Dickens with Su...

Ooh if only I was in London...

You would be finding me here

Paper Artist Su Blackwell will be holding a workshop on how to make 'your own Victorian-style tunnel book, incorporating a range of Dickensian characters and stunning scenes.' Running Tuesday evenings form 31st January to the 6th March.

You may remember me mentioning Blackwell before on her work for The Times for Pilsner but my all time favourite piece by her is her amazing paper animation advertisement for Beringer Wine
in my very first post on her.

Dream Job

The making-of Video for the Times+ Subscription, 2011 from Su Blackwell on Vimeo.

 I want their jobs, not that I don't love mine, but I want this one as well.

And then came beer

I do love my stop frame animations. I'm also 99% sure that's what they're called.

The latest to add to my clever advertisements corner is this Pilsner advert. Watch the actual ad below and then check out the behind the scenes video below it. And I dare you not to want to watch the first one again. The attention to detail and the time and consideration that goes into literally every second of the process is just incredible.

Above video courtesy of Su Blackwell. Paper Artist extroardinaire.

Tuesday loves... inspired advertising

 The majority of television adverts are boring at best. Which is what makes the appearance of a truly creative ad campaign even more exciting. In this video Absolut Vodka brought together artists from all over the world to create six different artistic instillations each spelling out a word of the Absolut philosophy.

'Doing things differently leads to something exceptional'

Id say they've hit the mark

The best thing about it, in my opinion anyway, is that none of the instillations are computer generated. And yes you could be cynical and wonder at the copious amounts of money that this campaign must have cost to film and all in the name of selling more alcohol, or you could just sit back and enjoy the instillation. Because that's what it is essentially, high cost, subtle advertising that cares more about creating and sustaining an image than pushing their product down your throats.

Of course there are many brands out there doing the same thing, in a previous blog I talked about the Beringer Wine Campaign which used the work of Su Blackwell's paper sculptures to create a beautiful 3D vineyard.

For an Ad campaign with more of a moral message to it check out this video for Dove, which very scarily shows you exactly what can and probably is done in a lot of beauty campaigns.

And finally at the other end of the spectrum to the costly Absolut and Beringer campaigns or the moral high ground that Dove took lies the Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment.

This homegrown experiment was started totally unbeknownst to either Coca Cola or Mentos but resulted in huge publicity for both as the video of the experiment (a reproduction of the fountain show at the Bellagio in vegas) took off, racking up more than 50 million hits worldwide to date. All because two guys wanted to see how far they could take dropping a mento into diet coke. Genius.

See them go a step further with their Domino Effect - Experiment # 214

Boys and their toys. 

Monday looks inside ... the rabbit hole

And ever, as the story drained the wells of fancy dry, ... Thus grew the tale of Wonderland...

Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and we are still following Alice down the rabbit hole to this day. Here are some of my favourite Alice moments and some Im looking forward to.

A few months ago Empire magazine ran an article on the characters in the upcoming Tim Burton film, Alice in Wonderland. If the photographs are anything to go by the film will be a riot of fantasy and colour as it delves into the fairytale.

 Jewellery designer Alidra Alic's latest collection is also inspired by the fairytale. Some pieces are pure flights of fancy while others you might actually wear. But they all have that ethereal other worldly quality to them

  Orchid 03

Hyacinth 01

Orchid 01 (left)       Drink me (right)

Another designer to draw inspiration from Carroll's tale is Sebastian Bergne

 His 'Looking Glass' top standing decanter was created for the 'Through the looking glass' exhibition at Vendome luxury live.

You can buy it here for £250 (about 280 euro at the moment)

Ive already blogged about Su Blackwell but here is another piece of her work Alice -A Mad Tea Party

And finally a taste of the wacky from Japan

Want to go rock climbing with a difference? Look no further than Illoiha fitness centre in Tokyo by Nendo 

Curiouser and curiouser

Wednesday surfs for ... Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell is an English artist who works with paper, creating miniature worlds that delight and enchant. The first time I heard of her was when she worked on the Beringer Wine Campaign, the video here

is incredible. You have to watch it to believe it, the last 30 seconds are probably the best but the 'making of' is equally interesting. Recently she was in Elle magazine below

Her art is definitely on my wish list of pieces to buy ... someday

Have a nice wednesday