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By David Burn
Do you want to let academics who study the creative process as it relates to advertising inside your award-winning head? If so, operators are standing by at PureProcess.net. …
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Adweek is running an article by Alex Bogusky, wherein he reflects on his welcome to the lovely hamlet of Boulderado. When we decided to move a portion of the agency to Boulder, Colo., a very surprising thing happened: The mayor's office asked to take a meeting. I was excited and a bit nervous. Boulder has done an amazing job managing its growth. Well, these people I admired so much opened the meeting with a great …
By David Burn
Bloviation from The Bobosphere: What passes online for opinion, analysis, criticism and commentary too often lacks logic, coherent argument, evidence, intellectual rigor or even simple honesty. It wallows instead in snide cheapshots and ad hominem bile, scurrilousness and schadenfreude, free-floating hostility and bullying disguised as wit. We'd like to imagine the internet as a tool for democracy and Platonic …
By David Burn
Brian Morrissey of Adweek reminds us that ad peeps are often restless souls with gigantic ambitions. A half-dozen executives from the London operations of DDB, Naked Communications, Isobar, Tribal DDB and Diageo have joined forced to launch AnalogFolk, a shop that is dedicated to what it is calling "communications products" that meld digital technology with real-world interaction. Unlike regular bits of ad messaging, …
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Good luck to our friend David Esrati, running for Congress in Ohio's 3rd district (Dayton & surrounding areas). Seeing as how his major opponent is giving out literature from 2004 with a new date penciled in, it's clearly time for someone with fresh thinking. …
By David Burn
Richard Huntington, Director of Strategy for Saatchi & Saatchi in the UK, is looking for planners to stretch during difficult times on an account. Whenever I come across thinking that simply doesn't excite me but where there are extenuating circumstances for why the strategy is as it is, I always ask the planner for their skunk strategy. A skunk strategy is that alternative bit of thinking that they really wanted to …
By David Burn
Crispin, Porter & Bogusky executive creative director, Andrew Keller, is in Sydney judging this year's ANDY Awards. He's also keeping a journal at Creativity Online. Here's a bit of what he's saying: I'm fascinated by print. It is almost impossible to nail down what makes a great print ad. There are rules and there are goals and there are philosophies, but there are no guarantees. The right answer just is the right …
This is great. Ted Royer, ECD of Droga5, writing in Boards Magazine, speaks of compatibility between creatives and other people. Here's a sample: I'm not going to marry a traffic person. They propel jobs through the agency and thus are obviously good at getting stuff done. But they cry too much. Or they yell too much. Or they cry while yelling. There is crying and yelling at some point in every marriage. I wish to …
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By David Burn
“It began as a ship of fools. There was an innocence and a sense of failure inherent in the shop.” -Dan Wieden …
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A man jumped to his death from the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Chicago yesterday evening. Word is, it was Paul Tilley, Executive Creative Director at DDB/Chicago. That the man's job performance and personality were consistently diminished in the press and on blogs makes this news all the harder to take. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends. [UPDATE] Adweek is now out with the story. Ad Age won't be …
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