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Earlier this month, popular apparel line Calvin Klein put up a new billboard advertisement in Soho, New York City for its Spring 2016 #MyCalvins campaign.

We are asking that Calvin Klein do the right thing and remove this offensive billboard IMMEDIATELY!

The advertisement shows actress Klara Kristin in her Calvins with the text “I seduce in #mycalvins”, directly alongside male rapper Fetty Wap with the text “I make money in #mycalvins”.

The billboard propagates an archaic and offensive gender stereotype that women are nothing more than sexual objects, while men are the breadwinners. Calvin Klein has a vast assortment of content for this campaign, so we find it appalling that the company chose to put these two images side by side in one of the most highly visible intersections in the country.

Men aged 16-30 are by far the most in demand as stem cell donors, but they make up only 15% of the register. Men are encouraged to sign up today and be the man at www.anthonynolan.org/marchofthemen and share with the hashtag #MarchOfTheMen

Creative Credits:
Production company: Spectrecom Films
Creative: Danielle Wilmott
Creative producer: Clemence Bartram
Director: Matt O’Brien
Camera: Alex Kerr, Dan Berens
Editor: Alex Kerr
Audio: Ted Dokov

From saving endangered species to clean drinking water and trucking through icy mountain roads, the cinemagraphs tell the real-world stories of how Cisco’s technologies work as a force of good.

The widely praised campaign has been called “attention-grabbing and thought-provoking” by Forbes.

Cisco’s “There’s Never Been a Better Time” is the latest campaign launch LOGAN has helped complete, following recent work for some of the world’s biggest brands, including Apple, Condé Nast, X-Men and Clinique, among others.

Italy's iconic Riace Bronzes will return to their home at the Reggio Calabria National Museum later this year after lengthy restoration work.

So now, it's almost time for them to return to their permanent home.

According to the superintendent for archaeological and cultural heritage of Calabria, Simonetta Bonomi, restoration work should be completed near the end of the year and the two warriors "will be back home again" in time for Christmas.

The celebrated bronzes were found in August 1972 off the coast of Calabria and quickly captured worldwide attention. They were so highly prized that they are rarely allowed to travel from their home, despite repeated requests.

Even former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was turned down twice after seeking to borrow the statues for Group of Eight summits.

During the current restoration work, the Riace Bronzes, last let out in 1981 for a triumphant round-Italy tour, have been kept inside a purpose-built area with a glass front allowing visitors to watch the delicate restoration work.

Meanwhile, the Reggio Calabria museum has been undergoing restorations itself while the bronzes have been away. Approximately six million euros have been earmarked for that project, and regional authorities have released the final funds need to complete the work before year end.

The Bronzes were discovered in 1972 by a Roman holidaymaker scuba diving off the Calabrian coast and turned out to be one of Italy's most important archaeological finds in the last 100 years.

The statues are of two virile men, presumably warriors or gods, who possibly held lances and shields at one time. At around two metres, they are larger than life.

The 'older' man, known as Riace B, wears a helmet, while the 'younger' Riace A has nothing covering his rippling hair.

Both are naked.

Although the statues are cast in bronze, they feature silver lashes and teeth, copper red lips and nipples, and eyes made of ivory, limestone and a glass and amber paste.

Italy has the world's biggest trove of archeological treasures but the Riace Bronzes attracted particular attention.

This was partly due to their exceptionally realistic rendering and partly to the general rarity of ancient bronze statues, which tended to be melted down and recycled.

Stefano Mariottini, the scuba diver who first spotted one of the statues some 300 meters off the coast and eight metres underwater, said the bronze was so realistic that he initially thought he'd found the remains of a corpse.

A million people came to see them in 1981 and the pair are even featured on a commemorative postage stamp.

The statues usually pull around 130,000 visitors annually to the Reggio Calabria National Museum.

Source: AnsaIT [August 14, 2012]

DBA is Denmark's biggest marketplace for classified goods and owned by eBay. An analysis conducted by Epinion for DBA revealed that the Danes have used goods equivalent to more than 20 billion Danish kroner (approx. 2,7 billion Euro) lying around in cabinets and attics, that is just slowly losing value.

To stop this madness DBA created a content site www.dbaguide.dk in order to inspire Danes to do something about this major waste of resources. To launch the site we developed two films, one targeted at men, one targeted at women. The films points out the grotesque in having all these values lying around and involves two real Danes, the content of their attics, a Fender Stratocaster, an RS-40 Shredder, a celebrity designer wedding dress and a weed burner.

Content containing the two participants Maria and Christian, where they tell about their stuff and why they did not sell it will follow up the two films. DBA will also launch a competition where you can only participate by buying their actual stuff.

Some interesting facts from the Epinion analysis:
· Danes estimate they have 291 things in average that they no longer use
· 57% don’t do anything about it, because they feel it is difficult and time-consuming to sell the stuff
· 44% feel it is not worth to sell it
· However 63% thinks second hand will be a more popular in the future

This campaign for DBA is created by Danish agency Robert/Boisen & Like-minded (www.rblm.dk). Internationally known for the ‘Do it for Denmark’ and ‘Do it for mom’ campaigns.

The Credits:
Robert/Boisen & Like-minded (Ad agency):
Søren Christensen, Strategist
Heinrich Vejlgaard, Creative Director
René Sohn Kammersgaard, Art Director
Gitte Andersen, Account Manager

Gobsmack Productions (Film production)
Christina Bostofte Erritzøe, Producer
Cille Silverwood-Cope, Production
Peter Harton, Director
Laust Trier-Mørk, DOP
Ole Krogstad, Editor
Mike Bothe, Grader
Magnús Sveinn Jónsson, Visual Effects
Ole Krogstad, sounddesign

Advice (PR)
Stine Green Paulsen, Chief Advisor
Thilde Danielsen, Advisor
Kristina Rasmussen, Advisor

Han Kjøbenhavn – the Danish men’s fashion brand famous for its minimalist designs – loves to experiment. All the models during the arresting presentation of the brand’s new collection in 2015 wore Teva sandals. That’s how the idea of developing a special Han Kjøbenhavn sandal started. A special partnership between Teva and Han Kjøbenhavn that increasingly blurs the boundaries between outdoor and high fashion.

Fitzroy has developed a video together with Teva and Han Kjøbenhavn for this special sandal, shot in Copenhagen. The video is about the interplay of Han Kjøbenhavn’s urban roots and the outdoor life that is inextricably linked to Teva. We touch on a facet that is equally important in both worlds: determination. The images are accompanied by ‘The Quitter’, Robert W. Service’s poem about how to deal with setbacks.

The Teva x Han Kjøbenhavn collection will be sold in very limited numbers in Han Kjøbenhavn stores in New York, Paris and Copenhagen, by selected retailers and online.

M&S has launched a new campaign for its summer 2016 collection for women, men and children.“The Art of Summer” campaign, created by RKCR/Y&R, showcases M&S’s summer fashion, from trench coats to floral dresses, and highlights the brand’s unique quality and style. “The Art of Summer” campaign will run across TV, press, online, and on digital outdoor platforms from Wednesday, May 4th. The TV, online and press work is the latest instalment in the brand’s “The Art of” campaign and will run until the end of July.

Creative Credits:
Ad Agency: RKCR/Y&R, London
Creative Director: Mark Roalfe
Creative Team: Pip Bishop + Chris Hodgkiss
Head of Strategy : Roisin Robothan-Jones
Senior Strategist: Hayley Sivner
Business Director: Matt Delahunty
Account Director: Eileen Cosgrove-Moloney
Agency Producer: Rachel “Chops” Amess
Director/ Production Co: Christian & Patrick @ Park Pictures
Producer: Malachy McAnenny
Editor: Sam Jones @ Cut & Run
Post Production: MPC (Grade — George K; Flame – Bevis Jones)
Sound Design: James Clark @ Clearcut Sound
Typographer: Tivy Davies
DoP: Simon Chaudoir

Wendell Phillips, a young paleontologist and geologist, headed one of the largest archaeological expeditions to remote South Arabia (present-day Yemen) from 1949 to 1951. Accompanied by some of the leading scholars, scientists, and technicians of the day, Phillips was on a quest to uncover two ancient cities — Timna, the capital of the once-prosperous Qataban kingdom, and Marib, the reputed home of the legendary Queen of Sheba — that had flourished along the fabled incense road some 2,500 years earlier.

Through a selection of unearthed objects as well as film and photography shot by the expedition team, the exhibition highlights Phillips’s key finds, recreates his adventures (and misadventures), and conveys the thrill of discovery on this important great archaeological frontier.

The exhibition will highlight a famed pair of striding Hellenistic bronze lions surmounted by a figure of Eros, the Greek god of love. Known as the “Lions of Timna,” the skillfully cast sculptural forms — once featured on Yemeni currency — exemplify the vibrant cultural exchange between the Qataban and Greek empires, and inscriptions on its base allow researchers to reconstruct the home it came from and explore familial relationships of its affluent owners.

Other excavated objects featured include precious incense burners, delicately carved alabaster ibexes, finely articulated funerary sculpture, and a wealth of inscriptions that offer unprecedented insight into the life and times of the ancient people of Arabia.

Where: The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

When: Oct. 11, 2014 to June 7, 2015

Source: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery [August 06, 2014]

Creative Credits:
Ad Agency: adam&eveDDB
Project name: Great Men
Client: Shadi Halliwell, Group Creative & Marketing Director; Anna Davidson, Head of Marketing
Chief Creative Officer Ben Priest
Executive Creative Directors Ben Tollett, Richard Brim
Art director: Tim Vance
Copywriter: Paul Knott
Head of Design: Alex Fairman
Agency Producer: Amanda Davies
Production Assistants: Nic Akinnibosun & Raluca Anastasiu
Account Management: Paul Billingsley (Business Director), Britt Lippett (Account Director), Katie Gough (Account Manager)
Agency Planner: Michelle Gilson
Media agency: Zenith Optimedia
Media planner: Tim Payne; Becky Dorfman
Animator: Rob Rae @ MOTIONCULT
Post Production: Touch Digital
VO Artist: Joe Dixon @ Sue Terry
Music Supervisor/ Audio post: Factory Studios
Soundtrack name and composer: main track – Moonlight Sonata/ Beethoven. Dance track composed by Si Begg/ Siren

More than 300 astonishing objects made from gold and other precious materials are presented in the major exhibition “Beyond El Dorado. Power and gold in ancient Colombia”, held by the British Museum in conjunction with the Museo del Oro, Bogotá. The exhibition opens on October 17, 2013 and will run through March 23, 2014.

In ancient Colombia gold was used to fashion some of the most visually dramatic and sophisticated works of art found anywhere in the Americas before European contact. This exhibition will feature over 300 exquisite objects drawn from the Museo del Oro in Bogotá, one of the best and most extensive collections of Pre-Hispanic gold in the world, as well as from the British Museum’s own unique collections. Through these exceptional objects the exhibition will explore the complex network of societies in ancient Colombia – a hidden world of distinct and vibrant cultures spanning 1600 BC to AD 1700 – with particular focus on the Muisca, Quimbaya, Calima, Tairona, Tolima and Zenú chiefdoms. This important but little understood subject will be explored in this unique exhibition following on from shows in Room 35 such as Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, Grayson Perry: Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World and Kingdom of Ife: sculptures from West Africa in shining a light on world cultures through their craftsmanship.

Although gold was not valued as currency in pre-Hispanic Colombia, it had great symbolic meaning. It was one way the elite could publicly assert their rank and semi-divine status, both in life and in death. The remarkable objects displayed across the exhibition reveal glimpses of these cultures’ spiritual lives including engagement with animal spirits though the use of gold objects, music, dancing, sunlight and hallucinogenic substances that all lead to a physical and spiritual transformation enabling communication with the supernatural. Animal iconography is used to express this transformation in powerful pieces demonstrating a wide range of imaginative works of art, showcasing avian pectorals, necklaces with feline claws or representations of men transforming into spectacular bats though the use of profuse body adornment.

The exhibition will further explore the sophisticated gold working techniques, including the use of tumbaga, an alloy composed of gold and copper, used in the crafting the most spectacular masterworks of ancient Colombia. Extraordinary poporos (lime powder containers) showcase the technical skills achieved both in the casting and hammering techniques of metals by ancient Colombian artists. Other fascinating objects will include an exceptional painted Muisca textile and one of the few San Agustín stone sculptures held outside Colombia. Those, together with spectacular large scale gold masks and other materials were part of the objects that accompanied funerary rituals in ancient Colombia.

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum said “Ancient Colombia has long represented a great fascination to the outside world and yet there is very little understood about these unique and varied cultures. As part of the Museum’s series of exhibitions that shine a light on little known and complex ancient societies this exhibition will give our visitors a glimpse into these fascinating cultures of pre-hispanic South America and a chance to explore the legend of El Dorado through these stunning objects.”

“American Airlines and American Airlines Cargo are thrilled to be partnering with the British Museum on Beyond El Dorado: power and gold in ancient Colombia.” said Tristan Koch, Managing Director of Cargo Sales for EMEA – American Airlines. “American Airlines is a supporter of the arts in many cities that we serve around the world and it’s exciting to be linking the two destinations of Bogotá, Colombia and London by transporting precious passengers and cargo between them.”

Source: The British Museum [August 04, 2013]

Being tasked with promoting The Sunday Times’ month-long series and refresh of its Culture section got us thinking. What are people’s favourite iconic cultural moments across film, music, art and TV? Why do some things enter popular culture and remain there, while others fall by the wayside?

Shot in one stunning take by Us through Academy Films, the film tips its hat to some of the most instantly recognisable moments from culture through the ages. In just 50 seconds, it recreates six iconic scenes from more than 500 years of history: Rodin’s The Thinker, the epochal ‘bench scene’ from Forrest Gump, the Mad Men title sequence, Michelangelo’s seminal Creation of Adam, the Mr Pink/Mr White ‘altercation’ from Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, and, finally, the helmeted, Grammy Award-winning electronic duo Daft Punk.

Creative Credits:  
Ad Agency — Grey
Creative Director — Dave Monk
Creatives — Jonathan Rands & Johan Leandersson
Agency Producer — Debbie Impett
Director — Us
Production Company — Academy Films
Executive Producer — Lizie Gower
Producer — Juliette Harris
DOP — Ben Fordesman
A&R Operator — Simon Wood
Art Director — Alison Dominitz
Hair & MakeUp — Lu Hinton
Stylist — Rebecca Hale
Casting — Hammond & Cox
Editor — Dave Stevens @ Assembly Rooms
Post — Electric Theatre Collective
Grade — Aubrey Woodiwiss

Behind the scenes...The making of The Sunday Times "Icons" advert.