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Thompson Punke
by Jan Kwiecinski


A beautiful sunset crowns a red-letter day for humanity. A post-apocalyptic city smoulders on the horizon. Through the woods traipse a group of survivors. Are they the last people on earth? This band of rebels, renegades and drop-outs who have lucked-out, party for what could be the last time. There is no tomorrow for these last scraps of human remnants as they toast their last hurrah with beers, bongs... and bats. What better way to say goodbye to it all than with a nice spot of ping pong?


We're extremely proud to present new signing to Nice Shirt Films, Jan Kwiecinski, and his latest work for Thompson Punke.

A breakout star from the Wajda's Master School of Directing in Warsaw, Jan directs the film with a verve and passion that bleeds from the screen. His eye for arresting colour is one of the stand-out elements of the spot.


Jan left his native Poland with a selection of award-winning, self-written short films under his belt, most notably his taut, gripping "The Incident". After graduating from the London Film School, the next step in his fast rise was his personal selection by Harmony Korine & Vice magazine's film arm to make one segment in the three-part, visually evocative, "The Fourth Dimension". The film premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival and generated industry buzz for its twisted play on space, time and audience expectations. Shortly after the film's debut, Jan was selected for the Sundance Institute for Directors and Screenwriters Programme, where at the infamous breeding ground for the next generation of filmmaking talent, he is adapting "The Incident" into a full feature.  At only 27, Jan is a tour de force to be reckoned with.

Highly inventive and infectiously enthusiastic, Jan makes his first foray into commercials with this spot for Thompson Punke.


Soundtracked by poetry from Milton and punk rock from "Tiger" by the Brooklyn band Cheeseburger, Jan leaves us with something memorable.


The Brooklyn-based outfit of Thompson Punke, self-described as a bad-ass ping pong clothing brand, is one of the originators of the ping pong revival that started in NYC, crossed the pond and is now taking over the world one pong at a time. The connection between creativity and ping pong isn't a familiar one but is a logical one - what self-respecting agency, design studio or trendy bar is without a ping pong table? Thompson Punke capitalises on this with a bright and hyperactive collection that captures the spirit and fun of the game everyone loves to play.

To see Jan's work, have a peek at his showreel here.

Bumble Drum


A little late on this (maybe the decision had to go upstairs for a DRS referral or something before we found out), but those fine folks over at The Drum made Tareq's "charming... beautiful" David "Bumble" Lloyd spots for Coral Ad of the Day! Howzat! etc. 

Coral "Bumble" by Tareq

Just in time for another cracking Ashes summer comes Tareq's latest spot for betting website Coral. Eliciting the opinions of Sky's lead commentator David "Bumble" Lloyd, Tareq's viral campaign captures the great man pontificating in his unmistakeable manner on all things cricket, begonias and shortbread biscuits.


The films were shot on location at Bumble's home, greenhouse, local pub and golf club, as well as Old Trafford cricket ground. They fully demonstrate Tareq's adept handling of shooting in the 'documentary' style he has much experience in - capturing the subject's personality through questions (this time submitted by Bumble's many thousand followers on Twitter) and beautifully contextualising cutaways, with the hint of fun & mischievousness that runs through Tareq's work very much present in these clips. David Reviews called the films charming for the way they beautifully exploit Bumble's tendency to say whatever comes to mind.

It was a fantastic day spent with Bumble on the shoot - (well, any shoot that ends up in the pub is always a good one) as evidenced by this snap of Bumble and Tareq with the crack Nice Shirt production team of producer James on the left and exec producer Rich on the right.

Working hard, hardly working.
We're pretty sure Bumble's holding a full-sized pint glass in his hand here: the great man would never drink half pints! It's just that his hands are quite big, what with the cricket and everything.

Jon Hollis :
Flame Artist Extraordinaire

It's not everyday you work alongside someone who is internationally renowned as one of the greatest proponents in their chosen field- no, wait a minute: it IS everyday we work alongside someone who is internationally renown as one of the greatest proponents of their chosen field! 

We're excited to bring you the news that Jon has been recognised by the developers of Flame as a leader and an expert in the world of visual effects and is nominated for a Flame Award in acknowledgement of his
 "...high level of creativity, originality, community involvement, and a dedication to advancing the art and science of visual effects creation through the skilled use of Flame."
We're all very proud. He is one of the chosen 30 ultimate Flame Artists, so he needs your vote! Pop along to the Autodesk website to cast your vote & show your appreciation. You can see Jon's outstanding work over on his showreel

To mark the occasion, we commissioned a portrait of Jon, capturing him hard at work in his suite, which we can exclusively reveal below. 


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