Welcome to the ball...

New advert for GHD hair straighteners by agency RKCR/Y&R, directed by Floria Sigismondi.


I love the theme, styling, clothes, make-up and shoes and wish I had directed it. The ad also doubles as a music video for Le Rev, RKCR/Y&R's first signing for their new record label, Two Black Cats.  


This is a similar concept to the Tommy Hilfiger Denim Loud fragrance campaign, which mixes music by the Ting-Tings with advertising for the new music-inspired fragrance. I don't like this ad so much but I love the packaging design, which draws inspiration from vinyl records, although it made me think more of speakers. It's refreshing to see a more original approach to fragrance packaging and advertising.

Ballet Font

I'm doing a project at the moment to try and promote dance to men.  I came across this Ligne typeface created by Wieden + Kennedy.  They used the movements of ballet dancers to create a true-type font by recording the movements using infra-red LEDs attached to the dancers. The result is really quite beautiful! See more here http://www.balletfont.com

Your airline's either got it or it hasn't...

TV ad campaign for Virgin Atlantic by RKCR/Y&R (quite like their website design too). This makes me want to fly with Virgin Atlantic, RKCR/Y&R have made it look really glamourous and they've had a lot of fun with it, I especially like the fork dancing! 

Type inspiration from Alison Carmichael

Currently doing a project designing a typographic tattoo, and found Alison Carmichael's work while doing my research, see her website here. I particularly like her Lloyd Grossman poster ads and the illustrative quality she brings to type.

Moving in...

Hello. I already have a blog with tumblr, but it doesn't show up in searches so I decided to switch to blogger. So here I am. 


First up, I came across this advert today for Canon Pixma, I think it's the most beautiful advert I have ever seen.


Canon | Pixma from Keith Kenniff on Vimeo.


It's directed by Christopher Hewitt for the agency Dentsu London, with photography by Linden Gledhill. You can see the making of it here. I think they really have managed to bring colour, and sound, to life. Stunning.