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VCU Brandcenter and friends ask you to be STILLforJAPAN

Exactly four months ago today, the nation of Japan was rocked by a devastating earthquake and tsunami that left thousands dead, many times more displaced, and untold damage to the country’s infrastructure. And while this traumatic event has faded from the headlines, a new campaign envisioned by students and friends of the VCU Brandcenter launches today, encouraging people the world over to be STILLforJAPAN.

Award Show Bedlam! D&AD, Marketing Awards winners announced

Hello ladies. Look at the award shows. Now back to me. Now back to the award shows. Now back to me. Notice something? Yes, Wieden + Kennedy Portland and Old Spice are still cleaning up at the big international shows. They’ve just picked up not one but two very rare Black Pencils at the 2011 D&AD Awards today, not to mention three Yellow Pencils, two Nominations, and two pieces they figured would be good enough to throw in their upcoming annual.

One (very, very, long) last look at what CP+B has done for Burger King

As you all know by now, fast food giant Burger King and long-time agency partner Crispin Porter + Bogusky have angrily fired each other or amicably parted ways or something like that. And regardless of what you thought of that news, there’s no denying that the work CP+B did for BK over the years was pretty innovative.

So why stop now?

Taxi battles for beauty with Internet Explorer 9

As a Mac user, I’m more likely to be surfing the net using Safari or Firefox, but even I will admit that a more than sizeable chunk of the world runs with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

To promote the new Internet Explorer 9 and what they call a faster, richer and safer web experience fuelled by HTML5 the Toronto and Montreal offices of Taxi have created an online and offline gaming experience entitled The Battle of Beauty.

Y&R NY, VML get Xerox into your business brain

I’m not even sure if the folks at Xerox would even want to know what goes on inside the minds of the ihaveanidea crew during office hours — more for letter words than you can shake an HR manual at — but it looks like Y&R New York and VML have joined forces to create Business For Your Brain.

Cundari goes the lon-nnn-nng route for BMW

Like any copywriter worth his weight in Moleskines, I love a good long copy ad. Crafting one, reading one, it doesn’t matter. Holding that magazine or newspaper in your hands and delving right in is a wordsmith’s joy.

Unless, of course, the ad isn’t in a magazine or newspaper.

The folks over at Toronto’s Cundari have stepped up to the challenge and created a long copy ad for the internet crowd.

The Viral Factory, Samsung go where no paper plane has gone before

The Viral Factory in London have done a pretty awesome job at coming up with cool things for Samsung in the past, and now this time they’ve gone to the edge of space.

Hate to get certain gifts? DDB Warsaw to the rescue!

When it comes to Christmas, I am a simple man of simple pleasures. I don’t expect any fancy gifts under the tree, since the fancy stuff I want is out of the price range of most of my family and friends. And until the day they make a tin of Quality Street chocolate comprised entirely of those green triangles, I’ll be happy with socka and underwear.

Big Spaceship invites you to Corpsify your Christmas

Zombie Santa.

Yeppers, now I’ve seen it all.

Actually the undead Father Christmas I received in my email is just a single creation made with Brooklyn digital winderkind Big Spaceship’s latest project, Corpsify.com.

Erwin-Penland takes its Christmas greetings out to the S.H.E.D.

Christmas is in a few days, and that means the ihaveanidea team is getting the hell outta Dodge. Nat’s already off to his hometown of Thunder Bay, ON, Ignacio will soon be relaxing with his family in some Latin American paradise, and I’ll be off to my own little paradise… back to Toronto, where I was born, raised and lived all but these last two years of my life.

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