the creative lead: Agency holiday cards 2011

It's that time of year again. Now is when advertising agencies put out creative and fun holiday cards. An agency holiday card is way to say thanks to clients and also promote the agency. Sometimes its a simple html email, a youtube video, or it can be an all out production, sometimes they can get pretty wild. Here is a roundup of a few that we've seen. Comment or email us if you have any others to add to the list.

G2 lets you send a Haiku to humbugs via twitter and tumblr, to brighten the hoiday season.

TBWA London has a 24 day advent calendar, where they are giving 24 artist the change to share 24 wishes for 2012 in a bid to create the UK's biggest ever advent calender.

TBWA Chiat Day / NYC holiday gif giver, where you can send someone an animated gif that keeps on giffing.

Every 40 tweets to @designkitchen and they will set off the Holi-Cray-Matic™ in this conference room. Users can watch designkitchen conference room in real time.

Organic ugly sweater card. Lets just focus on the sweaters. A little strange and slightly NSFW.

Deck The Screens(@DeckTheScreens) is a fun little holiday app from the folks at Deeplocal. It lets you string holiday lights between all of your screens.

Washington state based agency, 14four interactive, has a holdiay card will turn your facebook or instagram photos into a custom holiday card- and they'll print and ship your cards to you for free.

Wundreman NY has a great youtube video of its staff putting together a moving holiday message. Time flies when you're getting ready for the Holidays. See how it flew by for the folks at Wunderman.

Zurich based webguerillas has a fun utility for the holidays, choir it yourself, the worlds first interactive choir.

This holiday season, Digitas is crowdsourcing for karma. Pick and click on the Digitas charity that resonates with you, and they'll make a donation on your behalf