Mind That Child
3rd November 2011
Ph: Luke Stephenson
Lukes latest project, Mind that Child, was shot at Londons soon-to-be Ice cream van graveyard...as the majority of the vans we all know and love dont reach the EU eco standards and are set to all be scrapped in the near future.
He wanted to capture the vans, and their drivers, who were all a bit shy, before their new shiny, personality void replacments tinkle their tunes around our streets.
See the series on Lukes pages on the Blunt site, and click on click below to see the film he shot alongside the project... its very much worth a click, and pop the volume up !
Mind That Child film
DAKS
12th October 2011
AD: Matt Brooke
Co: DAKS Far East AW12
Matt chose photographer David Slijper for the Far East part of the fashion labels AW12 campaign.
DAKS
12th October 2011
CD: Matt Brooke
Co: DAKS AW12
Matts third season art directing for DAKS, sees the team on location with photographer Josh Olins.
SKY
23rd September 2011
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Venture 3
Satoshis second SKY campaign with the London based agency Venture 3 launches this month with 3 of the 12 ads due to run.
British cyclists Bradley Wiggins, Ben Swift and Geraint Thomas were all shot as part of the new campaign to promote the TV giant.
Satoshis beautiful lighting creates a blend of the red white and blue thats reflected throughout the images.
T Mobile
23rd September 2011
Ph: Colin Lane
Ag: Saatchi, London
Colins reportage style was perfect for the second of his T Mobile campaigns with Saatchi.
As always putting the cast truly at ease, he captured 'moments' of realism for the new Lucky Surprise campaign.
Gary Oldman
15th September 2011
Ph: Hamish Brown
Pub: Radio Times
Hamish shot Gary Oldman while the actor was in town promoting his latest film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Shooting in and around Londons Covent Garden Hotel, the British actor was more than relaxed in front of the camera.
* New to Blunt *
2nd September 2011
Ph: Luke Stephenson
This month Blunt sees the arrival of photographer Luke Stephenson to our roster.
Life in Britain and the British psyche are at the core of Lukes work. Often humorous in their outlook, his series range from prize budgerigars to the World Beard and Moustache Championships. Whether animate or inanimate objects, Stephenson creates affectionate portraits of his subjects and documents worlds often hidden from the mainstream.
Hes been awarded the Jerwood Photography Prize and also been selected as one of ten photographers to showcase their work at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography at Hyeres, France.
His work has been published in a variety of publications including The New York Times Magazine, Dazed & Confused, Art Review and Wallpaper*.
The Photographers Gallery, London are responsible for his print sales.
Samuel L Jackson
31st August 2011
Ph: Hamish Brown
Pub: ES Magazine
Hamish shot Hollywood favourite Samuel L Jackson on location at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, where the star hosts his annual golf tournament in aid of the Make a Wish charity Foundation.
Mercedes Benz
30th August 2011
Ill: Claudia Boldt
Ag: Jung von Matt
A perfect example of how illustration and photography can work together.
Claudia worked with the Hamburg based agency to create the latest Mercedes ad, simple and very effective in its message.... even managing to get one of her characters to make an appearance.
The Time+
30th August 2011
Ph: Hamish Brown
Ag: CHI Advertising
Hamish's second campaign for The Times+ with CHI rolls out this month.
The campaign features Times+ member positioned in front of specially commissioned work or art and shows offers available to subscribers.
Nissan Juke
25th August 2011
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Satoshi continues to produce campaigns for the car giant Nissan.
Here is the latest for the Nissan Juke, utilising Satoshis distinctive lighting technique.
Puma Social
4th August 2011
Ph: Dean Rogers
Ag: Droga5, NYC
Dean worked with Droga5 for their latest Puma Social 'After Hours Athletes' campaign.
Shooting in New York and working with the agency on casting and locations, Dean chose This is England stylist Charlotte Walter to join the team and help create the look Puma needed. A big thanks to Planet Pre Pro for all the hard work on the production too.
The print rolls out Worldwide this month.
Something Great
1st August 2011
Ill: Ian Stevenson
Blunt commissioned Ian to create a piece for our office space.
Now painting on canvas on a much larger scale, Ian created "You Should Put Something Really Great Here'... His paintings focusing less on his characters and more on his wording and type. Get in touch if youd like Ian to create a painting for your wall!
He was also recently invited by Dutch visual communications studio 'Trapped in Surburbia' to put on a solo show at its Ship of Fools gallery in The Hague in The Netherlands. See link below :
www.shipoffoolsgallery.com
CNBC
31st July 2011
Ph: Luke Kirwan
Ag: 18 Feet & Rising
Working with rapidly growing ad agency 18 Feet & Rising, Luke created this super clean ad for the global business giant CNBC.
Links of London
23rd June 2011
Ph: Satoshi Minakawa
Ag: Links of London / Rosco Productions
Satoshi worked with Links for their latest campaign for the 2012 Olympics.
Links have created the Official Jewellery Collection for the 2012 games, and the shoot revolved around 4 of the British Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Satoshi reflected the colours of the collection within his lighting, creating both a beautiful and dynamic series of images for the jewellery brand.
Easy Jet
23rd June 2011
Ph: Jermaine Francis
Ag: Publicis
Jermaine was chosen to shoot Easy Jets first portrait campaign with Publicis.
Casting was key in this print campaign, and Jermaine liaised with the brilliant Sue Odell to help find the faces ... The simplicity of lighting and need to keep the characters real and not over stylized was then easy for Jermaine to execute.
A-Z, Sketch Gallery
22nd June 2011
Art: Damien Poulain
Gal: Sketch Gallery, London 18th June – 6th August 2011
Alpha Betes / a series of 26 animations of A to Z, is Damiens first large-scale video installation, produced in collaboration with animators’ Field, and sound designer Shtik.
Using each screen to represent a different letter of the alphabet, he has developed an animated and dynamic language that creates new and previously non-existant words. Inspired by the colours and the easy tones of children’s alphabet books. Using sound and animation to build up a continuous strip of characters with their own representative sounds or voices.
Through the development of a new language, the viewer is projected into another world between childhood and adulthood, a world of nonsense and abstraction. See link below for teaser ...
The Guardian
20th June 2011
Ill: Rude
Ed: The Guardian Guide
For the second time Rude were asked to design the cover and inside content for The Guardians Guide to the Glastonbury Festival.
This year Ru's worked on a more graphic font style, but utilizing the multicoloured colour palette we know and love him for !
Graphic Detour
16th June 2011
Art: Damien Poulain
Ag: Design Museum, Breda NL
Damien is one of just 8 artists and designers invited to show at Graphic Detour - an exhibition curated by Erik Kessels showing at various design museums around Europe. The show starts in Breda, Holland.
As well as presenting past works, Damien teamed up with local Dutch confectioners Jamin, to create a new series for the show. Born from our innate fascination with sweets, Damien created a series of masks inspired by pagans garments & shamans’ masks - which are said to transport their wearers to a transcendent realm - the sweet masks are designed to lead this magical tribe towards another, fantastical, reality....
More on the link below..
www.graphicdesignmusuem.nl
Vanity Fair
15th June 2011
Ph: Ben Hassett
Pub: Vanity Fair
Bens first shoot for Vanity Fair was with actress Lea Seydoux.
At age 25, with more than a dozen movies on her curriculum vitae, Mlle. Seydoux has moved beyond the ingénue stage and into her early prime.
With roles in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival. In December she goes up against Tom Cruise as the female villain in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, the fourth installment of the series.
www.vanityfair.com
