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The rush to do everything Game of Thrones-style seems to have brought back the big budget commercial – after all, you can’t have all that fighting and slaughter on a shoestring (although some famous film directors, Orson Welles included, have ...

Wayne Guthrie is co-founder and director at Fearlessly Frank. With so much interesting stuff happening in the world of innovation right now, the question of what deserves recognition at Cannes this year is an obviously subjective one. But here are ...

Most of us loved the first series of Killing Eve on BBC 1 – strewn with awards – and the second starts on Saturday, with a new writer Emerald Fennell. A big part of the first series’ success was surprise, ...

Coca-Cola is doing its bit for recycling with a poster campaign highlighting recycling bins in Europe. There’s another bit of recycling too, its Cannes Grand Prix winner from 2012, designed by student Jonathan Mak Long for Ogilvy China, then under ...

The mighty Goldman Sachs has directed some welcome intelligence (if that’s what it is) WPP’s way, saying the marcoms group stands to benefit as “some large advertisers” step up their marketing efforts. It says its shares, currently 960p, should benefit ...

BETC Paris’ new campaign – ‘Crocodile Inside’ – for Lacoste is an epic 90-second production, even by BETC’s standards. Suddenly though it’s all over British TV – in 30 seconds. What’s this, a brutal media agency shoehorning it into one ...

Banks are always telling us they’re here to help us on our “journey” although one might choose other travelling companions if we had the choice. Aussie bank Westpac has entered the lists via DDB Sydney with this tale of Ali ...

Jean-Francois Sacco is chief creative officer of Rosapark Paris Insta-Novels for the New York Public Library. From an artistic point of view it’s beautiful, simple and pure. But what I love most about it is that it’s an application about ...

Here’s the digitally remastered Hovis ‘Boy on the Bike’ ad which made its first appearance in 1973 (or was it 4?) Anyway it’s been voted Britain’s most iconic ad and still looks nice. It was one of the ads that ...