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Emily's Story

November 29th, 2012 / Comments (0)
“Emily’s Story” is the true story of a child’s life threatening illness and the joy Children’s Wish Foundation brought to her and her family’s life. Beautifully animated by Crush, "Emily's Story" is one film in a campaign for the Children’s Wish Foundation via KBS+P Toronto and sponsored by Gravol. Sniff.

Children's Wish Foundation - Emily's Story from CRUSH on Vimeo.
Life of Pi VFX Breakdown

November 28th, 2012 / Comments (0)
The Only Cartier Box You May Ever Get to Open

November 28th, 2012 / Comments (0)
Interactive designers Zigelbaum + Coelho created a reactive window display, allowing passersby to wave open jewelry boxes at Cartier in NYC.
Projecteo: The Tiny Instagram Projector

November 27th, 2012 / Comments (0)
With an $18k fundraising goal on Kickstarter, he's already raised more than $60k. Looks like this thing is going to go.
Old Spice: Dikembe Mutombo's 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World

November 26th, 2012 / Comments (0)
As part of their “Believe in Your Smelf” campaign, everyone's favorite men’s musk, Old Spice, has dropped this retro 8-bit game ahead of the Mayan's apparent prediction that the world will end on December 21st. Saving the world has never been so easy, or so needed, or so video game based. Try it out.

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Why Doesn't MTV Play Music Videos Anymore?

November 19th, 2012 / Comments (0)
In this installment of "Ask A Network Head," Natalie asks the head of programming at MTV why they stopped playing music videos. And gets an honest answer.
The Donky Bike

November 14th, 2012 / Comments (0)
Cargo load is carried on the frame, not the handlebars, so the steering and handling remain light and balanced. Nice idea, for sale now.
Girls, Guns and Explosives B-Movie Scenes Choreographed with Umbrellas

November 13th, 2012 / Comments (0)
Through the use of various mediums. creative director Anna Burns and photographer Thomas Brown have curated an exhibition that explores the masculine world of B-Movies and juxtaposed it with the traditional British landscape. Using the themes of said movies – girls, guns and explosives – and twisting it against a very British backdrop these two challenge not only the premise of each subject but also the use of their chosen medias.

Just awesome.

POP POP BANG from Thomas Brown on Vimeo.

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Dear Jr Creative, Earn Your Place. You’ll Be Better For It.

05/21/2013 - 10:32 / Comments (0)

by Anonymous

Dear Jr Creative,

I’m a firm believer in earning your keep, starting from the bottom, doing the less than desirable well, before moving up...
How to Spend $275 Million in 48 Minutes: Three Super Bowl Ad Trends for 2013

02/01/2013 - 16:54 / Comments (0)

by joshhogan

Want to watch $275 Million get spent in 48 minutes? Just tune into CBS at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday to see one of America's greatest primetime displays...
The school of life.

11/21/2012 - 17:38 / Comments (0)

by The Auckland Egotist

Yesterday a reader asked us "how do you get into advertising?", our knee jerk reaction was to ship them off to the nearest ad school for a year or...