Creative Work: Featuring McCann London, Robot Food, Isobar and Ogilvy Singapore
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McCann London: Sharwoods 'Stir Fry Melts'
Brand: Sharwoods
Title(s): Stir Fry Melts
Agency: McCann London
Agency website: http://www.mccannlondon.co.uk/
Chief Creative Officer: Rob Doubal, Laurence Thomson
Creative Team: Lianne Galazka, Imogen Jones
Additional Credits: Managing Partner: Kate Modeland & Julie McNiff
Account Manager: Mel Caplan
Planner: Thomas Keane
Agency Producers: Sue Dhaliwal & Claire Hopkins
Project Managers: Stuart Cameron & Jon Marshall
Head of Integrated Production: Sergio Lopez
Director: Catherine Losing
Production Company: BlinkArt
Producer: Andrew Studholme
Offline Edit: Max Windows at Stitch Editing
Grade: The Mill
Post Production: Craft London
Media: Carat
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: The campaign is part of a £2m repositioning for Sharwood’s to cement the brand’s place in the modern kitchen.
The TV ad, created by McCann London, marks a new, more contemporary look and feel for the Sharwood’s brand and celebrates the travel, taste and excitement that has inspired the Stir Fry Melts range.
Sharwood’s brings the excitement of meal experiences from around the world directly into the home and New Stir Fry melts epitomizes this colourful spirit. This exciting new product gives you all the flavour you need to create a light flavoursome stir-fry packed into a little pot.
The TV ad is supported by a print campaign.
AMV BBDO: Whiskas 'Kitten Kollege - Welcome'
Brand: Whiskas
Title: Kitten Kollege - Welcome
Agency: AMV BBDO, London, UK
Agency Website: www.amvbbdo.com
Creative Directors: Alex Grieve, Adrian Rossi
Copywriter: Rob Messeter
Art Director: Mike Crowe
Agency Planners: Ila De Mello Kamath, Niamh Power
Agency Account Man: Oliver Clark, Richard Moloney, Chris Cannell, Ben Blackall
Agency Producers: Selina Dey, Edwina Dennison
Media Agency: MediaCom
Media Planner: Matt Delaney
Production Company: College Humour / AMV Flare
Directors: Matt Enlow, Simon Freidberg
Producer: Kate Grady
Post-production Company / Audio Post-production / Digital Design Company: College Humour
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: The first video in Whiska’s ‘Kitten Kollege’ series introduces us to an educational establishment designed specifically for cats.
The tongue-in-cheek spot features scenes of kittens in lecture halls and at fresher’s week.
Created by AMVBBDO, the campaign makes use of the often pompus language used in traditional academic promotional videos.
Robot Food: Cadbury 'Amazebites'
Brand: Cadbury
Title(s): Amazebites
Agency: Robot Food, Leeds, UK
Agency website: http://www.robot-food.com
Creative Director: Simon Forster
Art Director: Martin Widdowfield
Copywriter: Simon Forster
Illustrator: Simon Thorpe
Photographer: Mike Johns
Published: October 2015
Short rationale: Premier Foods wanted to launch a new Cadbury cake bites product. Robot Food already had a strong track record creating branding and packaging for Cadbury cakes, and helped to design a bold, boisterous brand in Amaze Bites.
An enticing combination of joy and sharing, the double-blended bites of brownie cake are aimed mainly at women, and come in three variants. Chocolate, chocolate orange and chocolate mint. Indulgent enough for a treat when the kids have gone to bed, the bites also needed to encourage sharing.
After exploring and researching a range of formats and propositions, Robot Food named the product and created the design and lively, compelling tone of voice. The name was a kind of ‘eureka!’ moment. When the team sat down to taste the product, someone shouted, “These taste amazing!” and the moment was seized upon and adapted to become Amaze Bites.
Premier Foods hold the license to produce Cadbury cakes for Mondelez International, and this exciting new product moves them closer to the core brand proposition of ‘Joy’. Amaze Bites have already had a good taste of success when Premier Foods pitched the brand to the ASDA’s ‘Dragons Den’ style innovation team, and won for the Best in New category.
Anomaly London: Elle UK 'More Women'
Brand: Elle UK
Title(s): More Women
Agency: Anomaly London
Creative Director: Alex Holder
Creatives: Alex Holder, Lydia Pang
Additional Credits: Director: Alyssa Boni
Producer: Emma Cairns, David White
Music: Get Your Way by Zilla
Music Supervision: Jay James, Soundtree
Post: Electric Theatre Collective/The Line
Sound: Wave
Retouching: Kerry Roper, Andy Nichols, Simone Mascagni, Robby Maynard, Anyaa Dev
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: ELLE UK has launched its third annual feminism campaign. Outspoken creative leader Alex Holder has continued her long-standing collaboration with ELLE to create the #morewomen initiative - editorial content for which is featured both in magazine and online.
The content includes an image series and a new editorial film, created by Alex Holder working with Alyssa Boni through RSA, which reveal the stark reality and global prevalence of the glass ceiling. The film, which will be shown through ELLE UK’s website and social media channels as part of the campaign, shows a series of iconic images of women in the most powerful echelons of society – and how lonely they are at the top.
Women in the most senior positions of business, media and politics are shown in familiar images with their male colleagues- on TV, in Parliament – and the men are then removed from the picture, revealing how few women there really are at the top table. The film is accompanied by a series of dramatic images that contrast the amount of women and men in senior positions.
ELLE UK’s major feminism campaign was first rolled out in 2013 and now happens annually in order to engage future generations of men and women to participate in the debate around equality and provoke positive change in society.
Core: IVF Australia 'Inside every hero there are millions more'
Brand: IVF Australia
Title(s): Inside every hero there are millions more
Agency: Core
Agency website: http://coresydney.com.au/
Creative Partner: Christian Finucane, Jon Skinner
Art Director: Jari Kennedy
Copywriter: Anthony Ortuso
Photographer: Billy Plummer
Additional Credits: Marketing Manager: Hayley Dodman
Designer: Kent Stewart
Business Director: Jane Callister
Account Manager: Lucy Almond
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: IVFAustralia and Melbourne IVF, part of Virtus Health, want to appeal to the Aussie man’s inner hero and encourage them to donate their sperm in a new digital campaign from Core.
Using the tagline ‘Inside every hero there are millions more’, the independent Sydney creative agency has developed the ads featuring a group of emergency service workers including fire fighters and surf life savers.
Isobel: Isobel 'Agency idents'
isobel idents sfx from isobel advertising on Vimeo.
Brand: isobel
Title(s): Agency idents
Agency: isobel, London, UK
Agency website: http://www.isobel.com
Creative Director: Rob Fletcher
Art Director: Dan Wicks
Photographer: Paul Thompson
Additional credits: Tom Stewart
Published: October 2015.
Short rationale: isobel has created a series of idents for the agency’s new website and comms.
Ogilvy: Twitter 'First on Twitter'
Brand: Twitter
Title(s): First on Twitter
Agency: Ogilvy, Singapore
Agency Website: www.ogilvy.com
Chief Creative Officer: Eugene Cheong
Executive Creative Director: Melvyn Lim
Creative Director: Shawnn Lai
Art Director: Loo Yong Ping
Copywriter / Planner: Sonal Narain
Illustrator: Simon Prades
Producer: Alvin Chin
Account Servicing: Giri Jadhav
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: Ogilvy’s latest work for Twitter comprises three print ads which each depict how incredible real stories broke on Twitter first.
From the 2008 Chinese earthquake which struck Sichuan province to the US Navy Seal Osama Bin Laden raid and the birth of the royal baby in 2013, the campaign shows how the news unfolded in real-time on the social network and scooped traditional media.
Isobar: Auto Trader 'Little Sister'
Brand: Auto Trader
Title: Little Sister
Agency: Isobar, London, UK
Agency Wesbite: www.isobar.com
Producer: Matt Keen
Group Creative Director: Simon Clancy
Creative Director: Darren Giles
Creatives: Jan Pruijser, Rachel Clough
Production Company: The Gate Films
Director: Jackie Oudney
Producer: Matt Keen
Editor: Vee Pinot
Producer: Chris McKeeman
Colourist: Denny Cooper
VFX: Glenn Cone
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: Told through the eyes of a little boy who is soon to meet his little sister, this sweet spot from Auto Trader showcases the site’s wide selection.
Front Page: 2015 FIG World Gymnastics Championships 'Brand Identity'
Brand: 2015 FIG World Gymnastics Championships
Title(s): Brand identity
Agency: Front Page
Agency website: http://www.frontpage.co.uk/
Creative Director: Felicity Johnson
Photographer: Christopher Reece Bowen
Published: 2015, various
Short rationale: Glasgow is looking forward to hosting the 2015 FIG Artistic World Gymnastics Championships, where a record-breaking 615 gymnasts from 91 countries are due to compete in Glasgow.
The brand identity, chosen by World Gymnastics Championships Local Organising Committee, captures the dynamic movement of gymnasts and reflects architectural elements of the new SSE Hydro building.
The photography featured in the campaign was commissioned by Front Page, who worked with award-winning photographer, Christopher Reece Bowen. The shoot location was Lilleshall National Sports Centre in Shropshire, which trains some of the country’s leading sportsmen and women - four gymnasts who performed on the floor, pommel horse, beam and rings.
Art directed by Front Page, the eye-catching images feature Olympic medal-winning gymnasts, capturing their incredible strength, grace and form. The series of iconic images were released at key landmark dates throughout the campaign.
In addition, the agency developed a fully-responsive event website and digital media campaign to drive sales and public engagement. By using a combination of rich media, homepage takeovers, social media skins and advertising banners, traffic increased to the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships website.
Kolab: Texas Joe's 'Responsive website design and build'
Brand: Texas Joe’s
Title(s): Responsive website design and build
Headline and copy text (in English): Texas Joe’s: Responsive website design and build
Agency: Kolab
Agency website: http://kolabdigital.com/work/texas-joe
Creative Team: Creative director and lead designer: Nick Bain
Additional Credits: Client relationship director and Project manager: Jacob Melton
Published: September 2015
Short Rationale: Jerky aficionado, Jo Walters, made his debut on Dragon’s Den, passionate to bring a taste of the Deep South to the UK shores. Since his appearance, Texas Joe’s has been making waves in the foodie world with his unique products and bold, distinctive design.
Kolab created a sleek, responsive, brand awareness website to spread the jerky word. The original iconic style was applied to the new website to present his brand and products in an authentic and engaging way. No page templates have been used on the site, meaning that each page is unique, and the retro styling is used throughout which creates a sense of continuity for a consistent customer journey. The grungy vintage design runs throughout the site and features seamless social feeds to maximise the networking efforts through instagram, facebook and twitter. Visitors to the site can sign up to receive all the news and events from Joe and can even take it a step further by becoming an official Jerky Ranger and sampling exclusive flavours with a monthly shipment of jerky.
Altmann + Pacreau: Stihl 'Fall 2015'
Brand: Stihl
Title(s): Fall 2015
Agency: Altmann + Pacreau
Agency website: http://www.altmannpacreau.com/
Creative director: Olivier Altmann
Conception and Photography: Herve Plumet
Additional Credits: Agency management: Edouard Pacreau, Thomas Vigneron
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale: As fall sets in, it’s time to change your yardwork routine, to start blowing away leaves and sawing up dead trees.
On this occasion,Altmann+Pacreau, the young French hot shop, is communicating for its long--‐time client: Stihl, the worldwide chainsaw market leader.
First, Catamaran, a print ad to launch the Stihl BGA 100 Cordless Blower, the most powerful on the market. So powerful, it can replace the wind.
Next, Reflection, a print ad promoting the brand chainsaw’s performances.So powerful, it saws faster than fast.
The two outdoor prints were shot by Hervé Plumet.
TBWA Sri Lanka: Daily News 'Mars has water'
Brand: Daily News
Title: Mars has water
Agency: TBWA, Sri Lanka
Chief Creative Officer: Subhash Pinnapola
Art Director: Mithila Chamara
Copywriter: Sohan Ratnaike
Graphic Designer: Mayura Sesath
Published: October 2015
Short Rationale (optional): To promote the Daily News, TBWA Singapore has come up with a print campaign which centres around the recent announcement that water was found on Mars.
The print campaigns were shot in Anuradhapura, and the copy reads: 'Mars has water. People in Anuradhapura are dying without clean drinking water.Don't let new news kill the old news.'