French Elle
20th March 2013
CD: Matt Brooke
Pub: French Elle
Continuing in his role as Creative Director of French Elle, some of Matts latest covers are seen here.
Chosen from the last 5 published, 3 of which were for the magazines Special Mode.... don't forget the magazine is weekly, so this is one fast fashion publication.
Coca Cola Zero
19th March 2013
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Dentsu
Satoshi shot both the product and celebrity campaign for Japans latest Coke Zero series.
Makes you thirsty just looking at it!
Chelsea FC
19th March 2013
Ph: Hamish Brown
Pub: Mens Health
Hamish shot the Chelsea team with Mens Health this month for a Dolce & Gabbana special.
Players included Juan Mata, Ashley Cole, Ryan Bertrand, Branislav Ivanovic, Gary Cahill and David Luiz.... with tips from the boys on how they style themselves off the pitch in their billionaire boys club.
Adidas
12th March 2013
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ag: Iris
The worlds greatest footballer... and thats official (!) has bought out his very own range of clothing with sport giant Adidas.
The Messi Signature Range, just launched, had Hamish and team flying to Barcelona, and Barca's training ground, to shoot Messi who modelled the collection himself.
Many more images to come.
Credit Suisse
11th March 2013
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Havas Worldwide, London
Satoshi shot latest campaign for Credit Suisse, highlighting the relationship with technology giant NEC. A beautiful courtship reflected in the image with NECs amazing new personal robots, PaPeRo's, which are unlike anything seen so far in robot development.
Satoshi also directed a short film for the campaign.
Though i hate the word, these robots really are very cute...
Love is in the Blood / EJAF
20th February 2013
Ill : Damien Poulain
Ag: Mother
Love Is In My Blood is the first of a number of projects that Mother is working on for EJAF to help mark the charity's 20th anniversary. Designed as a social media campaign, and launched on Valentines day - the idea was to help raise awareness for the work of Elton John Aids Foundation ( EJAF ).
Mother briefed Damien Poulain, as well as 5 other artists to draw directly onto brown card boxes in a way that referenced the intended recipient. There were some 20 celebs the boxes have gone out to.
Damien designed boxes for Grace Jones (seen here) Stephen Fry, Jamie Oliver and Jessie J. More about the project on the CR link below.
www.creativereview.co.uk
Nissan
4th February 2013
Ph: Satoshi Minkawa
AG: TBWA Hakuhodo
With two new campaigns out for Nissan this month - Satoshi shows his lighting skills with not only cars, but his ability to mix the natural elements of water, sky and even wildlife into the ads!
NEW to Blunt!!
2nd February 2013
Ill: Rob Clarke
As a fine art student of Central St Martins College of Art, Rob's career has of course always followed a creative path. From teaching life drawing, he was later chosen by McCann to be Senior Art Director of Magic Hat, their youth communications agency.
At Magic Hat he created campaigns for MTV, VH1, Caterpillar and Cobra to name but a few. He then returned to fine art & most notably his successful dog portraits commissioned by such famous folk as Kate Moss, Tim Walker & Fergie ( the singer! ).
He has had numerous shows both in NYC & London, and joined the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in 2010 ...
Now Blunt are over the moon to be working with Rob on his commercial ventures, which he kicked off with a beautiful brand book for fashion giant Loewe, seen here.
La Loi
1st February 2013
Ill: Rob Clarke
Co: La Loi AW13
Established by ex iD Art Director Kate Law, the La Loi childrens range of clothing was started in 2012 - selecting bespoke prints and imagery for her exclusive range of leggings.
Rob's Skulls print, seen here, hit the mark and have become part of the latest collection to launch in June - selling at Londons Libertys and Harrods stores as well as other select retailers...
Creative Pioneers
30th January 2013
AD: Damien Poulain
Ag: KK Outlet
Damien was asked by KK Outlet to work on a mask idea for their client Metro Newspaper and the 2013 Creative Pioneers campaign.
The campaign looks for talented, passionate and enthusiastic young minds for 3 month paid internships at some of the UK's top creative agencies. The ads inspire, showing different creative minds behind the young faces.
Damien created the concepts, as well as hand crafting the masks and he commissioned photographer John Short to shoot the campaign.
Tracey Thorn
30th January 2013
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ed: Saturday Times Magazine
The Times commissioned Hamish to shoot singer Tracey Thorn, whose music with Everything But The Girl was the soundtrack to a large part of my 20's..but after an also successful solo career is now publishing her first book.
'Bedsit Disco Queen' is an autobiographical account of her early years, growing up and becoming a pop star, published by Virago we think it will be well worth a read!
A Complete Book of Nonsense
29th January 2013
Ill : Claudia Boldt
Pub: Random House
A Complete Book of Nonsense is a new Vintage Classics children's title with poems by the usual suspects such as Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Roald Dahl.
The cover illustration of The Owl and the Pussycat was supposed to be barmy and comical. Claudia especially enjoyed drawing the vignettes for the back cover as she could choose to illustrate whatever she liked from this awesome collection of poems.
Agi & Sam AW13
25th January 2013
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Co: Agi & Sam
Lukes been shooting with fashion design duo Agi & Sam since 2010.
Lukes use of colour complimenting the pairs strong emphasis on bespoke prints, as well as sense of humour.
The latest collection, seen here, was inspired by one of most talked about members of the British aristocracy, Lord Bath.... whose famously flamboyant sense of style runs throughout the collection.
HKW
25th January 2013
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Ag: NODE Berlin
NODE Design chose Lukes imagery to help create their re design for Berlins Haus der Kulturen der Welt - a place for international contemporary visual arts, music, literature, performing arts and film.
The new design utilising Lukes painted face portraits are complimented by an additional graphic element in the form of a “spotlight” , encouraging the HKW's audience to realise this is all about taking a fresh new look at the world....
Book Launch / Incomplete Dictionary of Showbirds
25th January 2013
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Co: The Photographers Gallery
A great night had by all who attended the 'official' book launch of Luke Stephensons an "Incomplete Dictionary of Showbirds" last night. Held at The Photographers Gallery, the book shop and print room were fit to burst.
Books and prints literally 'flew out the door'... such a bad pun its almost good...!?
Bowie
8th January 2013
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Sculptor: Wilfrid Wood
'The One & Only' David Bowie as created by sculptor Wilfrid Wood and shot by Luke....seems an apt moment to show the images, what with the release of Bowies first single in 10 years out today!!
I think ive heard the song about 32 times on the radio already....
www.wilfridwood.com
Tom Odell
4th January 2013
Ph: Colin Lane
Co: Sony Music
Tom Odell is going to be big this year... infact hes going to be huge if the Brits are anything to go by, as they have awarded him with the Brits Critics Choice for 2013. Other winners have included Adele, Emelie Sande and Florence Welch, so as the first man to win it its certain Tom is one to watch.
Colin was commissioned to shoot the singer songwriters press campaign seen here, and with Damien Poulain working on Toms logo and EP design we will be showing a lot more from this artist.
Love Creative
20th December 2012
Ill: Ian Stevenson
Ag: Love Creative
The brilliant creative agency Love commissioned Ian to illustrate their special Christmas mural...which was then projected...2D projection mapping with a twist.
They printed and pasted up the mural up onto the wall, then on top of that they project elements of the illustration on top of itself. This way they can illuminate and animate specific parts of the image. Projection during the day is usually a pretty washed-out affair, but by projecting onto the mural, the colours really ‘pop’ out. See link below.
www.xmas.lovecreative.com
BBH
19th December 2012
Ill: Rude
Ag: BBH
BBH's London offices are undergoing a huge revamp.
Blunt were hugely honoured to have 2 of their finest chosen to create artwork to cover the interior hoardings. The theme was change.... of course.
Rude took over the 3rd floors cafe area creating a huge colourful mural from paints, vinyls, stickers and all sorts!
BBH
19th December 2012
Ill: Ian Stevenson
Ag: BBH
BBH's London offices are undergoing a huge revamp.
Blunt were hugely honoured to have 2 of their finest chosen to create artwork to cover the interior hoardings. The theme was change.... of course.
Ian took over the 4th floor wall ... creating a stir with his outspoken slogans, with a few well chosen four letter words to get the message across.
