I subscribe to Creativity, which most of you might know is AdAge’s great monthly magazine covering all things related to art direction, design, production and interactive in the advertising business.
Recently, Creativity had an article on how producers build great directors.

The producers, directors and production co’s they asked are a who’s who of the business, from Radical Media […]

 
Maybe I am a bit behind the times but I recently discovered Vogue.tv, their website dedicated to original programming.  The most prominent show has been Model.live, a series of webisodes following 3 models represented by IMG as they try to make it big.
The most interesting series for me is the Behind-the-Lens series.  They are building […]

Ever wonder why Lindsey Lohan is in a Miu Miu ad, or how a certain celebrity landed on the cover of your favourite indie fashion magazine?
Well, there’s a very good chance Starworks was involved (their blog here).
The latest issue of W Magazine has a great profile on this company.

The work of Jill Freedman, reminiscent of the work of Weegee…capturing the grit of 70’s New York.

An audiovisual tour through Yosemite National Park, Ansel Adams’ biggest muse.

Behind George Lois’ Esquire covers.

Cultural observations by Virginia Heffernan on the Flickr phenomenon…how photography made purely for the web has taken on its own life and aesthetic, […]

So, following up my post on APE’s “Pay To Play” post…here are two striking examples of fashion editorial work that has lead directly to advertising work.  (Never mind the caliber of the photographers for a moment…)

Inez & Vinoodh “Before & After” series for V Magazine.

Inez & Vinoodh, Lane Crawford SS/08 Campaign.

Inez & Vinoodh for W […]

Richard Renaldi just completed a 5 months worth of travelling helming the new global Microsoft campaign…8×10 portraits from all over the world. 

And we can be grateful he documented the entire journey on his blog.  Congratulations Richard!

Wieden + Kennedy’s London blog semi-joked once about creating the producer of the future…but really production at certain forward looking ad agencies are becoming more and more integrated (which seems to be loosely defined as anything melding print, web, broadcast, events and other media types), and being brought in-house as much as possible.
Crispin Porter + […]

Some older, some newer links from the past few weeks…thank goodness someone has been doing some blogging.
Nutopia finally put a new post up…on themselves. No, really, an interesting article on the Nutopia forum in American Photo.
Via, Exposure Compensation (and I saw it on APE)…know your rights photographers.
Thomas Broening gives some nice personal insight into […]

In order to get the new year off to a good start, I thought I’d relate some points from a webcast I recently watched. One of the many emails in my inbox upon my return to work was from Adbase, a database service that many agencies subscribe to. It’s a very comprehensive and […]

From Style.com and Zoe Cassavetes…a quick but interesting look (fyi an ad will play first..).
Zoe Cassavetes on Louis Vuitton

I feel like I’ve been seeing this more recently…advertising where the photographer is given a big credit on the ad. Terry Richardson shot the new Belvedere Vodka campaign featuring Vincent Gallo (though I don’t think that’s him below) and all the print ads have his signature scrawled across the ad.

Interesting to see that the […]

At that Blind Spot series a few weeks back, Collier Schorr made a comment (and I am wildly paraphrasing here) that she always finds it amusing when a client calls and says that she is the perfect fit for their product…and one time the product in question was KY Jelly (which apparently Ellen Von Unwerth […]