Author Archives: Chungaiz

Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye

What can America learn about Foreign Policy and international relations from Jay-Z? A lot. This is one of the best articles about Hip Hop I’ve read in recent years, comparing Jigga to the USA, 50 Cent to Russia, southern rap’s rise as that of Asia’s increased power, the West Coast (Snoop, Dre et al) as [...]

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Creative differences between China and the rest

China largest marketers are now spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop, produce and advertise products to local consumers. Ad budgets are growing, and so is determination to win brand loyalty. So why isn’t China dominating regional and global awards shows like AdFest and Cannes? Thoughtful Media discusses the cultural and operational challenges faced by [...]

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Blue Note Covers Revisited by Video

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Music video for the upcoming concert season @ Bellavista Social Pub. Director: Bante DOP: L. Semplici Hero: Moussa Kaba Producer: Frisca Dog: Ultimo Production: Filmatindustriali Thanks @thekingmob

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Nike’s 3D Wall Painting for the Festival of Sports in China

To celebrate Nike’s Festival of Sport, Nike China with Mindshare have made this rather splendid 3d Wall Painting. The Festival of Sport was held at Shanghai Stadium August 18-21, and sent the message that anyone can use sports to make their lives better and provides access to a variety of activities from basketball to football, tennis [...]

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Riots and Temperature Fluctuations

Living in China I’d believed that any stories about London’s rioting and any real concern I might have should be put down to the distance and lack of real insight that I can have when so far away. Friends in Palestine, or family in Pakistan must get tired of the frequent calls of concern from well-wishers [...]

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More Interior Shots

Interestingly, I think I’m starting to finally find a theme. I need more vegetation. And wooden floors in my bedroom. Anyone else spot a theme among all these interior shots?

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Nike’s New Campaign in China: 用运动 (Yong Yundong) “Use Sports”

用运动 translates to ”Yong Yundong.” It’s also Nike China’s latest tagline to enhance “Just do it” with mainland consumers. The tagline (roughly translated in English as “Use Sports”) features in Nike’s latest campaign for China, kicking off a festival of sport this summer. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video In [...]

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WK Shanghai’s Luan Dun

W+K Luan Dun July 2011 Wieden and Kennedy, Shanghai, produce a rather nice document about what’s going on in China…  Good work guys! Cant seem to share the slides directly, but click through and you’ll be rewarded with content about scandals, lovers, language and the beautiful Jane Zhang.

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Pantonism – Colour Matched Images

Pantonism should probably have a secondary search function beyond colour… but it’s a rather lovely resource, especially if you’re like me and tend to remember things by colours (my books are arranged by the colour of their spine). But hey, it’s not like it’s a random bunch of images, they happen to all be beautiful [...]

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China’s Successes at Cannes

Mindshare did rather well globally with 3 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze at Cannes – specifically, Mindshare, WK, AKQA picked up a Golds in both the Titanium and Integrated and the Cyber Lions categories  for Write The Future (Nike’s World Cup campaign), and our very own GRID was shortlisted – but it’s worth keeping an eye on [...]

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