Experience media from Spinifex Group

I’m very proud to be working with the phenomenal Sydney-based creative communications company Spinifex Group, which is made up of authentic leaders in creating and delivering experience media.

With recent projects ranging from immersive interactive experiences to global broadcast events and epic big screen corporate communications extravaganzas, they have resolved some of the most ambitious and complex storytelling challenges of our times, with historical results. Below, I’ve organized summary notes on some of their latest projects, which as you’ll see, include numerous mesmerizing ceremonies and pavilions at the Shanghai World Expo, the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Ceremonies, the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Ceremonies, and many others. Read more

Gandulf Hennig: Thanks for the Documentary

Many thanks to PBS, Mr. Hennig and Mr. Haggard for bringing this fascinating story to the world.
Image (credit: Harrison/Getty) from “Merle Haggard Looks Back in New Documentary” by Patrick Doyle for Rolling Stone.

Brilliant directors: Shilo’s Evan Dennis

Cannes-do 2010 for Brand New School

Brand New School’s founder and creative director Jonathan Notaro recently joined Kayt Hall, just appointed to the post of Executive Producer for the new BNS London studio, at the shots Beach Party, held at The Majestic Hotel beach during the 2010 Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Judging from the photos popping up (like the one of Kayt and friends shown here (Kayt’s on the right) taken by Morgan Whitlock) and the rumors, the evening’s celebration of shots Magazine’s 20th birthday may never be forgotten. The esteemed Cannes judges and assembled industry luminaries also took notice of the BNS collaboration with Wieden+Kennedy and others involved in creating the ESPN Monday Night Football Interactive Storefront project shown above, which was awarded the year’s Cannes Outdoor Silver Lion in the Ambient: Digital Media category. All in all, it was much ado about Brand New School, with great expectations for exciting things to come.

Creative Entrepreneurs: Peter Hansen

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Creative collaborations: ATTIK and Shilo for Scion

Over the past several years, global creative agency ATTIK has teamed up many times with creative production company Shilo on behalf of Scion. It’s my sincere pleasure to share some of their best collaborative efforts here. For more information, please visit www.attik.com, www.shilo.tv and www.scion.com.

Brand New School designs a winning AICP outing

Earlier this week, creative design and production studio Brand New School (BNS, www.BrandNewSchool.com) proudly announced their role in designing and producing numerous elements which debuted at the 2010 AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, and the 2010 Next Awards, a featured presentation of the AICP Show. The annual program, hosted by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) had its premiere Tuesday evening at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and will soon travel on to high-profile venues in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, Miami, and Richmond. Original works created by BNS for 2010 include the above Sponsor Reel Sequence for the AICP Show itself, and for the Next Awards, which honor and examine the best in marketing communications across all channels featuring moving image media, the visual identity system, presentation graphics, and (together with McCann Systems) a dynamic Next Awards video installation that lit up MoMA’s Sculpture Garden. During the prestigious Next Awards presentation, BNS earned top honors in the Experiential category for their innovative project promoting Monday Night Football on ESPN produced for leading advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy. The full story is available online here.

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