What do you do if you're an artist deluged by consumer imagery in a society obsessed with money, goods and the like? If you're Kate Bingaman, you work with it. You make art out of it. You have fun with it. Wear Kate's debt! Here's a take from her Artist Statement: People identify themselves with objects. We as a society participate with signs and a network of signs and not with each other. It is our interactions …
Stop The Madness
In an article on Slate, Seth Stevenson calls for an end for the kind of TV spots that make you go "huh?": "Enough already with the "twisted" humor. The willful wackiness. The over-the-top, absurdist scenarios." I've written about this before. It's hard for advertising to push the envelope when real life already is doing a pretty good job of it. …
Read All About It
Copywriters: You know that book about advertising you always wanted to write? The one that takes all the things you hate about the way most big ad agencies operate and exposes them for the waste of client money that they are, then offers up sound business solutions that would fix nearly all of it? Well, you're too late. Mark Silveira beat you to it. Read this excerpt, then buy a copy and send it to a Brand Manager …
There’s News, And Then There’s Yesterday’s News.
In the beginning, there was Sega …
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The Copy Of Poetics
Richard at Soft Skull Press is sending me a copy of Look Slimmer Instantly!, a book of poems by Jerome Sala, a former copywriter/creative director. Here's an advance peek... Variations On A Theme By Charles Barkeley by Jerome Sala A poet is not a role model. So this poem won …
Word
The Poetry Center of Chicago and corporate sponsor Lightology are bringing poetry to the masses this holiday season, with an outdoor board located at the corner of Chicago and Wells. Chicagoist reports that the poem, "Farewell," is by Chicago poet Li-Young Lee. He wrote it specifically for the occasion, "a non-commercial message Chicagoans could look forward to seeing throughout the holiday season." According to the …
So That’s What He’s Working On In Meetings
Lewis Lazare reports today in the Sun Times that David T. Jones, a Foote Cone & Belding/Chicago group creative director is launching a new comic strip called "Art & Commerce." Some of the strip's action takes place inside a fictional mid-sized Midwestern agency called Corneigh & Foarste, a shop that made its name in the 1960s with an animated critter called Henry Hemorrhoid, who was always on the run from a giant …
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Living More Fully Through Art
It's good to be reminded now and again that the designer working on your annual report is actually an artist. This painting is new work from Jill Rizzo, an award-winning graphic designer at David Day + Associates. …