A truly exceptional dishwasher

It was just a week ago that I wrote a post about a nice advertising campaign, consisting in a wonderfully rendered computer graphics octopus in a kitchen, and today I've stumbled in a pretty similar one.

This time the ad is not playing with the fishy smell of the octopus, but rather with its sticky pads, infact the client is Vileda the famous rubber gloves brand.

The creator is Garrigosa Studios, an agency which is responsible for the creative ads behind brands like 7-Up, Honda, Nike and Audi. Based in Barcelona, Spain, the company is a full service photography and retouching studio that brings campaigns to life in unexpected ways. Their work has earned them several prestigious awards including the coveted Cannes Lion in numerous categories, over many years.

Photographer Joan Garrigosa
Post Production Alex Torrens
Agency FP7, Doha
Client Vileda

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there's a fishy smell in the kitchen...

If we speak about advertising campaigns, in my opinion there's nothing better than PLATINUM FMD, a brazilian studio which has become famous for their visually astounding campaigns realized with a mixture of 3d, Photoshop and studio photography.

take a look to these previous SeaWayBLOG posts:

• Around the sun
• Fire and Water

In this case it's a campaign for a producer of extractor hoods for kitchen, playing with the bad smell you can have in your kitchen after having cooked some fish....
created by PLATINUM FMD

PHOTO: LEONARDO VILELA

3D: BERNARDO BARBI / LUCIANO HONORATO

MANIPULATION: LUCIANO HONORATO / FLAVIO ALBINO

Agency: Mc Cann

Art Director: Paulo Salgueiro

Client: Falmec

Water Sculptures

©Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov

A nice little set of "liquid sculptures": flowers and a star created with water splashes.
The authors are Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov, a russian couple of advertising and fashion photographers. You can check their portfolio in their website: DOBERMANSTUDIO.RU


©Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov

©Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov

©Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov

©Alexandra Zaharova & Ilya Plotnikov

Chimeras of the digital age (part 2)

Many time ago I've published a gallery of pictures realized with Photoshop. I called theam "Chimeras of the digital age" because they were the fusion of an aquatic animal with a not aquatic one. It's time to add a second part: this time the artists have merged an aquatic animal with a vegetable! The source of both galleries is Worth1000, a famous creative contest community on the web. Every day they run a few different types of creative contests (photo-editing, photography, illustration and more). Enjoy these impossible but pretty funny creatures:


Melon Turtle



Banana Fish


PotaToad


Strawberry Frog


Apple fish

Protection

A beautiful image (I love the concept) realized by Jaap Vliegenthart. Vliegenthart is a famous photographer and digital artist mainly engrossed in the advertising field. I've already shown one of his most famous work in this post

It's not a game anymore

IT'S NOT a gaME anymore

"90 percent of all large fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half century"

This clever and beutifully designed environmental ad, inspired by the famous 80s arcade videogame Arkanoid has been created by designer Alexander Nedelev, aka rw-winder. You can know his works at his website

The following are two other subjects from the same capaign, called IT'S NOT a gaME anymore, against the impoverishment of natural resources:


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Stop the climate change.. before it changes you!

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Stop climate change before it changes you.

Advertising Agency: Germaine, Antwerp, Belgium
Creative Director: André Plaisir
Art Director: Gilles Stienon
Copywriter: Geerard Van de Walle
Photographer: Christophe Gilbert
Published: January 2008


The umpteenth WWF capaign to raise awareness against the global warming. As usual it's very nice, so nice that I think that the idea could have devoleped further and other different fishmen (or squidman, octopusman, sharkman, crabman.. the possibilities are almost endless) could have been created. Don't you think?

Around the sun

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Life revolves around the sun. Use Sundown.

Agency: DDB, Brasil
Creative Director: Sergio Valente, Julio Andery
Art director: Denis Kakazu
Copywriter: Aricio Fortes
Photographer: Platinum

Beautiful campaign for Johnson & Johnson. The visual impact is amazing...

We are drowning

Yet another truly inspired global warming awareness campaign.

We are drowning. Rescue us from global warming.

Advertising Agency: Daehong Communications, Seoul, S.Korea
Art Director: Kim, Junghwa
Copywriter: Lee, Kikwan
Illustrator: Lee, Juyong
Published: March 2008

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This time its the turn of Green Korea, an organization for the protection and conservation of the environment. The idea of human shaped island is brilliant and the realization too, the "Hand" island really resembles those fantastic rocks full of plants you can find in the Phuket area in Thailand. I find the "Face" island somehow less effective, probably because the hand is more recognizable and give a better sense of impending tragedy.



Global Warming is and has been a very hot topic for the creatives around the world.
You can see other Global Warming campaigns here:

Swimming over New York
Don't let this be our future
Stop the global warming
Global Warming Collection

Is it a snake or a garden hose?

Another Advertising with animals. This time it's a celever campaign by Mitsubishi playing with the differences and the similarities between animals ans some not-living counterparts. My favourite is the one with the snake and the garden hose, great idea!



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Agency: BBBDO, Santiago
Executive Creative Director: Joaquin Bascuñan, Fernando Riveros
Creative Director: Emerson Navarrete
Art Director: Emerson Navarrete, Silvio Vildosola, Sebastian Caceres
Copywriter: Christian Alvarado, Rodrigo Cid, Andres Jamasmie
Illustrator: Ricardo Salamanca

Creatures from the Deep Blue Jeans

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This is a very imaginative advertising campaign, realized by Saatchi & Saatchi for Quicksilver blue-jeans line "Deep Blue".

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, Copenhagen, Denmark
Creative Director: Simon Wooller
Art Directors / Copywriters: Rasmus Petersen, Lasse Bækbo Hinke
Post Production: Morten Meldgaard, Utopia Design


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If you are interested in fishes and other creatures of the deep (in their authentic appearance, without the fashionable jeansy style..) check this post:
Creatures from the Abyss

The Lighthouse

Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom

A panicked lighthouse keeper must turn on his lamp to avert disaster as a ship approaches in the heavy fog. Cue gags involving over sized light bulbs.

How to put a whale into a squid (and a hippo in a frog...)

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This is a nice campaign called "Store the impossible" to promote Sony Micro Vaults. You have to click and enlarge the pictures otherwise it's difficult to spot the squid or the frog and their funny faces.


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The campaign have been awarded with Clio 2008 Print Bronze and Cannes Lions 2008 Press Silver awards.

Advertising Agency: Promoseven, Dubai, UAE
Creative Director / Copywriter: Ali Ali
Art Director: George Azmy
Illustrator/3D: Furia
Photographer: Jaime Mandelbaum

The campaign features also a rat that swallowed an elephant... it's not water-related but I can't leave it outside!


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Isn't there some fishy smell?

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Another nice campaign for our Advertising section. In this case we're talking about "Super Lock Food Containers" which with their slogan "Lock in the right place" suggest us a solution for unpleasent smells.
The genuine idea of the agency has been replacing moustache with varied parts of fish. The result is awesome and have granted them an award in the Cannes Advertising Fetsival of 2007


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Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson
Agency Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Executive Creative Director: Philip Rowell
Creative Director: Suvit Jaturiyasajagul / Wichit Jiamsirikarn / Jureeporn Thaidumrong Copywriter: Wichit Jiamsirikarn/Jureeporn Thaidumrong
Art Director: Suvit Jaturiyasajagul
Photographer: Chub Nokkaew
Account Supervisor: Opapen Kittipanyakul
Advertiser / Client: JCP Plastic Parts
Product / Service: Super Lock Food Containers

WWF anti-pollution campaign

A single tin of paint can pollute millions of litres of water
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This is a clever advertising campaign realized by Contrapunto for WWF. The anti-pollution message is marvellously rendered by a great Photoshop work
(Silver Award, Cannes Lions 2007).


A single can of dissolvent pollutes millions of litres of water
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I've already posted a WWF advertising here:
Stop the global warming
and other smart environmental campaigns here:
Don't let this be our future
Water nuclear explosion
Global Warming Collection

Finally, you can find all the water related advertisings in SeaWayBLOG's ADVERTISING section

Water Shrews: a Matrix fight

If you've liked "Oktapodi", the animated short movie I've posted some days ago probably you'll be delighted to see another short cartoon: "Our Incredible Nature". This time the protagonists are the Water Shrews, those little aquatic rodents. Enjoy their fight for mating in a glorious Matrix slow-motion style.



Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom
Director Tomer Eshed
Screenplay: Tomer Eshed
Director of Photography: Tomer Eshed
Editor: Tomer Eshed
Music: Stefan Maria Schneider, Filmorchester Babelsberg
Producer Anne Baeker
Production Company: Hochschule fuer Film & Fernsehen 'Konrad Wolf'/Potsdam-Babelsberg
with the voices of John Berwick

The author is Tomer Eshed, from the German Film & Television Academy (HFF).

If you're curious to see how Water Shrews look in reality click the picture below to see a gallery by Josef Hlasek


© Josef Hlasek

Oktapodi!

Directed by Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Nokhberi Music by Kenny Wood

"Oktapodi" is a wonderful multi-award winning animated short film. The story of tentacles and tenaciousness of two octopuses in a greek island, realized by some graduated students of the french school "Gobelins,l'ecole de l'image".
Visit the official site of Oktapodi to see a gallery of images and an interesting "making of".

Water Chupa Chups

Two nice ads from the famous lollipop manufacturer


Advertising Agency: Nongshim Communications, Seoul, South Korea
Executive Creative Director: Won-Kyu Jo
Creative Director: Nam-Kil Liu
Associate Creative Director: Sang-Moon Im
Copywriters: Ji-Yeon Han/Seung-il Park
Art Director: Sung-Ha Park
Photographer: Joo-Han Lee
Illustrator: Jae-Gon Yoo

Prankster Penguin

Probably Arctic is a quite boring place... but this penguin has found a way to entertain himself!