I love it when an agency wants to put the special little touches onto everything that goes out the door.  Beci did these icons for Visa for their website and DM.  It’s such a small thing but it says so much.  TBWA commissioned them and it was really nice to be involved with an agency who takes pride in craft. Thanks Miles!

Chris Searl shot this great POS campaign for Levis.  Glue Society put a lot of attention into the overall display in the windows with really cute touches like a mop.  Ok so a mop isn’t that exciting but I thought they did a really cool and interesting job.  And Chris does an amazing job of drawing out models’ inner coolness, although the casting was pretty incredible.  Kellie and Chris were a brilliant combination.  Chris was completely Zen (or maybe it was just the 5am call time) and Kellie was her usual bullshit-free self while being completely charming with client and Host.  There’s more Levis work to follow so keep checking the blog.  And while I am at it, thanks to all of you who are taking an interest in how this little agency is developing.  I see you all on the stats and just want to say thanks for your support.

Chris recently shot this amazing image for Glue Society / British Council.  The make up was done by a woman who worked on The Chronicles of Narnia. They’re being used across all forms of social media (God it makes me sick hearing that phrase. I don’t know why), and posters etc etc so keep your eye out for them!

I was a North West London dweller while I lived there, so forgive me but I don’t know which of these is Fulham Broadway and which is the Custard Factory in Birmingham.  Feel free to add a comment if you know.  Fulham is a huge Aussie expat area so I am sure someone can set me straight.  Julian flew to London to shoot the skyline for this campaign featuring Steve Carell, Sarah Silverman, and Kenny.  I think after the Capital Radio job, Julian is the official London skyline photographer.  Karmarama were really happy with the campaign.  Julian gets really appreciative emails from the team almost every other week.  Must be those English manners.

Julian shot M&C Saatchi’s first campaign since winning Freedom’s business.  I won’t pretend he is a multi-talented genius (even though he really is).  The stills were used to make the TVC.  But lets pretend just for the afternoon that he directed the commercial too.

Psychedelic artists are pretty thin on the ground in Sydney.  Luckily though when Ogilvy had a mad psychedelic 60s brief, they knew where to find Jonathan Zawada.  Here’s the first of two pieces by Jonathan.  Fanta wanted to reference the past with 60s artwork for their new Fanta campaign, promoting the fact that (I think..!) it has no artificial colours or flavours.  I’d better watch what I say, huh, or I will have to publish corrective advertising.

Here’s Jason’s Prada product shoot, which he shot in Milan recently.  Not all still life photographers are created equal, are they!

Gen Kay is the James Brown of photography I think (hardest working woman in….in case you don’t get the reference.)  Endless catalogue shoots in Japan have prepared her well for shooting Peter Alexander.  PA really put a lot of love and care into their online shoots, with plenty of attention paid to make up and great casting!  Gen shoots up to 91 shots in an eight hour day (yes that’s not 90, but 91!), all without breaking a sweat.  They’ve been a wonderful client to work with over the last few months – they make it all very easy and I am sure they would say the same about Gen.

God, I was so excited about blogging this job, but now I am a bit disappointed. Julian shot this for Rhodes Wingrove for the IPA accountants professional body.  He did an amazing job of tailoring this to an impossible format and it is COMPLETELY lost on my blog.  It was a complicated job and Julian did the post himself.  The shot is, you would think, a classic stock shot, but with the media it would have been totally unaffordable.  It also didn’t exist in the format. So Julian used his personal image library from the Tignes/French glacier job for Beechams, and a stock shot of the peak, and shot the climber in studio.  It really works well as a massive mural.  I saw it at the airport yesterday and it looked really grand.  I am sorry you can’t really see it in all its glory here.  There are two more similarly amazing shots in this series including Julian’s recent trip to Dover to document the cliffs that represent to challenge of swimming the channel.

This one is a bit of a tricky one to explain. Julian was approached by Adam Novak and John McCabe at BWM Dubai to produce an ad for the Dubai Lynx awards.  The job was to take the Palm Island and turn it into a light globe.  Julian collaborated with Willie from Cursor Ctrl and I guess you could say essentially art directed the image.  A lot of assignments are going this way, using part stock imagery and part image-making-skills which is where Julian comes in.  It’s a real niche for Julian as there aren’t that many photographers out there who can manage that level of post and visualise and piece together a job from beginning to end.  Huge thanks to Willie for an amazing job as usual.