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Montgomery, Alabama Is As American As It Gets. Think About It.
Earlier this month, we took note of Goodby's carless print ads for Hyundai. Now the foreign car company's Think About It campaign is playing on TV and the intertubes. I like the site. It's clean, the copy sings and the music is right. But there are no participatory media options. I know Apple's cinema display makes overworked art directors think the web is cinematic. And it is, as Goodby proves here. But with no …
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Is Don Draper The Most Famous Ad Man In America Today?
For more on Someecards.com see the Sunday Styles section of today's NYT. According to the article it's a firm run by ad men for ad men. …
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Portfolio Tip #72: Wear Your Passion On Your Sleeve
Graphic designer Michael Beirut busted out his 1979 portfolio for Design Observer. Beirut describes the piece above: We'll start with this portrait of jazz saxophonist Sam Rivers, copied from photographs on his album The Complete Blue Note Sessions. This is the kind of thing upon which I had built my reputation by the time I graduated from high school: painstaking realism in the style of Bernie Fuchs, Bob Heindel …
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Agency Straight Talk
Don't you love to know what people are really saying? …
Carbon Footprint Calculations Impact Buying Decisions
According to International Herald Tribune, Timberland is introducing "carbon labels" to help its customers assess the environmental quality of its products. "With all the media attention around environmental issues, people are noticing that their lives are affected by environmental ills and they really have the purchasing power to make a difference," said Betsy Blaisdell, manager of environmental stewardship for …
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When The Economy Tanks…
The dollar sank to a record low against the euro Thursday and traded at parity against the Canadian currency for the first time since 1976. In semi-related news, A VC sees a downturn coming in Web 2.0 products and services. The venture market in any industry (biotech, nanotech, green tech, comm equipment, web, etc) does best when the supply of new companies is relatively modest and the demand to invest in them is …
DVR Destoyer
The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) looks at a new content play by upstart CW Television Network--owned jointly by CBS and Time Warner. When the CW network launched this time last year, it experimented with a new kind of commercial break designed to look like a minishow built around products. The so-called content wraps were such a hit with marketers that the network is going one better this fall, with a …
