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The five types of advertising agency websites!!!
Now that my Master’s program is over and I’m a lieutenant in the Fauls Army, I’m scrambling to build a portfolio as fast as I can and re-enter the job market. I’ve been having some difficulty trying to show how I have digital chops without actualy knowing how to actually craft Flash or (god forbid) [...]
Note: the cool links are at the end of this post. Most of this is just me ranting about how much I hate Flash (and I didn’t even go into its nonintuitive interface, how it fails because it tries to do everything, how it sucks worse than Java did in the 90s, etc etc etc). [...]
I have a soft spot for Radio Foorti. When I was a copywriter at Bitopi, I worked on the pitch team for the brand and I got an unrefusable offer (2.5 times what my salary was then) and I became the first fulltime employee for a station that had a name and nothing else. Working [...]
My buddy Aldis and I entered an ad for the Hatch Awards. It was for Gustbusters, which are like, the apotheosis of umbrellas. I sent them an email with the Gustbuster comic a week ago, and I got the best possible response–a warm, personal reply from their president, and a package containing four motherfuckin’ Gustbusters. [...]
TLDR: The villaging effect is the transformation of a large population into what are effectively small communities tied by interests and locality. On the one hand, a mutual interest helps over-ride geographical limitations (by enabling you to order the best messenger bag online). On the other, these same mutual interest groups help you find the best offerings in your localities.
Wieden+Kennedy pull the marketing stunt of the year.
the best Parallel Lines short, embedded for your viewing pleasure.
Woot is sold to Amazon, Nellie Wu talks oysters (she is an oysterhead), and I discuss the Philips Parallel Lines campaign a few months later than everybody else.
Microsoft fucks up, Alex Bogusky leaves advertising, I play a concert.
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