Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
By: Adnan Arnautlija
Photo: Davor Bruketa, creative director, Bruketa&Žinić OM
DAVOR BRUKETA IN THE JURY OF YOUNG GUNS COMPETITION IN NEW YORK
Creative Director of the Bruketa & Žinić OM Advertising Agency, Davor Bruketa, was invited to the Young Guns Jury, an international interdisciplinary competition in creative communication for those under 30 years of age, organized by The One Club for Creativity for 21st consecutive year.
Along with Bruketa, the jury will include Global Vice President for Creativity at Walt Disney Jean Batthany; Apple’s creative director Rem Duplessis; Head of VR at Google Jessica Brillhart; partner in the world’s largest independent design studio Pentagram, Natasha Jen and others.
Since its inception, the Yung Guns has become the most acclaimed world competition in creative communications for young people, and for many, the Young Gun title is a sure sign of a successful future career as well as recognizability in creative communications circles. Among the winners of this title are, for example, famous creatives Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh.
The competition takes place in three stages, after which, on 17 November in New York, a solemn award ceremony will be held. Competitors will compete in categories such as Copywriting, Digital Communications, Graphic Design, Interior Design and Product Design, Film and Animation, Signaling, Illustrations and others.
The entry deadline for the Young Guns competition expires on Monday, 31 July.
OPEN CALL FOR DESIGN OF VISUAL STANDARDS FOR PUBLISHING ACTIVITIES OF THE ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART IN ZAGREB
The Academy of Dramatic Art of the University of Zagreb announces, and the Croatian Designers’ Association is conducting, an open (public) competition for designing visual standards of the publishing activities of the Academy / Identity of the ADU Library. The HDD invites all interested designers, authors or teams to participate in the contest. The deadline for entries is 13 September 2017.
Important dates:
8.9.2017 – Q&A deadline
13.9.2017 – Deadline for submissions
27.9.2017 – Completion of the jury assessment.
Competition will be led by Damir Gamulin.
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GOOGLE IS PLANNING TO RADICALLY CHANGE ITS HOMEPAGE
The time when less was more is over for Google. The Internet search engine, which over the years grew into a company offering a whole host of digital services, has announced that its homepage will experience a redesign for the first time since 1996.
The Guardian reports the change will be radical, and soon there will be news and other useful information on the site.
Google’s mobile sites have this content since 2012 so this move towards harmonization of the desktop and mobile interface is understandable.
The company announced that its homepage would be further customized to users with the help of Google Now technology and advanced machine learning algorithms.
Shashi Thakur, vice president of engineering at Google said: “You’ll see cards with things like sports highlights, top news, engaging videos, new music, stories to read and more. And now, your feed will not only be based on your interactions with Google, but also factor in what’s trending in your area and around the world.”
Google has said that new additions to the homepage will be available to users in the US immediately, and the rest of the world will get it in the next few weeks. (Jutarnji.hr)
GOOGLE-OWNER ALPHABET WEATHERS THE BRAND SAFETY STORM WITH 21% REVENUE RISE TO TOP $26BN
Despite speculation to the contrary, this year’s brand safety uproar appears to have had little material impact on Google’s bottom line. Google’s parent company Alphabet on Monday reported a 21% annual rise in revenues which hit $26bn during the three months to June 30.
The numbers appear even more impressive, when the online behemoth’s recently released numbers also contain details of the impact of the recently imposed €2.4bn antitrust fine imposed by the European Union (EU).
The financial results also go on to reveal that “Google properties revenues”, which includes revenues from its video-sharing site YouTube, which had been at the center of the earlier 2017 brand safety investigation, came in at $18.4bn during the period, this is compared to $15.4bn 12 months earlier.
OUTBRAIN BUYS ZEMANTA TO BUILD OUT PROGRAMMATIC NATIVE
Outbrain has announced the purchase of Zemanta, a demand-side platform (DSP) specializing in native ad formats as the content-sharing network seeks to build out a full-stack offering, just weeks after it confirmed a round of lay-offs.
Financial details of the transaction were not publicly disclosed, but a release announcing the deal claimed that Zemanta’s One Native DSP will continue to operate as a standalone product after the acquisition, with its new status within the Outbrain-fold enabling it to accelerate its expansion program, with both parties having integrated their platforms since 2016.
The purchase amounts to the fifth such transaction in Outbrain’s history and comes a little over a month after it emerged that the Israel-based company – more commonly labeled as a content delivery network that integrates with publisher websites and then reroutes readers to sponsored stories – was to axe 4% of its headcount.