Archive | June, 2011

Audi: A6 Interactive Q&A Banner

Though I would share with you an interesting project that our interactive team at Ogilvy Cape Town recently created. For the launch of the new Audi A6 in SA they have created an interactive banner that allows you to ask questions about the car to Audi’s Product Marketing Manager, Rudi Venter. The mechanism directly emails [...]

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Nokia: Split screen Love Story

Wonderful short film from JW Griffiths telling the love story of a couple meeting up from New York and Paris through a split screen view. The chap recently won the Nokia Shorts 2011 competition, all entries had to be shot on a Nokia N8 and have a budget of under $5000. Related PostsNokia X6 Touch [...]

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Coca Cola: Plant Billboard

Coca Cola and the WWF have teamed up to create this giant billboard in the Philippines made up of 3,600 Fukien tea plants, which help to absorb pollution. The Plants are contained in recycled Coke bottles and irrigated to keep them fresh and alive. Great work guys. Related PostsCoca-Cola: Bottle Bat Handle Coca-Cola: Magic Machine [...]

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Blogilvy: Cannes Lions fun with Chris Gotz

One of the things I love the most about working with Ogilvy are all the fascinating people I keep meeting/working with in the group. One of my biggest hero’s so far is our ECD (Ogilvy Cape Town’s Chief creative guru chap) Chris Gotz. Anyone who can constantly inspire you, is extremely clever, and always can [...]

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Walkers Crisps: Sandwich Campaign (Cannes)

This above brilliant campaign from Walkers crisps was another big winner at this years Cannes Lions awards for Creative Effectiveness. What I love about this short overview of the campaign is the way they got the client to explain it. I know it may seem like a small thing but I’m pretty sure if agencies [...]

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Bing: DECODE JAY-Z (Cannes Winner)

Last week saw in the worlds annual advertising ego justification awards, namely Cannes. This above campaign won big for the Integrated and Titanium selection and have been looking for a case study video since its launch last year so here it is! Fantastic work by Droga5 NYC, for Microsoft’s Bing Search engine. Related PostsBing: Fast [...]

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Wordsworth Books: The Art Behind the Music

Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has made up these great illustrations to tell the story of three iconic musicians for the launch of their biographies in a series of in-store posters for Wordsworth Books. The poster campaign featured musical greats, Keith Richard, Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson, which used the art of music to tell [...]

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Ogilvy: Inspire Me David #DO100

Today would have been David Ogilvy’s 100th birthday. To help celebrate this momentous occasion we decided to make a site called www.inspiremedavid.com. As David is still quoted regularly we took 100 of his quotes and randomised them on the site. Once you find a quote you like you can share it on Twitter or Facebook. [...]

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