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I spotted a few new Artful Dodger threads we designed just hitting the stores.

We’ve had the pleasure of working closely with the Got Milk creative team over at DraftFCB lately, and they have to rank as one of the most creative (and friendliest) agency teams around.

Here is one of the executions we created for them, with crafted typography, photography, vector graphics, and CGI milk flow.  Another great studio project utilizing a range of talent within our team.

Thanks to Nick for sending me this link to Dave  Trott’s blog.  Enlightening and entertaining in equal measure:

People are always asking me where advertising is headed.

Well, there are big changes happening in advertising right now.
We’ve never known anything like it before, have we?
New media gurus saying traditional advertising is dead.
The only possible future is social media.
Brand planners who know the only possible answer to any and every problem is to redefine the brand.
Creative directors who know that a new visual technique is the essential ingredient for any new ad campaign.
Everyone’s got a formula.
Everyone’s got a foolproof answer to what we should all be doing.
And yet, everyone knows we’ve never faced such uncertainty before.
In fact, I recently got hold of this letter.
It’s from the creative director of an ad agency, to the board of directors.
See if you can guess who.

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Here’s how we composed the Hyundai art, piece by piece, layer by layer.  OK, this is speeded up quite a bit… it took ages!

Hyundai Behind The Scenes film from vault49 on Vimeo.

Maxim are a good bunch.  We did this fun cut-out piece last week, reflecting all the quirky qualities of 8 different countries… if you think you live in a shit-hole, take a look at these other countries.  You kinda need the full article to appreciate all the little digs and associate each country to their icons, but all the more reason to go and buy a copy, eh!?  Oh, and yes that is Joan Rivers head on a dogfish body.  How many studios get that written into their brief .

Patience and skill in abundance.

We just updated the Vault49 site with some fun pics of our Yahoo installation.  Just over three weeks to conceive, design, produce, build, install, paint…. and then up for just one week!  It’s been a wonderful, if crazy, few weeks.  This was a lot of fun – more please.