TA2:: Vail Resort TV - Crispin Porter + Bogusky Colorado

Tattoo's latest adventure in Sound Design brings us to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado for the newest Vail Resort TV spot from Crispin Porter + Bogusky [US].

AGENCY: Crispin Porter + Bogusky Colorado
SENIOR INTEGRATED PRODUCER: Aaron Kovan
ASSOCIATE COPYWRITER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Matt Talbot
ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR / CREATIVE DIRECTOR: Andrew Lincoln
DIRECTORS: Purchase Brothers
SOUND DESIGN: Tattoo Sound + Music

TA2 BREAKING NEWS:: TYSON KUTEYI JOINS TATTOO!

Award-winning Producer, Composer, Recording and Mixing Engineer Tyson Kuteyi joins Tattoo Sound + Music's director roster. From K'naan to Ginuwine to Nelly Furtado, Kuteyi's mad mixing skills have kept him at the front of the soundboard for a plethora of North America's finest musical talent, as well as being the ad industry's right hand man for session compositions and mixes. Watch this space for more news on Kuteyi's arrival.

Many welcomes to you, Ty guy.

TA2:: Audi Quattro Magnet Cars

Check out Tattoo's latest original composition for Audi Quattro Magnet Cars. From Agency Lowe Roche: "The legendary Audi quattro all-wheel drive system sticks to the road like nothing else. Super-powerful rare-earth magnets were attached to miniature models of Audi vehicles, which were then stuck on metal surfaces in the midst of the crowds attending the Toronto International Film Festival. After people have struggled to pry the cars free, they see a message on the bottom of the car: 'Nothing sticks like quattro.'"

AGENCY: Lowe Roche
Copywriter: Michael Takasaki
Art Director: Glen D'Souza
Music & Sound Design: Tattoo Sound + Music

TA2:: TIFF

They say there are only seven basic plot lines in the realm of storytelling, and every movie we see, book we hear or story re-told is a variation of these seven prime plots. This has always posed an interesting predicament for screenwriters and filmmakers - how do you make something original when it's been done 300 times before?

Cue RBC's campaign for TIFF 2010. Copywriter Chris Joakim and Art Director Mike Donaghey of BBDO Toronto took three basic & overdone plotlines, twisting them into a hilarity of re-telling goodness. Encouraging the creative innovation of the works in TIFF, the campaign is based on seeing something absolutely original. Music & sound design by Tattoo Sound + Music.








AGENCY: BBDO Toronto
Copywriter: Chris Joakim
Art Director: Mike Donaghey
Music & Sound Design: Tattoo Sound + Music

TA2:: Drive Change with Kia

Tattoo's latest highlights Kia's Drive Change program, a campaign centered around the brand's commitment to social responsibility. Read more about the campaign here.

AGENCY: David & Goliath
Creative Director: Israel Diaz
Copywriter: Greg Buri
Art Director: Basil Cowieson
Music & Sound Design: Tattoo Sound + Music

Tonight - Films that Move: Lemonade

Tonight is the Toronto premiere of Eric Proulx's debut film project, Lemonade.

"More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this Great Recession. Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives."
More info here.


Get FREE tickets here.

Advertising on Flies!

Has PETA released a statement yet?

Advertising on Flies!

Has PETA released a statement yet?

Street Installations: Mark Jenkins

This man fully understands the potential of a mannequin.
More here.

The Unicorn Awards

One horn to rule them all. Introducing the One Shot Film Festival, a recently launched online award fest to celebrate creativity in the midst of recession.
The premis? Budgets may be diminishing, markets may be crashing, but the OSFF aims to award the innovators who refuse to let the industry die.
Completely FREE to enter, the OSFF will award Gold, Silver and Bronze Unicorns to winning entrants. More info here.

It Happens When Nobody's Watching

Agency Jung von Matt in Hamburg, Germany has won a Cannes Silver Lion for their powerful digital print ad on domestic violence. The outdoor ad for Amnesty International features an eye-tracking camera whereupon the image of a seemingly regular couple changes to an act of domestic violence when the observer looks away from the poster, accompanied with the tag line "It Happens When Nobody's Watching".

For more info, click here.

Comics: Words & Pictures

Words & Pictures is a weekly online comic that follows the adventures of a creative team in a large advertising agency.

Sorry that this one is as big as I can get. But it touches on the hilarity that is the recession. Click on it to ACTUALLY read it and laugh. Laugh at the comic, cry about your non-existent expense account.



www.wordsandpicturesonline.com

I Spy With My Little Eye...

Something that begins with "C":


Cossette's campaign for McDonald's Free Coffee is seeing gigantic steaming coffee cups pop up all over Toronto's city centre. This one was spotted at Dundas Square on April 13th. The reason? McDonald's is going to be giving out free Premuim Roast coffee between April 20th - May 3rd to all who visit during breakfast hours [5 AM - 10:30 AM]. It's FREE and improved! No more McDonald's Coffee Tears shed, yippee!

Image by graphicmatt on Flickr.

Life's For Sharing: T Mobile

How much do you wish you were in Liverpool Street Station in January?!!

T Mobile's Life's For Sharing Campaign [2009] kicked off with 350 dancers secretly and strategically placed around London's Liverpool Street Station, who busted out into dance as soon as music started blaring across the concourse. The ad was filmed by 10 secret cameras on January 15th, and aired on Channel 4 on the morning of January 16th, 2009, going on for a decent run on Youtube.

The idea is nothing new - we've seen staged breakouts like this from Improv Everywhere in New York [remember Grand Central Station in 2008? Click here to view] and even our own little Subway Dance Party here in the T Dot, but lack of originality doesn't make it any less fun.

I propose we learn the moves and meet up at Union Station... anyone?

Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, London

Becoming Kate

Anyone with the February blahs is bound to have their heartstrings tugged at by this ad. Tourism Australia's Destination Campaign is pretty much flawless. Produced by Baz Luhrmann, it appeals to the overworked, the underplayed, and has impeccable timing. Who doesn't want a small aborigonal child to transport you to a sunny place and remind you of the important things in your life right now?

The format is as simple as IKEA flat pack. Take your pick of an overworked capitalized city, add a romance tale, the promise of better days and bam! Advertising gold. You almost expect Monster.com to pop up as the end graphic, almost like the commercial is a twisted Australian double date between Daniel Kleinman and Baz Luhrmann. Watch the Shanghai version here:



Read more on the Destination Campaign here.

We Laugh. You Laugh Too:

This is the new ad for Monster.com
Daniel Kleinman strikes gold yet once again!
Agency: BBDO, New York
For all the credit info, click here.

ADCC Awards

Behold - the Magic Book of the ADCC Awards:


[Angelic choir sings]

Last night's ADCC awards kicked off at 6:30 at the MacMillan Theatre, Toronto, followed by a banging after party at The ROM.

Congratulations to Saatchi & Saatchi Toronto's VP and Creative Director Daniel Charron who won a Merit award for our TA2 relaunch and design. The TA2 can be viewed on page 79 in The Book of GRAPHIC DESIGN section.
We love it:

Félicitations, Daniel! Without you, we'd have no TA-2.


More congratulations are in order for Steve Mykolyn [CD], Nathan Monteith [AD], Dave Luxton [AD] and Stefan Wegner [CW] at TAXI Toronto for winning a GOLD in the Business to Consumer category for the Aviva Microsite campaign.

TATTOO did the Music & Sound Design for this GOLD winning project.


The AVIVA campaign can be found on page 134 in The Book of INTERACTIVE DESIGN section.


Daniel Charron was featured in Marketing Magazine's "Plus ça Change" issue [October 27, 2008]. Read more here.
For more on the ADCC Awards and Organization, click here.

It's HERE!

Party People!
The moment you've all been waiting for - DAVID ANGELO is on ADBEATS!!
Tell your speakers! Tell your neighbours! Tell your Mom!

**NOTE: This mix is guaranteed to make you fall in the pool. Please use proper flotation devices when listening to this mix**

To listen, click here.

Track listing:
1 Jazzanova | Rendez vous | Instrumental
2 Bagpack Selects | Bushwick Summer
3 Jazz Juice | Batidas Succulentas
4 Jazzanova | This is the Place | Instrumental
5 Secret Love | Combiner
6 Beatspoke | Dig Deeper | Dave de Gato Mix
7 Dubnosis | Bashmental | Sumsuch Math Mix
8 The Jazzual Suspects | This Beat
9 Brawcast | Calm Down
10 Gagle | Scene
11 Thievery Corporation | Sound the Alarm
12 Tek 9 | Is it On | Nightmares on Wax Mix
13 Phuture motion | Balero
14 Michna | Believe in It
15 Mark Farina | Life
16 The Jazzual Suspects | Ba Dada
17 Karma | Beach Towel | icube Cosmic Marathon Remix
18 Ben Mono | Jesus was a B Boy | TJ Kong + Dos Santos Remix
19 Wojtek Urbanski | Violet Violin
20 Dusty | Loco Para la Pista
21 Sharon Jones + the Dap Kings | Keep on Looking | Kenny Dope Remix

Muse - Friday, November 7th

TODAY IS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7th 2008.
WELCOME TO SHOWCASE!











Ladies, calm yourselves.

This is the Remington Hunk, brainchild of Albion London's Liz Moss and Aimee Lewis. He can be your new desktop boyfriend with two clicks of a mouse!
Why go out this evening when Remington Hunk is there for you at home?
He bakes, works out, and -
Quick, break up with your boyfriend! He even breakdances!




Download the Remington Hunk here.
For more on Albion London, click here.






If you're out and about in MANCHESTER this Saturday [November 8th], be sure to check out The Third Manchester Artists’ Book Fair at the Holden Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University. Doors open at 11 AM.

ESPECIALLY check out the collaborative work from Francis Van Maele [Redfoxpress, Ireland] and Kim Hye-Mee [Anticham, Seoul].







View their blog & work here.



HAPPY FRIDAYS TO YOU WITH LOVE FROM TATTOO

AdBeats | 2008 | Episode 2: Human After All feat. Jeff Goodby

In case you didn't know...Tattoo produces a monthly mixshow where advertising and music make out. World's biggest creatives with the world's hottest music. It's got thousands of subscribers around the globe and it's the official show of Ihaveanidea.org.

Fresh out the oven...a brand new episode of Adbeats featuring Jeff Goodby from Goodby + Silverstein + Partners.

New music from: Santogold, MIA, MSTRKRFT, MGMT, DJ Mehdi and many others.

Peep it herrre:





Tracklisting:

1 Daft Punk - Voyager (Revolte remix)
2 Alex Metric - In Your Machine
3 Victor Veros - Chasing Cool
4 Fred Falke & Savage - Wait For Love
5 DJ Mehdi - Signatune (Dave Dresden edit)
6 Fred Falke - Last Wave
7 The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)
8 Scenario Rock - Both Gotta Move On (Sebastien remix)
9 MSTRKRFT - VuVuVu
10 Daft Punk - Human After All
11 Santogold - Say Aha
12 Hercules and Love Affair - Iris
13 MIA - Paper Planes (dfa remix)
14 MGMT - Time to Pretend