The Light and BIEN Form Creative and Strategic Alliance
January 7, 2025
Parisian directing duo Bounty / Banana (aka Steven Briand and Julien Jourdain De Muizon) mark 10 years in the business with a rebrand and this blast of collaborative insanity offering a frenzied peak into their creative life. [Watch]
Hornet’s ongoing character-based charm offensive for US grocery retailer Kroger continues with this new holiday spot, helmed by directors Yves Geleyn and Michael Thurmeier and guaranteed to make you misty-eyed. [Watch]
From the team at ManvsMachine: “Working closely with the fine folk at Meta, we designed and directed the launch film for their most advanced VR headset yet, the Meta Quest Pro.” [Watch]
The Semi Permanent design conference commemorates 20 years and returned to an IRL format in 2022 with these dreamy, illustrative titles by ECD PJ Richardson and the animation crew at Laundry in LA. [Watch]
Director Chet Hirsch and ECD Mike Schaeffer at The Mill spin up an enigmatic and disorienting sequence in these titles for Guillermo del Toro’s new Netflix horror anthology series Cabinet of Curiosities. [Watch]
Applying painterly machine learning techniques to CG renders, Antibody’s Raoul Marks and Patrick Clair set a menacing tone for the Amazon series The Peripheral, the first screen adaption of a William Gibson novel since the 90s. [Watch]
Le Cube director Ralph Karam channels graphic styles from comic books to 60s psychedelia in this exuberant series of spots celebrating the diversity of modern music scenes for Heineken thru BBH Singapore. [Watch]
Drawing inspiration from the work of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, the animation team at Golden Wolf and British singer-songwriter Craig David deliver an environmental message for European rail booking platform Trainline. [Watch]
Working with illustrations by Beavertown Brewery CD Nick Dwyer, Black Dog Films director/animator Alice Bloomfield reimagines Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Rime of The Ancient Mariner” for a space-bound and hallucinogenic Halloween. [Watch]
Director/animator David Dutton, who’s 8-bit exploits include a Stranger Things recap, recruits several AI platforms to enhance live-action sequences and create “a celebration of positive change” for Julian Lennon’s “Lucky Ones”. [Watch]
Tapping into his “Domina-Rican” heritage, Brand New School creative director Andrés Rivera uses childhood memories to infuse authenticity and style into four new Café Bustelo spots celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. [Watch]
The 2022 edition of We Love Graphic Design opened earlier this month with an airy and playful title sequence by director/animator Jesper Bolther based on a visual identity by fellow Copenhagen creatives Hey Jack Studio. [Watch]
A landscape of hand-built miniature houses (inspired by real Airbnb properties) and their CG occupants come to highly-detailed life in this spot crafted by Buck and House Special for Airbnb’s AirCover travel protection. [Watch]
Swiss director Maxime Durand and Montreal art director Vincent Raineri elevate the interview-based brand film into new and visually dynamic territory for The North Face and their Summit range of mountaineering boots. [Watch]
