Wallace & Gromit’s Npower ad plus more nice work

Npower commercial, agency: Beattie McGuinness Bungay; Creative director: Bil Bungay; Copywriter: James Loxley; Production company: Aardman; director: Merlin Crossingham
It’s Friday, so it must be time for a round-up of great new advertising work, along with some other treats. First up is a new Npower ad from Beattie, McGuinness, Bungay. The ad stars Wallace & Gromit, fresh from their stint as fashionistas in a campaign for Harvey Nicks. Here the charming duo demonstrate the advantages of an energy efficient boiler.

Confused?

Designers from Freeman Christie spotted this bewildering list of charges in an Oxford car park. But, instead of just moaning about the sign, they designed a better one

Where The Real Wild Things Are

All photographs by Peter Beste
As you might expect, we at CR are huge fans of Norwegian Black Metal. So we were excited to see that an exhibition of photographs of fans of the notorious rock movement is on show at the Pool Gallery in Berlin.

Pet Shop Boys say Yes to Farrow

Farrow resumes its longstanding relationship with the Pet Shop Boys with the sleeve for the duo’s latest album, Yes.

Tom Gauld’s sketchbooks

Detail of sketchbook page. © Tom Gauld
For a brief glimpse into the working methods of one of the UK’s best illustrators, head on over to Tom Gauld’s new Flickr page, where he has uploaded several of his sketchbook pages. For example, you can see how a cartoon he did for the Guardian entitled, The Street Tom Waits Grew Up On, evolved from a list of ideas and drawings to final artwork…

Honda’s Shining Light

Honda’s brand new Let It Shine commercial, shot by Erik van Wyk through Bouffant breaks today. Written by Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam, the spot features a vast grid of Honda’s new Insight model parked in the desert. The Insight is, the voiceover tells us, Honda’s new, “affordable hybrid” car. In the spot, each of the cars’ headlights act as pixels to perform an animated sequence. Click Read More to view the ad and also W+K’s making-of film…

CR April Issue

Rick Poynor looks back over two decades of the Designers Republic plus, Spanish type case art, Alison Carmichael and our very own Mumbai taxi – all in the April issue of CR

Welcome To Barnumville

Meet Doc Eddie Pluribus (above). He’s got a cart full of cure-alls. Dare you try one? He’s just one of 28 striking-looking circus and sideshow characters shot by photographer Matt Hoyle for his Barnumville portrait series…

Other animals

In a stunning series of photographs of creatures, a new book reveals just how far removed we are from the animal world. Giacomo Brunelli’s The Animals is no ordinary collection of wildlife photography…

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