Good work from Ogilvy Cape Town, They recently did this nice spot for Castrol EDGE featuring Football legend Cristiano Ronaldo. The ad was shot in Namibia, Manchester and the remainder in and around the Western Province. Great work considering they only had Ronaldo for 6 hours (his scenes were all shot in Manchester). Wonder how much BMW paid to be featured so prominently ?

Agency: Ogilvy Cape Town, Client: Castrol,  Executive Creative Director: Chris Gotz,  Director: Ian Gabriel Production: Giant Films.

After all the recent celebrating of South African heritage/braai day, and the Loeries etc its hard to be back at work as normal, so the wonderful Tessa from Steri Stumpie has kindly given me a whole bunch of what I’m promised are uber-rad limited edition steri goodies – including a supply of the two new flavours.

To win these we’re running a bosses desk invasion challenge – you send us pictures of you posing on your bosses desk or similar with a Steri Stumpie and we pick the most deserving one to win. Bonus points if your boss is someone really important (like Jacob Zuma or something). I’ll need the photos by mid day this Friday (2nd of October) and then will announce the winner that same afternoon.

All you need to do is email your pics to me at steri@chrisrawlinson.com. One last thing, this is for people in South Africa only please.

Just picked this up from one of my main sources of enlightenment Steve Clayton and thought I would share it with you.

Facebook has recently pimped its own main offices in Palo Alto, California. The space was previously a lab facility and is 150,000 square foot !

limitedhype.com says ” The space has been transformed to reflect the company’s core values: creativity, freedom of expression and individuality. The design team at Studio O+A conceived a vibrant, fresh, hip space that is also very green: from restored millwork from the original lab, to high-recycle content carpeting to using repurposed industrial components throughout. The space is very modern and dynamic, just what you’d expect from a company like Facebook. Ironically, employees are even encouraged to write on their walls.”

Am so keen to do something similar with our next offices in Cape Town. On a related note, congrats to FoxP2 for winning a Grand Loerie for their offices in the Communication Design category.  Will talk more about the Loeries tomorrow, needless to say I had a pretty fine weekend.

  Audi Canada and Lowe Roche, Toronto have recently come up with this great campaign for the new Audi R8 V10. As the car was sold out quickly in Canada they decided to create a limited edition fun garage door print cover, featuring a life size picture of the Audi R8 V10. If you go to Audi Canada you can buy the print in 3 different sizes for $469.99 each. To check it out for yourself visit: http://www.audi.ca/ca/brand/en/models/r8_52/own_a_r8.html

Great new spot for Toyota from Saatchi & Saatchi. I have to dedicate this ad to Matt Buckland as the other week we managed to spend about half an hour doing exactly the above, only to find out his dog had found his own way back home after going walkabout. As a bonus check out this old but very classic Toyota spot from Brazil:

  Just happened to check out the Sony Ericsson website while looking for some new apps for my W995 and noticed they have just done a huge great revamp. Normally I don’t chat about new websites too much but I really loved playing around this site and so thought I would share it with you. The main home page features movable 3D tiles that provide shortcuts to latest products / news, and a tab bar at the top with links to the main sections of the site (Phones/Accessories, PlayNow, Support, Community). My main highlights are as follow:

• All content can be easily shared via simple social media sharing “AddThis” buttons
• Sony Ericsson community driven developer creations are encouraged and supported well
• Page content is nicely spaced out and main points/features jump out the page (See pics above)
• Site load time is fast
• The community labs page shows latest  Alpha and beta apps all available for download
• Phone support and updates are quick and easy to find
• PlayNow Store has been massively revamped and extra content such as music, Themes, ringtones and games are all easy to browse, preview and buy

Check it out for yourself at http://www.sonyericsson.com

Nice little sentimental number from BBDO, Melbourne for Pure Blonde beer. This one follows on from the previous Blonde beer Aussie classic trucker ad. Classic, men can be sensitive too.

Following on from the #ukhols Map, Vodafone UK has released another great little twitter tie in app, this time called Real-Time Top 40. Vodafone enlisted the help of Ben Marsh again (the man behind the #UKhols site) and they created a live top 40 chart of what people are listening to on Twitter, to promote the Vodafone Music Store.  Real-Time Top 40 is driven by people voting for music on Twitter, using the hashtag #RealTimeTop40 followed by the name of the artist and song they are listening to.

The site also includes some nice little digital media sharing and aggregations tools allowing you to share the site easily and see more of what Vodafone are up to online.

Check out http://www.realtimetop40.com/ to see it for yourself.

Click here to Win this List Stand a chance to win the following: 37” Full HD Samsung LCD TV, 13” Apple MacBook Laptop, New PS3 Slim (120GB), Guitar Hero World tour (Game/Guitar/Mic/Drum Kit), R500 voucher for John Wilson Liquor Store, and R400 voucher for  Look n Listen stores !!! Ok first up this is for South African peeps only (sorry everyone else, will make a plan next time). The deal is that Old Mutual have launched a new credit card that invests up to 1% of your purchase into a money market unit trust so in essence you save while you spend ! It’s called the Old Mutual Investment Credit Card Account. Other people are creating their own lists but I have gone out of my way to get all the above in on budget and just for you ! so if you vote for this list (Click Here) you can win all the above and even just for voting you can win daily prizes. The campaign is being run by Saatchi & Saatchi and trust me even the daily prizes are awesome. Give it go and please vote here, just think how much more fun friends will have when they pop over to your place for a drink or 5 !

Fantastic little spot from Young & Rubicam, New York for LG’s new enV Touch phone in the USA. Always love a good car chase, great filming and fantastic to see tiny cars running around the city.

The creators of the infamous “Shift Happens” presentation have just released their latest updated version. The people behind it are Laura Bestler, karl Finch and Scott McLeod. This latest update was development by XPLANE for  the The Economist Magazine who are hosting their third annual Media Convergence Forum in New York City on October 20th and 21st 2009. For more information, or to join the conversation, visit:http://mediaconvergence.economist.com/ and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/.

I’m hoping by the end of the year to have one of these in my garage !

I have been a huge Audi fan for some time and am just blown away by the radness of this new beauty that was revealed yesterday at the IAA motor show in Frankfurt.

When Audi released it at the show they kindly had the whole thing filmed and streamed live online , they also unveiled a new Electric version of the R8 called the e-tron that was the car behind the electricity untamed campaign I spoke about the other day here. The e-tron  will be on sale from 2012, its pretty crazy click here to read the e-tron specs etc.

Meanwhile check out the R8 Spyder specs and pics below, if you suddenly feel very generous / or happed to win a tone of cash just call me and will gladly accept one as a gift. (Its on sale now in Europe)
R8 Spyder Specs and pictures

• 5.2 FSI quattro Mid-mounted V10 engine producing 386 kW (525 hp)
• 0-100 km/h (62.14 mph) in 4.1 seconds
• Top speed of 313 km/h (194.49 mph)
• Carbon fibre composite side panels and rear boot top
• Cloth electric folding roof (Opens/closes in 19seconds)
• Audi Space Frame (ASF)
• Weighs: 1,720 kilograms (Manual gearbox)
• LED headlights
• 11 colour options for the car and 3 for the roof
• Bang & Olufsen sound system as standard
• High-resolution, 6.5-inch colour display & MMI control system
• Optional seatbelt microphones for the hands-free unit
• Base price: e156,400 ( £139,146.95 or $229,435.76)

For full specs / pics on the R8 Spyder and the new e-tron go to www.audicapetown.com