What do you want your numbers to add up to?

09.19.08

Blind breathes life into the financial pages, navigating investors through uncertain terrain in a new campaign for OppenheimerFunds, out of Euro RSCG, New York. The Blind team produced, designed, directed and edited the integrated campaign that includes three spots, “Escalator,” “Balloon,” and “Train,” as well as print, web banners and a micro-site. The inventive, VFX-heavy spots feature investors thoughtfully navigating a world plucked right from the earnings pages of The Wall Street Journal: stock ticker-covered trains, pie chart-shaped balloons and jagged, graphical peaks; symbolically illustrating how OppenheimerFunds brings clarity to daunting financial landscapes.


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Blind Joins The Journey With Crispin’s “Whopper Virgins” Campaign

12.10.08
Adding to the list of projects Blind has joined together with documentary filmmaker Stacy Peralta comes Crispin Porter + Bogusky’s “Whopper Virgins”campaign for Burger King. The filmmaker and agency scoured the world, seeking out those who had no knowledge of a burger’s existence and conducted the ultimate taste test between the Whopper and McDonald’s Big Mac. Could it be possible? After traveling through exotic and outlying regions, running burgers from cities to villages and hauling a broiler by helicopter, they found their answer.

Back home in Santa Monica, California, Blind collaborated with the traveling Crispin team to create the end mnemonic and graphics to promote the “Whopper Virgins” online campaign. The spots launched in November 2008 and the online documentary can be seen at whoppervirgins.com.

Want to know what’s on Chris Do’s mind?

12.16.08
Blind’s President and Executive Creative Director is featured as one of the creative voices in insight, Communication Arts “weekly dialog with a visual communications professional, filled with thought-provoking ideas about creativity, work and life”.

Create Awards

10.22.08
Never comfortable resting on their laurels, the Blind team has done it again with accolades from the 2008 Create Awards!  Congratulations to Chris, Tom, Erik and Vanessa, who each won honors for their creative work.  The winning projects were:

Best of Category: TV Commercials
Russell Athletics, “Fourth and Inches” :30
Erik Buth, director

Silver, Advertising/Art Direction: Commercials, TV: Over :30
Russell Athletics, “Fourth and Inches”
Erik Buth, director

Silver, Advertising/Art Direction: Commercials, Cinema
Newport Beach Film Festival, “Where Movies Come From”
Tom Koh, director

Silver, Film & Video: Production/Post Production, Music Videos
“Black & White”
Chris Do, director

Gold, Motion Graphics: Elements of Motion, Use of Animation
Cellular South, “Bus Club”
Vanessa Marzaroli, director

Silver, Motion Graphics: Elements of Motion, Use of Animation
Newport Beach Film Festival, “Where Movies Come From”
Tom Koh, director

Silver, Motion Graphics: Elements of Motion, Use of Animation
Kyocera, “Butterflies”
Erik Buth, director

Congratulations to all!

Fit is Go!

10.01.08
It’s metro-fierce, but don’t let its clean, sultry lines fool you: this car packs a punch, proving that good things really do come in small packages. It’s the all new Honda Fit!… the hero of Blind’s latest interactive endeavor with RPA. CD Chris Do and AD Sakona Kong drew on their passion for comic books, manga and anime to create a dark and dramatic world for the Fit to exercise its superpowers. Go to www.honda.com and click on “Fit” to see it in action!

Dunkin’ Coffee

09.30.08
Our favorite running man is back and bringing delicious Dunkin’ coffee beans to a grocery store near you!  Blind has teamed up with Hill Holliday in this tag for Dunkin’ Donuts’ famed Original Blend and new Dunkin’ Dark roast coffee.  Integrating 2d and 3d animation, our highly graphic hero interacts with a photoreal rendered coffeebag in a fun, elegant tag that looks so good you can almost taste the rich caffeinated goodness!

Better Place

07.28.08
Making the world a better place, one battery-powered electric vehicle at a time. The Blind team recently partnered with agency Addis Creson to create an opening animation for the Better Place web site to help spread the vision of sustainable, zero-emission transportation as a service.

To learn more about the Better Place plan, check out the Wired magazine cover story this month, or to get directly involved in the ongoing effort to help people live free from oil, visit the web site at: http://www.betterplace.com/.

From Engadget, read more about the billion dollar plan to bring a city-wide electrical grid and battery exchange service to the Bay Area. 

New York Times writer, Thomas L. Friedman, writes the op-ed piece “While Detroit Slept” in reaction to the bail out of the big 3 automakers, in lieu of innovative companies like Better Place. Founder, Shai Agassi, recently announced partnerships with the state of Hawaii, Israel, Australia, the San Francisco Bay area and Denmark with plans of electric cars hitting the road in 2011.

Ride Ready

06.02.08
Fasten your seatbelt and take a rough and tumble trip inside the new Honda Pilot ! Our friends at RPA interactive enlisted the Blind team to bring this rugged ride to life on the web. This solid steel SUV is tricked out with tech gadgets and safety features galore, giving our animators plenty of places to play with typography and animation. The team also created two distinctive 3d introductions to the tour in a short amount of time, proving that they, like the Pilot, are forged of solid stuff. Visit the interactive site to check it out!

Symbicort

04.09.08

Early this year Creative Director Tom Koh teamed up with our NY office to launch a fresh new brand spot for Astra Zeneca’s pharmaceutical product, Symbicort. It being the products first broadcast ad campaign, the expectation was for these spots to not only establish a memorable image for the brand but to set them apart from the competition. Expanding on the existing brand element of the human silhouette, Blind created a world rich with color and dimension to bring the spot to life.


Where Movies Come From

04.05.08

Where do movies come from?The Newport Beach Film Festival is back, bringing together a diverse selection of films from all over the globe. Creative Director Tom Koh and the Blind team jumped in for a third year to direct, design and animate the commercial to promote the festival. This years spot focuses on what happens when you dim the lights on a filmmaker and an idea.


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