Hasta La Motion!

IKEA in Germany recently ran an outdoor advertising campaign featuring four part posters incorrectly assembled, with the mixed message, “Our Assembly Service is Happy To Help”. The campaign came out of the recognition that even though IKEA furniture is not hard to assemble, people can can easily mix up some of the parts and end up putting them all together back to front. It can happen to anyone. Even bill posters, so it would seem.

Credits

The IKEA Assembly Fail campaign was developed at thjnk, Hamburg, by executive creative director Armin Jochum, creative directors Torben Otten, Georg Baur, Bettina Olf, art director Niko Auf dem Berge, copywriter Karl Wolfgang Epple, account managers Verena Harwege, Victoria Linz, final artwork operator Hilko Wiegmann, with post production done by Lucie&Lisann.

A couple of years ago I was invited to Cologne in Germany to take part in a creative music convention. There was a music festival on at the same time (c/o pop) and for a couple of nights I got to see a whole load of bands I’d never heard of before. I enjoyed the many different venues, one day cruising down the river on a barge listening to German Techno live, the next under the arches watching The Meridian Brothers with their psychedelic projected backdrops. When I got home to New Zealand I was inspired and started messing with a video of my own for the Meridian Brothers, but for some reason, maybe all the delayed time layers I used to capture the frantic pace of the music, my computer started slowing down and finally crapped out. I got a new hard drive and was ready to resume the video when commercial work took me over. I had to put it aside. As much as I like how it was going I don’t think I’ll ever have time to finish it. So here it is, incomplete. You will just have to imagine where it was going. And please, check out the Meridian Brothers music. Even better if you can see them live! http://meridianbrothers.com

Pandemonio is a kaleidoscope of monsters, animals and other strange creatures brought to life by the primitive and franzied pace of Zu’s music. Each figure is made by overlapping felt circles. The animation is obtained by moving, resizing and painting every circle without deforming its perfect shape. Have fun! Pandemonio è un caleidoscopio di mostri, animali e altre strane creature che prendono vita al ritmo frenetico e primitivo della musica degli Zu. Ogni figura è costruita sovrapponendo cerchi di feltro. L’animazione è ottenuta spostando,dimensionando e colorando i singoli cerchi senza mai deformarli. Buon divertimento! http://www.pixelpongo.com/ https://www.behance.net/valeriospinelli https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pixelpongo/170916666272982?ref=hl

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