Chris Rawlinson

It’s always nice to be able to feature work that I helped on at Ogilvy, especially when its for a good cause. Last year through an introduction from one of our other clients, Volkswagen, we started to help the Wilderness foundation raise awareness to help save the Rhinos. Above is what we did. Enjoy.

Firstly congratulations to the New York Giants for winning the 46th The Super Bowl against the New England Patriots. The Super Bowl is almost always the most watched American television program of the year and last year drew an average audience of 111 million viewers in the USA alone! It’s no surprise then that advertisers [...]

When Volkswagen released their teaser trailer for the upcoming Super Bowl ad (now with over 10million views), I had a feeling the actual main ad would be a hard act to live up to. Above is the resulting campaign, its good, but not Star Wars child Darth Vader or singing dogs good. Good effort though [...]

Deutsch LA have released the above new Volkswagen commercial featuring Dogs dressed up in Star Wars outfits, and barking/singing the films iconic "Imperial March” song. The commercial is a teaser for their upcoming super bowl TV ad that will be aired super bowl night on the 27th January. The YouTube clip also links to http://web.vw.com/star-wars-invite/ [...]

2011 has been my first year of being officially with Ogilvy South Africa. It’s been incredible to watch the blood, sweat, and tears that go into making something that we see, and for the most part ignore, every day hundreds of times. It takes great creativity and courage (from clients and agencies) to create something [...]

VW, Netherlands and Achtung!, Netherlands are allowing the public to vote for their all time favourite classic VW on facebook at http://www.fanwagen.com. You can chose between the T1 van or the classic Beetle, one lucky voter will get the chance to win a custom 1 off customised VW.

Red Urban, Canada launched the new VW Beetle using huge billboard takeovers with the added twist that each billboard featured Augmented Reality tags. When people downloaded the app and pointed their phones/iPads at the billboards they became animated objects showing off the new Beetle. To download the app go to www.vwjuicedup.ca

Recently the new VW Jetta launched in South Africa, above our new Ogilvy Cape Town commercial for its release. Enjoy.