The most recent issue of Campaign Brief took a look back over the year that was, inviting creatives and creative directors to pick their favourite work from the last 12 months.

We were touched to see our spot “Horsepower” got mentioned quite a few times by quite a few creatives. The compliments mean that much more, given they’re coming from people we so greatly respect. It was also an honour to be listed alongside the fantastic “Enjoy The Ride” campaign, directed by Good Oil’s Corrie Jones.

In addition to the compliments for Horsepower, we were chuffed to hear Meerkats creative, Kurt Beaudoin listed the Dipsticks campaign directed by The Penguin Empire’s Paul Komadina as some of the years best work. “Stupid done Smart,” I believe was the quote.

Here’s hoping we can keep up the momentum this year!

So apparently its happened again. We’ve been too busy to update the site! Whoops!

As evidence of how busy we are, I present one of our more recent commercials – Apprenticentre: “Window Shopping”.

This is probably as appropriate a time as any to send a big thank you to the guys at Rare Creative Thinking and the girls at Training WA. Was a pleasure working with you!

Its been MANY months in the making, but The Penguin Empire is happy to announce their latest TVC is now ready to be unleashed on the world.

The Marketforce campaign, directed by Grant Sputore is entitled “Horsepower” with good reason. The shoot itself involved 40 horses that were trained explicitly for the production and that number was then increased in post by the talented lads at Last Pixel.

Check it out, but be sure to turn the volume up!

If I’d only had the dreams of a 15 year old girl, I could finally die happy – I’ve been on the cover of a magazine.

The industry rag Campaign Brief was kind enough to feature The Penguin Empire on the cover of its latest issue.  If you take a look inside you’ll see there’s even a feature about us, full of kind words from fabulous people like Adam Barker and the article’s talented author Martin Trevaskis.

With all this love flying around, its now my turn to say kind things about Thom Perry – the photographer who took the cover image.  Thom is an amazing guy/photographer/owner-of-t-shirts.  You don’t have to believe us though, check out his amazing work for yourself.  His portfolio doesn’t really confirm the t-shirt thing, so you’ll probably have to trust us about that – unless you hire him to see for yourself.

We’ll try post the article online in the near future but in the meantime subscribe and get a copy!

For those of you who don’t know (or who can’t bothered heading over to wikipedia), Pecha Kucha is a world-wide phenomenon, now running in more than 260 cities in almost every corner of the globe.

The Penguin Empire was lucky enough to be invited to present at Perth’s most recent edition of the event, hosted at the amazing new inner-city venue – VENN Gallery.

The evening consist of around a dozen presentations by artists from a wide array of disciplines.  Each presenter is allowed 20 slides, each to be shown for exactly 20 seconds.  The Penguin Empire presented along side such talent folk as the guys from Kerry Hill Architects (responsible for the new Perth Theatre Center), Space Market (responsible for teaming disused space with useful people) and amazing artists like Simon Boxer and Jeffrey Phillips.

The event sold out in record time and left many sad faced people standing out in the street.  To avoid that kind of disappointment at the next event, keep an eye on the Pecha Kucha website.

“Questions”, the Alcoholics Anonymous campaign that was directed by Grant Sputore and was a finalist at AWARD had the honour of winning “Television Campaign of the Year” at Western Australia’s Campaign Brief Awards on Friday night.

The awards were decided by an impressive list of international ad folk, so winning is a big compliment, especially against such tough local competition.  ”Shame”, one of the three spots that comprise the “Questions” campaign, was also listed as a finalist for the Television Single Award, ultimately losing to the smart “Ribbid” spot from The Brand Agency.

It seems like an appropriate time to send out a big thank you to everyone who worked on the campaign – in particular Adam and Lori from Gatecrasher and Ryan Hodgson from Factor 30.  Other thanks-deserving people include:  Allan Myles, James Hawkes, Louise Brady and the guys at MDS.