Russell has been voted one of Britain’s top ten illustrators, and also creates distinctive photographic images alongside a unique and comic view of the world in his obsessive, illustrated notebooks.
In this series of self-initiated drawings he shows there’s more than one way to depict cars - and our relationship with them. 
My Favourite Things: 6. The Anteloids - Yellow Joke
A nice piece of film-making to go with The Anteloids’ song Yellow Joke
Creative Team Simon Carbery and Dave Smith
Director Eric Anderson
Production Company Logan Los Angeles
Simon Carbery and Dave Smith’s spots on CNN worldwide demonstrate Hult graduates’ unique global view. Wire flying experts are shot on green screen mattes to simulate people flying high above the earth. Direction and post production was by Eric Anderson and team at award-winning production house Logan Los Angeles.
Press release: http://ewatch.prnewswire.com/rs/display.jsp?a=65105-1146138239-185356742&key=D|203203|P|222269|S|1146138239
In a recession it’s natural for businesses to want to save money.
One place where budgets are normally squeezed is marketing and advertising - even the biggest organisations follow this principle - but when you think about it, it isn’t very clever.
In a recession you need to stimulate interest.
And even if your sector’s shrinking, you can always get a bigger slice of the pie by taking share from your competitors.
You can only do this by being visible, being talked about, being top of mind, and being seen as selling something that’s desirable, reliable, or better value than the competition.
To do this you have to communicate.
That’s why smart companies don’t shrink their advertising and marketing activity in a recession – they increase it.
Movie titles for David Fincher’s THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO by Blur Studios are being heralded as the best movie titles ever: http://www.nextmovie.com/blog/girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-title-sequence/
Well, they’re certainly very watchable, and they’ve gone great guns in the viralosphere. But the best titles of all time? Not sure about that.
Apart from whether you think Trent Reznor’s version of Immigrant Song is a patch on Led Zeppelin’s original … what about a couple of other Fincher contenders from the same stable? ZODIAC, for example?
My vote would go to Fincher’s 15-year old titles for SE7EN? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3HV6jzMIYo
More startling imagery. More original music. In my humble opinion.
And best of all time? Well, there’s almost anything by Martin Scorsese, particularly the Saul Bass-designed titles for AGE OF INNOCENCE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MZDtoIZZWE
Once upon a time the cream of TV advertising design was influencing TV and film; now the reverse is true. Or it should be.
The best graphic design on film is now happening in movies and for BBC programme idents. Those of us working in advertising, branding and design can watch and learn.
My Favourite Things 5: Nokia live product launch, London.
Another bit of of lunacy from France:
http://richelieu-eminencerouge.blogspot.com/2011/11/disputatious-aquitaine.html
As a creative director and brand planner I’ve worked on many automobile projects. Ah, if only some of them had been as individual, memorable, beautiful, or downright silly as some of these …
1. Bond Bug
2. Bedford Dormobile
3. Panther deVille
4. Messerschmidt bubble car
5. Citroen Ami
6. Austin Metropolitan
7. Citroen Traction-Avant
8. Mini Moke
9. Reliant Supervan
10. Citroen Maserati
11. Matra-Simca Bagheera (3 seats, all in the front - my Dad had one)
A little bit of Franco-Bonkersness from BETC. Click here for the link …
