When your client wins an industry award and wants to tell everyone about it, it can be a hellish assignment because sane people tend to not like chest beating ads. Thankfully, Subaru and its agency didn't fall into that trap here. …
Surrender to the Machine
Is there a formula for success in the content business? Some people think so and are out to prove their thinking works. According to The Wall Street Journal, Demand Media, run by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, has spent the past three years refining a set of algorithms that it uses as a guide for mass-producing content that it publishes on its many Web properties. The result is a network of 2,000 …
Boxes Are For Breaking Out Of
I don't know if this is the best way to sell a new Audi Q5, but it might generate some decent click through. …
It’s Colorado’s Turn To Pull The Hood Back On Meth Use
Learn more about the Colorado Meth Project. …
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Silicon, Money & Rock ‘n’ Roll
By now, we've all heard the "Intel inside" audio cue about a million times. It's deeply lodged. Now, a new brand campaign from Venables Bell & Partners takes us inside Intel. Adfreak mentions that Ajay Bhatt, who helped develop the USB, is portrayed by an actor in the "Rock Star" ad above, but I'm not sure that matters much. Fact is, people who make highly functional things--engineers--are indeed rock stars today. …
Spotlight On NW Creative: Ace Hotel
The Ace Hotel in downtown Portland could have said something typical here, but they didn't. Which makes me think staying in one of their four properties must also be a unique experience. …
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Simon Casts His Stone
Senator John Kerry conducted a hearing today on the state of newspapers in this country. One of the men called to testify was David Simon, a former police beat reporter at the Baltimore Sun and creator of the award-winning HBO series The Wire. Democracy Now has the entire transcript (and video) of Simon's damning testimony. In a blistering tirade, he casts a plague on both new media's and old media's houses. The …
Picture It
Adobe has some expensive software they'd like to sell you. To help convince you to buy, Adobe commissioned a short. Cisma's "Le Sens Propre" from glossy inc on Vimeo. "Le Sens Propre" is part of Goodby's "Shortcut to Brilliant" campaign for the graphics company. …