Here is a beautiful campaign by Chris for Insight.  Love the art direction and the crumpled stock effect.  (Or maybe he left it on the floor of his car.)

Recently we shot Hipster and Clothing campaigns for Bonds.  We’re now using Six Wolves for all our production and they’ve been amazing – thanks Adam and Kristen! Their blog is great.  Anyone considering a life in production should visit the site for a reality check. Production ain’t that glamorous!

Pania Rose was the female talent for the Clothing campaign.  How can you not love her?  Bonds and the Palace were thrilled with the result.  Chris’s work matched the brief perfectly with the style harking back to projects he had undertaken with Bonds via Monster Children.

Gen has just returned from Tokyo where she shot the Agnes B ‘to B’ campaign.  The line os exclusive to the Japanese market.

Gen shot Shibui’s SS09 campaign with ‘it’ girl Holly.  Check out Gen’s film of Holly here.

Julian talks about his latest project, “Snow Angels” for BBH London and Lynx.

“As the temperature rose in Australia I went over to shoot snow in London.  The images were shot in various locations around London over three days. Our location manager Richard Ellingham had a task finding locations that would allow us to lay down fake snow. Armed with printed  layouts of lewd shapes in the snow Richard approached various councils, avoiding schools and religious organisations.
We ended up in a carpark in Old St, a suburban street in Hackney, and a shopfront in croydon.

All the snow was set dressed in camera by the people of Snow Business – they have probably had a hand in every film you have ever seen with snow in it.  The snow is made from paper fibre and comes out of a cannon-y tube thing. I am still getting dust out of my camera.

The snow angel shapes were carefully researched by the crew, with  the pre pro meeting with the client discussing double cowboy, reverse double cowboy, 69, and various permutations of doggy style.  They were further discussed at length on set, and when words failed occasionally mimed.
Our first shoot day was the carpark – 900 square meters of snow laid out was by far logistically the hardest. We know the shapes worked when a few office workers in nearby buildings came by to ask what was going on and give some helpful opinions.  I fought back the urge to tell them it was an ad for Cornflakes, and watch them try to figure that one out.
Next night we found ourselves in a gentrified area behind Commercial Rd flower market, battling rain, some of the locals stickybeaking tried to explain what was going on to their kids.
Then, for the shop front, and by unfortunate logistical timings, we made the difficult journey to Croydon on a Saturday night.  I’d rather not talk about it.
Although they have only been out for a few days they have already been chosen as Print winner this week on Best Ads on TV.com”

Thank you Julian for regaling us with your on set tales!

You know those jobs that look really simple?  The ones that weren’t and you just WISH you had a stop frame of the whole thing to prove to people how incredible you are for pulling something off?  Well, we want to say a big ole thanks to Nicole and Miles at TBWA for having the foresight to ask Julian to make a stop frame of the Visa ‘Go’ build.  It’s really made us debate within the agency whether we should do this for all our shoots.  A huge thanks to tin&ed and my professional partner and personal hero, Jeremy from Jacky Winter for all the late nights and patience and diplomacy.

Click here to see the final print ad.

All over the world, creatives have been commissioned with a global brief to create the word ‘go.’ in a variety of different forms, internally coined ‘gollages’ by TBWA. For this execution for Visa Debit, tin&ed were asked to bring their model making skills to build this massive sculpture out of new and recycled computer parts using a pretty clever trick of perspective with ‘Go’ starting in the air on a rig, and ending on the floor of the space.   The retouched final art shown above, masterfully shot by Julian, took three days to build and about 30 seconds to shoot, lit by simple coloured fluro tubes only.

Click here to see the footage of the build.

Beci has just done the cutest colab with Kit Cosmetics.  She’s been a big fan of their packaging for a while so she was thrilled to be approached to embark on a joint promo, including windows, a Beci Orpin/Kit tote, a limited edition cosmetics bag, and instore posters and banners.  Love the palette!

Myer got the biggest shake up they’ve had since the Jethro Cave parade after-party incident.  Vice have art directed Myer’s new look book and they chose Chris Searl to help them with their image overhaul.
Here’s a behind the scenes video that will impress any of you who haven’t ever been on the set of a boring old fashion shoot. They sound glamourous but they’re just bloody hard work. Lucky there are pretty girls and boys involved and some nice folk like the team at Vice.

And here are a couple of shots from the campaign.

I have a double barreled confession to make.  My kids eat McDonalds.  And the worst part is..they don’t eat the healthy options.  I think those healthy options might be for display purposes only.  Like the little bits of plastic sushi they have in the window of Japanese restaurants.  Does anyone’s kids eat wraps and bits of fruit at McDonald’s?  I didn’t think so.  Ok so back to Gen.  I’ll start at the beginning.

Ages ago, Gen shot this amazing little story for Fabio Ongarato/Country Road.  It was such an incredible little concept and though Country Road never went ahead with using the shots, I just knew that some day we would get work out of this story.  The concept was to show kids doing stuff without showing their face.  They’re incredibly spontaneous and needless to say DDB loved them.  I have included them here as they’re so worth seeing and it might give an insight into how we get work for our artists.  The McDonald’s work, which is out today, is underneath.  Gen shot the food too.

And here is the resulting McDonald’s shoot.

Huge thanks to Tyke Rashid (Beci’s very talented and artistic son who did the drawing!)