s most exciting drivers through a series of films promoting its premium fuel Shell V-Power.
The films chart the trial and tribulations expert drivers such as firemen and stuntmen face on a daily basis, emphasizing why premium fuel is core component to their success in the dangerous tasks they have to regularly overcome.
Created by Iris Worldwide, the long-form content series kicks with two films; Staying ahead of Fear (Fire truck) and Staying ahead of Gravity (Stuntman). The films launched online and on video-on-demand this month in the UK first before arriving in the US, Canada and Malaysia.
Robot Food: Bocce’s Bakery 'Rebrand'
Brand: Bocce’s Bakery
Title(s): Rebrand
Agency: Robot Food, Leeds, UK
Agency website: http://www.robot-food.com
Creative Director: Simon Forster
Art Director: Martin Widdowfield
Copywriter: Natalie Woodhead
Illustrator: Mike Johns
Photographer: Robot Food
Published: June 2015
Short rationale (optional): Bocce’s are a New York bakery with a difference. They only bake treats for dogs. UK-based design agency, Robot Food, created a new brand identity and a tasty new packaging range to set tongues (and tails) wagging.
Brooklyn-based Bocce’s make their dog biscuits by hand from natural, organic and seasonal ingredients. They’d noticed Robot Food’s work on various design blogs. So they asked them to overhaul their branding and create a new range of packaging to bring everything more in line with their nutritious, high quality product.
Robot Food injected some fun and friendly tone of voice and the on-pack brand story tells the tale of Bocce, the owners’ dog who inspired the brand. Stylistic typographic lockups explain how the treats are baked in small batches and using only fresh, locally sourced ingredients. Take away these subtle doggy cues, and the result resembles something you might pick up for yourself in a deli or food hall.
BETC Paris: D&AD 'The Ad Filter'
Brand: D&AD
Title: The Ad Filter
Agency: BETC / BETC Digital, Paris, France
Agency Website: http://www.betc-life.com/#/made-in/
Chief Creative Officer: Stephane Xiberras
Executive Creative Director: Olivier Apers
Art Director: Alphons Conzen, Jonathan Baudet-Botella
Copywriter: Adrian Skenderovic
Development: Cogit
Motion Design: Raphaël Benhamou
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale (optional): D&AD has created a browser extension that blocks annoying ads and replaces them with great ones.
With the Ad Filter, users will be inspired by great ideas every day, without even thinking about it.
Springetts Brand Design Consultants: Rascally Liquor
Brand: Rascally Liquor
Title(s): Rascally Liquor
Agency: Springetts Brand Design Consultants, London, UK
Agency website: http://www.springetts.co.uk
Creative Director: Sue Bicknell
Designer: Sue Bicknell, Sam Stringer
Illustrator: Peter O’Connor
Published: May 2015
Short rationale (optional): To create a brand and look for two expressions of a new make spirit (NMS) from Annandale Distillery - Rascally Liquor. NMS is the young spirit, which, after maturation, becomes Scottish whisky so our task was to create a desirable, distinctive and determined brand - not just an inferior rough precursor to single malt Scotch whisky.
The NMS product is immature and unsophisticated. Its character is outgoing, adventurous and a bit of a rogue, so the idea of “releasing the rascal within” was developed. The consumer lets out the rascal from the bottle and from within themselves when they taste the product.
Our chosen name - Rascally Liquor - clearly reflects the nature of the product, and alludes to a comment made by the poet, Robert Burns, who has strong links with Annandale, about Lowland Scotch whisky.
The character Tam o’ Shanter, from the Burns poem, inspires the pack imagery. The design uses the bridge that he has to cross to create the branding and the double L forms the bridge’s keystone.
The shape of Tam riding his horse gives a distinctive icon for the brand that can be adapted to convey the different character of the products. The idea of releasing the rascal within is brought to life by the silhouette of Tam riding Maggie casting a shadow. This not only shows the shape of the rider and horse it also reveals different aspects of Tam o’ Shanter and the character of the two types of raw spirit - the rascal inside.
Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong: Pizza Hut 'Block Buster Projector Box'
Ogilvy & Mather HK - Blockbuster Pizza Box from Work that works on Vimeo.
Brand: Pizza Hut
Title: Block Buster Projector Box
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Hong Kong
Agency Website: http://www.ogilvyasia.com/
Chief Creative Officer: Reed Collins
Creative Director: Matt Nisbet, Andy Reynolds, Bo Deng
Copywriters: Ollie Davis and Peter Englebrecht
Designer: Gianluca Crudele
Code: Craig Mason
Illustrators: Barlo, Parents Parents, Caratos and Mark Goss
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale (optional): Ogilvy & Mather Group Hong Kong (Ogilvy) has launched a product innovation campaign entitled ‘Pizza Hut Blockbuster Box’ for Pizza Hut Hong Kong .
The one-of-a-kind, innovative packaging solution is available in four designs, based on romance, action, sci-fi and horror movie genres.
TBWA\PARIS: Cine-ma difference 'In the Role Of'
Brand: Cine-ma difference
Title: In the Role Of
Agency: TBWA\PARIS
Agency Website: http://www.tbwa-paris.com/
Creative Director: Jean-François Goize
Art Director: Sébastien Guinet
Copywriter: Josselin Pacreau
Art Director Assistant: Audrey Lucet
Media: Pierre Draber
Head of TV: Maxime Boiron
Agency TV Producers: Emilie Prud’homme – Mathilde Nanot-Lachkar
Production Company: Control Films – Hervé Dommange & Jacques-Etienne Stein
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Actor: Stéphane Guérin – Théâtre du Cristal
Additional Credits: Post-Production: Mikros Image
Editor: Julien Vaugelade
Advertiser Supervisor: Nicolas Guéchot
Account Handlers: Anne Vincent, Lara de Nattes
Head of Sound Production: Olivier Lefebvre
Sound Director: Thomas Anduze
Sound Engineer: Anaïs Khout
Music Art Director: Philippe Mineur
Coordination: Thomas Jacquet
Music Rights: Marie Roche, Barthélemy Ponsot
Published: June 2015
Short Rationale (optional): Accessibility in general – and especially at the cinema – is often regarded as merely a technical and practical issue. Yet, for some categories of disabled people, the technicality of accessibility is not an appropriate or adequate response, it is a human response that is needed, and a welcoming one is of utmost importance.
Ciné-ma difference has devised a plan adapted for film sessions, open to all (people with and without disability), for an audience who is usually excluded from it. The Ciné-ma difference network is now present in 30 cities in France and 1 in Belgium and is approaching its 1000th projection.
The purpose of this movie is to highlight this exclusion and the need to share cinema and other cultural activities so that, eventually, Ciné-ma difference will no longer be necessary!
Lucky Generals: Hostelworld 'Meet the world'
Brand: Hostelworld
Title: Meet the world
Agency: Lucky Generals, London, UK
Agency website: http://www.luckygenerals.com/
Production Company: Rattling Stick
Director: Sara Dunlop
Producer: Stuart Bentham
Editors: Speade
Post Production: The Mill
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale (optional): Hostelworld’s latest campaign is designed to make a splash in the youth travel industry.
Developed by London-based creative agency, Lucky Generals, the ad features seven backpackers, all strangers staying in hostels, who were captured doing a skinny dip in a Mexican sinkhole. The end line reveals that they have only just met each other travelling.
The ‘Meet the World’ concept is designed to target millennials who ‘aren’t average tourists’, and celebrates the spontaneous adventures that are born out of meeting like-minded travellers in hostels.
Their experience was documented by director Sara Dunlop (Rattling Stick) and photographer Katharina Poblotzki (Soothing Shade). The soundtrack to the ad is ‘Seasons (Waiting on You)’ by Future Islands.
Lost Boys: Velux 'Perfect sleep'
Brand: Velux
Title: Perfect sleep
Agency: Lost Boys, Paris, France
Agency Website: www.lostboys.com
Creative Director: Nicolas Thiboutot
Creatives: Philippe Pinel, Frederick Lung
Art Director: Chisato Tsuchiya
Art Director Assistant: Victor Miellin
Agency Manager: Jean-Philippe Martzel
Account Director: Clément Corouge
Project Manager: Kévin Pam
Photograph: Léo Caillard
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale (optional): Velux’s latest print campaign promotes the brand’s black out blinds, and promises customers a ‘a perfect sleep’, while warning that terms and conditions still apply.
WCRS: Churchill 'Churchill meets…'
Brand: Churchill
Title: Churchill meets…
Agency: WCRS
Agency website: http://www.wcrs.com/
Creative Directors: Orlando Warner / Joe Miller
Creatives: James Hodson / Jason Keet
Agency Producer: Lizzie Mabbott / Sarah Barber
Account Handling: Vince Lawson / Tim Ryan / Joss Hunt
Planning: Elisa Edmonds / Alicia Gaworska
Additional Credits: Media Agency: Mediacom
Production Company: Blink Ink
Director: Joseph Mann
Producer: Josh Smith
Editor: Tim Hardy @ Stitch
Post-Production: Blink Ink Studios
Grade: Paul Harrison @ Finish
Audio: Nick Angell @ Angell Sound
Published: June 2015
Short Rationale (optional): With a new brand positioning that gives Churchie the dog both emotional and functional authority for customers when buying insurance, Churchill launches ‘Churchill meets…’ debuting the new end line, ‘Depend on the Dog’.
The campaign, created by James Hodson and Jason Keet at WCRS and directed by Joseph Mann, who is famous for his use of real-time puppetry in adverts, shows how Churchill is the saviour of everyday disasters and common insurance problems. The adverts use everyday inanimate objects to communicate home and motor insurance policies available from today.
A total of three spots have been produced, titled ‘Garage Door’, ‘Wallpaper’ and ‘Car Stereo’. In each spot Churchie interacts with an object that signifies a particular issue customers’ face and presents a resolution.
The TV adverts, directed by Joseph Mann and produced by BlinkInk kick off a wider campaign spanning idents, radio, digital and social.
MediaCom handled the media buying and planning for the campaign.
Karmarama: Pilgrims Choice 'Well chosen'
Brand: Pilgrims Choice
Title(s): Well chosen
Agency: Karmarama
Agency website: http://www.karmarama.com/
Group Executive Creative Director: Sam Walker, Joe De Souza
Creative: Rich Connell, Clem Woodward
Additional Credits: Planner: Will Hodge
Account Director: George Barton
Agency Producer: Lindsay Hughes
Production Company: Sonny London
Director: Guy Manwaring
Producer: Amy Appleton
Production Manager: Sarah Graley
Director of Photography: Stephen Keith-Roach
Production Designer: Henry Boraros
1st AD: David Jancar
Offline Editor: Mark Edinoff @ Work Post
VFX Post House: Finish
VFX Artists: Judy Roberts, Jason Watts
VFX Producer: Vittorio Giannini
Colourist: Paul Harrison
Sound Design: Jon Clarke, Phill Bolland at Factory
Music Company: The Sync Agency
Published: May 2015
Short Rationale: Pilgrims Choice has launched a new TV ad that will use a soundtrack specially chosen for it by the British public.
The new Pilgrims Choice ‘Choose a Choon’ campaign, created by Karmarama, invites viewers to choose from eight different tracks for the TV ad.
The ad shows workers in a fictional Pilgrims Choice factory doing some eye-catching dance moves to celebrate yet another discerning shopper choosing to buy a pack of Pilgrims Choice cheese.
Through an online and mobile campaign, viewers are invited to vote for their favourite track for the ad by visiting a dedicated website and making their track selection from eight different choices – metal, house, French, jazz, pan pipes, didgeridoo, whale song or absolutely no music at all.
The viewers who select the winning track could win a year’s supply of Pilgrims Choice cheese. The winner will be selected at random in the final week of the campaign.
Libertine London: WeSwap 'Introducing the cheaper way to get your travel money'
Brand: WeSwap https://www.weswap.com/en/
Title(s): Introducing the cheaper way to get your travel money
Agency: Libertine, London, England, UK
Agency website: http://www.libertinelondon.com/
Creative Director: Oliver McCarthy
Art Director: Oliver McCarthy
Copywriter: Trevor De Silva
Photographer: Seamus Ryan
Published: June 2015
Short rationale (optional): These ads are a light hearted and cheeky play on peer to peer currency converting. Through WeSwap you can swap your money directly with others abroad and pay less than at many of the more frequented currency converting establishments.
BBR Saatchi & Saatchi: Bekol 'Revolutionary anti-aging product'
Brand: Bekol
Title(s): Revolutionary anti-aging product
Agency: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi
Agency website: http://saatchi.com/en-us/
Chief Creative Officer: Nadav Pressman
Creative Director: Eran Nir
Art Director: Yuval Zuckerman, Aia Bechor-Kujintzky
Copywriter: Eran (Shushu) Spanier
Additional Credits: Chief Executive Officer: Yossi Lubaton
VP Account Group Head: Maya Salomon
Account Supervisor: Moran Lupo
Account Executive: Reni Bracha-Landau
VP Production: Dorit Gvili
Producer: Alon Shmoelof, Gali Strakman
Editor: Dan Deutsch
Director: Roy Raz
DOP: Tobias Hochstein
Sound: Sound House
Production company: P.O.V.
Narrator: Liat Leshem
Narrator's agent: Tarika Zohar
Actor-Model: Smadar Kilchinsky
Talent's agent: Levia hon
PR: Sigal Feldman
Published: May 2015