THE CROSSED COW » Motion Graphics http://www.thecrossedcow.com Branding Bullocks with The Partners Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:08:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MTV EXPONENTIAL http://www.thecrossedcow.com/2009/02/24/mtv-exponential/ http://www.thecrossedcow.com/2009/02/24/mtv-exponential/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:44:08 +0000 Kevin http://www.thecrossedcow.com/?p=521 Continue reading →]]> Dave Wood is our latest recruit and we’ve decided to show you why. In this excerpt from his portfolio, he shows his D&AD short listed MTV project, created with fellow students Jack Gilbey and Chris Syrett. Over to you Dave.

 

This is a project I did last year for the 2008 D&AD student awards. The brief asked if MTV were a virus, how would it behave? We decided to use the general public as virus carriers and created an exponential chain reaction…

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A lovely little spot from advertising agency Fitzgerald+Co for Durex Condoms. Direction comes courtesy of  Superfad. Simple and sweet, but not that innocent…

You can see some out-takes on Superfad website.

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But there can be no such excuse for ITV’s (cough) new name and identity for their online playback facility, now called ITV iPlayer… ITV operate in the same country in the same sector, offering a very similar service and now look like BBC’s iPlayer identity we designed a while back… maybe someone pressed the big red ‘record button’?

New identity

New identity

Original (and market leader)

Original (and market leader)

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