What to say? Looking slick. And, well, it’s an introduction of an FMCG on the Dutch market in a jam-packed snack category, so choosing impact over a real idea to generate awareness sounds like a good...
Recently KLM introduced Meet & Seat, a smart brand utility allowing KLM passangers to share their Facebook and LinkedIn profiles while booking a flight. And if you are looking for an interesting ...
“Milk from cows that always live inside.” Doesn’t really sound like a milk you’d want to drink. If only because it’s clearly made without much feeling for attractive design. But when you know that it...
We’re getting a bit tired of all the European Championship tie-ins. Especially because 90% of it is crap. This one – that might have been inspired by Bavaria’s ad property, the Dutch dress that...
Natwerk was asked to create something playful for the annual The Next Web conference. They brought Klara to the conference and created Dungville. Unlike its digital counterpart Farmville, this game f...
Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam created this sympathetic 2.5 minute mini documentary centered around a talent scout, Alexander Shpakov – who’s name strangely enough is not being shared in the video ...
Last Thursday we visited the Jonge Honden (‘Ad Pups’) 24-hour pitch, held at the headquarters of ‘client’ Red Bull, in Amsterdam Noord. The prize: 3 tickets on the Jonge Honden bus to Cannes next mon...
Apparently not many people read the labels on household chemicals. But it’s wise to do so; according to the Dutch Food and Goods Authority 6,000 incidents take place each year by wrongly handli...
One Big Agency created this handy ‘Live with it!’ app. But as you quickly find out, it’s not made in collaboration with Shell, but with Friends of the Earth (or: Milieudefensie). In fact, it’s ...
PostPanic and director Mischa Rozema never fail to impress us. Take this beaut of a TV commercial for the Finnish soft drink Jaffa – commissioned by Finnish agency Sek - using a blend of 2D and...
Anomaly – opening its Amsterdam office at the end of last year – has hired Gaston Serpenti as Digital Creative Officer. Serpenti is coming from Boondoggle Amsterdam, the agency he founded about...
Just announced; hybrid production agency Post Panic is organising the next long-awaited, 5th edition of Panic Room on the 7th of June. Panic Room is an evening during which Post Panic invites interna...
Mobile telco provider Hi embraced Facebook over the past years and especially the ‘Like’ icon. And since in Hi’s most recent commercial the brand shows how we sometimes neglect our moms, it introduce...
Weird, but with mileage is how we judged this concept for Autodrop (‘car liquorice’) in October 2010. Last week we came accross this one; ‘secret passage.’ Compared to the first one it fe...
Tomorrow and Friday the second annual What Design Can Do conference explores the positive and negative sides of a connected world and looks into the role of the designer as a connector. The conferenc...
Heineken has a history of launching premiums – to be obtained through a crate of beer – before the European and World Championship of football. The last 4 tournaments Heineken’s agency TBWA cre...
Quite a flashy film. It is an activation by the Dutch Openluchtmuseum (‘open air museum’), a museum that displays the last 200 years of life in the Netherlands. Since the Openluchtmuseum exists 100 y...
It always feels a bit awkward when a government is trying to speak youthful – or worse, with a ‘rappy’ tone of voice – to teenagers. Especially when communicating that you shouldn’t...
Earlier we wrote about Amsterdam zoo Artis activating its youngest target to communicate with André Kuipers who is in space at the moment – “Engaging advertising in its truest form”...
For those of you not following what’s happening in Dutch football: there is (or was?) a fight going on between two former Ajax Amsterdam coaches. Van Gaal and Cruijff both want to reorganize th...
Today we’re not working, cause it is Queensday, the best day of the year – in Amsterdam, that is. And we might just bring a short visit to this place; Kingsday. When the agency was founded last summe...
Photo: Maurice Mikkers The biggest winner last night at the ADCN (Dutch Art Director’s Club) awards was Lemz. All the ‘bulbs’ – of which one was a Grand Prix (the very best integrated wor...
What do you do as a digital agency when you are asked to translate the shittiest commercial ever into a digital ‘thingy.’ Well, you create this awesome online (Facebook) ‘Remix Machine’ w...
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam introduced a new logo. Now that the museum is finally (almost) re-opening after having being (partly) closed since 2004 (!) a new logo is probably a wise idea. There is...
Dutch directing duo HeyHeyHey (aka Elske van der Putten and Erik Sjouerman), who recently joined the directors roster of PostPanic, created the world’s smallest ever Rube Goldberg machine, dubb...
According to Wikipedia ‘Arabesque’ is an Islamic “form of artistic surface decorations based on rhythmic linear patterns of scrolling and interlacing foliage, tendrils or plain lines.” This human ver...
Dutch insurer Nationale Nederlanden introduces the damage manager. He (or she) makes the handling of your damage cases so personal that you’ll easily build up a special relationship – “He...
Wow, what a nice idea; an electric (Domino’s delivery) scooter that doesn’t say ‘Vroooooom’, but “Mmmmm, lekker” (‘tasty’). According to Domino’s Pizza it is a ...
Photographer and filmmaker Rene Nuijens and writer Steve Korver have an obsession with Yuri Gagarin (1934-68), who in 1961 was the first man to go into space. To celebrate the 50th birthday of this e...
We love this art project named ‘True Colours’ by Lex Pott and Found by James, which will be exhibited at the Salone del Mobile in Milan next week. According to Found by James (the exclusive online ar...
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