From Cambridge Enchorial Press comes a new book by Clive Challis on one of the all time greats, Helmut Krone, the AD who worked with Bill Bernbach at Doyle Dane & Bernbach back in the day. Helmut Krone (1925-1996) was a leading seditionary. He started out as a graphic designer who despised advertising -- and finished up as an art director claiming to be a graphic designer, 'the only one in hard-core advertising ,' he …
Got Nantucket Reds?
New York Times is running a piece that would be right at home in W, showcasing the tensions that exist between old money and new money on Nantucket. The article …
Ronald’s A Rider!
USA Today: McDonald's is beginning to sell skateboards and bikes bearing the fast-food company's brand in a new effort to get kids to burn off burgers and fries with exercise. The McKids-branded outdoor play equipment will be rolled out internationally later this year and in 2006. A few McKids items are already sold at retailers like Amazon.com and Target. McDonald's Global Chief Marketing Officer Larry Light said …
Austin Kelley & Fitzgerald Get Hitched
Forget Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. This is bigger! OK, not really, but in yet another upheaval in the Atlanta advertising market, Adweek is reporting the merger of two Interpublic-owned Atlanta shops, Austin Kelley and Fitzgerald+Co. A few years ago, IPG persuaded Fitzgerald + Co. to merge with the Atlanta office of McCann-Erickson, so this latest consolidation isn't such a big shock. According to Adweek, The …
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Right, Dawg?
I can't say Steve Rubel's blog makes me laugh on a daily occasion (although I enjoy it for other perfectly good reasons), but today it did. He did. By posting this New Yorker cartoon. …
South African Creatives Have Been Reading Pynchon
"a Nugget shoe polish can in which Slothrop now and then studies his blurry brass reflection" -Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow I have a weakness for ads that boldly (and intelligently) display a product benefit. This ad for Nugget Shoe Polish from The Jupiter Drawing Room in Johannesburg is a classic example. Thanks to Gari Cruze for the post. …
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Putting Up Walls
If you're a street artist looking for a blank canvas, Diesel wants to cut you loose on a big wall in Berlin, Germany. The jeans maker is asking artists to submit ideas for the public space via their Temporary Art Award promotion. Following two triumphant assaults on the 360M2 Wall in the center of Milan, Diesel is now looking for radical talents to take up the challenge of the Diesel Wall Berlin with more abrasive, …
The Benefits Of Anonymity
MSNBC and Adfreak are reporting on two European artists who've managed to sell shop owners in Vienna on a unique two-week installation. The coverings are part of a two-week art project dubbed "Delete!" …