By: Adnan Arnautlija
THE JUBILEE TENTH WEEKEND MEDIA FESTIVAL HAS STARTED
The jubilee, 10th Weekend Media Festival began yesterday in Rovinj. Over 4,500 participants are expected to participate in more than 50 lectures, panel discussions, presentations and workshops that will be held in the next three days.
The conference part of the Weekend begins today, among other things, with an interesting panel discussion with Srđan Šaper, founder of I&F McCann Grupa, and the Festival Director Tomo Ricov, who will discuss current topics in the field of marketing, politics and music.
You can follow more on the Weekend Media Festival on the official website weekendmediafestival.com and on the Facebook page of the festival.
LANA CAVAR DESIGNS PUBLICATION FOR “ITEMS: IS FASHION MODERN?” EXHIBITION IN MoMA NEW YORK
The exhibition „ITEMS: Is Fashion Modern?“ by the world famous design and architecture curator Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher will open on 1 October at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMa NY).
The concept and design of the accompanying publication for this first MoMA exhibition about fashion in the past 50 years was done by Zagreb designer Lana Cavar, in tandem with her US colleague Natasha Chandani. The illustrations for the catalog were designed by Narcisa Vukojević.
Cavar and Chandani were personally invited by the curators Antonella and Millar Fisher, impressed by their already famous book “Thanks for the View, Mr Mies” (2012). Designers, together with curators, created the publication of the exhibition ITEMS: Is Fashion Modern? as a kind of encyclopaedia of 111 clothing items that marked the way we dress today. Little black dress, leather jacket, Levis jeans, famous “God Save the Queen” T-shirt of Vivienne Westowood, Jamie Reid and Malcolm McLaren from 1977 – are some of the items through which the exhibition examines fashion from the phenomenological point of view.
SOUNDED BODIES FESTIVAL FROM 26 SEPTEMBER TO 1 OCTOBER
The third Sounded Bodies festival will be held from 26 September to 1 October at the Zagreb Dance Center, organized by the Domino Association. The selection of the festival is signed by choreographer and dance artist Bruno Isaković, and the program focuses on performances that play with the use of voice and sound, and their connection with the body and physicality.
The Sounded Bodies program will present artists from Poland, Ireland, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. During the festival, 10 plays will be performed, and 2 art workshops will be held for dancers, choreographers and performers, but also for those interested in various techniques of voice and movement control.
More about the festival at www.soundedbodies.com
GOOGLE AND HTC ANNOUNCE $1.1 BILLION WORTH DEAL
Google and HTC have released details of the agreement under which part of HTC employees – many of whom already work with Google on the development of Pixel smartphones – will transfer to Google. According to the agreement, HTC will receive from Google 1.1 billion dollars in cash. In addition, Google will receive a non-exclusive license for HTC’s intellectual property (IP).
The agreement is a confirmation of the ten-year strategic partnership between HTC and Google on the development of premium smartphones.
The agreement also includes HTC’s continuation of the smartphone design strategy under the HTC brand, allowing for greater operational efficiency and financial flexibility. For Google, this agreement further enhances dedication in the development of smartphones and investments in the further development of the company’s growing hardware business.
It is expected that the transaction, subject to regulatory approval, will be finalized at the beginning of 2018.
WARC AWARDS 2017 ANNOUNCE GRAND PRIX AND SPECIAL AWARDS WINNERS
DigitasLBi US, BBH UK and Ensemble Worldwide, UM Malaysia are the three Grands Prix winners for their work for Whirlpool and KFC at the first global WARC Awards, recognising next-generation marketing effectiveness.
DigitasLBi US was the winner of two top awards – the Best Use of Brand Purpose Grand Prix as well as the Partnership Special Award for Whirlpool’s ‘Care Counts’ campaign. The Effective Social Strategy Grand Prix was won by BBH London for the ‘Dirty Louisiana: Don’t make dirty good, make clean bad’ campaign for KFC. Ensemble Worldwide, UM Malaysia are winners of the Effective Use of Content Strategy Grand Prix for their KFC campaign ‘Stealing a burger-march on McDonald’s using real-time data’.
For more information on all The WARC Award winners, including special awards, visit here.
