Nov
12
An exhibition of illustrative work by Kareena Zerefos.
Opening 13 November 2008 at
Famous When Dead gallery
207 Victoria St, West Melbourne 3003
Exhibition continuing from 13 – 23 November 2008.
Nov
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The occasionally highest rating news service in Australia, the Nine News (formerly National Nine News) got a visual refresh this month.
Unfortunately the new look is huge step down from previous incarnations, with superfluous lines flying everywhere and ever classy solar flares, accompanied by a confusing combination of orange and blue, its less flagship-news-bulletin and more lifestyle-travel-show.
Nov
04
An innovator and now proven long stayer the Attik has relaunched their showcase of impressive work, as they say themselves – “We do pretty much everything imaginable in the world of creative communications”
Nov
01
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Long time morning television rivals Sunrise and Today will face new competition from Monday morning, with the much anticipated launch of ABC News Breakfast.
The new service fronted by Virginia Trioli and Barrie Cassidy (formerly Peter Lloyd) will run weekdays between 6-9am on ABC2. With the resources, and the reputation of the ABC behind this new program, its likely to carve out an audience under whelmed by the commercial networks offerings.
It should also do wonders for the publics increasing recognition of ABC2 as a distinctly separate offering to ABC1, with the recent Paralympics also helping the networks impressive audience growth.
All this of course showing that one thing, and one thing only is going to drive the take up of digital in Australia: content!
Oct
25
Enter the “worlds” of Mun2.
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Mun2 is a cable television network in the US based primarily at the young Latino population. Owned by NBC Universal, the channels name is actually pronounced Mundos, which is Spanish for ‘worlds’, with the branding of the station as “Mun2″ just a stylistic choice.
Designed by PepperMelon, the new set of idents, are meant to represent the stations three different “worlds”.
The three different worlds, along with introducing the channel, also represent;
An internal world, where the holographic projections are a representation of what music is currently transmitting right through the boombox.
An individual world. The ID with the girl jumping in slow motion. A super conceptual work where classic moments in Latin American stereotype-citizens living in the US are represented.
An external world, where different actions and interactions between typical latin-urban symbols are represented.
– Thanks to Fernando from PepperMelon for the videos…
Oct
18
Film4 takes idents to the big screen.
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The studio ident for Film4 Productions is a new take on the “Channel 4 formula”, that sees the logo slowly revealed to the viewer through the magic of perspective.
Check out more from Film4, or just more studio idents.
Oct
16
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France Télécom, the parent company of telco Orange, recently entered the world of film, with the launch of its own production company Studio 37.
Studio branding has always interested me, and although Studio 37 is far more subtle than the big studios, this beautifully crafted spot by French agency Moustache is 20 seconds of self described “movie clichés” all done without over emphasisng the fact that its owned by a mobile phone company.
Unfortunately for Australian’s though, our largest telecommunications provider Telstra, has also just revealed that its getting into the movie business, by turning a horrible series of ads into a film.
Telstra: 1. Progression of Australian film industry: 0.
Oct
07
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For the first time in six years, Five is giving itself a rebrand. The new look network has dropped the lower case type, and replaced it with a logo that’s just a little reminiscent of way BBC One do things.
Coming on-air for the first time last night, the look isn’t the only thing to change, with a new approach to promotions and ad breaks also coming into effect.
While the new look is just as slick as any other UK network, it manages to lack some the unity of other network idents, and although I’ve only seen this selection, I’m pretty confused as to what its all meant to mean, if anything.
For me though, Channel Five are going to have a hard time topping this.
Oct
04
Kath and Kim: Australia v America.
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Comparing the opening titles of the original Kath and Kim to the American remake, its clear this isn’t going to be a line-for-line remake. Most importantly though, for the millions of American’s who will meet Kath and Kim for the first time this Thursday on NBC, I think they might just enjoy themselves.
The pilot made its pre-air debut on iTunes not long ago. All you need to do to download a copy if you’re outside of the States, is get yourself an iTunes account.
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