When you win an account, you want it to be an account you can believe in and profit from. That can mean any number of things, depending on the account and the people who win it. While a sunglasses account isn't a car account, I've got to believe McGarrah/Jessee is pleased to beat out Fallon and Carmichael Lynch to win the Costa Del Mar business. I used to work on Bolle at Integer/Denver and they'd invite us over to …
Wieden Ain’t Small (A 10-Person Design Firm Is Small)
The Wall Street Journal has a strange way of seeing things sometimes. The biggest independent on the scene, with billions in annual billings, is still small change to the WSJ. …
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Go West, Young Ad People
Here's the scoop on the new building Ogilvy NY will occupy beginning next year, on the West Side. The building at 636 Eleventh Avenue was built in 1913 and originally housed the Auerbach Chocolate factory. Ogilvy is calling its new space the "Candy Factory." It has high ceilings on the first floor, a courtyard and a roof-top terrace that Ogilvy plans to design as a garden space. Thanks to Google Maps, here's a sneak …
Finding Inspiration In a 70s TV Icon
According to Creativity, Fred G. Sanford's old pal Grady is a comedic and creative inspiration of sorts at the New York office of TBWA/Chiat/Day, thanks to Gerry Graf's appreciation of the sitcom. …
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All Work and Hopefully Some Play
I'm in Boulder today, so I thought I'd take a drive out Diagonal Highway toward Longmont to see where Crispin Porter & Bogusky has set up shop in a nondescript office park. And look, there are a bunch of cars in the parking lot. On New Year's Day. Which leads me to believe it takes extraordinary drive (and an obsessive nature) to reach the top and stay there. …
From Terminated To Terminator
Every now and then, we post some news or item about an ad agency that leads to some very personal and controversial comments. And other blogs do, too. HighJive at MultiCultClassics has some very interesting thoughts on the way blogs sometimes cover agencies, particularly when it comes to employee or ex-employee gossip and crosstalk: The terminated are becoming the terminators. They’re mad as hell and they’re not …
Ho Ho Ho
If you write about advertising, you're going to receive a lot of holiday greetings from firms that create it. Rick Romell of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is no exception. But instead of letting these greetings go unloved in his inbox, he's sharing them with his readers. This is the season for advertising shops to flex their creative muscles on their own behalf, concocting greetings ranging from Bader Rutter's …
Help On The Way
The best agencies are staffed by people with big ideas. Sadly, most of these ideas are wasted on ads for clueless clients. But, when it can help it, Taxi doesn't play that game. To commemorate the shop's 15th year in the culture-shaping business, they sought a truly big idea, one that would give back to the community. The brief was sent out, and executive creative director, Steve Mykolyn, came back with The 15 …
