November/December 2020

Advertising Annual | 61

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Interactive

Upstatement

By grounding its digital designs in strategy and usability, a Boston-based firm elevates content into storytelling.

Illustration

Shyama Golden’s Magical Realism

Dipping her brushes in surrealism, the Los Angeles–based artist blends worlds both real and imagined.

Design

WWAVE DESIGN

Undistracted by fleeting graphic design trends, this studio in Macau refines beautiful ideas to last.

Photography

Charles Harris

A photographer based in Raleigh, North Carolina, seizes unscripted opportunities to document adventures.

Exhibit

Generade print ads

Mood Peru’s print ads for Generade both honor and encourage the Peruvian essential workers who are fighting the Coronavirus pandemic.

Made in Fukushima book

This book tells the story of post-nuclear Fukushima using paper that is made of the rice straw from the decontaminated fields in Fukushima.

Numu packaging

Patterned typography mixes with indigenous Chorotega values in the packaging for this Guanacaste, Costa Rica–based brewery.

City of Sydney identity

Geometry and circle DNA are utilized in this holistic identity system for the City of Sydney.

Lucifer Is A Flower album packaging

Gothic red tones synthesize with deconstructed type in the packaging for Black Devil Disco Club’s final album.

Hennessy “Unfinished Business” film

“Unfinished Business” brings up the necessary conversation about multicultural entrepreneurship and its importance to the U.S.

Wealthsimple Trade brand film

Buck’s brand film for Wealthsimple Trade champions the stock trading app’s zero commission fee in a catchy way.

Viagra short film

“Love Story” tackles the issue of erectile dysfunction in a reflective and sensitive way.

Blue Shield of California “Save Lives” spot

"Save Lives" emphasizes how masks significantly limit the spread of the coronavirus, which ultimately protects everyone in the community.

Mr.Pops identity

Fashionable and appealing, the new identity for Mr.Pops gives this ice cream popsicle brand a dash of delicious flavor.

Fresh

Photography

Mohamad Abdouni

This Beirut, Lebanon–based photographer uses retro lighting to document Arab queer culture and fashion.

Illustration

Tracy J Lee

The illustrations of this San Francisco–based designer and illustrator reverberate with tension and emotion.

Design

Demande Spéciale

This Montréal-based design firm takes brands to new places while staying authentic to themselves.

Columns

Design Culture

Learning Spatial Justice

Amid the ongoing pandemic and social unrest, Wendy Richmond questions how she sees public spaces.

Advertising

Is It Time You And Advertising Saw A Marriage Counselor?

Ernie Schenck has advice for ad creatives who find their flame for advertising flickering.

Design Issues

Designing for Distance

Experiential designers are envisioning how to navigate shared spaces from the new normal toward a better one, as Leslie Wolke finds.

Business

Black Creatives on Navigating Racism in the Workplace

Lauren McEwen asks Black creative leaders to share their advice to the next generation on navigating workplace racism.

Design Issues

The Exclusive on Inclusive

When is character design truly inclusive? Illustrators, designers and animators discuss with Ricardo Roberts of BIEN studio.

Favorites / Advertising

Five Ad Creatives Share Their Treasured Finds

Nicholas Geachan, Valerie Madon, Donna Lamar, Andrea Siqueira and Jamie Venorsky share the projects that keep them inspired.

Book Reviews

The Art of Advertising

Scouring an extensive archive for signs of cultural change, Julie Anne Lambert’s book reinforces the historical importance of advertising.

Rethink the Business of Creativity

Ian Grais, Tom Shepansky and Chris Staples share their strategies that have made ad agency Rethink a success.

Advertising for Skeptics

In his new book, Bob Hoffman of Ad Contrarian reveals the advertising industry is wearing no clothes.

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