IKEA "Night Walkers" by Jesper Ericstam

Jesper's new one for IKEA takes a dreamy look at dealing with nocturnal upheavals. Despite being turfed out by your bed by your children/wife/cat and ending up sleeping in the dog bed/bath/car boot, it won't disturb your night's rest due to IKEA's comfy (as well as nicely patterned and probably very reasonably priced) bedwares.

The cosy feeling Jesper gets across here is lovely, aided by the Anita Harris track, with his comic touch apparent too with the dad's underwear & welly boot ensemble as well as grandad popping up at the end for breakfast.

We love it, and Creativity Online do too, naming it one of their faves.

10 Grams: Jesper

A feature on the blog where we see what our directors have been upto lately. This time, Jesper (only one pic this time but, boy: it's a doosey)

I love his description: 

"From Stockholm, sauna bathing. I had to make a hole in the ice with a chainsaw"

Awesome.

Bank of Ireland "Lighthouse" by Stuart Douglas

Stuart starts the year with his latest for Bank of Ireland. Following on his previous work for the bank, "Lighthouse" is a beautifully photographed portrait of a lighthouse keeper keeping the light shining in rough seas.

The Drum named it Ad of the Day, calling it a "lovely piece of filmmaking".
We're not sure if there are still lighthouse keepers (there could be??) and we're miles away from any coastline, but it's a nice feeling imagining there's still a bearded older man going around on a bicycle keeping the lights on. 

Virgil Finlay

Stumbled-upon during various Internet surfing this week, the awesome illustrations of Virgil Finlay really caught my eye. His creepy illustration of a vampire looking at himself in the mirror (below) you may recognise from the Oneohtrix Point Never album artwork - the rest of Virgil Finlay's work is just as striking.

(Mondays, amirite??)

Flickr Find: Faces

Catharine Ross by Parker Fitzgerald

Christmas Tree

Nice Shirt has a Christmas tree...

...that's not your average Christmas "tree". And yes, that is old used storage boxes. 

A tidy-up of Nice Shirt left us with a lot of old boxes we needed to get rid of- particularly these rather nice pine-coloured boxes. The festive time was upon us and we wanted to get a tree, so we thought we'd get a bit creative (and environmentally friendly, naturally).

Everything is handmade & recycled (except the lights- we're not that ingenious), from the paper chains to the rather fetching black shiny "tinsel", which is in fact tape from old Digis that we were also getting rid of: 

Eco-mental! We still have a sh*t-tonne of these tapes we're trying to get rid of if you're interested. 

Adam made the star a-top the wondrous tree.

Paper chains! So retro. It's just so poetic that that which was once a tree is now a tree again. Or something. 

And behold, our festive tree. The more we look at it, the more it starts to resemble some kind of Christmas robot, but hey. 

Flickr Finds : h ope

13_9A by h ope [link to photostream]