V Energy Om Nom Nom 30 Sec TVC

New Bigger Bottle - Australian concept, reshoot and re-edit.
Creative Director - James Theophane.

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- Colenso BBDO

Director - Noah Marshall
Executive Creative Director - Nick Worthington
Art Director - Sam Dickson
Copywriter - Graeme Clarke

work @ Clemenger BBDO

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Virgin Australia All New A330

The online demo brings to life the essence of Virgin Australia by showing off their stylish new planes. 

In an Australian first, we built a 360° live action interactive demo using a navigational grid inspired by Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map projection.

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Platforms: iPad, Web
Channels: Earned, Owned
Strategy: Product Demo

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Creative Director - James Theophane/Luke Chess
Art Director - Seb Vizor
Copywriter - Josh Braithwaite 

work @ Clemenger BBDO

 

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Vivid Festival Sydney. Projections & Panel Discussions


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So I did a talk and participated in a panel discussion for  Vivid Festival at the Sydney Opera House today. Waren Armstrong of (Un)seen Sculptors, Fabian Riggall founder of Secret Cinema and Future Shorts, myself and Dr Tim Barker from iCinema set about discussing exploring the merits of installation art, transmedia and experiential. French art and design collective Superbien put together an amazing lightshow. All for Creative Sydney.

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The Annoying Orange - Chatterboxing

We wanted to give Nokia owners immediate gratification for activating Chat (Nokia's Instant Messaging services)... So we invented Chatterboxing; a whole new gaming genre for mobile phones.

Audience: Social Media Teen Influencer

Team:
James Théophane & Laura Hunter



Annoying Orange Chatterboxing:  A global Instant Messaging device-only game in which players pit their fingers against a quick-witted, intelligent and cheeky chat-bot: The Annoying Orange.  Players are challenged to out spa the Chatterboxing Champion of Chat in IM. For every successful put-down, cuss or phrase unlocked, the player receives points, unlocks badges and is rewarded with a prizes.  The more the player chats, the more points they win.  The player with the most points globally is crowned the Chatterboxing champ. Weekly and monthly prizes are given away to the top ten players globally and locally.

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Campaign assets: 

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- Nokia homepage takeover - Let's get read to rumblllllllllllle...
Upon landing on the homepage the Nokia devices surprisingly come to life introducing to main characters, the Master of Ceremonies, and The Annoying Orange. The MC introduces Annoying Orange ala Madison Square Gardens...

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- The campaign destination hosts the global game; Leagues. Top scorers. Country v County. Stats, badges and prizes...

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- On Device Ring/Viztones and on device theme...

Marketing Objective: Build awareness and excitement around Nokia IM Services.

Chatterboxing (chat·ter·bok'sin) 
n. The act of talking shit. Spitting off. Running of the mouth.
v. "All these hoes be chatterboxing."  

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Nokia E7- The Ultimate Business Smartphone

Standard, longform-product-porn ad introducing Nokia's E7 youtube channel.
Results: Over 1m plays. 1/2m likes, 40 dislikes.

OMG E7 is sooooo sexy :X zprockart 2 months ago 34
nokia is suck !!! carlos19RKS10 2 weeks ago
Simply amazing! Nokia is back! mcloysapoksy 3 weeks ago
The interface is a bit ugly. I don't like the USB function. But it seems the good outweights the bad KiyokaMakibi 3 weeks ago

etc.

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Nokia Incite - More than an app

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A new way of working

Is having your office in your pocket.
Is being free to work on any platform.
Is exploring the full potential of your tools.
Is having the world as your co-workers.

Nokia Incite
A collaborative multimedia scrapbook that learns what you like and suggests what you love. 

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Mobile Mobile Wins One Show Merit

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My installation for Lost Boys, Mobile Mobile won a merit in the ONE SHOW awards.  One Show is one of the toughest global awards out there and the merit was in the Global Innovative Self Promotion category.

work @ Lost Boys

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Nominated for Webby Awards

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Both D&AD New Blood and Electrolux Art Home have been shortlisted for a Webby...and you can vote for them under People's Choice if you like ;)

D&AD:  Vote

Art Home: Vote

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D&AD Blog: All wrapped up

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Hoorah, my installation idea for the front cover of London's Metro has been shortlisted. There are some great executions in there by the likes of The Partners, McCann Erikson and Handstand Creative.

London Feels
Metro has a unique opportunity to gauge and shape the mood of Londoners.
London Feels is an installation that does exactly that. Using the Metro Twitter feed and #londonfeels, Metro offers its readership the oppportunity to use one word to describe how they feel today.

As the emotions diagram above shows, emotions can be divided into six groups: Happy, Excited, Tender, Scared, Angry and Sad.

Using this data we create a physical visual device that can reflect that ephemeral nature of Londoner's Moods.  A live installation. Each balloon represents a mood segment: Green = Happy, Red = Angry etc. Each ballon is connected to emotional keywords, live via twitter. The ballon reacts by inflating or deflating depending on popularity of the mood.

You can watch, or interact with the installation live via the internet.

Judges:

Kenny Campbell, Editor, Metro
Paul Brazier, D&AD President & ECD, AMV.BBDO
Ringan Ledwidge, Director, Rattling Stick
Alex Bec, Director and Editor, It's Nice That

 

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Tying The Knot

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When Clare and I decided to tie the marital knot, we wanted our invitation to reflect the playful nature of our relationship.  We decided everything should be made by hand, from scratch - and also teach us something new.

So we set about learning to tie knots.

We set about discovering the wonderful world of knot tying by studying Knots, Ties & Splices: A Handbook for Seafarers, Travellers and All Who Use Cordage, by J. T. Burgess. Youtube taught us the rest.  Armed with our new found knowledge, we set about hiring a studio to record our new found skills.

We created an online RSVP site that streamed 15 knot tying ambient background videos.  The invite cards were hand cut, screen-printed and sewing machine bound.

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About

James Théophane

Portrait credit: Nadav Kander

James Theophane, or Theo, is a dilettante residing in Sydney. When he's not dabbling, he's a Creative Director at Clemenger BBDO.

He has worked with R/GA, Lost Boys, Grey, Modem, Framfab, Wheel, DNA and GT.

He has put a pop-up restaurant atop a neo-classical building in Paris, created a gigantic interactive chandelier that played Christmas carols. Hacked an oil painting and launched a fully interactive round the world yacht.

He has created work for Nokia, Toshiba, Rankin, D&AD, Chelsea FC, Electrolux, Sony, Ericsson, PlayStation, Sega, Channel 4, Oxfam, Canon, Brahma, Marks & Spencer, Wired Magazine and Audi. View all work

He has won a few awards such as One Show, D&AD, Webby, LIA, Campaign, BIMA and Epica.

Sometimes he gets called up for a little bit of jury service too. He's paid his dues with D&AD, IAB Creative Showcase and London International.

blog@theophane.co.uk

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