25
May
2009

All together now!

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In a campaign that builds off its first spot, posted earlier on Pushing buses here De Lijn continues to promote buses in Brussels as vehicles of social good. It's turning out to be a light (no pun intended), likeable campaign

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25
May
2009
2:18 PM

Tongue Curry

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Indian English is being a bhelpuri language. It is being sweet and hot and tangy. In a most excellent piece first published in 1987 in the New York Times, Steven Weisman (who was being the Times' New Delhi bureau chief),

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6
May
2009
9:36 PM

York Region Transit ads scale Summits again.

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Barrett and Welsh, submitted 5 entries in this year's Summit Creative Awards, an international award show that recognizes the creative work of small/independent agencies. All five entries won. Four of them (2 gold, 2 silver) were for York Region Transit's

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6
May
2009

Bhalle, bhalle, Coca Cola

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This brilliantly wacky spot for Coke benefits from the fizzy mix of a Bollywoody dance sequence and bhangra homeboy Gurdass Mann's kickass delivery. Arre, chak de!

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5
May
2009

Spanking new!

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An outstanding report from the NYTimes.com, this video on a Pakistani business illuminates, surprises and challenges our preconceived notions of what Pakistan is, whether there is any tolerance in an Islamic context, while celebrating plain old chutzpah and entrepreneurship. It's

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4
May
2009

Traditional or Simplified?

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The debate on Chinese script carries on in the pages of the NY Times. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, professor of Chinese literary studies, Eugene Wang, professor of Asian art, Hsuan Meng, writer at World Journal Weekly and Norman Matloff, computer scientist

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Gavin Barrett is Owner/Founding Partner + Chief Creative Officer, of award-winning Toronto agency Barrett and Welsh. In pursuit of big ideas he has: nibbled on pigs' ears (not on a live pig at the time); gone elephant-back in the Thai jungle (no elephants were hurt); gambled in a Macau casino (was utterly destroyed). His ads: have run in 35 countries, helped elect prime ministers, attracted the ire of the lawyers for Dolly the clone sheep, drawn an angry crowd in Lagos, have been studied in business texts in Canada and India and received derisive mention in a John Irving novel. His poems: can be found in Penguin’s anthology of 14 contemporary Indian poets, Reasons for Belonging. He cannot: sing.

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