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Boards Online | February 9, 2010
Boards presents Boulder Digital Works is a series of educational workshops set to land in cities around the world to educate industry and agency executives in the digital realm, launching in Toronto in April. continue
Boards Online | February 9, 2010
Jon Kamen (pictured) to chair inaugural Cannes Lions Film Craft jury; Kevin Roddy to chair 2010 AICP Next Awards; People moves at Firstborn, MCBD and GSD&M Idea City continue
Boards Online | February 8, 2010
Another Super Bowl Sunday has passed, which means another crop of commercials has landed in Boards' inbox. Favorites the Indianapolis Colts may have lost out to the New Orleans Saints in a nail-biting game, but how did the ads compare? Were the commercials during Super Bowl XLIV worth skipping a trip to the toilet for? Not really. But the ads are always worth a look on the Internet afterwards. continue
Boards Online | February 4, 2010
BBDO, New York announced three new executive creative director hires this week, including Mathias Appelblad, a former interactive creative director at Forsman & Bodenfors, who will also take on the newly-created role of director of innovation. Boards caught up with Appelblad to discuss the new role, the predominance of Swedish creative in the interactive realm and what he hopes to achieve going forward. continue
Boards Online | February 4, 2010
Alex Bogusky (pictured) explains his new chief creative insurgent role at MDC Partners; BBDO, New York hires three new ECDs; Poke co-founder Iain Tait joins Wieden+Kennedy, Portland; Toy, New York to close; People moves at AKQA, Anomaly and Stink continue
Boards Online | February 2, 2010
Directors Neill Blomkamp and Joachim Back, French collective h5 and RSA Films-repped feature filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow are among the commercial talents up for Academy Awards this year. continue
Boards Online | February 2, 2010
Epoch Films signs Jessica Sanders (pictured); The Art Directors Club unveils ADC Hybrid jury; AICE Awards add Design category; People moves and new signings at RSA Films, Saville Productions, Blinkart and droga5, Sydney. continue
Boards Online | February 1, 2010
After three nominations, MJZ director Tom Kuntz picked up the prize for outstanding commercial direction at the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles on Saturday night. continue
Boards Online | January 29, 2010
BBH, New York, Glue, London and 1st Avenue Machine kicked off the first round of Google Chrome's European advertising with an art opening and reception at 201 Mulberry St. in New York on Jan. 13 that showcased the crafty set pieces from the tech giant's "Features" web films. continue
Boards Online | January 28, 2010
The March issue of Boards is all about innovation - an inescapable word these days. It was in the blog posts breathlessly anticipating Apple's iPad launch earlier this week, it was central to President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday night, and recently it's been the focal point in a host of campaigns, from brands as varied as LEGO, Guinness and Nike. continue
Boards Online | January 28, 2010
Plans for Super Bowl Sunday? If you find yourself in the Los Angeles area on the day of the big game, drop by Boards, MassMarket and the poolhouse's Super Bowl party at The Waterfront restaurant in Marina del Rey on February 7. continue
Boards Online | January 28, 2010
This is it folks! The final deadline for First Boards Awards entries is upon us, so get your entries together and submit today! The entry system will close Friday, January 29, 11pm EST. continue
Boards Online | January 26, 2010
In an age of torrents and TiVo, does anyone still care what network a TV show is on? It's a question crucial to the agencies, design and animation studios that assist a network in developing and executing its brand identity. In a landscape where network promotion is increasingly show-led, we take a look at the top rebrands of the past decade that demonstrated why a network is more than just the sum of its programming. continue
Boards Online | January 26, 2010
People watch shows, not networks. It's an observation shared by many television execs when considering the time and money they'll allot to comprehensive rebrands. But as UKTV's Dave rebrand shows, audiences still do care about the network and when a rebrand is done right, it can turn viewers into channel advocates. continue
Boards Online | January 26, 2010
Sound Lounge hires EP Gloria Pitagorsky (pictured); New signings for Academy Films, Landia and Moxie Pictures; One Show Interactive and Art Directors Club Advertising juries announced continue
Boards Magazine | January 21, 2010
While network promotion is increasingly show-led, the brand is still the thing. We examine the top rebrands of the past decade that were notable for getting it right continue
Boards Online | January 21, 2010
Director Spike Jonze and vodka brand Absolut will premiere a robot romance short film called I'm Here at the Sundance Film Festival Thursday night as part of the Opening Night Shorts Program. continue
Boards Magazine | January 21, 2010
BBH, Glue and 1st Avenue get crafty for Google Chrome continue
Boards Magazine | January 21, 2010
CP+B searches for the other you with Coke Zero’s Facial Profiler app continue
Boards Magazine | January 21, 2010
Two producers in Mexico City talk pulling favors continue
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Behind The Scenes Blog | February 4, 2010
The world author Lewis Carroll conveys between the pages of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is extraordinary enough, but imagine what it would be like to get inside the author's imagination as he was writing the book. Directing duo DuckEye ventured to re-imagine Carroll's mindset in a new promo "Alice & Lewis" for French music collective The Fitzcarraldo Sessions featuring Moriarty. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | January 25, 2010
Twenty years after he bowed out of the London pub rock scene to become a director, Danny Kleinman found his desire to perform rekindled, and then fanned into a flame, by a little plinky plonky instrument. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | December 18, 2009
If you don't eat, you're going to die: so you might as well put something good in your mouth. RSA EP Tracie Norfleet's matter-of-fact view on the innateness of food could be the rallying call for foodies everywhere. Norfleet is apparently quite the cook, and the go-to person whenever her crews are on-location and need suggestions for somewhere fine to dine. All that culinary knowledge is currently being put to the test as Norfleet has turned reality TV star in the first season of Bravo's Chef Academy. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 15, 2009
Most directors would consider a job done and dusted after shooting, compositing and editing was complete. For Hydra -- the three-headed directing team from New York prodco Humble consisting of John Hobbs, Sam Stephens and Ariel Danzinger -- getting to that seeming end point was just the beginning. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 14, 2009
For one red chair and eight Toshiba cameras, it was an epic journey to the edge of space. To promote Toshiba's REGZA SV LCD TV, Grey, London teamed with Hungry Man, London to launch "Space Chair." The team strapped eight HD IS-HR1S cameras to a rig consisting of a lightweight chair and a helium balloon and launched it 99,268 feet into the atmosphere. Grey CD and director Andy Amadeo takes Boards behind-the-scenes. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 11, 2009
Directing team Bitstate are bringing a little more cheer to Christmas this year with Yes, Virginia, a half-hour-long retelling of the 1897 story of Virginia O'Hanlon, the eight year old who wrote to ask the New York Sun whether Santa Claus exists. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 9, 2009
An aural dystopia of Orwellian proportions or a thought-provoking musical soundscape? In Sony's "Power Of Sound" from Fallon, London, Juan Cabral bathed a small Icelandic town in an eclectic blend of music for one week, documenting its effects in a three minute film. Cabral turned to A-Bomb, London CDs Peter Challis and Augusta Quiney to get the requisite music mix together. Boards talked to the pair about the challenges of curating, licensing and playing music for the unique project. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 8, 2009
We are all stars. It's one of those concepts that sounds fanciful, almost New Age in its optimism. But it's literally true, a scientific fact of where our atoms come from that is not only remarkable to ponder, but also makes for an awesome music video. The Found Collective director Barney Steel discusses Depeche Mode's Fragile Tension and his quest to sell his beard on eBay for men's health charity Movember. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | December 7, 2009
In September, the Rupert Sanders-directed "The Life" for Halo 3 ODST and TAG, San Francisco put a human twist on the popular alien shoot 'em up franchise with its chaotic and intimately-shot battle sequence. The director followed the two-minute film with "Droid", the launch spot for Verizon's Android smartphone. Asylum VFX supervisor Rob Moggach takes us behind-the-scenes. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | December 1, 2009
Uber-designer Stefan Sagmeister's first year-long sabbatical expanded his reputation beyond the design community as an expert on the positive effect personal time can have on one's professional life. For his second commercial-free excursion, he spent a year on the Indonesian island of Bali. We caught up with Sagmeister following his 2009 Boards Summit keynote address to chat about the merits of taking time off. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | November 25, 2009
It's a world where sideshow freaks, grotesque creatures and vampires who refuse to be bound by bloodsucking stereotypes co-exist on the same nightmarish plane. Director Paul Weitz' Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant opened in theaters last month with a haunting labyrinth of a title sequence from design studio yU+co. Founder Garson Yu talks to Boards about the titles German Expressionist and woodcut influenced design. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | November 20, 2009
What some see as drug-induced hippies dancing in the desert, others can see as fertile ground to tease out rich visual metaphors. On November 13, Psyop managing director Justin Booth-Clibborn showed his skill for the latter with his first solo photography exhibit, Planet Burning Man, at Blacklist's Lower East Side office. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | November 19, 2009
In "Heaven Can Wait", director Keith Schofield surrounds French songstress Charlotte Gainsbourg and musical maverick Beck with a series of elusive, cascading music video money shots that play like a Tumblr page come to life - full of meaning but devoid of context. Boards spoke with the director for the skinny on the surreal production. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | November 12, 2009
Words have power whether they're on the page or projected 25 feet high by 14 feet wide. Such is the case with celebrated American artist Barbara Kruger's installation for the Silent Writings group show at the Louis Vuitton Cultural Space in Paris. The installation was created in collaboration with Brand New School director Ludovic Schorno, who takes Boards behind-the-scenes on its creation. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | November 9, 2009
For a young gay man coming of age in the nightclub world, life's lessons are often obscured or refracted by endless halls of mirrors, Mylar and Plexiglas. The possibility for transcendental experience in that closed-off world is the focus of Love Is All Around, a short video installation by artist Marc Swanson and Outside editor Neil Gust. Boards recently caught up with Gust to talk about the work. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | November 2, 2009
"My god! I've created a monster!" We all know the familiar exclaim, but what does it take to create such frightful creatures? Post-production house The Moving Picture Company (MPC) created a hulking rubbish monster for French environmental agency Ademe's latest campaign that extols the virtues of reducing waste. The team responsible for this monstrous creation takes Boards behind-the-scenes. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | October 21, 2009
On Monday, The Decemberists performed their creepy new concept album The Hazards of Love in its entirety at a special, one-off show in Los Angeles. To accompany the music, the band asked Flux and Hornet to create an abstract animated concert film based on the record's dark, primeval themes. We asked directors Peter Sluszka, Julia Pott, Guilherme Macondes and Santa Maria to explain how they interpreted the music. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | October 16, 2009
Shot in a water tank four meters deep in Pinewood Studios, Dougal Wilson's COI "Breathe" PSA compares the experience of death by smoke inhalation to that of drowning. To find out considerations associated with taking the plunge, we rang up Blink producer Matt Fone for a quick chat. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | October 7, 2009
James Dean is the ultimate icon of living fast and dying young. But if he had survived the car accident that tragically look his life at age 24, what would he have accomplished? When you're given more time, you can imagine the possibilities. So says the tagline of South African investment company Allan Gray, who ventured to re-imagine Dean's life in "Legend", a new spot from agency King James and director Keith Rose. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | October 5, 2009
To create our Sept/Oct 2009 cover, we asked our 14 Directors to Watch to pitch ideas, the best of which would be chosen as the final cover art. The brief was pretty open. The only stipulation was the concept should tie-in to the Directors to Watch feature. Ten directors sent pitches and Blinkink director/animator David Wilson's was selected as the final winner. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | October 2, 2009
What would a country look like through the eyes of someone who's never set foot on its soil? It's a question that weighs on the mind of Jamie Kim. Though the 32-year-old Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam interactive producer has never been to the African nation of Mozambique, remedying its social ailments has captured her imagination for the better part of five years. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | September 25, 2009
We're all familiar with Hungry Man's Whitey when he's sitting in the director's chair helming spots for Levi's, Nestea and Nike or music videos for The Gossip. But the director is also an accomplished concert photographer, who recently held his first exhibit. Boards caught up with Whitey to talk about the bands he's shot, his favorite moment caught on film and the before-they-were famous concert from a now iconic band that he sorely missed out on. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | September 11, 2009
Pareidolia is the phenomenon whereby random images are perceived as being something more significant. Or, in less bookish terms, its when people swear up and down on a stack of bibles that they see the Virgin Mary on a bran flake. MTV's On-Air Design department took this phenomenon and adapted it to its teen audience for a set of idents promoting its new block of morning music video programming, AMtv. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | September 10, 2009
Director Rupert Sanders explains how he put a human spin on "The Life", a two-and-half minute short film touting the latest addition to Xbox's alien action franchise, Halo 3 ODST and shares storyboards and behind-the-scenes photos from the shoot in Hungary. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | September 9, 2009
It's been said that there's a science to crafting the perfect beat, but never before have the laboratory doors been thrown open. That is, until Partizan Darkroom's Chris Cairns captured the highly-classified musical experiments going on inside the fictional Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory. continue
Input Blog | September 8, 2009
Derek Richmond, executive interactive producer at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco enthuses about the latest and greatest technological breakthroughs driving innovation in digital advertising, while cautioning against gimmickry. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | September 3, 2009
Ad exec Donny Deutch called it the most powerful PSA ever made, while US broadcasters are debating whether it is too graphic to be shown on TV. The Gwent Police Department's curiously and assertively titled, "Cow - The Film That Will Stop You Texting and Driving" is making headlines worldwide, and all of the press is focused on the film's intensely violent depiction of a road accident. continue
Input Blog | September 3, 2009
Charles Day muses on the increasing importance of design through its democratization, and how the best businesses are incorporating customer decision-making into their products and services. continue
Input Blog | September 2, 2009
The Viral Factory founder Matt Smith brings the good, the strange and the shameless from the devil's switchboard in August. continue
Input Blog | August 28, 2009
Epoch EP Jerry Solomon explains his adventures in social media, and some of the issues he'll be addressing in his monthly posts for Input. continue
Behind The Scenes Blog | August 26, 2009
Slow motion? Check. Hot women? Check. Wind machine? Check. Though director Luciano Podcaminsky generally avoids formulaic beer commercial scripts, he recently made an exception for a series of meta-ads for Argentinean brewery Quilmes, in which he breaks down beervertising, one cliche at a time. continue
Input Blog | August 25, 2009
To bring you this round-up of the most engaging and innovative websites to surface during August, FWA (Favorite Website Awards) founder Rob Ford got behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang, hunted identity thieves in London's criminal underworld and witnessed the birth of a new Toyota. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | August 20, 2009
For this Extracurricular Blog entry, we examine a different breed of boards - skateboards. We rang up pro-skateboarder-turned-director Stacy Peralta to ask him about the inspiration behind his new signature board and the reissue of classic boards from legendary skate team the Bones Brigade created through Powell-Peralta, his skate gear company with manufacturer George Powell. continue
Input Blog | August 11, 2009
Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco group creative director Margaret Johnson explains why those guys in the media department fiddling with the Excel spreadsheets are increasingly the ones making your creative, creative. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | August 10, 2009
For this entry in Boards' Extracurricular Blog, Brickyard VFX founder Dave Waller explains his lifelong passion for collecting signage. continue
Input Blog | August 6, 2009
Charles Day, founder of business consultancy The Lookinglass, reflects on the importance of understanding what you are and where you're going. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | August 6, 2009
When was the last time you rifled through a freshly developed stack of photos? Played a vinyl record? Chances are not that recently. The rise of digital and immediacy culture has seen traditional, analogue art forms recede, something which director Sam Arthur was keen to remedy when he created Nobrow magazine in May this year. continue
Input Blog | August 4, 2009
The Viral Factory founder Matt Smith is back with another round-up of sublime, silly and inspiring videos from the hinterlands of the Internet. continue
Input Blog | July 28, 2009
We asked the FWA's (Favorite Website Awards) founder and principle Rob Ford to pick five top websites from July for the first in a monthly round-up of the most creative, engaging and innovative destinations in digital. continue
Input Blog | July 21, 2009
User-generated content was feted as advertising by the people, for the people, but quickly became a byword for bad production values. But no one cares on the Internet, right? Rick Webb begs to differ. continue
Input Blog | July 8, 2009
Production these days is all about the 'Now'. In this blog post for Boards, Goodby, Silverstein and Partners executive producer Josh Reynolds explains the benefits of immediacy. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | June 17, 2009
An artificially intelligent robot choir might seem like an esoteric sideline for a director. For Acne* co-founder and RSA-repped director Jesper Kouthoofd, however, Absolut Choir was merely the latest in a long line of experiments in imaginative uses for technology. Last year he set up Teenage Engineering, a product design/installation/tech/music collective, to fulfill his restless curiosity for all things technical and creative. continue
Input Blog | June 15, 2009
Twitter: it's on the lips of consumers, celebrities and, of course, marketers. A brand new technology that's giving consumers a voice and brands ears to hear them? The Barbarian Group's Rick Webb has heard it all before. continue
Input Blog | June 15, 2009
In our bumper June/July issue we profile some of the top new talent in the world of design and motion graphics. We asked up-and-coming director Matt Lambert from 1stAveMachine about his experiences breaking out of a role as executor and into that of a creative storyteller. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | May 27, 2009
Serious record collectors are identifiable by their dirt-and-dust-covered knuckles. Not content to merely sift through crates, hard fuzz-loving director Brian Lee Hughes needed to find other ways to keep his hands dirty between commercial gigs. Last year, he founded independent label Castle Face Records in San Francisco with John Dwyer, an underground rock star best known as the frontman of Coachwhips. Everything about the label is lo-fi: the music, the artwork and the attitude - or lack thereof. continue
Input Blog | May 26, 2009
Virals, spreadable media, online films, whatever you choose to call them the internet is rife with sublime, ridiculous and downright stupid content. We asked The Viral Factory's founder Matt Smith for the Top 5 films currently floating his digital boat. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | May 20, 2009
What happens to work that's too challenging to be considered commercial and not academic enough to be considered art? Director Kris Moyes and three designers collectively known as Tru$t Fun! explore that question with Glory Holes, a recent exhibition of work rejected by clients. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | May 15, 2009
They're directors by day, online publishers by night. Hungry Man directing duo SamuelChristopher have launched a new online design quarterly, MISC magazine. continue
Input Blog | May 14, 2009
The Barbarian Group's co-founder and COO Rick Webb gets down to the nitty gritty of sequential liability and the controversies of credit. continue
Input Blog | May 11, 2009
Lars Bastholm, Ogilvy's newly appointed chief digital creative officer, North America, is something of a gadget connoiseur. In this exclusive feature for Boards, he breaks down a few gadgets that are making him go googly eyed. continue
Input Blog | May 4, 2009
Joshua Hirsch, Minister of Technology at digital agency Big Spaceship, was at FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival, April 25 - 28. In this exclusive wrap up, he chronicles his picks of the most awe-inducing seminars.
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Extra Curricular Blog | April 29, 2009
ATTIK, San Francisco released the latest in its series of experimental design books, NoiseFive. Boards has pictures from inside the new release. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | April 24, 2009
Topix, Toronto Flame artist Julia Deakin is a painter and illustrator whose work has been shown in galleries across Canada and in magazines including Exclaim!, Driven and formerly Dose. Boards asked her to share some of her work as well as its inspiration, reasoning and meaning. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | April 20, 2009
Glossy’s Shannon Stephaniuk recently returned from a journey to Sri Lanka with TRIP Canada, a volunteer organization whose current focus is helping victims of the 2004 tsunami rebuild their homes, lives and communities. continue
Input Blog | April 14, 2009
Ari Weiss, an associate creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco holed up in a room reeking of Mai Tais earlier this month to judge entries for this year's One Show. In this exclusive dispatch, he chronicles the three days spent behind closed doors debating the very best TV and Integrated has to offer. continue
Extra Curricular Blog | April 14, 2009
Freelance creative Jeeves Basu curates some of London’s best after-school creative projects in this inaugural post for Extracurricular, our collection of the ad industry’s personal creative projects. continue
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