Hot Tomali has received 2 national honours at the Advertising and Design Club of Canada’s 2011 Directions Awards. The event was held at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koemer Hall in Toronto, Ontario on November 3. Canada’s longest running advertising awards show, ADCC’s awards began in 1949 and have been going strong ever since.

The two awards received by Hot Tomali were:

Advertising Broadcast Radio Campaign Gold: “Freeze the Moment” for 7-Eleven’s Slurpee
Advertising Posters Campaign Merit: “Abracadabera/Hasta La Vista/Bye Bye” for Seicoat

View the ADCC Directions Winners online

Halloween is on its way, and we’ve been relentlessly searching the web for some great costume inspiration.

So far, we’ve found stuff like transformers.

TIE Fighters.

Crayons, if you have a horse.

iPhones!

Glow in the dark stickpeople.

Disabled superheroes.

Birth.

Controversial illegal aliens.

And animal cruelty.

But what about costumes designed for those in the marketing industry? Costumes for the social media enthusiasts, the account execs, and the web designers?

Don’t worry. We’ve decided to share some of our own ideas with you.

Anyone have any more suggestions? Let us know.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4

“MUTO is a short film by Blu. It is an animation in stop-motion painted on public walls. The movie was made in Buenos Aires and in Baden. Here the paintings are alive and invade the city. Blu’s characters are half human, half machine, half beast, and human elements such as limbs (tooth, hands, etc.) can live freely their autonomous life, a bit like insects.”

Think about this… every frame required Blu to cover the previous frame in white, repaint the entire character a few inches over in its next pose, go back to the camera, snap a picture, then repeat. Amazing.