So far we have received six entrees made by people at TBWA\Russia for the Absolut World Very Short Very Cheap Film Festival. There is not much time left to enter your own film in the festival. For more information go to mytbwa.
Roller (Oleg O.)
Food (Vadim K.)
Hair (Oleg O.)
Carwash (Oleg R. / Donald)
Bomb (Boris J.)
Microwave (Boris J.)
view Pony's spoof of last year's Adidas spots here
Last Friday the Pancake Kings of the creative department celebrated Maslenitsa by serving up, what else, vodka and blinis.
From The Daily Mail:
"Desiree Palmen, a 44-year-old Dutch artist, uses a method that requires a huge amount of effort and attention to detail.
She makes cotton suits and paints the camouflage on by hand, painstakingly matching it to the chosen background. Either she or a model then poses in the suit in the chosen place.
The scenes are photographed and filmed and then put on display."
read more here
If somebody hasn't adopted this for advertising already, it's just a matter of time.
Our latest Nivea commercial went on air shortly before Christmas. The campaign is international, but we shot the restaurant and nightclub scenes especially for Russia.
Our latest New Years spot for Schwarzkopf is now on air. The animation was done by Alexander Petrov.
Pedigree's "We're For Dogs" campaign - "We Just Really Love Dogs" in Russia - has been a big success and it continues to branch out worldwide and evolve globally. Recently, together with Lee Clow, TBWA's CCO, and his team, as well as several creative teams from all over the world, several members of our Mars team spent a week and a half at the TBWA\Chiat\L.A. office developing ideas for the next creative initiatives.
One of the creative teams gets sage advice from Lee Clow.
Yuri also celebrated his birthday.
To the right there is also a photo album with some pictures from the L.A. office.
Our latest Twix spot went on air. Stay tuned for the second spot.
