Design: Chris Milk
Client: Arcade Fire/Google Chrome
Date: 2010
Wow.
Maybe I’m just homesick, but this blew me away. Get Google Chrome and check this out. Do it. Now.
- Hannah Wise
Add comment August 30th, 2010
Design: Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart
Client: The National Film Board of Canada
Date: 1960
Add comment August 30th, 2010
Design: Tribal DDB and Bent Image Lab
Directors: Rob Shaw and Chel White
Client: BC Dairy Foundation
Date: 2009
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Design: Fluorescent Hill
Client: NASA, Anti- Records
Date: 2010
NASA feat. Kool Keith & Tom Waits
Add comment July 27th, 2010
Design: Fluorescent Hill
Client: The New Pornographers, Last Gang Records Inc.
Date: 2008
There’s nothing psychedelic about The New Pornographer’s music, but apparently Dan Bejar’s hair has a mind of its own. To be fair, this is miles away from sixties pastiche, despite the inherent trippiness. Executed in clean vector-style illustrations and a limited colour palette, this is more like psychedelia on a diet . . . and it looks good.
-Michael Erdmann
Add comment July 6th, 2010
Design:
Client: The National Film Board
Date: 1977
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Design: Chris Serravalle and Rethink
Client:
Date: 2010
Wonderful.
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1 comment May 18th, 2010
Design:
Client: Toronto Palestine Film Festival
Date: 2009
1 comment May 15th, 2010
Design: Ubisoft Entertainment
Client:
Date: 2009
The inaugural Canadian Video Game Awards was held in Vancouver this week and Montreal’s Ubisoft Entertainment took away four of the eleven prizes for Assassin’s Creed II: Best Game Design, Best Console Game, Best Visual Arts, and Best Technology (shared with Prototype, created by Vancouver’s Radical Entertainment).
The video game world is beyond my realm of experience, but since Canada is at the forefront of game development and design, I figured this was well worth mentioning. I have not played this game, but it looks like the graphics are outrageously good, and from the trailer, it looks to have all the requisite blood, suspense, dark cloaks and T&A to keep gamers interested until the next big thing is launched. If anyone who has played the game cares to comment, please fill me in on what it is that makes this game so good.
-Hannah Wise
Add comment May 7th, 2010
Design: Rethink Communications
Creative Directors: Chris Staples/Ian Grais
Client: Coast Capital Savings
Date: 2010
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Design:
Client: The National Film Board
Date: 1978
1 comment April 21st, 2010
Design: Resolve Design
Client: King Eddy Hotel, Calgary
Date: 2009
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Design: Giant Ant Media
Client: Pacific Salmon Foundation
Date: 2010
Add comment February 10th, 2010
Design:
Client: themiraclefood.ca
Date: 2009
At the risk of fueling one of the most negative threads on the CDR, I can’t resist posting this ad (apologies for the poor quality, this is the only version available for our use* – click here to see others): A screen shot from themiraclefood.ca was posted here a few weeks ago with no further explanation from us. At first, there was no response, but a few days later the comments started. Since then it’s been a steady stream of people who seem genuinely offended by these commercials – so offended that just a screen shot of the web page is an opportunity to vent.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I find it hard to believe that people are that upset by these commercials. Aside from the pleasantly acerbic tone, there’s nothing particularly edgy or controversial here. Still, the comments seem to be authentic (each comes from a unique author at a unique IP address). It’s always difficult to completely rule out trolls and this could be part of a well orchestrated guerrilla marketing initiative, though that seems a little out of character for this campaign. As Jess Sloss pointed out on Social Squared, the miracle food website and campaign as a whole (or lack thereof) seems to be missing a lot of the marketing components we’ve come to expect from this type of campaign – *no official youtube uploads, no social media component and no ownership. Video blogger John Doody goes one step further, suggesting that the campaign is so badly done that it must be intentional – an elaborate fake/marketing test. Not sure that this is the story either, but there’s definitely something going on. Anyone know who’s behind this campaign?
-Michael Erdmann
5 comments February 3rd, 2010
