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Goodby and Silverstein issue 25 Year Invite

Goodby Silverstein and Partners are having a party on May, for people who are working or have worked at the advertising agency, celebrating 25 years of business.

Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein appear as grumpy old men to let slip that there’s a show at the San Francisco Opera House on May 8.
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Olympus Capture Every Mood

Olympus has launched a brand campaign in Australia, highlighting the benefits of its range for both the professional and amateur photographer. Three print advertisements feature models Declan, Mickey and Dinka, each incorporating four different facial expressions. The text on the side, subtly placed, is “Olympus. Capture Every Mood”.

Credits
The Olympus campaign was developed at JWT Sydney [...]

Clarks Factory Makes Perfect Feet

Clarks in Australia is promoting good fitting shoes as a key factor in the shaping of childrens feet, in Perfect Feet, a television commercial.

Unformed feet are taken through a process of fitting inside Clarks shoes, finally emerging as the natural feet with healthy toes in a scene reminiscent of a merry go round.
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CALM Hoodie Car Park Scene

A man in a hoodie is a sign of threat for many people. But what else might the hood be hiding? Here’s a disturbing advertisement raising that question for the British public.
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Every day in Britain three young men take their own life. Sometimes it simply [...]

Baked Beans Backdraft for Earth Hour

SPC in Australia provided an earthy television advertisement supporting this year’s Earth Hour initiative.

“Backdraft” plays on the power of baked beans methane used for lighting. So much for reducing carbon emissions!
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Credits
The Backdraft ad was developed at BADJAR Ogilvy Melbourne by creative directors Michael Knox, Pam [...]

Purina Cat behind Earth Hour

Purina in Australia has got behind the Earth Hour initiative with a TV ad featuring a cat and a light switch.
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Credits
The Purina spot was developed at Singleton Ogilvy and Mather, Sydney, by executive creative director Bruce Matchett, creative director Jo Sellars, art director Adrian McNamara, [...]

Rolf Harris on Earth Hour

Rolf Harris, well known Australian musician, composer, painter, and television host, has lent his support to the Earth Hour project, providing an adapted version of his iconic song, “Tie me kangaroo down”. Rolf has painted ‘Earth Hour’ on his wobble board and stands in a set full of large electric lightbulbs.
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Angus and Julia Stone puppets in Just A Boy

Angus and Julia Stone, brother-sister duo from Sydney, Australia, have released a music video for “Just a Boy”, the third video from the 2007 album, A Book Like This. The clip shows Angus singing and playing acoustic guitar surrounded by cut out figures and backed up by Mitchell Connelly on drums. A paper elephant walks [...]

Playstation Network in Animated Living Room

Sony is promoting the networking capacity of the Playstation 3 with an animated living room.

The spot begins with a player, a chair, a screen and a camera. With a little imagination and networking capacity, not to mention software, the room’s walls and floors are populated with furniture, illustrations, window and faces.
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IMAX in Total Immersion

IMAX Theatre in Sydney, Australia, is promoting the capacity for audiences to escape their normal worlds with a set of posters featuring floating, swimming and flight in total immersion.
Float
Return to your seat prior to re-entry.

Swim
In case of emergency swim to the nearest exit.

Flight
Turn your phone off during the flight.

Credits
The IMAX series was developed at LOUD, [...]