Kenzo cool!
With a stunning art direction of the talented Mat Maitland, here’s the latest video from Japanese brand Kenzo. A veritable explosion of animal print. Watch the video below:
Art Direction: Mat Maitland / Direction: Smith & Read / Mat Maitland / Animation: Natalia Stuyk / Production: Alastair Coe at Big Active / Music: ‘Mädchen Amick’ by Buffalo Tide.
This is a campaign that says male grooming isn’t just for Derek Zoolander, but for the ordinary man on the street. Its insight draws on the fact that inside every male, there is a hairy, unkempt, animal clawing to get out. And that’s a beast that needs taming.
Advertising Agency: 180 Amsterdam, Netherlands / Executive Creative Director: Al Moseley / Creative Director: Galen Graham / Art Director: Victor Monclus
Copywriter: Will Lowe / Account Directors: Iona Ratcliffe, Stephen Corlett / Producers: Emma Pirie, Pamela Prior
A fun campaign for Max Shoes, signed by Agency Jung von Matt /Limmat, Switzerland.
Executive creative director: Alexander Jaggy / Copywriter: Samuel Christ / Art director: David Hanselmann / Graphic designer: Alexander Moltzen / Consulting: Sabrina Arthur, Astrid Krauss, Milena Elias / Art buying: Ilonka Galliard, Deborah Herzig / Photography: Paco Peregrin
Amazing work! Prada released its Spring/Summer 2013 “Real Fantasies” film art directed by AMO, with artwork by Lok Jansen and Jeroen Koolhaas.
Credits:
ART DIRECTION by AMO: Lok Jansen, Jeroen Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Miguel Taborda, Lucia Venturini, Lucia Zamponi;
ARTWORK: Lok Jansen, Jeroen Koolhaas;
EDITING and VISUAL FX by APRIL: Matteo Frittelli;
FILMING by APRIL: Matteo Frittelli, Gabrio Bellotti;
PHOTOGRAPHY: Phil Meech, Agostino Osio;
MUSIC by 3o.
About the Artist:
”My name is Antoni Tudisco, I was born and raised in Germany by my Filipina mother and my Italian father. I’m a fan of extraordinary things ever since I was a child. I had my own world as a kid. I started to sketch during lessons when i was attending the elementary school I didnt really listen to the teacher i just draw and skribble.
I guess that characteristic of mine developed into being creative and original today. The first time I heared about the *ADOBE PALETTE* , I left no stone unturned and learned every commands all by myself. Since then, *ADOBE* and me were like bestfriends. We were inseprable.
Then I tried taking another step higher and tried doing 3D designs and videos. It was hard at first because i had to understand and do everything all alone but because of hard work and enthusiasm, it turned out to be a success until i developed my own website where I presented my works after that, i got the attention of other artists and agencies. After recieving my diploma at the age of 18, I got loads of projects and requests from some major clients such as MTV PHILIPPINES, COCA-COLA, REEBOK WOMAN, NESTLE and VANS”
Antoni Tudisco / Art Direction, Character Design and Digital Art.
London based fashion illustrator Sandra Jawad graduated from London College of Fashion, Fashion Illustration. She is now a freelance fashion illustrator. She creates beautiful and detail portraits and textured outfits using her unique digital shading technique with pencils and ink. The result is a stunning and original work.
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There’s a lot of ancient art cropping up in contemporary culture these days – it’s hard to endlessly scroll through visual feasts of blogs without coming across a Titian next to a pair of rare Nike Air Max’s.
Ernesto Artillo is making blog-worthy collages combining high-end, seriously trendy photography of supermodels and ancient pieces of art in a terrific dusty fig/Italian sunset palette. The way he combines epic-worthy muscles with kind of terrifying plants is pretty astounding. Doing a bit of fashion editorial? Need some visuals? Ernesto’s your man.
Thanks to Liv Siddall and itsnicethat.com for this source of inspiration / ernesto artillo
Advertising Campaign – Coiff Your Success: ”The one and only, Nothing new under the Sun, There is no reason for a bad look, Happy together” four beautiful images and four titles very inspiring. We love the graphical interferences in the photographs, this campaign was signed by the agency Komet, Switzerland
Creative Director: Thom Pfister / Copywriters: Antonia Bekiaris, Christoph Albrecht Art Directors: Roland Zenger, Joël Weber / Graphic Designer: Natalia Funariu Illustrator: Zora Gauch / Advisory Service: Simon Schatzmann, Emma Isolini Photographers: Julia Saner, Alex Anderfuhren, Marc Asekhame, Jonas Weibel, Sam Konrad
CBC: Who is Paulo Peixoto? The man, not the videographer.
PP: It’s hard to talk about ourselves, isn’t it? Well, Paulo Peixoto is a mix. If I could, I’d define myself as a being which evolves in itself. I’m 8 AND 80! I notice strength and delicacy in my personality and value the simple gestures in life. Kind, fun and authentic people delight me. I have a strong connection with my own God, what gives me a deeper vision of life, my missions and deeds. I believe everything in life is possible, and value the truth and kindness. I’m a person who prefers believing than doubting and who fights for and only for what I believe. At the moment I’m waiting for the aliens to visit us. (laugh)
CBC: At what point in your life did you discover your passion for videos?
PP: The moment I realized that earning a living with music would be harder (laughs). Music is my biggest passion, what burns me inside. I was born in a music loving family, my dad used to play the drums, my mum a little piano and my brothers still make music. I was lulled to sleep with Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Beatles. Later I discovered that the audio visual was also something constant in my life. As a child my dad was always with a handcam and we used to film silly and fun videos. As I’ve grown up, I got closer to video making and saw a possibility of expressing my art and creativity in it. That’s what I do today, though music is in second plan, for a while.
REGINA SALOMÃO · INVERNO 2013 ESTÚDIO
CBC: You work with production and direction from the beginning of your career?
PP: In the begging we do a bit of everything, right? Nowadays I try to share all duties, especially because I love my colleagues works and talents. One never gets to the top alone.
CBC: Everyone thinks that the life of those who work with art, it is pure fun, is this true?
PP: Well I guess we laugh as not to cry. (joke) I guess having fun is part of enjoying what you do, loving your job. We work hard, art is a bland of technique, aesthetics, feeling, communication. After it’s done is like a new born child. That’s what gives us pleasure and the feeling of “can’t get enough of it”.
RODRIGO FRAGA • DOUBLE FACE
CBC: What was the hardest video you directed? Any funny stories to tell us?
PP: I can’t tell you precisely the hardest job, as each of them is a new challenge. There’s always some situation which can be either tragic or comical, depending in the mood of those involved. Because is natural, it can’t be planned. I always try to keep a good mood in the recordings. I love working with friends (clients, models, actors, colleagues) because we always burst in laughs over these situations, without losing the professionalism.
AMANDA GROSSI • MONOCEROS
CBC: Work versus commercial art work. You have a different approach and it feels more confident?
PP: The approach is different but it depends on the client and the purpose. In an art work I can sometimes be contradictory, which I love, I can risk on the soundtrack, on takes, on the editing. In the commercial work, though it’s more limited, I always try to make my mark and innovate.
CBC: Inspiration can be away and at the same time very close, where does your inspiration come from?
PP: It is exactly this way! Sometimes it comes from something nothing related to the final product, sometimes it comes from something closer to the result. But generally there’s a starting point: either esthetic, a new language which I want to experiment or even a message I want to come across.
ANJUUM • NOIR
CBC: We believe that music really inspires fashion and connects people around the world. So tell us, what’s currently playing on your headphones?
PP: Honestly I need some update! I’ve been too busy to research new tunes and whenever in need I ask some DJ friends for indication, search iPods or naturally someone introduces me something which has a lot to do with my work. I’ve been at fault in this aspect and also miss it. Lately, on my headphones, I’ve listened to some rock and rap/rip hop/black music (which I love) or electronic music at the gym, only!
BUTIC BARDOT · MOVE ON
Check : vimeo.com/brutalproducoes The art of Paulo Peixoto.
Here is a deliciously interesting campaign made by staff of the agency Publicis, New York, USA
Advertising Agency: Publicis, New York, USA / Chief Creative Officer: Rob Feakins / Executive Creative Director: David Corr / Creative Directors: Mark Ronquillo, Mike MacNeill
Art Director: Mike MacNeill / Copywriter: Mark Ronquillo / Photographer: Greg Neumaier / Art Producer: Darielle Smollian / Published: November 2012
Created by vienna-based studio grafisches büro is a series of images that playfully interpret which dogs could be related to which typeface – a dalmation as courier, or perhaps a german shepherd as helvetica. the work observes each pet for their various characteristics in the same capacity as comparing fonts – finding the similarities in that of nature and that of a typographer’s design. The poster was printed using a silk screen technique on sheets of 1000 by 700 mm and published in a limited edition box. Thanks to designboom for the news.
Babies rebels and tattooed?! Stay calm, it’s just an advertising campaign. ”For difficult little people.” Advertising Agency: Grey Healthy People, USA
Creative Director: Chee Guan Yue / Art Director: Ning Li / Product Manager Kevin Bi / Account Director: Amanda Zolten /Planning Director: Maya Kincaid / Global Account Director: Jason Kahner
