Not sure if you’ve peeped this epic effort just yet, but in case you haven’t, Tim Nolan, former JWT New York creative director and current head of BBH Labs/interactive GCD at BBH New York, has spearheaded a book project called The ABCs of Contemporary Creatives. As mentioned, Nolan, along with partner/Droga5 creative Jen Lu, have unleashed an alphabetical guide of sorts to the creative industry, complete with visual accompaniments for each letter from a roster of designer/illustrators repped by New York-based talent management agency, Bernstein & Andriulli.

This is not a snapshot, mind you, but a tome (ok, maybe not Ten Commandments-esque). It’ll take a few minutes of your time at least to scroll down and not only check out forewords from the likes of BBH CCO John Patroulis, but an elemental A-Z breakdown of what defines contemporary creativity, at least in Nolan’s mind. Some folks on the Spy line (perhaps haters, if you will) call it “advertising douchebaggery,” but being from the outside looking in, we can totally appreciate the effort.

It took six months and change, but BBH has finally selected a new CEO for North America in Patrick Lafferty, who joins said agency after spending two-and-a-half years at McCann and the last 18 months as its North American COO. Lafferty replaces Greg Andersen, who was one of those affected by BBH’s major “restructuring” last fall. Lafferty, who will officially assume his CEO title at BBH this summer and based out of its New York office, rounds out a leadership team that includes CCO John Patroulis, CSO Sarah Watson and chairman, Emma Cookson.

Lafferty’s soon-to-be boss, BBH Group CEO Gwyn Jones, says in a statement, “Patrick has a really calm authority and such a rich body of experience. He has seen and done a lot both within and beyond our industry – embracing client side, media ownership and the military. We have great strategic and creative strength in the business, and I think Pat will bring outstanding leadership to that offering. On top of all that – I think he is just a great person.”

As you’d expect, Lafferty, who was, yes, a former platoon leader/company commander in the U.S. Army, will be tasked with running both BBH New York, which of course handles Axe and now Playstation, and L.A., which services clients including Red Bull. During his career, the exec has also worked on the account side at Leo Burnett and as CMO at Travel Channel.

Pardon us as we attempt to slowly shake off our post-July 4 haze (like we assume many of you are doing as well), but we had no idea that BBH New York has had a Tumblr site called “Working It At Work” for quite a while now. Yep, things are starting off sluggish today, but anyways, for WIAW basically looks like a fashion blog featuring images of staff that are not quite on the Blue Steel level of ads you’d see in GQ, Esquire or Details. But, hey, at least many of them look sharper than we ever would on a Tuesday. Now, we’re just waiting for incoming CCO John Patroulis to strike a pose.

We were wondering why John Patroulis (right) was left off the current leadership roster at agencytwofifteen when we just posted about the SF shop’s rebranding. Turns out the former 215 co-ECD/partner had another, possibly bigger gig in mind, that being taking on the chief creative officer role at BBH New York.

With Patroulis on board, BBH NY officially ends its seemingly infinite search for someone to replace Kevin Roddy, who resigned from his CCO post last September and headed the other way to take over at Publicis & Hal Riney last month. Patroulis, who had stints at TBWA\Chiat\Day and was a GCD at Fallon during his career, will have a deputy CCO by his side at BBH, namely Calle Sjoenell, who is being promoted from ECD.

BBH New York CEO Greg Andersen does the usual gushing in a statement, saying, “John represents everything we were looking for in our creative leadership. He has incredibly progressive views on building modern brands and the modern agency, coupled with a diligent care for the craft that separates good work from great work. I’m honored to have John come onboard at BBH New York as my partner, not just because of his work but because he is such a high character guy.”

The agency formerly known as T.A.G., agencytwofifteen, was asked to come up with a marketing program for pharma brand Help Remedies and here’s one of the end results. One of nine–yes, nine–spots were delivered for the “help I can’t sleep” campaign and the San Francisco-based shop honed in right on dreams (cue Inception music). Actually, these look more like fever dreams (but they’re still more linear than mine) but nonetheless, the 2-1-5 worked alongside Tool of North America and the Lifelong Friendship Society to showcase the nocturnal imaginations of everything from puppies to milkmaids.

Along with the spots (three more after the jump), agencytwofifteen developed a dream recommendation website and  worked with SF/Sweden-based interactive prodco We Are Licious to develop a dream recommendation app that will “record” a person’s dream and post them to Facebook, Twitter, etc. What is the target market, you ask? From our vantage point, it appears to be travelers, business types, insomniacs, etc. as the adverts will be shown on demand in hotels, in-flight, in 24-hour drugstores, on late-night TV, online, on a mobile website and on Duane Reade’s screens in New York’s Union Square.

No totems or kicks were involved in the making of this production. Check out credits and some of the others after jump.

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Fable III is officially here for Xbox 360 (like you haven’t been waiting) and here’s agencytwofifteen’s new campaign for the brand, dubbed “It’s a Revolution”, which is sure to get players highly enticed to go out and purchase the third edition in the franchise.

This spot, created by the aforementioned San Fran-based shop along with VFX gurus Psyop, is set in the fictional Albion, uses real game assets and is depicted through a series of richly detailed, cinematic, slo-mo moments, telling the story of the fall of a tyrant and the rise of a new leader.

The visuals are stunning and are sure to entrance and entertain the target audience for 60 seconds of their lives. For others, not so much. If you’re within the TA, then you’re goods-if not you’ll probably shrug with indifference. Sometimes your just stuck with a double edged sword. View credits after the jump.

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