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Edinburghs Whitespace have done a great job with the Tennents website

The team at Whitespace have done a great job of portraying the Tennents universe.
Simple, polished design, well written copy and a lot of pride in the product.

Also surprised to see positive comments on the Drum, absolute shocker.

The new site is a platform for all aspects of the brand marketing campaign, with a new navigation panel  – The Tennent’s hub – allowing all assets of the site, including links to campaigns such as T-Break and Be Chilled, to be housed in one dedicated area.        

As well as providing information and history on the product and campaigns, it also allows users to view external content sites such as YouTube (for previous advertising campaigns) and is tied to the launch of Tennent's official Facebook page, again run by Whitespace, which has almost 200 fans in its first few days of launch.

Saw it on the Drum

     
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Bernbach's advertising contract with Avis

This is something you will never see in a RFP or tender today, if only modern agencies had the nerve to be so up front with new clients.

Philosophy image mercilessly borrowed from lebowitz.net

     
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bernbach-s-advertising-contract-with-avis-VdpVbREm2SBv8FEjRzCa.zip (273 KB)

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Edinburgh illustrator Verity Keniger - Lions and Tigers and Chocolate, oh my

On my stumbles through the internet I was stopped in my tracks by the website of Verity Keniger 
She worked on the we are friction book which is fantastic, so imagine my delight when I read she now lives in Edinburgh and also prints at the Edinburgh Printmakers, hope to see you there sometime!

I studied illustration and graphic design at the University of Brighton and graduated in 2008. In Summer 2009 I relocated to sunny Edinburgh where I'm focusing on illustrating and screen printing at Edinburgh Printmakers. I am a novice knitter, professional tea-drinker and aspiring baker. My chocolate beetroot cake is quite outstanding. 

         
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Edinburgh_illustrator_Verity_K.zip (1006 KB)

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Museum of London iPhone app uses augmented reality to show you the past in the present

The Museum of London has launched an iPhone app which cleverly brings its extensive art and photographic collections to the streets of the capital...
The free app, called StreetMuseum, has been developed with creative agency Brothers and Sisters and makes use of geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users to various sites in London where, via the iPhone screen, various historical images of the city appear.

Saw it on Creative Review 

         
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Museum_of_London_iPhone_app_us.zip (906 KB)

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Honda with W+K make the worlds largest LED screen... with cars

Before you read on, go see the advert and amazing page takeover on Vimeo - click here

Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam created this 60 second spot to showcase the Honda Insight - Honda's new "affordable hybrid" model. The commercial features a vast grid of Insights parked in the desert; their headlights acting as pixels in a animated sequence. See W+K's making-of film below for more details about the commercial was put together...

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Brighton illustrators get their freak on


Brighton Freakshow is a carefully hand selected illustration show exhibiting some of Brighton's finest image making talent. Appropriately housed in the epic setting of St. Peters Church, Brighton Freakshow will form part of the 2010 Open House Festival in Brighton, UK. 

The Exhibition will run every saturday throughout May between 10am and 4.00pm.

         
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Being gay for advertising or: 'Why I had to leave Ireland'

My workmates reckon this is why I ended up in Edinburgh.
Sniff, my Mother and Father just didn't understand. Its a bridge I hope to mend some day.

The clip was written by Y&R interns Jordan Cohen and Mishelle Menzies, who will be showing their books at Portfolio Night 8 in Toronto on May 20.

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KLM launch their economy comfort seating at Manchester airport with an invisible chair

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Can you tell how they did it yet? Answers in the comments!

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Pearlfishers packaging work for Jamie Oliver is darn impressive

Based in London, some impressive brands and more impressive work.

                 
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Pearlfishers_packaging_work_fo.zip (597 KB)

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What the Guardian could have looked like - Richard Turley, art director of The Guardian’s G2

Richard Turley, art director of The Guardian’s G2 section, has just completed a redesign of Bloomberg Businessweek. Intriguingly, it includes some ideas that were originally intended for The Guardian’s redesign

The redesign comes following Bloomberg’s takeover of Business Week and the magazine’s renaming to reflect that fact. Turley relocated to New York to carry out the project, on which he worked with type designer Christian Schwartz, who also worked, with Paul Barnes, on The Guardian redesign in 2004 (Barnes also worked on CR’s recent redesign).

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