Thornberg & Forester collaborate with Razorfish on the new Samsung Galaxy S III campaign. The new smart phone features a touch screen, increased storage, wireless charging, and a voice assistance program. The design team was selected by Razorfish to create 2D and 3D assets and animation for the campaign launch.
In May, Ruud Baan flew to China to shoot Nike China‘s latest retail and press campaign featuring an array of Olympic athletes including Zhang Xi and Xue Chen (beach volleyball) and Yi Jian Lian and Zhu Fang Yu (basketball). During the four day shoot, Ruud captured the athletes in action doing their signature moves. Currently the press kit photos are out and the final retail shots (with more sport categories) will be released in Nike China stores nationwide and Taiwan starting August 27th.
Mopar, the automotive parts and service arm of Chrysler, is celebrating 75 years in business. In honor of the anniversary, Mopar and Union Agency tapped Tim Marrs to create an illustrated 30-second advertisement. Chris Curtis of Passion Pictures directed the ad.
Tom Corbett captures classic Americana denim for the August issue of Shape Magazine. The eight-page spread features the season’s best denim trends.
FriendsWithYou’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong! Happy Rainbow opens as a full scale public experience for the new territories. Find out more on this magical rainbow shrine!
Douglas Friedman captures three spreads in the August issues of Harper’s Bazaar and InStyle Magazine. He photographed heiresses Tamara and Petra Ecclestone and Belstaff CEO Harry Slatkin for Harper’s Bazaar and reality tv host Cat Deeley for InStyle.
Jason Bruges Studio transforms an underused section of London’s Southbank Centre. The design studio was commissioned by Havells-Sylvania, the lighting arm of India’s largest lighting and electrical manufacturer, to create an original piece for the space. The piece, “The 21st Century Light Space Modulator” will be located under the Hungerford Bridge, which gets upwards of 22 million visitors a year.
We Are The Rhoads capture a summer photo essay about hitting the hills for Kinfolk Magazine. Kinfolk’scool niche community of artists share an interest in good food and the culture of small gatherings. In the words of editor Nathan Williams, the publication’s fourth volume promotes “meaningful ways to connect and entertain…celebrating long-standing traditions we’ve always cherished, while also reminding ourselves to start a few of our own.”
Art meets action in a collaboration between Tristan Eaton and international soccer superstar and current Red Bulls forward Thierry Henry. Henry used his soccer talents to unveil a 24 x 21 foot mural created by Eaton at Madison Square Garden this past Friday in front of an audience of thousands. From 30 feet out, Henry struck the ball at five targets that launched a series of triggers and objects-in-motion that produced and revealed a work of art inspired by the Red Bulls and the city of New York.
Tom Corbett showcases the must-haves of the Festival Season in this eight-page fashion story in Cosmo UK’s July issue.
Kai & Sunny’s cover for Little White Lies is the winner of a D&AD Award. The annual awards celebrate outstanding work in design and advertising. This year the D&AD is celebrating their 50th Anniversary. Kai & Sunny’s Little White Lies cover won in the Magazine and Newspaper Design/Entire Magazine category.
Martin Morrell’s photograph covers Photo District News (PDN). The August 2012 issue is called Travel & Location. The image, of a man riding a motorbike in Burma, was originally shot for Condé Nast Traveler UK earlier this year.
Bernstein & Andriulli celebrated their latest book “Best Piece of Advice Ever” – a collaborative effort with Creative Social, designed by ilovedust – in London at the infamous Shoreditch space “Village Underground” on June 26.
Olaf Hajek’s second monograph, Black Antoinette: The Work of Olaf Hajek, launches today. The book is a collection of Hajek’s most recent work created over the last three years. Inside the artwork is mostly editorial contracts and commercial portraits and melds his influences from West African and Latin American art. Dr. Philipp Demandt, the head of Berlin’s Old National Gallery, wrote the preface.
Craig Ward brings words to life to promote Macy’s 36th Annual Fireworks Display in New York. The department store approached Ward to create original light typography for the campaign. The end result is inspired by classic geometry of 1920′s Broadway style fonts.
