MY AD OF THE WEEK .95 OSCARS EDITION

Last night was the Oscars and I wanted to share a brand that was snubbed by the awards, but still stole the show. The Lego movie was overlooked in the animation category, but instead of feeling too sad for themselves they put on an 'everything is awesome' show and they also created this Lego Oscar statue, that ended up in loads of celebrities hands and everyone ended up talking about the brand.

MY AD OF THE WEEK .94

Adobe Photoshop is probably one the best pieces of software ever created and this video celebrates 25 years of the program in this inspiring, lively ad that shows what can be done/and has been done in the amazing program. The 1973 'Dream on' song by Aerosmith is one of my favourites songs of his and is a great choice that creates the whole pace of the ad.

Update 5th March: Adobe have created this competition looking for 25 artists, under 25 years old to submit a piece of work to commemorate the anniversary of Photoshop. They will then handpick 25 winners to take over their new Instagram account for 2 weeks. Details are here.

MY AD OF THE WEEK .94 VALENTINES EDITION

Most of the ads this Valentines have been comical, but I wanted to share a more serious ad. It shows Stacie who is one of 265 people in the UK in need of a new heart. She's been on a waiting list for 3 years. I surprised to hear whilst 9 of 10 people support organ donation, only 3 out of 10 actully sign up. I found it pretty powerfully, I hope you do too.

WEDDING INVITATIONS

I'm getting married later this year back in the UK and I recently illustrated our wedding invites. I created these two champagne glasses made up from illustrations from things we both like. They came as two A5 postcards in an envelope and when you put the two cards together, the champagne glasses would toast together.

I've now illustrated a few peoples wedding invitations and if you're keen on me illustrating yours, please email me for a quote: henry@henrybillinton.com

MY AD OF THE WEEK .93

There seems to be a bit of an animal theme at the moment. This one has the cute factor turned right up, showing various adorable animals playing with each other, whilst the music really holds it all together really well.

The one that surprised me is the meerkat and the lion Cub, what happened next?

CAMPAIGN BRIEF CREATIVE CIRCLE

Campaign Brief is the only WA magazine for the advertising and media industry that's published bimonthly. Each bimonthly they have a feature called 'Creative Circle' where they ask a few of Perth's creatives to pick a piece of work and write a short paragraph of why they have chosen it.

In the current issue I was asked to choose a piece of work and here's what I picked.