Client: Burger King
Agency: .start, Germany
Creative Director: Marco Mehrwald
Copywriter: Bernd Nagenrauft
Art Director: Gesine Schmidt
Photographers: Volker Dautzenberg, Manfred Kirchmayr
Source: burger_king_country_3
I would be very surprised if Burger King has actually approved or published any of this work without their logo.
Advertising has induced progress in the use by manufacturers of new materials, new tools, and new processes of manufacture by calling their attention to economies which could be achieved and to the new uses to which they could be put. Without such advertising, information of this kind would take years to reach all of those who might benefit by it and progress would be delayed – Harry S. Truman
ليلة رمضانية في أجواء لبنانية بمطعم عبدالوهاب
بدعوة من خالد الراشد رئيس مجلس ادارة ومالك مطعم عبدالوهاب اجتمعت الأسرة الصحفية والإعلامية في غبقة رمضانية مميزة ضمن أجواء لبنانية الطعم والتقديم وقد قام طاقم الإدارة في المطعم باستقبال المدعوين من اهل الصحافة والإعلام مع أسرهم وأبدى الحضور اعجابهم بالأجواء، كما استمتع الحاضرون ببوفيه الغبقة السخي الذي فاض بالمأكولات والحلويات، بالإضافة الى المشروبات الرمضانية التقليدية. واستمرت الغبقة حتى بعد منتصف الليل، تقدمت بعدها الأسرة الإعلامية بالشكر من إدارة المطعم على هذا التكريم والثناء على ما لاقوه من ترحيب حار وما شهدوه من ترتيب متقن وقد عبرت إدارة المطعم بالمقابل عن فرحتها بتلبية الأسرة الصحافية والإعلامية لدعوتها لهذه الغبقة وعقب رئيس مجلس الإدارة خالد الراشد قائلا: »حرصنا على ان يكون جو مطعم عبدالوهاب رمضانيا يتناسب مع طبيعة الشهر الكريم مع استمرار تقديم الوجبات اللبنانية التي اشتهر بها المطعم، بالإضافة الى بعض الأطباق الكويتية في وجبة الفطور كالهريس والجريش وإضافة الى بعض أطباق الحلو، كالكنافة وحلاوة الجبن. وعن الخطط المستقبلية للمطعم أضاف الراشد قائلا: هناك إضافة وجبة الترويقة الفطور وعملية التوسعة للمطعم، حيث تصبح الترويقة على البحر خلال الموسم القادم ليستمتع الحضور بمنظر البحر الجميل
It was a nice evening spent in Abdul Wahab restaurant by the Gulf with my IAA Kuwait Chapter friends and colleges Mr. Adnan Al Rashid, IAA Honorary President, Mr. Michel Barakat, Tresurer and Mr. Fareed Salom, Board Member.
I also met up with lots of my friends in the advertising industry; some of which i have not seen i a while; including my ex-client Mr. Khalid Al Rashid and ex-partner in Graffiti Mr. Ali Mazeh.
Published in Al Anba newspaper on Friday, August 28, 2009. Page: 15. Society pages.
Source: http://www.alanba.com.kw/ArchivePDF/Archive.html
Published in Al Thulatha weekly newspaper in Kuwait. August 25, 2009. Page: 17.
Um Khamas the famous cartoons from the UAE has fallen victim of copyright infringement in Kuwait. some one found it profitable to advertise Um Khamas branded sweets and candies which are very popular during the month of Ramadan and profit from that without paying franchising fees or obtaining approval from the character copyright owners!!! wont be the first time or the last. Happy Gergeyan everyone.
Posted by Patrick Burgoyne
The copy-cat
German agency DSG has created a nice, if over-long, film to mark the 50th anniversary of the Olympus PEN camera. YouTube commenters, however, have been quick to point out its similarity to an earlier film
The DSG film (above) tells the story of one man’s life in stop motion. As is explained on its YouTube posting “We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post-production!”
However, it does look remarkably like Takeuchi Taijin’s Wolf and Pig film
The original
Eliza Williams’ piece The YouTube Dilemma from our May issue (which you can read here) discussed the difficulties ad agencies are getting themselves into over YouTube. On the one hand, here is a rich source of ideas to “borrow” and adapt for campaigns; on the other, is the realisation that they cannot get away with simply taking others’ ideas for their own use as they would have done in the past.
And this is where Olympus and DSG seem to have got themselves into a pickle. In response to commenters pointing out the obvious debt the Olympus film owes to Taijin’s piece, the following has been added: “Some of the comments we have read here suggest that we should mention the creator of “A wolf loves pork”, Mr Taijin Takeuchi. While we were looking for a way to realise a story describing “a journey through time” based on printed images, we were inspired by Mr Takeuchi’s brilliant work. For this reason we intentionally quoted his work in our little movie while showing full respect to his original idea. We didn’t mention his name because we did not want to do so without his prior agreement. However after considering some of the comments posted here we have decided to add credits to him and his work, which we obviously absolutely love.”
Hmmm – not really helping themselves are they?
Source: http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/the-youtube-dilemma-strikes-again
This is an interesting video on why professionals in every field do not work for free. so why should you?!!!
They stole 14 different creations, used them as their own without crediting the originals or even mentioning them and profited from doing so.
The work was done for profit to promote the launching of the TV station owned by the owner of multiple advertising agencies and TV production companies; he goes by the name Tarek Nour who openly admitted to copying 14 promos (so far) and is considered a creative legend in Egypt.
This only goes to show the true status of creativity in the Middle East. copy past. copy anything from anywhere and past it anywhere but most importantly never forget to enter such work in creativity awards as bragging rights are as important as getting a raise, or getting new clients and undeserved respect from people whom you take for granted and deem ignorant!!!
I hope we do not see this work on next year short-list at the Dubai Lynx. The following are some examples of the original content which Egyptian Advertising industry Top Dog Tarek Nour copied the ideas from and used them as promos to launch his TV station during the month of Ramadan!!! This guy will stop at nothing.
The videos have been removed by Tarek Nour from Youtube trying to cover up his crime, however tow of them are still available on Smells like a dirty copycat / Ça sent bon la mauvaise cope and Thinking about copycat? / Touché coulé!
Berlitz Language School – 2006
Source : Cannes SILVER Lion, Cresta Awards Winner, Eurobest Silver, One Show Silver & New York Festivals Gold Worldmedal!
Agency : Bates United Oslo (Norway)
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http://adnationme.com/news/top-story/tarek-nour-nabbed-on-facebook-for-copycats-2.html
Source: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=128807933831
Advertising Agency, City: TBWA\RAAD MIDDLE EAST, Dubai
Executive Creative Director: Milos Ilic
Copywriter: Cindy Hammel
Art Director: Daryl Villanueva, Danilo Villanueva
Photographer: Groovy Studio
Account Supervisor: Mirna Kheir
Advertiser’s Supervisor: Paminder Singh
Source: Never feel out of place
Source: jeep_penguin_0
Advertising Agency: Young & Rubicam, Brazil
Creative Directors: Tomas Lorente, André Nassar, Marcelo Reis
Art Directors: Daniel Salles, Marco Mattos
Copywriter: Vinicius Stanzione
Photographer: Keystone
Source: jeep_polar_bear
Lateral Thinking: When a low probability line of thought leads to an effective idea, there is a “Eureka” moment and at once the low-probability approach acquires the highest probability. – Edward De Bono. Excerpt from a book by John Townsend & Jacques Favier titled The Creative Manager’s Pocketbook. Page: 2. ISBN: 1-870471-69-5.
A copycat is a person that mimics or repeats the behavior of another. The term is often derogatory, suggesting a lack of originality. The expression may derive from kittens that learned by imitating the behaviors of their mothers. – Wikipedia.
Plagiarism: The abuse of another’s original work by copying it and passing it off as one’s own. As defined in Alastair Campbell book titled The Designer’s Lexicon. Page: 293 ISBN: 0-304-35505-4.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of thievery” excerpt from a book by Capsule titled Design Matters. Page: 84. ISBN -13:978-1-59253-341-1.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows. - Milton Glaser
This is a creativity competition for a good cause (other than wining the $11,000) and it is open for published work as well as unpublished work. there is NO entry fee and you can submit as many artworks as you like. so what are you waiting for check out further details on the website http://www.concernedcommunicatoraward.org/
ANUBIS was a very old god of the ancient Egyptians, universally worshipped throughout the land and became considered the gatekeeper and ruler of the underworld; the “Guardian of the veil“ he was “Lord of the Cleansing Room” and the opener of the roads of the North. “He observed the weighing of the deceased’s heart against the feather of Maat [Truth] and reported his findings to the jury of the gods.
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