In what would soon become the first in a series of collaborations with RPA Interactive, Blind designed and executed two web-based tours for the Honda Accord. With Chris Do at the creative helm, the Blind team treated both Sedan and Coupe to sleek, two-minute explorations of car design and features. Click here to take the Sedan and Coupe tours.
The minivan gets a makeover in a new interactive tour for the Honda Odyssey. WIth the help of our friends at Wellbrand, Creative Director Chris Do and the Blind team realized this two-minute tour, adding a little sizzle to the family-friendly ride. This is the second collaboration between Blind and RPA Interactive as the agency works to bring all of the Honda vehicles to the web.
Fasten your seatbelt and take a rough and tumble trip inside the new Honda Pilot ! Our friends at RPA interactive enlisted the Blind team to bring this rugged ride to life on the web. This solid steel SUV is tricked out with tech gadgets and safety features galore, giving our animators plenty of places to play with typography and animation. The team also created two distinctive 3d introductions to the tour in a short amount of time, proving that they, like the Pilot, are forged of solid stuff. Visit the interactive site to check it out!
In the seventh season of the hit original Spike series, The Ultimate Fighter, we see Team Rampage line up against Team Forrest. This time the contestants must fight their way onto the show.
Where do movies come from?The Newport Beach Film Festival is back, bringing together a diverse selection of films from all over the globe. Creative Director Tom Koh and the Blind team jumped in for a third year to direct, design and animate the commercial to promote the festival. This years spot focuses on what happens when you dim the lights on a filmmaker and an idea.
We are pleased to announce our new East Coast rep, Carolyn Hill! In her life outside of finding crazy cool work for Blind, Carolyn is a respected poet whose work has been published by a number of reputable literary reviews. Carolyn’s poetry was most recently seen in The Mississippi Review, and we are thrilled to have her many talents on our team!
In a move befitting his long history with Blind, Sakona Kong has signed on to provide creative leadership as Art Director. A former Blind intern and student of Chris Do at the Otis College of Art and Design, Sakona spent time freelancing around town, contributing his skills in design, illustration and animation to a number of high profile campaigns including Scion, Spike, Electronic Arts, Apple, Target, Budweiser, Fox and Kyocera. Having come full circle, we are thrilled to have Sakona back in the fold!
It’s standing room only in Blind’s trophy cabinet these days, thanks to a recent influx of little silver and bronze men. The 2007 Telly Awards honored Blind with 11 statues, recognizing our team’s hard work and artistry in a variety of categories.
“Vending Machine,” Blind’s innovative promo package for NFL on Fox, garnered a coveted silver award in the Sports/Sporting Events category and also snagged a bronze for Use of Animation.
Justin Timberlake’s music video “LoveStoned,” Cellular South spot “Bus Club“ and the XBox 360 campaign were honored with two Tellys each, bringing home bronze statues in the music video, graphics and animation categories.
Other Blind winners included LA Times “Sunglasses” and Newport Beach Film Festival promo “Elves in Outer Space.” Congratulations to all our winners!
If you could see and hear an athlete’s intensity, what would it look like? What would it sound like?
There are few more dramatic moments in football than fourth and inches. The entire game can turn on this one single play which in turn can hinge on the actions of just one player. All of the training and preparation comes down to this moment, and it’s the perfect setting for these new spots for Russell Athletic.
What do black and white sound like? To promote their colorful spring and summer collections, Gap enlisted Chris Do and the Blind team to create a video for Danish post-punk duo Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, better known as The Raveonettes. With only three weeks to conceive and complete the project, the team executed an edgy and elegant exploration of the contradictory forces that black and white www.soundofcolor.com