Monday, July 06, 2009

Beer Ad in back of Taxi





ZhuJiang beer has a really clever ad placed on the windows of taxi cabs. I agree with the original blog post author in that the brand gets lost as the window rolls down. The message of "it's ok to drink as long as you get a taxi" may be hard to understand too.

Via Little Red Book.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

The Top 40 Real Men of Genius commercials

As a former intern at DDB Chicago, I had the good fortune of meeting the creative team behind these ads. Before interning, I thought that these guys just sat around all day and came up with funny ideas. After hanging out with them a little bit, I realized how focused one has to be to do humor.

View all 40 ads at Epic Carnival.



Via Hot Clicks.

Monday, June 15, 2009

Making Old-World Advertising Work - 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business - TIME

Making Old-World Advertising Work - 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business - TIME

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Where are we headed?

I would like to open up a discussion on how should we create new business models for the ad world. It's pretty apparent things are changing. We've lost in some way credibility and the working model is begging for new thoughts from the core.

What do ya'll think? Some think that we should work based on results, but then how do we justify the overhead of our people. Either way, some accounts work on a 'pitch the project concept' and we're having that problem anyway.

Love to hear perspectives.

Cheers.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Congrats to Matt



Congrats to Texas Creative Alumni Matt Morris for his work on the DVD-ROM based on the PBS- Andrew Jackson microsite. The DVD-ROM was featured in the 2009 Communication Arts Interactive Annual: Interaction Design.

Sharon Hannon, KCET, writer
Philip Dunn, KCET, creative director
Matthew Morris, designer
Jimmy Mooney, JM Interactive, information architect
Peter Grant, KCET, illustrator
Kate Fulton, KCET, associate producer
Dan McDowell, KCET/Douglas Varchol, KCET, producers
Jackie Kain, KCET/David Neiman, Sketch Interactive, executive producers
JM Interactive (Austin, TX)/Sketch Interactive (Los Angeles, CA), project design and development
KCET, client

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Perils of Internet Advertising


I know it's a system of looping ads, probably based on an algorithm, but this has to be one of the worst ad placements.

via Jalopnik.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Cannes Young Lions 48 Hour Ad Contest 2009

Check out and vote for the submission of the super jr. creative duo of Ashley and Krystha.



Agency: Y&R San Francisco
Jr. AD: Ashley J George
Jr. CW: Krystha Barrera

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Google Reader (1000+)

"When people can no longer tolerate one problem, their tolerance of all their other problems bottoms out."


Such wise words from such a young soul, ms. thompson. It was just put really well and I wanted to document it.

Via Google Reader.

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Thursday, April 30, 2009

American Public Transportation Ads

These are two recent—2009—ads for American public transportation companies.



Via FortWorthology




Via Commarts

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