I haven’t really spent to much time blogging about what I’m actually am doing besides blogging. However, for some time now I’ve been working with everything from re-branding, advertising, digital communication to point of sales, packaging and raw problem solving for both Swedish and foreign brands. Some of the projects are pretty darn cool but nothing visual will surface for the next couple of months.
Tomorrow in leading newspapers, UC, Swedish credit institute [click to continue…]
Oh how I’d love to be in the room when the Creative Directors Daniel Frericks and Götz Ulmer pitch their idea to a 140 year old watch brand. This is a business where people stick by the rules. Big ass photography where the product is the hero. All ads look more or less the same.
Creative, simplicity and original. Good on you – Jung von Matt!
Great, fantastic, wonderful and different. Brave – IWC
Thanks Advertolog for making me find it.
It’s sunday evening. I wanna sleep. And this nice ad from IKEA Canada finally makes me shut down and get to bed. But before I do I gotta share the piece with you as it proves interactivity is always appreciated even thought it might not be digital.
The idea “So comfortable, you’ll need shorter bedtime stories” has been executed as a nice double page spread where you get your own copy of an super short version of classical bed time stories like for example The Tortoise and the Hare. The ad hits me straight where it should do, in my heart. On top of that I’m thinking – If I would have seen this ad I’d saved the little book for my kids. It’s a very nice ad made by Toronto based agency Zig and I found it on the Skinny blog.
So anyway, where was I…..eh…zzz..zzz..zz……..zz…….z (in this case it means it’s a good piece)
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S potted this ad on Adsoftheworld. Liked the simplicity of it. A nice little storyteller.
There’s been a lot of buzz in Sweden about DDB but personally I haven’t really understood why. But when I spotted this one it makes more sense.
Among others, Art Directors Viktor Arve, Ted Harry Mellström, Simon Higby and another 7 team members created this piece. Can someone please explain why you need 10 people to produce this one. Hope the client didn’t have to pay.
This is simplicity at it’s best. Jung von Matt in Germany shows how much you can do with very little.
My only concern would be that this actually makes +30 year old kids wanna buy lego rather than 10 year old ones. However…the 30 year olds are the ones that pay 
Source: Adsoftheworld.com
Ah, I know. Some of you think we only do digital over at Foreign. Here’s a little something to prove different.
Kosta Boda, one of the leading and oldest glasshouses in the world asked us to develop an idea for print placements in glossy magazines and larger outdoor billboards to follow up last years success.
Kosta Boda has history that goes back to 1742. And since then, with great passion, they’ve created some of the most beautiful pieces of glass in the world.
After some thinking we decided to go with the idea ‘In love with art glass’. The client loved it.
After first sketches we had BSmart photographer Hans Carlén shot arms of female models and the products. Together with their retoucher Andreas Lübeck we then molded the prints into final results. Annika Tersmeden handled the project management on Foreigns side and Nina Karlsson made sure it all worked out over at Bsmart. My role was AD/Copy on the project.
In the first batch we have created five prints. The Flamenco above, and the other four here:
November 6, 2007
in Print
Absolut Vodka, one of Swedens premium export brand has provided the world with consistent advertising since first exported in 1979. The last couple of years the brand has been seen luring around with different experiments in what seems to be a search for new strategy in it’s advertising.
Now for the first time (if you don’t count events and editorials) Absolut has left their strategy of having the profile of the bottle centered in the middle of the ad as the hero it should be. Instead they have turned to a more traditional set up with bottle in the right corner. Of course change might be needed but not towards traditional. The ads them self I have nothing to say about, their as good as any…but their position as market leader and NOT follower is definetely broken with these executions.
This is a sad day for me…it’s the day when Absolut stopped innovating and started following.
The stuff is put together by TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, USA, Art Directors: Rob Smiley, Pam Fujimoto and Photographer: Vincent Dixon.
Shame on you guys…I hope it works.
