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Publishing Obscene Odes On the Windows of the Skull

November 27, 2007 By 9 Comments

Just about any agency can make great ads for the right client. And the right client often comes in the door as a pro-bono opportunity.
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I don’t know if The Beat Museum is pro-bono or not, but I can’t imagine they had much money to spend.
Grey’s San Francisco office created the campaign, which can be seen in full at Adrants.

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I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17 (she went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time). Today, I live near Portland, Oregon and spend my days building brands for companies that matter.

  • Duane

    meh.
    If by “Pro Bono” you mean “fake.”
    Also, the headline is clumsy. Might as well start with the phrase, “Isn’t it ironic?”

  • Artdirector

    Shows a big problem with a lot of art directors who must not have a design background, and so end up ignoring craft.
    Besides the photoshop ‘feather’ tool being used, the quotation marks are also actually inch marks.

  • http://adpulp.com David Burn

    What can I say, I’m a sucker for an ad about “Howl”.

  • bilbo

    Whipdeedoo…another fake campaign for an obscure museum that attempts in pseudo-highbrow fashion to highlight some irrelevant historical twist and uses a parchmentesque paper border. Post something I haven’t seen a million times before. It was good when it was the Babe Ruth Museum or the Library of Congress, but that was then this is now.

  • http://www.bullshitobserver.com todd

    Scam.

  • http://adpulp.com David Burn

    @ bilbo -
    irrelevant historical twist? i don’t think so. unless, of course, you’re totally fine with repression of free speech and the arts.
    also, i’m not asking you, or anyone else to endorse the work. if i like it, i post it.

  • truth

    Probably scam, but at least it’s not going that extra step like some agencies do for say – Lego, Matchbox, Tide – and actually ‘pretend’ to make them for a real client.

  • peanut gallery

    Whoever would think the beat generation to be irrelevant must consider the entire 1960s and 1970s, and much of what we call American culture today, to be unimportant.

  • bilbo

    okay, poor choice of words, i should have left “irrelevant” out of my post, I did not intend to raise the hackle of the Ginsbergians or First Amendment Society members out there…guilty on that point…but I stand behind my comment that this is derivative art direction, in fact, it’s derivative of derivative art direction…this stuff wouldn’t even get in the student book of a VCU grad…unless, of course, they had a penchant for black turtlenecks, reciting incomprehensible poetry and banging on a bongo all day