According to Fortune, hell froze over recently, as Forrester urged IT departments to support the Mac. Forrester’s report argues that Highly Empowered and Resourceful Operatives, or HEROs, at your company are likely using Macs, regardless of the company’s computing policy. These power brokers don’t want to show up to a meeting with a plastic laptop […]
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Make Media Complexities Simple, Make A Lot of Money
I’ve been reading a lot of articles about the lack of talented people willing or able to work in the fast changing advertising business these days. Here’s one point of view from The New York Times: A talent gap is growing between the skills that many new advertising jobs require and the number of people […]
Help Fight Boredom With Coffee And A Sense of Humor
I love the black and white illustrated simplicity of Kaffe 1668’s website. When you load their home page, you find the first of 84 comic strip frames. I scrolled through all of them, but here are three to give you an idea.
Yet Another Facebook Story: Introducing Timeline
Your Facebook experience is about to become more visual. In a keynote speech at the company’s f8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Timeline as “a great way to discover all the things people have done their whole life.” Timeline’s aim is to allow users to easily browse through the history […]
Spotlight On NW Creative: Blaine’s Pretty Profound Non-Billboard
On the outskirts of Blaine, Wash., a small town north of Bellingham, near the Canadian border, is home to this critical-of-advertising art installation from Lead Pencil Studio. Lead Pencil’s Daniel Mihalyo says, “this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.” “Non-Sign II” […]
Everything Is A Remix…Some “Things” More So Than Others
Goodby Silverstein & Partners launched a revised identity recently. Now, people inside the agency and out are questioning its provenance. According to Adweek, GS&P’s new logo looks suspiciously like one used a century ago by some (now-defunct) company called S & Co. “Making something old new again was my full intention and I’m very happy […]
GM Has The Right Idea, But Can They Execute?
General Motors wants to be the next Apple, according to Ad Age. Speaking to an audience of investors and analysts this week, GM’s Global Chief Marketing Officer, Joel Ewanick, had this to say: “We understand our direct competitors are Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai — a very, a very strong competitor, one that I know well and […]
A Feast For Untired Eyes
I keep wanting to click on more and more pages of Flavorwire, the blog by Flavorpill, “a network of culturally connected people.” Because the site points to a multitude of visual oddities and things that make one wonder. Like “Masks for the Modern Tribe” by artist Jud Wimhurst. The contemporary masks he envisions are adorned […]
A Moveable Logo Meant To Move You
Science Channel has a new shape-shifting logo that goes by the name of “Morph.” After creating the blog-like thing in-house, the network turned to Imaginary Forces for help to bring Morph to life. According to Fast Company, Imaginary Forces is touting the work as “the future of logo design.” Ronnie Koff, a director and art […]
Is A Shift To Less Consumption Causing An Identity Crisis In Marketing Organizations?
We are increasingly suffering from consumption fatigue, but brands and designers have yet to acknowledge the fact, says David Carlson of The David Report. Carlson says only the future will tell if the climate of anti-consumerism is genuine or if we are only on a pause between mad bouts of bag-filling. Consumption in itself has […]
