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  • Cheil USA Gives Franco the Nod

    August 21st, 2012 / Comments (0)

    Since Cheil Worldwide now owns local agency, McKinney - we wanted to share this upcoming ad and soon to be campaign for Samsung. According to Ad Age, celebrities will be pushing the new Samsung tablets.

    Samsung also held their first ever consumer driven launch party in NYC's Lincoln Center recently. This part of the strategy is targeted at "creative types" and the features that Samsung showcased were all in support of that mission.

    We love James Franco - really ever since Freaks and Geeks so anything he does at this point is all a bonus. Thankfully this is also a pretty decent, albeit, predictable spot.

  • Woodbine Digital Director to Judge W3 Awards

    August 15th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (August 13, 2012) – Woodbine’s Director of Digital Strategy & Development, Robby Berthume, has been selected as a judge for the 7th annual W3 Awards and will spend the dog days of summer evaluating some of the year’s hottest and most innovative mobile sites and applications.

    The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web while recognizing the creative and marketing professionals behind the groundbreaking sites, videos and marketing programs. The awards are sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), of which Robby is a member.

    After a decade of running his own digital firm, Robby joined Woodbine in 2011 to further the agency’s digital evolution. He is an entrepreneurial-minded marketer with international digital experience in the fields of web design, social media, search engine marketing, mobile, branding and advertising. He oversees all digital work at Woodbine and is an integral part of every client’s brand revitalization effort.

    W³ Awards winners will be announced in October. Visit www.w3award.com for more information.

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  • Shit to Hit - Word Up: The Intersection of Text and Image

    August 7th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    A pretty good and unique exhibit is going on at the NC Museum of Art. Check it out while it's around: July 22, 2012–January 20, 2013

    Here's what the museum says:

    In an era increasingly dominated by mass media and characterized by a constant barrage of information, text has taken on significance as both a conveyor and inhibitor of meaning, particularly when combined with visual resources. Featuring nearly 30 paintings and drawings, including some that have never been exhibited, Word Up: the Intersection of Text and Image highlights the work of six contemporary North Carolina artists with a common denominator in their oeuvres: the use of text in two-dimensional art. Word Up will feature work from Mathew Curran, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Nathaniel Lancaster, Shaun Richards, Gabriel Shaffer, and Derek Toomes.

    Word Up is part of a series of exhibitions dedicated to the art and artists of North Carolina. As part of the NCMA’s ongoing commitment to the citizens of our state, the North Carolina Gallery exhibits the work of emerging and established North Carolina artists. Solo and thematic exhibitions rotate twice a year and draw from loans and the Museum’s permanent collection.

    NC Art Museum

  • Smoking Banned, Indoors and Out.

    August 7th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    In what seems to be an extraordinary circumstance, one of the most infamous tobacco towns has now banned smoking. We have seen smoking banned indoors and within X number of feet from a restaurant, but Durham, NC has taken it one step further by outlawing smoking on all city owned properties. This doesn't just mean you puffers, this also includes chewing tobacco, pipes and cigars.

    You can read more about this here.

  • Chirp: An App That Uses A Song To Share Pics

    August 7th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    From Co.design/Cliff Kuang

    Forget Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Chirp uses speakers and microphones to share photos and other information.

    We still haven’t discovered the perfect way to share information between devices--one that’s ubiquitous and natural. Bump had an interesting interaction approach. Dropbox is powerful but digital. If I want to just send a photo from my phone to your computer, why do I need to get intermediaries like email or USB cords involved to get the job done?

    Chirp is a new iPhone app by Animal Systems that’s tackling file sharing in a surprisingly low-tech way. When you want to share, say, a photo, your phone emits a song. Another phone hears the song, and it loads the picture. It’s sort of like file sharing as imagined by The Hunger Games’ mockingjays.

    “We’re called Animal Systems because, well, we look to nature for inspiration,” explains CEO Patrick Bergel. “Specifically, we’ve been looking at how biology encodes information, in this case, and playing around with various related ideas, all with mobile as the starting point. Chirp was the best idea, so we went with that.”

    Sending information via audio blips is traditionally slow (just think about fax machines and modems). Technically, any chirp is comprised of 20 different tones, which actually encode 50 bits of information--just enough for a bit of text, like 10 characters of text--that links the receiver up to a specific URL/file stored in the cloud by the sender. In essence, a chirp is a QR code you can hear and record rather than awkwardly photograph.

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  • Cheil Worldwide buys McKinney

    August 4th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    After much speculation, a deal by the South Korean advertising agency Cheil Worldwide to buy the independent American agency McKinney is complete.

    In a statement, Nack-Hoi Kim, the chief executive for Cheil Worldwide, said the move would help the South Korean agency mark “the next chapter in the company’s transformation into a global network made of the best local ad agencies.” The deal is estimated at $50 million and will make McKinney part of Cheil Americas, though the McKinney name will remain.

    “McKinney is one of the best advertising agencies in the world’s largest advertising market,” Mr. Kim said in an e-mail. “Their highly creative, integrated approach is recognized as the most effective in the world.”

    Cheil also has offices in Canada, Mexico, Central America and Brazil.

    McKinney, based in Durham, N.C., has been independent since 2008 when it bought itself back from Havas, a global advertising holding company. At the time, Brad W. Brinegar, the chairman and chief executive of McKinney, was quoted in a news release as saying, “My hope is that with the move, McKinney’s clients will feel an even greater sense of entrepreneurial commitment to their success.”

    In recent years, Cheil, once owned by the Samsung Group, has had its share of changes as it struggled to gain traction in the United States. In 2010, the company renamed its Dallas and New York offices “One Agency” and began a London-based agency of the same name.

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    via NY TIMES

  • New Job - Art Director

    August 4th, 2012 / Comments (0)

    New Job in Milwaukee, WI

    Art Director @ Laughlin Constable

    View Job Here: http://www.therduegotist.com/jobs/full-time/laughlin-constable/art-director

    Remember that members see jobs before everyone else.

  • Kansas City Is Now The Fastest On The Internet

    July 31st, 2012 / Comments (0)

    About a year ago, Google held a competition in which they offered to install Google Fiber in your city if you have the best appeal. Well, from the submissions, Kansas City was chosen to be the first. With the help of Venables Bell & Partners, Google just released a new spot extolling the virtues of the new high speed internet service that is now up and running in Kansas City.

    Check out Kansas City's winning video appeal after the jump.

    Google Fiber Ad

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