Word up,
get down.

Shazam Player™ is the NEW app from Shazam.
Now you can do more than just play your music - like see streaming lyrics and watch YouTube videos of your favourite tracks and artists.

Kennedy Monk developed the promotional launch video from the ground-up for Shazam. Featuring "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5, the video blends captured footage from the app with bespoke 3D animation and synchronised to the lyrics of the song. Watch the video here.

Shazam Player is out now for everyone in the US and UK with an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.
Find out more at shazam.com

Once bitten,
forever smitten

We've seen Bella and Edward fall in love, fall apart, fight to stay together, and now - at last -
get their happily ever after. Except, of course,
this is The Twilight Saga, so nothing could
ever be that simple.

Anticipation for the fourth and penultimate installment was huge, with Bella's wedding dress as closely guarded a secret as Kate Middleton's. The brief was clear; this time, it was all about the romance. Working closely with EOne, we designed an outdoor campaign focused on the happy couple, while heartbroken Jacob took to the woods, surrounded by the wolfpack. 

The fansites were in a frenzy, and our sustaining press campaign featured tweets from real Twi-hards. Now we're all just looking forward to November 2012!

Ex Appeal

From the moment it was announced, we were extremely excited about this game. As fans of the ten year old PC classic original, we were dying to
get involved! So we were delighted when Eidos Montreal invited us to their HQ in Canada for a
full day's briefing with their creative team.

Against formidable competition from major US
and Canadian agencies, we won the pitch to
create the original key art for the pack.

Operating across different timezones worked extremely well. Being 5 hours ahead enabled
us to act swiftly and effectively on the clients comments. Meanwhile they could spend time collating feedback for us during their working
day, as we slept! Working hand in hand with the extraordinary creative vision of Eidos Montreal, coupled with our love of the game, really fuelled the project so it felt like we were one big team.

We're so pleased with the work, that we've created this short "Making of" video to show how we work and how the art was created. Enjoy.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution™ is available
23 August in the US and 26 August in the UK.

Creative Firepower

We're all pretty excited about finally getting our hands on Crysis 2. After over a year developing the official cover art for the game, it's going to be great to finally see it on the shelves. If there are any left on the shelves that is. With the frenzied anticipation leading up to its release and early reviews heaping praise on Crytek's new blockbuster, the game looks set to be a giant hit.

To give you an idea of the creative development that went into producing the key art for Crysis 2, we've put together a selection of visuals from first ideas through to the finished piece. Crytek and EA's eye for perfection meant we produced well over a hundred separate visuals. We've compressed all that down to about 25 visuals in one minute for your viewing pleasure. Our final design was rendered out in high resolution by the always excellent Digital Progression.

Raising one hell
of a campaign.

Momentum approached us to adapt the international campaign for Season Of The Witch to better suit the UK market. After deciding witch was best from the numerous concepts we created, our new campaign was up in cinemas and on poster sites around the country, quicker than you can say "burn her!".

This supernatural action movie starring
Nicolas Cage tracks two knights of the Crusades, tasked with transporting a witch blamed for the spread of the plague. They must take her to a remote monastery to rid her of the curse.

For more Nicolas Cage cursing, check this out.

The phenomenon continues...

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse took the UK box office by storm this month, with a whopping £13m on its opening weekend. In the US it well and truly eclipsed all the competition with the biggest opening of the year and has already taken over $500m worldwide as the global domination of The Twilight Saga continues.

Kennedy Monk produced the entire UK press and outdoor campaign for Eclipse and are as ever, very proud to be a part of Twilight's phenomenal success and of our great working relationship with E1 Entertainment UK.

We're currently working on packaging for the DVD release for Eclipse due out later this year.

Achievement unlocked.

Building giant robots and setting them on fire sounds like a schoolboy dream come true. Kennedy Monk have done just that for Square Enix's new game Front Mission Evolved. With the help of render gurus Digital Progression, we produced this high-drama, high-octane piece of sci-fi art.

This is the second title Kennedy Monk have worked on for Square Enix and have subsequently been commissioned to create key-art for a brand new title due for release next year.

Front Mission Evolved is released on
September 14, 2010.

Tank you very much.

Forget Orcs and Elves. This year, the only world you want to be in is: World of Tanks!

Wargaming.Net, a London based games company with it's development team in Belarus, approached Kennedy Monk to come up with a striking main image for their new game. World of Tanks is an unusual combination of military tank warfare, set in an MMO. Boasting stunningly realistic graphics, the emphasis is firmly on fun.

The art was developed in record-speed. Initial ideas and sketches were taken through to final art in just a couple of months. In game models were provided, rendered and the final composition coloured and finished in photoshop. Wargaming were delighted with the final, explosive piece.

World of Tanks is planned for release
Autumn 2010

Ladies night at the BAFTAS for E1

Congratulations to E1 Carey Mulligan, whose breakout performance as schoolgirl Jenny in
'An Education' won her the BAFTA for Leading Actress. The flim, which has garnered universal critical aclaim, was also nominated for several awards, including Best Film and Best Director, but lost out to the night's big winner "The Hurt Locker'.

Kristen Stewart also took the rising star award.for her role in New Moon and the phenomenally successful Twilight Saga.

K&M are, as always, extremely proud to be part of E1's continuing succsess. We have just completed work on the DVD and Blu-Ray release for both movies.

'An Education' will be available on March 8
and 'New Moon' will be out on March 22

East meets West End

Kennedy Monk are proud to have produced the packaging and print advertising for the new RTS title from Square-Enix. This heralds an exciting new relationship between Square-Enix and Kennedy Monk ltd.

Square-Enix were looking for an eye-catching visual style that would set Order of War apart from all of it's competitors. Order of War represents the first "western" title for Square-Enix and so it was important that a strong visual statement was made. We're very excited to be involved with such a ground-breaking release for Square-Enix.

Building on the success of Order of War K&M are now developing a further 2 titles for Square Enix. Watch this space!

The numb3rs don't 1ie

Knowing exploded onto cinema screens earlier this year, with a £6.5m take at the box office, so great things were expected of the DVD. K&M were there to lend a hand, designing the packaging and press. This cerebral sci-fi action flick, directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City, I, Robot) appealed to a primarily male audience, so long-lead press ads were placed in specialist film and sci-fi magazines.

The results? A fantastic opening day performance that put the film at number one in both the blu-ray and dvd charts. K&M are delighted to have been involved in another great success for E1.

K+M were delighted to help publicise the release of award-winning political shock-doc The Yes Men Fix The World.

The film begins with the Yes Men's famous 2004 impersonation of a Dow Chemical spokesperson on BBC World News, in which they took responsibility for the largest industrial accident in history – the Bhopal disaster – in a broadcast that reached 300 million people. Dow’s share price dropped by $2 billion in just 23 minutes as shareholders rejected the idea of compensating families who suffered death, disability and disease after 42 tonnes of toxic gas from a leaky chemical plant engulfed the city’s poorest neighbourhoods.

K+M came up with a new brand of bottled water, B'eau Pal, which the Yes Men took to the streets of London, offering samples to unsuspecting passersby. Later the same day, they visited the headquarters of Dow Chemical in Slough, to challenge a representative to drink the water.

The Yes Men Fix The World will be shown across the UK in participating cinemas on Tuesday, 11 August, via a nationwide satellite link-up.

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License to Thrill

Kennedy Monk were delighted to be commissioned by Penguin Books to design outdoor advertising for the paperback release of the latest Bond novel, Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming's Devil May Care.

Penguin were looking for a campaign that would deliver the requisite glamour and thrills that are hallmarks of the Bond movie franchise. Devil May Care was Penguin's fastest selling hardback ever, and great things are expected of the paperback, which won the prize for popular fiction at the Galaxy British Book Awards in April 2009.