Walls of buildings in the city area can be perfect canvas for modern artwork—brands such as Stella Artois and Converse have already proved it with their large-scale projects. Smirnoff also joins the army of urban art wizards by unveiling a series of “painted by light” urban murals on buildings of São Paulo, Brazil. For the project developed by Wieden + Kennedy, the brand invited graffiti artists from Acidum Group to create their stunning artwork with blacklight-activated paint, which glows only at night.
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With less than a month left before the end of the world according to Mayan predictions, Old Spice launches a new online game which plays around the apocalypse theme. The brand presents the Dikembe Mutombo’s 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World old-fashioned video game, which mirrors the philosophy of the Believe in Your Smellf campaign and Old Spice’s bold attitude, preserved by brand even in the toughest conditions.
Wieden+Kennedy, the agency behind the award-winning Old Spice campaigns, is on the lookout for a perfect person to join their team as a Creative Strategist for Old Spice. Since the promotions for the brand are extremely bold and unconventional, the agency is seeking daring people who would fit in the picture—of course, the perfect candidate should be a true cyber warrior.
Old Spice unveiled a highly interactive musical piece on Vimeo, featuring Terry Crews, one of the brand’s Guys. The former NFL player, who has been communicating the “power” message to public in a series of Old Spice commercials, now turns his own body into a machine, which produces music. In the new video piece, developed by the brand’s agency Wieden & Kennedy and director Tom Kuntz, Crews is sitting surrounded by musical instruments including drums, saxophones, a guitar and synthesizer to name but a few. But basically it’s not him who plays all of them—numerous electrodes are attached to his muscle groups (pecs, triceps and sartorius adductors among others), which activate the instruments with each muscle contraction.
Procter & Gamble has released a new brilliantly humorous ad for Old Spice following the launch of the deeply emotional and dramatic videos in the ‘Thank you, Mom’ campaign. The baldest brand in the company’s portfolio is presenting a skinny man, who managed to reach all of his ambitious goals with the help of affirmations recorded on tapes, which are played via a walkman designed as an Old Spice deodorant packaging. The ‘I Will Live Forever’ advert, created by Widen+Kennedy (the agency behind P&G’s Olympic push), was released yesterday, July 23, as part of the ‘Believe In Your Smelf’ campaign, launched in spring 2012.
Procter & Gamble is celebrating children in its global ‘Thank You Mom’ campaign by Wieden + Kennedy, Portland with a new spot, which is the second commercial in the Olympics-themed promotion. The spot dubbed ‘Kids’ premiered on July 11 online and will air on TV during the Opening Ceremony on July 27. The 1 minute advert is pulling the emotional strings, focusing on the notion that to their moms, all Olympic athletes will be just kids.
Honda makes curiosity a new theme of its new promotion, which has been created to support the auto brand’s carmaker’s sponsorship of documentaries on the U.K.’s Channel 4. The cars manufacturer has teamed up with Wieden+Kennedy London for a series of simple but impressive spots, which are revolving around things around us that inspired many of Honda’s engineering and design solutions in both vehicle and motorbike lines and lawn & garden ranges.